EV Grieve

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Epic note puts 440 E. Ninth St. on notice

Here's what it says:

"To those of you who disrespectfully leave your trash, broken glass and empty bottles on the roof, you are being monitored. Your cans clogged a drain which flooded the apartments next door during last week's rain. You are disgusting to let Jose and the other super clean up after your messes. Surrounding neighbors are complaining about you every week and are ready to comply with management and law enforcement and photograph you during your next rooftop excursion. Since you can not the enjoy the roof like respectable adults, we request that you stay off of it. Your skateboards are ruining the rooftop material, weakening it."

Stay off the roof or suffer consequences.

— Management, tenants.

Given the "fuck you all" written over the note, I'm guessing 440 hasn't seen the last of the rooftop skateboarding bashes.

Picture perfect: Keanu Reeves on East Ninth Street

Via EV Grieve reader Steve.... here between Avenue B and Avenue C... A photo-taking Keanu was in Tompkins Square Park earlier yesterday too....

St. Mark's Place to get sorely needed FroYo/tea shop

Eh, OK... The recently shuttered Red Mango space here on FroYo Way is now home to Cafe St. Mark's.... featuring FroYo and tea.

The Mac doctor is in

Speaking of St. Mark's Place.... there's a new Mac doctor in town...

...and did Steve Jobs give the OK for those decorative Apple planters?

'Alas the saga of SUPERDIVE continues'

In recent days, we noted that the toilets from Superdive were now in the middle of the bar... that the for lease sign had been moved to the front widow... and, over the weekend, the lights of the Superdive sign were finally extinguished.

So just what is going on? Have we seen the last of Superdive, officially? The Head of Superdive checked in via e-mail:

After a long hot summer, much beachtime and the birth of our newborn "Dive Alexander" on Aug. 27, here is an update:

• We have put our liquor liscense in safekeeping in anticipation of settling all SLA charges, paying a fine, filing an alteration application to reflect what the premises should would and will look like

• Simultaneously we have entered into an option agreement with our landlord michael taub to agree to sell at a very generous price provided he can find the proper alternative for the space (read: full-service restaurant)

While this agreement provides the basis for a win-win, in the event a viable local operator does not show up by the time we reach and pay the SLA settlement, we will be moving forward with our renovation alteration and upgrade plans.

As you can see, to facilitate such we have allowed the landlord to post a sign in the window to increase exposure. It remains to be seen what will transpire next.

Alas the saga of SUPERDIVE continues.

signed

Baby Dive

East Village Eatery etc.: Percy's Tavern comes together; more coffee for Astor Place

On 13th Street and Avenue A, Percy's Tavern starts to come together....

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Early morning this past weekend outside 16 Handles on Second Avenue....

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Had no idea that Zen Palate reopened at another spot near Union Square... opened a few weeks ago on 18th Street between Park Avenue South and Irving Plaza...

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East Village Finest Deli on Avenue B and Fourth Street offers a sneak preview...

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A branch of Financier Patisserie is opening at Astor Place and Broadway....

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In Scoopy's column in The Villager this week, he notes that David Mamet was a regular at the now-shuttered Bon Vivant on Broadway....

Monday, September 6, 2010

I know what we did last summer

Since Memorial Day, I've posted nearly 750 items... and, for as quickly as the summer seemingly passed by, looking back at some of these things from the summer seems like years ago...

Let's go back to Memorial Day weekend... and work our way to Labor Day... here are a few items from the last three months...

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2 Cooper Square is charing upwards of $20,000 a month for rents... the most ever for the East Village...

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