Maybe a friend of a 'Friends' star owns 331 E. Sixth St.?

We continue to speculate about who owns 331 E. Sixth St., the now-demolished circa-1852 townhouse. Some evidence pointed to, possibly, David Schwimmer. (Read that detective work here.)

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Now, here comes another theory via EV Grieve reader BodegaMan:

I've been speculating that the building on sixth is owned by Joey Slotnick.

I saw him on the stoop there once when it was still standing, and he's business partners with Schwimmer in a theater company in Chicago. So maybe they use the same manager or something. I see him around the neighborhood regularly.

First, we had to look up Joey Slotnick. Oh, yes — we recognize him. (The fellow on the left up there.)

And yes, according to IMDB, he is an ensemble member of Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company along with fellow member David Schwimmer ... and someone spotted him drinking at the 12th Street Ale House ... and...

OK, a little flimsy, perhaps?

Meanwhile. Next theory!

Oh, also... a commenter on Friday's Schwimmer post said that the DOB slapped a Stop Work Order dated from Wednesday on the pit. We meant to walk by... but per the DOB site (in ALL CAPS!) ...

CALLER STATES THE EXCAVATION WORK AT THE LOCATION IS UNDERMINING THE ADJACENT PROPERTY AT 329 6 ST CAUSING IT TO SHAKE

Previously on EV Grieve:
Is David Schwimmer the 'Friends' star who now owns the demolished 331 E. Sixth St. townhouse?

Outrage over total demolition of historic East Sixth Street townhouse

'Artisinal cocktail bar' in the works for Avenue B

Most of the items on tonight's CB3/SLA docket are pretty straightforward ... exisiting places looking to upgrade or transfer a license... or a known entity, such as The Bean, applying for a liquor license...

One of the more curious items is:

• Pouring Ribbons (Lead to Gold Inc), 225 Ave B (op)

This is the upstairs space that has been home to White Noise and Uncle Ming's ...

According to documents (PDF) on file with CB3, the team behind Alchemy Consulting is taking over this space. If their names are on the application, then it's likely safe to assume that they are taking a more active role than just creating a drinks menu, like they have for, say, The Rusty Knot.

As you can see from the screengrabs below, the place is being described as an "artisanal cocktail bar" that will, aside from cocktails, serve "locally sourced sandwiches, crudite, hummus and desserts."

Alchemy Consulting is described its website as "a firm based on increasing the profitability of bars and restaurants around the country through innovative beverage design." New York clients include Bar Seven Five at the Andaz Wall Street and the bars at the Hotel Williamsburg.

Here's the description of Bar Seven Five:

Revolutionizing the traditional New York bar concept, Bar Seven Five combines modern accessibility and classic cocktails in the heart of Lower Manhattan. The central bar, fast becoming one of New York City’s most popular lounges, features neither front nor back, so patrons can enjoy complete ease of interaction with their designated bartender while watching their cocktails being prepared. Using artisanal ingredients, the staff at Bar Seven Five works to create classic cocktails with an emphasis on pre-prohibition design. Taking inspiration from the turn-of-the-century Pullman train car bars, each cocktail is individually prepared, served, and garnished directly in front of the guest in a miniature shaker.

Almost working around the clock on developing 326-328 E. Fourth St.

An EV Grieve reader who lives near the formerly historic townhouses at 326-328 E. Fourth St. between Avenue C and Avenue D reports that work is happening here at a rather frantic pace... including during evenings and Saturdays and Sundays...

The reader/resident is finding all this weekend work annoying. We walked by ourselves yesterday morning around 10 ... complete with a newspaper for authentication purposes...



Regardless, all the required After Hours Variance Permits are on file with the DOB...

More upscale housing is coming here with two new floors courtesy of developer Terrence Lowenberg and Ramy Issac, the controversial penthouse king of the East Village.

Here's how it's shaping up ... with a view from East Third Street...

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

Last remnants of Le Souk have been removed from Avenue B

The former Le Souk space on Avenue B remains on the market for $25,000 a month. Still, the mere presence of all the menus and reviews and stuff on the window were enough to make some people think this place would magically reopen...



