...and near a trash can in Tompkins Square Park ...
Sunday, February 13, 2011
When you gotta park, you gotta park
East Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue this morning.
Noted
"Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley is doing his best to get over his split with beautiful co-star Blake Lively. Sources said he ended up canoodling two women at the same East Village dive bar the other night. One spy told us, "He danced provocatively and made out with one girl, a gorgeous brunette, then moved on to another young woman, who he kissed in the cab on the way home." (Page Six)
Worker says 35 Cooper Square will be demolished in a week
Following up on our earlier item today about the weekend work at 35 Cooper Square ... according to a comment by @Roger_Paw:
I talked to one of the workers today. He was locking up the outer shed. I asked him if it were true that they were removing asbestos. He said yes. I asked if the building was going to be demolished and he said yes, in a week. I wanted to make sure I understood so I asked, "OK, so asbestos removal now, demolition in a week?" and he said yes.
Previously on EV Grieve:
What's the rush at 35 Cooper Square?
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Week in Grieview
Looking at the updated renderings of the Union Square Hyatt (Friday)
Two Nicky's for the East Village (Monday)
Veselka closes for "Gossip Girl" (Monday)
Waiting in line for the LCD Soundsystem (Wednesday)
The new
East Fourth Street will soon be more luxurious (Wednesday)
Wondering about the hole in the ground at the Marble Cemetery (Wednesday)
The Bowery is dangerous for pedestrians (Thursday)
A record-setting sale on First Avenue (Wednesday)
Seeing the Grateful Dead on Second Avenue for $2 (Friday)
Report: NYPD nabs purse snatcher, thumb slasher
From today's NYPD Daily Blotter in the Post:
A purse snatcher slashed a woman's thumb as she tried in vain to hang on to her bag in her Alphabet City apartment building, sources said.
Hector Diaz, 46, followed the woman, 44, into the vestibule on East Sixth Street near Avenue D at 2:25 a.m. Sunday and tried to rip the bag off her shoulder, the sources said.
After allegedly cutting her, Diaz fled with the purse.
He was arrested Wednesday.
DOH shutters Yerba Buena on Avenue A
The city inspected the Latin eatery at 23 Avenue A near Second Street yesterday. It did not go well. The city immediately ordered the restaurant to close.
Sorry.. the link doesn't seem to work.. Here are the major violations....
Establishment Closed by DOHMH. Violations were cited in the following area(s) and those requiring immediate action were addressed.
Sanitary Violations
1) Shellfish not from approved source, improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days.
2) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
3) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
4) Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.
5) Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.
6) Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
7) Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
What's the rush at 35 Cooper Square?
EV Grieve reader Joe sends along the top photo of 35 Cooper Square this morning with a simple question: "Wasn't there a roof here yesterday?"
Indeed, workers are on this scene this Saturday morning doing something or another on the roof. (Removing asbestos from the roof, via Roland Li at Real Estate Weekly.)
...and the sinkhole parking lot is full of the workers' cars...
So, what's the rush? Are we in for a quickie, overnight teardown? Don't see anything in the work permit about Saturday construction...And someone has already called to complain about the illegal work.
Indeed, workers are on this scene this Saturday morning doing something or another on the roof. (Removing asbestos from the roof, via Roland Li at Real Estate Weekly.)
...and the sinkhole parking lot is full of the workers' cars...
So, what's the rush? Are we in for a quickie, overnight teardown? Don't see anything in the work permit about Saturday construction...And someone has already called to complain about the illegal work.
A lost black tuxedo cat
Haven't walked here on Second Avenue near 12th Street for a few days... so I don't know how long the signs have been up. Still.
Protect tenant rights
Rob from Save the Lower East Side sent this information along...
The June expiration of rent regulations in New York should be a personal concern of every renter, regulated or not. The erosion of rent regulations deprives all renters of rights.
Rent deregulation encourages landlords to withhold basic services since deregulated renters are often afraid to complain to city agencies, knowing that the landlord may retaliate with an unreasonable rent hike at renewal, just to get rid of an outspoken tenant. Tenants associations are weakened by that fear, so all tenants, regulated or not, are harmed. Communities are harmed by market-rate expansion and the transiency it brings, no less than its gentrification effects. The city's culture is harmed by the decreasing availability of affordable space so essential to new artists and communities devoted to creativity and social reflection and social action.
As the pool of regulated tenants dwindles, so does its voting clout. It is more important than ever for all renters to band together to make their voices clear. From Met Council on Housing:
Kick-Off Party for the Met Council on Housing's 2011 Campaigns!
Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, 1-4 PM
61 East 4th Street, 4th Floor Btwn. the Bowery & 2nd Ave (wheelchair accessible)
Learn about our 2011 campaigns, how you can get involved, and party with a purpose!
• Rent-Law Reform
• Tenants' Bill of Rights
• Stop the Tenant Blacklist
The event is free and open to all. No need to RSVP.
