The Bowery Electric: 34
49ers: 28
Sunday, January 22, 2012
The lines of San Francisco
I originally sent this out via Twitter around 9: 30 or so.
49ers fans already on line outside Finnerty's on Second Avenue. The Post had a feature yesterday about the bar being a Bay Area sports haven.
And a look at last week's line closer to game time....
[Bobby Williams]
49ers fans already on line outside Finnerty's on Second Avenue. The Post had a feature yesterday about the bar being a Bay Area sports haven.
And a look at last week's line closer to game time....
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Memorial for Mary Spink tomorrow
As you may have heard, Mary Spink, the community activist and executive director of Lower East Side People’s Mutual Housing Association, died on Monday. She was 64. As The Lo-Down first reported, she had been battling a failing liver and kidneys.
She was a well-respected member of Community Board 3. Spink has had a long, varied career. Per The Lo-Down: "After arriving in the city as a teenager, she owned and operated a dress shop, a newsstand and a hardware store. She was a cook, a record promoter, a brick layer, a dancer, a waitress, a plumber, an office manager, a superintendent and a property manager. She served as Director of Drug Prevention for the Archdiocese of New York."
She volunteered as a board or committee member at more than 20 organizations including 19 years as a board or committee member of the LES Peoples Federal Credit Union, 14 years as a board member of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, and for nine years served as a board member and Chair of the Lower Eastside Girls Club.
"Mary was a feminist in a league with Emma Goldman, a community activist in a league with Jane Jacobs, a personality in a league of her own," Lyn Pentecost, executive director of the Lower Eastside Girls Club, told me via email. "Without Mary as our Board Chair in our critical years — we would not be building a. Girls Club today."
Tomorrow at 5:30, community members will take part in a service at Cooper Union (Seventh Street and Third Avenue).
A few scenes from The Storm of the Saturday®
It's here — The Storm of the Saturday® ... the most devastating 2-3 inches of snow that we've had all day... Here's how things are looking .... so far...
And we were waiting for that one guy who always runs out for a quick errand in shorts in weather like this ...
And we were waiting for that one guy who always runs out for a quick errand in shorts in weather like this ...
[UPDATED] FDNY: Man struck and killed by L train at 14th Street and Third Avenue station
We first posted this information on our Twitter account this morning... (here... and here...)
An FDNY official told me around 8:45 that someone was under a train at 14th Street and Third Avenue... the L was stopped in both directions...
Early reports indicate that the man is dead.
UPDATED:
Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reports the man was struck and killed by a Brooklyn-bound L train. He was pinned beneath the train. Nearly 200 passengers had to be evacuated from the train through the tunnel, Hedlund notes.
UPDATED:
The MTA has changed the status of the L:
UPDATED:
The Post reports that the victim was 22 years old. And he was standing on the tracks between the Union Square and Third Avenue stations. Officials have yet to release his name, or offer any theories why he was standing on the tracks.
UPDATED:
The Post ID'd the victim as BrianOmara O'Mara of Garden City. Still no explanation why he was walking on the tracks.
UPDATED:
Sunday night.
Per The Wall Street Journal:
An FDNY official told me around 8:45 that someone was under a train at 14th Street and Third Avenue... the L was stopped in both directions...
Early reports indicate that the man is dead.
UPDATED:
Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reports the man was struck and killed by a Brooklyn-bound L train. He was pinned beneath the train. Nearly 200 passengers had to be evacuated from the train through the tunnel, Hedlund notes.
UPDATED:
The MTA has changed the status of the L:
UPDATED:
The Post reports that the victim was 22 years old. And he was standing on the tracks between the Union Square and Third Avenue stations. Officials have yet to release his name, or offer any theories why he was standing on the tracks.
UPDATED:
The Post ID'd the victim as Brian
UPDATED:
Sunday night.
Per The Wall Street Journal:
Police said Mr. O'Mara had been out drinking with friends, who later realized he didn't enter a taxi with them at the end of the night.
Police are checking Mr. O'Mara's MetroCard to determine what time he entered the train station. It is believed he used an emergency exit on the station platform to enter the tunnel and was hit by a train, police said.