However, someone has recently removed all that (donated to the CB3/SLA Hall of Shame?) stuff from the front window...

All that remains: the menu from the summer of 2008...

Maybe just cleaning the space up for its New Year's Eve party?

Copper Building retail space back on the market

We've been keeping an eye on the retail space at the Copper Building on Avenue B at 13th Street... someone removed the for sale signs back in May...



At the time, Brian Meier, senior vice president at Prudential Douglas Elliman, said via email that the space was sold to an investor, who has a contract out on the storefront...

Anyway, perhaps that original deal fell through... there is a new sign up now for the space...

Asking price is $6,000 per month... here's a look at the info... check out the restrictions (no delis or laundromats!...)

The Burger Shop, sans burgers, now open on St. Mark's Place

Well, we were a little surprised to walk by 115 St. Mark's Place on Friday and find something called The Burger Shop up and running... Most recently, Michael "Bao" Huynh ran DOB 111 and then BarBao here. A tipster had said that Bao was opening another corny-sounding eatery here... (Turns out a father-son team from Queens is running the place.)

We stopped by and learned that they opened Halloween weekend... and that they weren't serving any food yet — likely have the kitchen in operation this week ... for now, just $10 pitchers of PBR all day/night... as well as a 2-for-1 beer happy hour... and organic wines...

So far, they are keeping the Beau art on the gate that went up in January for Barbao...

Then!

Now!

Anyway, trying to recall a little liquor license history here... In April 2010, the CB3/SLA committee rejected Huynh's request for a beer/wine license for DOB 111.

The six-foot bar at DOB had six seats, and was mainly used for people waiting for tables. However, several Board members looked through the pile of signatures that Huynh brought, noting there were only 29 signatures from residents who lived on that block from Avenue A to First Avenue. Board chair Alexandra Militano scolded an increasingly incredulous-looking Huynh for not doing better community outreach, something that a well-known restaurateur should know.

Plus, this permit request was within the so-called resolution area... because there are 18 liquor licenses or so along here on St. Mark's Place...

Anyway, we don't recall seeing this item on the CB3 agenda... There was something called "The Saint Mark's Red House (TTD& G LLC), 115 St Marks Pl (wb)" on the agenda in June, but that was a scratch. There's now an active liquor license here ... and one more place for a 2-for-1 happy hour.

And now, the red-tailed hawk eats a squirrel in Tompkins Square Park

Photos via Bobby Williams, who noted that the red-tailed hawk ate the squirrel that the hawk had killed earlier in the day...

Sunset now

And also this evening from EV Grieve reader Anthony Devers ....

And one from Bobby Williams...

NY Tofu House opens on St. Mark's Place with free samples, lines

Back in August, we noted that something called NY Tofu House was taking the former Mondo Kim's space on St. Mark's Place... EV Grieve reader Stephen Popkin sends along photos of a grand-opening sample giveaway this afternoon...

3 months ago in Tompkins Square Park: Planning for Occupy Wall Street

Here's our post from Aug. 12 ...

The planning to occupy Wall Street continues tomorrow at 5 p.m. with a meeting in Tompkins Square Park...

Interesting to look back at all this... Bob Arihood covered the meeting. He noted the following:

A number of individuals , in considerable ignorance of the law of the land, complained that their pictures were being taken . We were lectured quite arrogantly and condescendingly at length to respect the privacy of individuals .

TSP isn't the dorm rec room or the recitation hall folks , it is public property , public space .There is no expectation of privacy here , especially when engaged in a political act .

The crows of the New York City Marble Cemetery

Bobby Williams heard that some crows have been spotted hanging around the historic New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Yesterday, he spotted four crows... a little late for Halloween...

Why Abraco is closed today

EVGayBear notes the the following today outside Abraco on Seventh Street...

Toilet abandoned merely for having a cracked seat

East Third Street near Avenue A...

Couldn't this have been rehabbed and put back into use...?

