'The Finish, Tompkins Square Park' Manhattan, 1906 Annual Report
Friday, June 3, 2011
And the Big Finish
Lastly, from Parks & Rec, a photo simply titled:
Were these motorcycles torched because of a parking-space dispute?
Yesterday morning, someone apparently torched the two motorcycles that are always parked along the 200 block of East Third Street...
EV Grieve reader Gregory Patrick notes that the owner of the bikes often shuffles the motorcycles around to ensure himself a permanently available parking spot in front of his house.
And according to Gregory, it "looks like someone did not approve of such greed in these times of increasingly difficult available parking."
This would not have happened on another block of East Third Street...
EV Grieve reader Gregory Patrick notes that the owner of the bikes often shuffles the motorcycles around to ensure himself a permanently available parking spot in front of his house.
And according to Gregory, it "looks like someone did not approve of such greed in these times of increasingly difficult available parking."
This would not have happened on another block of East Third Street...
At 35 Cooper Square — that's all, folks
EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams took these yesterday afternoon. Mission accomplished!
Previously.
Your chance to hear about the demolition of 51 Astor Place on Monday nightt
On Monday night, you can hear about the demolition plans for 51 Astor Place — the former Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art building.
I haven't heard anyone upset by the demolition of what looks like some auxiliary college campus building circa 1973.
Meanwhile, you know what's coming next...
[Top image by Bobby Williams]
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Former East Village Burial Society Now a Hole in the Ground
I'm doing a little guestwriting over at Curbed today and tomorrow... I posted this earlier...
When we last checked in on 326 and 328 East Fourth Street in November, preservation groups were fighting a losing battle to landmark the former Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple, an artists’ collective and burial society.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission said the buildings didn’t merit landmarking status, giving developer Terrence Lowenberg and penthouse-making architect Ramy Issac the green light to add two stories to the top here between Avenue C and D.
The 170-year-old buildings have been undergoing a gut renovation in recent months. We caught a glimpse behind the plywood, and didn’t see much of the guts left.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic East Fourth Street artists' collective soon to be condos
Two side-by-side townhouses on East Fourth Street await your renovation
City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses
When we last checked in on 326 and 328 East Fourth Street in November, preservation groups were fighting a losing battle to landmark the former Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple, an artists’ collective and burial society.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission said the buildings didn’t merit landmarking status, giving developer Terrence Lowenberg and penthouse-making architect Ramy Issac the green light to add two stories to the top here between Avenue C and D.
The 170-year-old buildings have been undergoing a gut renovation in recent months. We caught a glimpse behind the plywood, and didn’t see much of the guts left.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic East Fourth Street artists' collective soon to be condos
Two side-by-side townhouses on East Fourth Street await your renovation
City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
More on the 'Dateline' clip and Bikes By George (The Villager)
How some Airbnb users are breaking the law (BetaBeat)
More of the Garment Center vanishes (City Room)
East River Ferry Service starting June 13 (Runnin' Scared)
About Cape Cod on Avenue A (Neither More Nor Less)
Elliott Pharmacy, circa 1898, closes in Gramercy Park (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
New Roma Pizza on Delancey closed for renovations (BoweryBoogie)
Details on the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival (Nathan Kensinger Photography)
On Avenue C near Third Street, the local dry cleaner rather suddenly closed...
NYPD searching for suspect in several East Village robberies
Police are looking for this suspect who reportedly robbed several women in the East Village in mid-May. (DNAinfo)
Exit 9 exiting from Avenue A
After 16 years at 64 Avenue A, Exit 9 is moving. June 19 will be the last day here for the gifts-and-novelties shop. Per the sign on the front door, the store has outgrown its space.
No word yet on a new location...
Ping pong table 1, taggers 0
Over the weekend, we pointed out that someone had tagged the 2-month-old ping-pong table in Tompkins Square Park ... Well, those claims from the owner that this thing is indestructible are so far proving to be true... The table is tag-free again....
Previously.
Previously.
Is this the beginning of an Avenue A food-truck invasion this summer?
We were having an email conversation with Dave on 7th last evening. He asked if we saw the Go Burger food truck on Avenue A near Ninth Street. Why, yes — we even took a photo...