Officers recovered a cellphone, a wristwatch and a wallet with more than $100. A woman who answered the phone at Mr. O'Mara's home declined to comment.
And here's Tompkins Finest Deli on Avenue A
As we first noted back in August, the Ave. A Mini Market abruptly closed... Workers rehabbing the space near 10th Street said that another deli was coming soon... Yesterday afternoon, Bobby Williams got a look at the new signage going up...
It's the one of the Deli 3.0s with paninis and wraps and smoothies and stuff.
And look — bagels!(Bagel war?)
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ave. A Mini Market abruptly closes
On second thought, Avenue A Mini Market not reopening
Avenue A Mini Market now without part of its front window
It's the one of the Deli 3.0s with paninis and wraps and smoothies and stuff.
And look — bagels!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ave. A Mini Market abruptly closes
On second thought, Avenue A Mini Market not reopening
Avenue A Mini Market now without part of its front window
Not everyone wants landmark protection for the East Village
As you know, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) unanimously voted to create the East 10th Street Historic District* on Tuesday. (Perhaps we should include that name with an asterisk because of Ben Shaoul's last-second approval for a rooftop addition at 315 E. 10th St.)
Preservationists are now hoping that the LPC will give another swath of the East Village landmark status as well... an area that takes in some 330 buildings:
The LPC has not placed this item on their calendar just yet.
Today, in an article titled Preservation Push in Bohemian Home Stirs Fear of Hardship, The New York Times reports on the opposition to the landmark protection. Per the article by Joseph Berger:
Almost a dozen houses of worship, including the late-19th-century Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection and a crumbling century-old synagogue, argue that they are dependent on donations and that including them in a landmark district would make simple projects like repairing a window or fixing a roof more expensive and bureaucratically time-consuming.
Even worse, it would make their buildings and the valuable property on which they sit much less attractive since developers would be restricted in what they could do.
Now what?
Friday, January 20, 2012
Report: 12th-story 'Alphabet Plaza' in the works for Second Street and Avenue D
A Queens property owner plucked down $21 million for a 130,000-square-foot development site at Avenue D and East Second Street, The Real Deal reported tonight.
Kahen Properties bought six lots at 5-9 Avenue D and 306-310 East Second Street, and plans to break ground on a 12-story luxury apartment building this spring that will feature apartments in the $2,500 to $3,600 range.
Per The Real Deal's Katherine Clarke: "The building, which will include some affordable units as part of the 80/20 program, will have a doorman, rooftop terrace, gym and outdoor space."
In addition, there are plans for a "national tenant" to take up all 10,000 square feet of retail at the building dubbed "Alphabet Plaza."
Plans for a development like this first surfaced two years ago during a CB3 committee meeting, as the Lo-Down first reported.
The original rendering looked something like this:
During the meeting, the developer's name wasn't disclosed. His reps only said that he was a "former beer distributor," per The Lo-Down.
According to The Real Deal, Kahen Properties bought the land in a Dec. 22 deal from Simon Bergson, president and CEO of Manhattan Beer Distributors, the largest single-market beer distributor in the United States.
While Bergson's plans never materialized, it sounds as if Kahen is keeping the spirit of his development intact.
Aside from Alphabet Plaza, expect developments coming to East Third Street near Avenue D ... and Houston at Ridge ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Will Avenue D finally turn into Avenue C?
Listing appears for Houston and Avenue D development
Kahen Properties bought six lots at 5-9 Avenue D and 306-310 East Second Street, and plans to break ground on a 12-story luxury apartment building this spring that will feature apartments in the $2,500 to $3,600 range.
Per The Real Deal's Katherine Clarke: "The building, which will include some affordable units as part of the 80/20 program, will have a doorman, rooftop terrace, gym and outdoor space."
In addition, there are plans for a "national tenant" to take up all 10,000 square feet of retail at the building dubbed "Alphabet Plaza."
Plans for a development like this first surfaced two years ago during a CB3 committee meeting, as the Lo-Down first reported.
The original rendering looked something like this:
During the meeting, the developer's name wasn't disclosed. His reps only said that he was a "former beer distributor," per The Lo-Down.
