Outside Whole Foods on Houston and the Bowery. Not the best Anthony Michael Hall that I've ever seen...
Monday, March 1, 2010
Don't you forget about ...our breakfast bar...
Outside Whole Foods on Houston and the Bowery. Not the best Anthony Michael Hall that I've ever seen...
First sign of spring: Tables outside Zum Schneider
Yesterday afternoon outside Zum Schnieder, Avenue C and Seventh Street.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Home for a hawk
EV Grieve reader Erin notes that one of the hawks frequently seen around the neighborhood (and Tompkins Square Park) has been hanging out in an area behind Sixth and Seventh Streets, between Avenues B and C... (seen above to the right on the fire escape...)
Previously on EV Grieve:
A red-tailed hawk on Seventh Street
The Daily News gets a circulation boost
While walking on Avenue B earlier today near 11th Street, I noticed that a stack of the Daily News had been dropped off in front of an apartment building. Likely more papers than residents here. A random act of Daily News kindness? Or part of some Post-Daily News circulation feud?
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Day of snow
As I was the first to report, it snowed yesterday... and some readers were nice enough to send along some photos to help provide a slice of life in the neighborhood from yesterday...
Minnie Romanovich
Megan Morrissey
@mmorrissey
Ken Mac
Minnie Romanovich
Megan Morrissey
@mmorrissey
Ken Mac
Everything that you've ever wanted to know about the Rusty Knot Party Bus
In January I wrote a post about the Rusty Knot Party Bus, which picks up Knotgoers in Williamsburg and then on First Avenue and First Street and plies them with alcohol before they go to the nautica-themed faux dive on the West Side Highway for a swingin' Monday night...
I didn't actually get on the bus. But I was curious!
Thankfully, a Times reporter boarded the party bus... and pretty much answered all my questions... To the story!
“This bus is a little bit like going back to the New York of the ’70s or ’80s, when it wasn’t about the money, it was about the spirit,” said Richard Mark Jordan, an actor from Bushwick who was gyrating in the aisle with friends and high-fiving strangers.
His revelry, while enthusiastic, seemed tame when compared with the crazed riders chanting “Party bus! Party bus!” while pounding their palms on the bus’s windows. Two guys in skateboard sneakers leaped onto a vinyl-upholstered seat, jerking their heads to the metal anthem “Hell Bent for Leather,” air guitars apparently cranked up to 11.
A woman in preppyish attire who in another context might be mistaken for a Congressional aide tried to crawl through a roof hatch, but her progress was blocked by a bolted cover. She had to settle for another form of misbehavior — pouring a can of Bud over a male friend’s head. He didn’t seem to mind.
“This is raging!” said Ryan McGaffigan, a 32-year-old sales manager in a wool cap, plaid shirt and ’50s-style glasses. He had just polished off two Buds “shotgun” — puncturing the can and finishing it in one long swig.
How could it be boring? The bus runs on irony as much as diesel. The basic premise is a cultural inversion: Manhattan tastemakers once sneered at the “bridge and tunnel” crowd overrunning their night spots. Now, they haul them in by the busload.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Rusty Knot Party Bus makes East Village debut
Friday, February 26, 2010
Go fish
Since writing about this three-bedroom condo on 13th Street at Avenue A this week, the price has been slashed by 10 percent from $1.175 million to 1.05 million...
And there's an open house Sunday from noon to 1:30. If you go, please let me know if that fish is still there...
And there's an open house Sunday from noon to 1:30. If you go, please let me know if that fish is still there...
A walk in the park
And if you took some snow photos, feel free to send them along... Was thinking of doing a big neighborhood snow post tomorrow.
grieve98@gmail.com
If not, then you'll get more Lady Gaga-in-hats photos....
Avenue A several hours ago
A little something for our East Village friends stuck in dreary warm locales today.
And we promise no more snow photos today. Unless, of course...
And we promise no more snow photos today. Unless, of course...
From Donald to now: 511 E. Fifth St., 1B
Last month, we wrote about Donald Baumgartner, a longtime East Village resident who was evicted from his East Fifth Street apartment... Neil Janowitz, one of Donald's former neighbors, had continued to stay in touch with Donald, who's now living at East Haven Nursing Home in the Bronx.
Donald had lived at 511 E. Fifth Street since 1967. As Neil described:
"His place in 511 was a trip. Like a time warp. No one had renovated it in two or three decades, so it had a bathtub in the kitchen, two interior bedrooms with windows that looked out on the living room and lots of built-in cabinets and trunks. The floor was so badly worn that you could see various layers/flooring styles dating back an unknowable amount of time."
A few days after Donald was evicted by the landlord, Neil shot some video of the apartment... and last week Neil went back to see what the apartment looked like now...