[Image via Met Council on Housing]
Friday, February 11, 2011
Love and human remains
A little pre Valentine's Day music from the Troggs. This song hit No. 7 in the United States in May 1968.
A few years ago, when no one gave a shit about the wall at Houston and the Bowery
Billy Leroy, proprietor of Billy's Antiques, sends along this photo from 2006... I sort of summarized his sentiment from the e-mail in the headline...
Today, of course, the wall here is the scene of ongoing drama.
Today, of course, the wall here is the scene of ongoing drama.
East Village prepping for induction into Ugly New Hotel Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Well, now. We've been keeping tabs on the new Union Square Hyatt coming to Fourth Avenue at 13th Street... the last renderings looked like this...
Apparently that was just too darn boring for a hotel here... The ArchPaper (via Curbed!) has the latest, um, look:
Per Curbed's description:
Meanwhile, this will be soon joining its classmate down on the Bowery...
Apparently that was just too darn boring for a hotel here... The ArchPaper (via Curbed!) has the latest, um, look:
Per Curbed's description:
This terrace will reportedly hold a hydroponic bamboo garden growing tall outside the hotel windows. The Hyatt's vertical extension will be capped by two floors faced in glass. For a final flourish, the corner over Fourth will get a halo framed in metal.
Meanwhile, this will be soon joining its classmate down on the Bowery...
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
More on Union Market's foray into the East Village (The Lo-Down)
The first look at Bowery Beef (Grub Street)
A collection of the old vs. the new buildings (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
A review of Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at The Poetry Project (SoundSystem)
Drinking at BillyMark's West (Eater)
Pussycat Lounge returning? (Downtown Express)
A Queens man lives in an igloo (Runnin' Scared)
NYU prof has implanted camera removed from head (NYU Local)
And as BoweryBoogie noted, mixed-media street artist TMNK has opened a pop-up gallery in the retail space in 52E4, the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery near Fourth Street. The gallery is now open... these are photos that I took the last few weeks...
When you could see the Grateful Dead on Second Avenue for $2
Following my recent post about the Hells Angels, a reader sent along the following photo ...
...when the Angels were presenting shows at the Anderson Theatre at 66 Second Avenue.
The reader also included a link to the site It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago... there, the author lays out a fairly exhaustive history of 66 Second Avenue, which is between Fourth Street and Third Street... You can read the whole history there...
A few highlights though... The theatre likely began its life as a Yiddish Playhouse in the late 1800s-early 1900s... in the late 1960s and '70s, it functioned as a rock venue where everyone from Moby Grape, Procol Harum and the Yardbirds played.
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company had their New York debut there on February 17, 1968 — look who else was on the bill: B.B. King.
Her post on the Anderson has a gazillion links and photos (some of which I reposted here) ... Far too many to try to mention here... find it all here.
Oh, one last thing. Hilly Kristal ran the CBGB Theater here from late 1977 to early 1978, she notes. The Talking Heads christened the CBGB Theater, followed by shows featuring the Dictators, the Dead Boys and Patti Smith. Here's one description of the CBGB Theater: "The place was disgusting. It made the CBGB club look like the Rainbow Room. We were talking about eighty years' worth of dirt. I mean there was popcorn left over from the last performance of the Yiddish theater in 1925...They did manage to clean up the entryway, and made it look like a subway station."
Anyway, find this and a whole lot more interesting posts on NYC's former rock & roll landmarks at It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago.
And 66 Second Avenue today.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Loew's Commodore Theatre
...when the Angels were presenting shows at the Anderson Theatre at 66 Second Avenue.
The reader also included a link to the site It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago... there, the author lays out a fairly exhaustive history of 66 Second Avenue, which is between Fourth Street and Third Street... You can read the whole history there...
A few highlights though... The theatre likely began its life as a Yiddish Playhouse in the late 1800s-early 1900s... in the late 1960s and '70s, it functioned as a rock venue where everyone from Moby Grape, Procol Harum and the Yardbirds played.
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company had their New York debut there on February 17, 1968 — look who else was on the bill: B.B. King.
Her post on the Anderson has a gazillion links and photos (some of which I reposted here) ... Far too many to try to mention here... find it all here.
Oh, one last thing. Hilly Kristal ran the CBGB Theater here from late 1977 to early 1978, she notes. The Talking Heads christened the CBGB Theater, followed by shows featuring the Dictators, the Dead Boys and Patti Smith. Here's one description of the CBGB Theater: "The place was disgusting. It made the CBGB club look like the Rainbow Room. We were talking about eighty years' worth of dirt. I mean there was popcorn left over from the last performance of the Yiddish theater in 1925...They did manage to clean up the entryway, and made it look like a subway station."
Anyway, find this and a whole lot more interesting posts on NYC's former rock & roll landmarks at It's All the Streets you Crossed Not So Long Ago.
And 66 Second Avenue today.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Loew's Commodore Theatre
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