According to The Real Deal, Kahen Properties bought the land in a Dec. 22 deal from Simon Bergson, president and CEO of Manhattan Beer Distributors, the largest single-market beer distributor in the United States.
While Bergson's plans never materialized, it sounds as if Kahen is keeping the spirit of his development intact.
Aside from Alphabet Plaza, expect developments coming to East Third Street near Avenue D ... and Houston at Ridge ...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Will Avenue D finally turn into Avenue C?
Listing appears for Houston and Avenue D development
Report: Man locks woman in bathroom, ransacks apartment
DNAinfo reports this afternoon that the NYPD is searching for a man they say locked an East Village woman in her bathroom and ransacked her apartment.
According to the report, the man — described as White or Hispanic in his mid-20s — followed the 31-year-old woman into her building's elevator about 1 a.m. on Monday.
The man then apparently broke into her apartment. He left without taking anything. The woman suffered minor injuries.
Police described the suspect as 5-feet-8-inches tall, 170 pounds, with brown eyes, wearing a three-quarter-length jacket, hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and black-rim glasses.
No word on where this took place. DNAinfo has a brief video clip of the suspect.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS
According to the report, the man — described as White or Hispanic in his mid-20s — followed the 31-year-old woman into her building's elevator about 1 a.m. on Monday.
The man then apparently broke into her apartment. He left without taking anything. The woman suffered minor injuries.
Police described the suspect as 5-feet-8-inches tall, 170 pounds, with brown eyes, wearing a three-quarter-length jacket, hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and black-rim glasses.
No word on where this took place. DNAinfo has a brief video clip of the suspect.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS
From the EV Grieve Weather Center
This just in from EV Grieve Weather Correspondent Shawn Chittle. See that roundish, blue blob hovering over what used to be Northern Illinois and Indiana? Yes, it's headed this way.
Per our sources at The Weather Channel (Woo! Jim Cantore!):
... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 4 PM EST SATURDAY...
* LOCATIONS... NEW YORK CITY... MOST ADJACENT SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY... AND MOST OF WESTERN LONG ISLAND.
* HAZARD TYPES... SNOW. PRECIPITATION MAY MIX WITH RAIN AND SLEET LATE SATURDAY MORNING AND INTO EARLY AFTERNOON BEFORE ENDING SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
* ACCUMULATIONS... 4 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW.
* WINDS... NORTHEAST 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES... IN THE UPPER 20S.
We calmly suggest that you start to panic.
We'll have live team coverage starting tomorrow. Whenever we wake up. (Noonish or so.)
What was inside the three wise men's treasure chest anyway?
Our friends at the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop brought our attention to the candleholder in the nativity scene at St. Stanislaus on Seventh Street...
Heh. We didn't know that Fleshjack made candleholders too...
The work of a jokester? To save you searching "Fleshjack" on Google ... they sell quality sex toys and adult toys for men.
Heh. We didn't know that Fleshjack made candleholders too...
The work of a jokester? To save you searching "Fleshjack" on Google ... they sell quality sex toys and adult toys for men.
A farewell to Mars
Earlier today, we looked back at the Second Avenue of 1997, a photo journey that began with the Mars Bar.
Workers have demolished most of the block that included the Mars Bar. The last brick from 9 Second Ave. is likely being carted away right now. So it seems like a fitting time for a tribute. Goggla paid her final respects at the Gog Log yesterday.
She has stayed in touch with many of the former patrons, "but there has been nothing to replace that tiny, grungy room that brought everyone together and embodied such fun and chaos."
[Photo by Goggla]
She has hundreds of Mars Bar photos at Flickr documenting the bar right up until the very end.
[Photo by Goggla]
Workers have demolished most of the block that included the Mars Bar. The last brick from 9 Second Ave. is likely being carted away right now. So it seems like a fitting time for a tribute. Goggla paid her final respects at the Gog Log yesterday.
She has stayed in touch with many of the former patrons, "but there has been nothing to replace that tiny, grungy room that brought everyone together and embodied such fun and chaos."
She has hundreds of Mars Bar photos at Flickr documenting the bar right up until the very end.
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