East Village eatery odd-n-ends: Roasted pig on Avenue C; snoop guard at Diablo Royale; orderly chairs at Village Pourhouse

Saturday saw Zum Schneider's annual May Day celebrating ...



...where people lined up on Avenue C and Seventh Street...



...to dine on swine...



The apparently shuttered Musical Box on Avenue B is giving away its couches...



Trash bags were up on the windows yesterday morning at the Cooper 35... Some students were inside filming, I was told by someone standing there... they were open as usual later...



Noted at Village Pourhouse on Third Avenue and 11th Street....



The coming soon Tallgrass Burger on First Avenue near 13th Street has posted its menu on the storefront...



The coming soon Diable Royale on Avenue A has put up snoop guards to ward off various bloggers and tipsters...



I have no idea what was happening here. However, as I learned in my Hyperlocal Blog Class, you always take photos of anything happening at Motorino on 12th Street...




I haven't been to the Holiday in months... since then they have added draft beer...



The owners of Ballarò Caffè Prosciutteria on Second Avenue prepped for their newly approved sidewalk cafe last week by repairing the big crack in the sidewalk out front ...




And for no reason, two photos of the Spring Lounge from last week... where Kate Hudson was holed up filming a scene for a movie that we will never see...

What brownstone lovers dream of, apparently

So here we are on Stuyvesant Street... where a one-bedroom unit at No. 46 is now on the market... a one-bedroom home marked at $1.4 million...



According to the Corcoran listing:

This house that dates from 1853 is located in one of Lower Manhattan's prettiest Landmarked Historic Districts where Stuyvesant Street meets East 10th Street overlooking St Mark's Church in the Bowerie, The Renwick Triangle and the Abe Lebewohl Triangle (garden). A truly special apartment in the only co-op on Stuyvesant Street. This handsome Anglo-Italianate town house is 33' wide. The Double Parlor and the English basement with pocket garden is just what brownstone lovers dream of...

The first open house was yesterday... You'll have to see the dream yourself on another day...

Update:

Ha, ha... a Curbed reader notices a little Photoshop magic on two of the photos in the listing... it has something to do with the lights... "Lights, Camera, Action at Historic East Village townhouse" (Curbed)

Tweet this: A classic urban etiquette sign outside Tom & Jerry's

Outside Tom & Jerry's on Elizabeth Street...




For further reading:
‘Where Everyone Knows Your Twitter Handle’ (The New York Times)

Pants up at the Glover Center

The campaign against baggy pants has been in the news of late... Meanwhile, a sign awaits visitors at the Andrew Glover Center on Avenue B between Seventh Street and Sixth Street....




Here's a little background on Andrew Glover. He was an NYPD officer gunned down during a routine check of a car double-parked on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B on Sept. 16, 1975. He was 34. Sgt. Frederick Reddy, 50, was also shot and killed. Time magazine has an outline of the manhunt for the killers.

Here's an excerpt from an Associated Press article on the shootings.

Deadheads: Rebranding East 10th Street

Along this rather deserted stretch of East 10th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue... realtors are using a summer-of-love-ish-approach to filling the recently renovated storefronts...





Previously on EV Grieve:
99X is closing

Phase 1: The Juice Press opens Thursday

A sign is up at the Juice Press on First Street near First Avenue... showing an opening date of Thursday... plus other details about what's to come here, such as cooking classes...




Previously on EV Grieve:
What's coming to the Robot Daycare/Missing Sock/Mime Academy space

Breaking: Rooftop burglar spotted on East 10th Street

About 90 minutes ago, police blocked off part of East 10th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue... several people on the scene said that a man was spotted jumping between the buildings with a knapsack ... police sources believe this might be the same man responsible for a string of robberies in the neighborhood of late...





EV Grieve reader David sent along the following shots...




He saw at least one dozen police officers, five SWAT members and one dog... word is a gun and some narcotics were recovered by police... the search was called off by police a little after midnight, he says....

This was also the cause of the helicopter that everybody seemed to hear tonight...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: East Village burglar has hit nine apartments in last month

Instructive if you have problems unifying your 1,800 square foot, four bedroom home

There's a Home & Garden piece in the Times titled "An East Village Apartment, Sleek and Childproof."