(Uh, apparently the video isn't appearing in some browsers. You can go directly to the source here.)
I understand that Donald was paying $700 a month for rent... will be curious what this two-bedroom apartment will go for after the extensive renovations...
Previously:
Donald is well and missing the East Village
Donald had lived at 511 E. Fifth Street since 1967. As Neil described:
"His place in 511 was a trip. Like a time warp. No one had renovated it in two or three decades, so it had a bathtub in the kitchen, two interior bedrooms with windows that looked out on the living room and lots of built-in cabinets and trunks. The floor was so badly worn that you could see various layers/flooring styles dating back an unknowable amount of time."
A few days after Donald was evicted by the landlord, Neil shot some video of the apartment... and last week Neil went back to see what the apartment looked like now...
(Uh, apparently the video isn't appearing in some browsers. You can go directly to the source here.)
I understand that Donald was paying $700 a month for rent... will be curious what this two-bedroom apartment will go for after the extensive renovations...
Previously:
Donald is well and missing the East Village
New bar slated for 12th Street and Avenue A
In March 2006, the building housing the Raven on the northeast corner of Avenue A at 12th Street was shuttered by a devastating fire... The building has been renovated, and the storefront (pictured below last fall) has been on the market for quite some time ...
On March 15, the Raven appears on the CB3 SLA docket (No. 15 and No. 16 on the agenda) in the Alterations/Transfers/Upgrades category. The docket reads:
El Camion (El Camion III Inc), 194 Ave A (trans/op) (The Raven)
Meanwhile, according to the real-estate listing...
I'm curious to see how this one plays out... there have already been numerous complaints about the bar scene on the upper stretch of Avenue A... Jill has noted this... and she took this shot in front of Drop Off Service last summer, for an idea of what life is usually like here on the weekends...
Previously on EV Grieve:
CB3 to explore bar-related noise issues on Avenue A?
Observations from last night's noisy bars meeting
On March 15, the Raven appears on the CB3 SLA docket (No. 15 and No. 16 on the agenda) in the Alterations/Transfers/Upgrades category. The docket reads:
El Camion (El Camion III Inc), 194 Ave A (trans/op) (The Raven)
Meanwhile, according to the real-estate listing...
Approx. 1500 sq ft vanilla box with liquor license, large wraparound storefront, basement (with dedicated internal staircase), and possible sidewalk cafe.
Price: $90,000
Rent: $10,500
10-year lease
I'm curious to see how this one plays out... there have already been numerous complaints about the bar scene on the upper stretch of Avenue A... Jill has noted this... and she took this shot in front of Drop Off Service last summer, for an idea of what life is usually like here on the weekends...
Previously on EV Grieve:
CB3 to explore bar-related noise issues on Avenue A?
Observations from last night's noisy bars meeting
A memorial for Taz remains at 12th and A
Whenever the gates are down at the northeast corner of Avenue A and 12th Street...
... you can see that a tribute remains for Eric "Taz" Pagan, the LES resident who was murdered outside Forbidden City last August...
... you can see that a tribute remains for Eric "Taz" Pagan, the LES resident who was murdered outside Forbidden City last August...
New sidewalk cafe for Table 12
And in keeping with this 12th Street and Avenue A theme... on Feb. 9, the CB3/SLA approved a sidewalk cafe for Table 12 on the southeast corner. The sidewalk cafe must shut down at 10 p.m.... and they can set up again at 8 a.m. The majority of the 28 seats will be on 12th Street.
New thrift store on Third Street to open next week
Last week I mentioned that the former Dance Tracks on Third Street near First Avenue is becoming a thrift/vintage store... Last night, I noticed that workers were filling the stores with clothes...
All I know is the shop is expected to open next week... the following week at the latest...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Long dormant Dance Tracks soon to be home to a vintage clothing store
All I know is the shop is expected to open next week... the following week at the latest...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Long dormant Dance Tracks soon to be home to a vintage clothing store
Smell like gentrified railroad tracks
You may have seen this over at Racked yesterday... worth calling attention to....
For only $145 ($220 for 100ml), you can buy Bond No. 9's new High Line fragrance.
Per the Post today:
For only $145 ($220 for 100ml), you can buy Bond No. 9's new High Line fragrance.
Per the Post today:
"This is a real, local, New York railroad-track fragrance," Rahme said. "Eighty percent of the notes come from plants and flowers that grow on the High Line."
But as much as New Yorkers may love grazing weeds, purple love grass and oak, many had doubts about wearing them.
"Gee, I hope it's not based on some of the dog poo that lies around here a lot of the time," said Gretta Baker-Allen, 27.
An inspired Thomas Verlofski, 24, said, "Maybe I'll design an after-shave based on the smell of the public toilets in Penn Station. I'm sure that would be a best-seller."
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