Per Dave, "With all this talk about these new-fangled food trucks everywhere ... this is the first one I've seen east of Second Avenue except for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck a couple of times. Could just be the beginning."
True. We can only really recall seeing Mister Softee on Avenues A-D.
Meanwhile, Bobby Williams took shots of the DessertTruck on A near Seventh Street on Tuesday evening...
In any event, I kind of thought that the food truck revolution had somehow bypassed this part of the East Village. But there doesn't seem to be any stopping the food truckers. Maybe just $5-a-gallon gas?
Bonus!
Photo of Luke's Lobster truck refilling on Seventh Street...
Per Dave, "With all this talk about these new-fangled food trucks everywhere ... this is the first one I've seen east of Second Avenue except for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck a couple of times. Could just be the beginning."
True. We can only really recall seeing Mister Softee on Avenues A-D.
Meanwhile, Bobby Williams took shots of the DessertTruck on A near Seventh Street on Tuesday evening...
In any event, I kind of thought that the food truck revolution had somehow bypassed this part of the East Village. But there doesn't seem to be any stopping the food truckers. Maybe just $5-a-gallon gas?
Bonus!
Photo of Luke's Lobster truck refilling on Seventh Street...
Joe Strummer mural on Seventh Street helping sell an apartment — on 11th Street
In an otherwise innocuous ad for an expensive apartment, one thing stands out...
The three-bedroom unit in question is on East 11th Street. Not exactly close to Seventh Street and Avenue A, where the Joe Strummer mural resides. Perhaps the realtor should have "The Magnificent Seven" playing on the site too.
The three-bedroom unit in question is on East 11th Street. Not exactly close to Seventh Street and Avenue A, where the Joe Strummer mural resides. Perhaps the realtor should have "The Magnificent Seven" playing on the site too.
Bowery Bar unveils new awning
If anything, it will provide a nice shelter for people waiting for the southbound M103 in the rain.
On East Ninth Street, Olivia remains closed without air conditioning
The bistro here between Avenue A and First Avenue has remained closed since at least Saturday... the sign out front points to faulty AC.
Haven't heard much from here since that whole baby lamb post.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
It was a tough day to be wearing a heavy black-and-white coat
Spotted by EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams on East Ninth Street near First Avenue.
June 1
East Village artist (and EV Grieve commenter) VH McKenzie came across this today on East 10th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A ...
A little thirsty looking... And how about some verification? She did have a Duane Reade receipt handy...
Gruber MacDougal, chief spokesperson for the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS), is at the opening of the new Relais & Châteaux hotel, Villa Clarisse, in Saint Martin de Ré and unavailable for comment.
A little thirsty looking... And how about some verification? She did have a Duane Reade receipt handy...
Gruber MacDougal, chief spokesperson for the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS), is at the opening of the new Relais & Châteaux hotel, Villa Clarisse, in Saint Martin de Ré and unavailable for comment.
Update on last night's Avenue B laundromat fire
Last night, the FDNY responded to a report of a fire on Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth. Several eyewitnesses put the fire at the Laundry & Dry Cleaners at 44 Avenue B. For passersby, the damage seemed minimal enough. We posted a photo of a burned-up laundry cart.
Building resident Stacie Joy sent us the above photo and a quick account of the damage inside:
The fire was from the laundromat on the ground floor. It traveled up the back of the building and hit the new construction (wood subflooring) in the apartments in the back. They evacuated us and we returned to find our places deep under water.
Some doors were busted, holes in roofs, windows opened by firefighters but everyone is alive and fine. The worst of it is all the thick acrid black smoke and the water damage.
Tompkins Square Park, June 1, 1967 — 'Hippie Heaven'
Original caption: "Hippie Heaven. New York: Hippie heaven is in Tompkins Square Park June 1 where a couple of the clan dance and play music in the sunshine, The park, which was the scene of a bloody melee late May 30 when 200 hippies refused police orders to stay away from the park's grassy sections, played host to the hippie's once again as the biggest outpouring of New York's dropout generation converged here to show police they cannot be intimidated."
IMAGE:
© Bettmann/CORBIS
DATE PHOTOGRAPHED
June 01, 1967
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