The piece begins...

AFTER hiring and firing two architects in three years, David and Blanche Uyttendaele had a home with a split personality.

The back of their 1,800-square foot co-op in the East Village was traditional — like a prewar apartment on the Upper West Side — with a long, narrow hallway that led to the three bedrooms and master bathroom. The front felt more like a loft, with one open living and dining space.

They needed to unify the space somehow, but that wasn’t their only challenge.

The Uyttendaeles (pronounced YOU-ten-dales), both 40, have two rambunctious boys ... who treat the apartment like a playground, racing around barefoot after school and leapfrogging from the coffee table to the sofa like small superheroes. So the space needed to be childproof as well.

Actually, I stopped reading at this point. Let me know how it ends.

[Photo: Elizabeth Felicella for The New York Times]

"East Fifth Bliss" actually filming on East Fifth Street tomorrow

We've seen them on First Avenue... 13th Street... Seventh Street and Avenue B... Previously.

Shepard Fairey's Houston-Bowery mural is illegal, maybe

The DOB slapped a Stop Work Order on the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery... As AnimalNY noted, there are two options: obtain the proper permits for the "small building" or tear it down.

Here's a shot of the structure on the corner before Fairey's work went up...



Anyway, as an AnimalNY commenter commented..."its funny, that means no repairs to any damage like holes or torn off panels the guy who tossed bricks at it should go back, stop work order means no repairs under threat of criminal charges. you can only do emergency work if there is danger and with approval from the DOB."

So will the mural be vandalized again in the short term?

Third Avenue, 9:37 a.m., May 2

Junior is missing

More iPad ad alterations

St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue.

Previously.

BoweryBoogie has found his share of reworked iPad ads too.

"East Fifth Bliss" on Seventh Street

Earlier today, the "East Fifth Bliss" crew did a little filming on Avenue B (and in the Park?)... Melanie got her picture taken with "Bliss" lead Michael C. Hall.



With a rental truck and maybe a van or so... what a difference between this and the "Smurfs" logjam from Thursday...where tractor-trailers lined Avenue A for blocks... (And we had "Smurfs" reports from all over the City, like this one from Midtown Lunch.) And we're still getting reader mail about the "Smurfs" shoot, like the amused residents who were told to wait for several minutes... and when they were "released," the PA said robotically, "Sorry for the inconvenience. We will only be here for two more hours."

It was 11 p.m.

Vandalized Shepard Fairey mural unvandalized on Houston

Yesterday, the entire blogosphere a few of us (BoweryBoogie and DNAinfo ... and me) pointed out the lastest hole in Shepard Fairey's Bowery-Houston mural...

And just like that, the Fairey Swat Team has made all the repairs...





Previously... Jeremiah discussed the ongoing vandalism issues with the mural at Houston and the Bowery... (You can read those here, here and here.)

Breaking: Oh, God! No! No! NOOOOOOOO!

Going up a little bit ago on Third Avenue and 11th Street.

On no...no no! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And, well, why is she standing in a desert?

Regardless, something awful will be happening at 147 First Ave.

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Steph, we learned that something is amiss at 147 First Ave. at the corner of Ninth Street ... workers on the scene said the building is being primed for demolition... However, in a follow-up post yesterday afternoon, Curbed learned a few more details:

A permit was just approved for interior renovations on the four-story, 31-unit building.

The owner is named on the permit as Terrence Lowenberg, a hotshot young developer whose Icon Realty recently tussled with Robert A.M. Stern over fees owed. This time around Lowenberg is employing a Stern of a bit less distinction: The notorious Issac & Stern firm is listed as the architect. No doubt the 'hood will be keeping close watch.

Yes!

Issac & Stern are the go-to guys for adding extra floors to tenement buildings in the neighborhood, such as at 515 E. Fifth St. and 514-516 E. Sixth St., as The Villager reported.

You could almost make the case that 147 First Ave. would be better off being demolished ...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Blockbuster: 147 First Ave. set for demolition

Important notice about "partying" in Shaoul buildings on East Fifth Street and East Sixth Street