Or else turned into a decorative planter or glassware for a specialty cocktail...?

Another broken tree limb in Tompkins Square Park

We first noticed this broken limb in the middle of the Park on Friday...

Bobby Williams took these photos on Friday...

Dunno when it happened... the limb was intact when we looked at the new Steve Jobs Memorial Tree on Tuesday...

Previously.

'De-Flea' Market for Animal Rescue tomorrow at Bar 82

From the EV Grieve inbox...from our friend Our Lady of Perpetual PMS...

'De-Flea' Market for Animal Rescue'
136 2nd Ave. (bwtn St. Marks Place & 9th Sts.) in Bar 82's spacious back room

• Purchase great gifts by local artists this holiday season & help support Infinite Hope Animal Rescue, this month's featured rescue organization!
• Each month we host a different animal rescue charitable organization.
• Shop affordable & local — not corporations! — while helping to support a great cause: jewelry, art, stellar vintage, punk crafts, rock n roll wood cuts, antique oddities, food, beauty products & more!
• $5 raffle goes directly to Infinite Hope. Winners pick prizes of vendor art, donated goods & services from local businesses & more

3 till 8 pm: 2-for-1 well drinks, $3 select bottles & drafts, $5 wine
Bonus: 3 - 5pm: $1 off any drink with each raffle ticket purchased

Previously.

Game day: JoePa's Potato Combo is now the Pa's Potato Combo

Yesterday, an EV Grieve reader wondered if area bars that cater to Penn Sate game-day viewing parties would revamp their menus in the aftermath of the alleged child sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the university this past week ... leading to the dismissal of the school president ... as well as legendary football coach Joe Paterno (affectionately known as JoePa, for you non-football fans).

Anyway, in case you were curious ... an anonymous Penn State fan notes that at one of the bars (Tonic East?), the JoePa's Potato Combo has been changed to...

Muzzarella Pizza back open on Avenue A

Bride of 7th notes that Muzzarella Pizza is back open on Avenue A near 14th Street... they had been closed for a bit after a bout with the DOH.

Naked Pizza bares new sign on East 14th Street

Yesterday, workers put up the sign for the incoming Naked Pizza shop on 14th Street just steps away from Third Avenue... it's the second NYC location of the New Orleans-based company... per the website:

Founded in 2006, based in New Orleans and backed by Mark Cuban and The Kraft Group, Naked Pizza's mission is to revolutionize how we think about fast food. We believe that the product, business model and ethos of the brand will prove that conscious capitalism can make a difference.

Anyway, the pizza is supposed to not make you a fat slob. Per the website (again):

NAKED = Natural: Our dough, sauce and cheese contain no additives, preservatives, colorants or weird chemicals of any kind.
Fewer Calories: We reduce the calories with our multi-grain dough mix and by not adding sugar or butter to the dough or sauce. Our cheese is a great tasting skim milk mozzarella.
Prebiotics: Called an invisible super fiber, prebiotics improve your balance of healthy probiotic bacteria for improved immunity.
Multi-Grain: Our diverse blend of ancestral grain and seeds (more than 10) and selected for maximum nutrients and taste.
Probiotics: Probiotics are health-giving bacteria that live in our guts and essential to a sense of balance. We use a heat-resistant probiotic.
More Protein: Our mixture of multi-grain flours and numerous whole grains boost the levels of important plant proteins. Increasing levels of protein help the body achieve optimal performance and help reduce hunger
Less Fat: No trans fats, no butter, and our 50/50 whole and skim milk mozzarella keeps the fat in check.
Better Taste: When you add it all up, we have created the worlds healthiest and best tasting pizza that can be part of your healthy lifestyle.

If you want to plumpen up, then you'll have to wait until the 5 Napkin Burger opens next door.

On closer inspection, IHOP NOT opening a sidewalk cafe on 14th Street

Joking. But still. Seeing the blue tarp tent out front ... which matches the IHOP brand colors ... gives you pause...

...the work continues on all this... the cooling system for the Pancake Maker. Or it's something for the L train. Either way.