Monday, November 1, 2010

'Chocolate Library' coming soon to St. Mark's Place

Here between Avenue A and First Avenue...




Dunno what exactly this will entail... there is a Chocolate Library in the UK.

'Restaurant/cafe use preferred' on corner of Second Avenue and First Street

The corner space at Avalon Bowery Place on First Street and Second Avenue has remained vacant since work ended on the apartment complex ...



However, I recently noticed a new "for lease" sign on the doors... noting that "restaurant/cafe use preferred."

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Do you mind if we dance with your dates?

Breaking: Workers gutting Sin Sin

A team of workers are on the scene this morning at the beleaguered Sin Sin on Second Avenue and Fifth Street...



...basically throwing away everything... liquor bottles...



...the Red Bull machine...



The bar was originally set to close after Thursday night. More later.

Sin Sin comes undone






Here are more shots of Sin Sin's dismantling... courtesy of Honey Millmann.

At the Lower Eastside Girls Club groundbreaking Friday



On Friday, the Lower Eastside Girls Club held their official groundbreaking for their new home on Avenue D between Seventh Street and Eighth Street .... aside from local politicians, East Village native Rosario Dawson was on hand...

I couldn't attend the ceremony, unfortunately... For more on the groundbreaking... here's a piece on NY1. The Lo-Down has coverage... as does DNAinfo....

Here's the official news release with more details on what the HQ will house.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Passion and progress at the new home of the Lower Eastside Girls Club

Avenue A, 9:10 a.m., Oct. 31

The night before Halloween

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Happy Halloween



Well, if you happen to be out and about and see some great costumes or streetscenes, I'd love to post the photos... So please let me know if you'd like to share any Halloween photos (be happy to give you credit and link to your site, Flickr page) from the weekend... grieve98@gmail.com

!!!Halloween CarnEvil!!! tonight


Reminders: Protest tomorrow night in Tompkins Square Park

As reported earlier this month, there'll be a Protest/Fiesta in Tompkins Square Park starting tomorrow night at 7 ... organized by longtime East Village activist/photojournalist John Penley...

amNY had a feature on it in yesterday's paper...(not online)



Previously on EV Grieve:
More details on Halloween night protest/fiesta in Tompkins Square Park (74 comments)

Movement afoot to limit the number of concerts in Tompkins Square Park

Newsflash! Pumpkins are a popular item this Halloween!

Oct. 17!



Today!



At the Great Urban Pumpkin Patch on St. Mark's Place.

Tired out




Avenue A and 13th Street this morning.

Cooper Square, 9:41 a.m., Oct. 30

Horrorsquare



Elizabeth Street. Foursquare gone evil.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Love and a 45



45 Grave with Evil from 1983.

EV Lambo still alive and well, maybe



... but we're looking for visual confirmation. This could just be a clever case of some Photoshopping, etc. Photo via @EVLambo, natch.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition



Police arrest suspect in Tuesday night's Stanton Street shooting (The Lo-Down)

The Best of Manhattan (and Beyond) issue from NYPress (NYPress)

What's replacing the "Hell" marquee at the New Museum (Curbed)

Where you can still shop at Love Saves the Day (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Skeletons! Including a dancing one at Mars Bar! (The Gog Log)

The way it was: "The Punk Rock Movie" (Stupefaction)

And First Avenue Correspondent Blue Glass notes that ConEd continues work on First Avenue at Ninth Street after the underground fire/explosion the other day...


Holy f@cking sh#t! The EV Lambo is dead!?



NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Thanks to Chris O'Leary for the tip. Photo first posted on Trottoria.

Previously.

Updated now to include a waste of 48 seconds of your life:

5C Cultural Center & Cafe continues eviction battle



The owners of 5C Cultural Center & Cafe, which opened in 1995 at Avenue C and Fifth Street, continue to battle being evicted by their landlord... As Time Out put it earlier this month: "Sadly, it’s an all-too-familiar story: Another cherished downtown cultural hub is in danger of disappearing."

Here's more from the piece and co-owner Bruce Morris: “'The basic claim is that we violated the terms of the lease,'” explains Morris, noting that he feels 'the landlord’s thought is, How can we harass them enough to get them out?' Based on the landlord’s claims — that they changed the facade, altered a window and didn’t soundproof the space, all of which Morris denies."

You can read the rest of the TONY article here. And Morris wrote about their ongoing landlord troubles in The Shadow here.

Meanwhile, there's a fundraiser tomorrow night at 6 featuring Shoshke-Rayzl on guitar and co-owner Trudy Silver on piano...it's also the birthday of one of their founding directors, Silvia Ravelo.

Via e-mail, Silver told me: "We're back in court on November 10th, ... last court date many students, parents, seniors, musicians and educators showed up in support."