Previously on EV Grieve:
Let's take a walk along First Avenue in the East Village in 1997
Let's take a walk along Second Avenue in the East Village in 1997
Friday, February 3, 2012
Let's take a walk along Avenue A in the East Village in 1997
This is the third and, sadly, last in the series of 1997 East Village streetscene shots by EV Grieve reader Dave Buchwald. (Read the back story about these photos here.) Today, we'll walk south down Avenue A, perhaps even zipping off the street for a moment...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Let's take a walk along First Avenue in the East Village in 1997
Let's take a walk along Second Avenue in the East Village in 1997
Previously on EV Grieve:
Let's take a walk along First Avenue in the East Village in 1997
Let's take a walk along Second Avenue in the East Village in 1997
More photos of the apartment with the garage door for a living-room wall on East 14th Street
On Tuesday, we pointed out the article from The Wall Street Journal on the Brownstone East Village, the architectural wonder at 224 E. 14th St. near Third Avenue. Bill Peterson, the architect behind this, is selling his second-floor home for $2.499 million.
Anyway, the Corcoran tumblr posted more photos of apartment ... given how we're both fascinated and horrified by this place... we thought we'd share these action shots...
There's an Open House (so to speak!) Sunday from noon to 2 p.m.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Finally, your chance to own the 3-level penthouse at the Brownstone East Village
Anyway, the Corcoran tumblr posted more photos of apartment ... given how we're both fascinated and horrified by this place... we thought we'd share these action shots...
There's an Open House (so to speak!) Sunday from noon to 2 p.m.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Finally, your chance to own the 3-level penthouse at the Brownstone East Village
Renovations begin at 26 First Ave.
Renovations began yesterday on First Avenue at Second Street at the former Cafe Rama. Last fall, the Bean had plans to take over this space, though they ultimately decided to focus instead on the new locations on Second Avenue/Third Street and First Avenue/Ninth Street.
Work permits, which the city issued Wednesday, don't provide too much information. The usual all-cap crap:
INTERIOR MODIFICATION AND ALTERATION AT THE EXISTING 1ST FLOOR (CORNER) COMMERCIAL SPACE, RELOCATION OF EXISTING HOOD AND COOKING EQUIPMENT. STORE, FRONT AND CARPENTRY WORK. NO CHANGE IN USE, EGRESS, OR
OCCUPANCY.
One trusted tipster believes that the people who run the Cloister Cafe on East Ninth Street near Second Avenue are behind this new, unnamed venture...
Photo by Bobby Williams.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Bean is not taking over the former Rama Cafe on First Avenue
EVG repost: Foreigner affairs
This weekend, Film Anthology Archives is screening a handful of works by Amos Poe, including "The Foreigner." Which reminded me of this post from October 2009.
I recently had an event in my life — the kind in which people may give you birthday presents. [Pause for applause] A family member with the best of intentions asked me for a few suggestions — a book, DVD, CD. That kind of thing. So I came up with a short list. On that list: Amos Poe's "The Foreigner," complete with some great shots of the EV via 1978. (Alex recently wrote about this film...) And on this glorious day, I opened the package. And....
Well, it's no "Half Past Dead" — but what is?
I recently had an event in my life — the kind in which people may give you birthday presents. [Pause for applause] A family member with the best of intentions asked me for a few suggestions — a book, DVD, CD. That kind of thing. So I came up with a short list. On that list: Amos Poe's "The Foreigner," complete with some great shots of the EV via 1978. (Alex recently wrote about this film...) And on this glorious day, I opened the package. And....
Well, it's no "Half Past Dead" — but what is?
Armed men robbed the Metro PCS store on East 14th Street twice last month: cops
The NYPD is looking for two men who have robbed the Metro PCS store on East 14th Street at First Avenue twice last month — Jan. 6 and Jan. 20, according to a Crimestoppers report in DNAinfo. Police say the armed men also held up an Upper East Side pharmacy.
Both of the suspects are described as 40 to 50 years old, 5-foot-10 to 6-foot-1 and 150-200 pounds.
Police said they were wearing dark clothes and latex gloves. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). DNAinfo has a video too.
Crazy Eddie sent us these photos of the Metro PCS store last week...
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Red-tailed hawk lets rat live to see another slice of bread in Tompkins Square Park
So, this afternoon, the red-tailed hawk locks in on a potential snack in Tompkins Square Park...
But, as Bobby Williams notes, the hawk didn't bother the rat.
Maybe the hawk is letting him fatten up on that bread.
But, as Bobby Williams notes, the hawk didn't bother the rat.
Maybe the hawk is letting him fatten up on that bread.
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
A feature on director Amos Poe, whose films will play at Anthology Film Archives this weekend (The Wall Street Journal)
About those bogus Gem-Spa-has-closed rumors (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Bar etiquette signs of the East Village (Capital New York)
Introducing Tripping With Marty (Tripping With Marty)
Man who brought us AvalonBay Communities now working for the Housing Authority (Crain's)
12 East Village/LES restaurants that have expanded to Williamsburg (Eater)
The rather doomed corner of Essex and Houston (BoweryBoogie)
Delancey Underground looks for support via Kickstarter (The Lo-Down)
Vintage Talking Heads (Flaming Pablum)
Thor's new Coney Island building on Surf Avenue is fucking horrible looking (Amusing the Zillion)
Madonna on her forthcoming tour: "People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it." (Newsweek)
And several readers noted a late-night trash-can fire in Tompkins Square Park near Avenue A and St. Mark's Place. Per an EVG Facebook friend: "Fire ... was being stoked by a half naked, gyrating man."
Washing day for 86 E. Fourth St.
Over at 86 E. Fourth St., workers are putting a shine on the building at Second Avenue that RURU & Associates recently purchased ... notes @bndo, who sent along the photo, "Guess they're not tearing that one down."
Previously.
And now, let's look down at Sixth Street's incoming mansion
EV Grieve reader weigone sends along a photo looking down at (so to speak) 331 E. Sixth St., where David Schwimmer may or may not be building a six-floor home. She took the photo yesterday, and noted that workers poured the wall of concrete for the foundation on Friday.
"Anyway, the noise is horrendous," she said. And only six floors to go! There has been some talk of recording the construction noise, and playing it back during the new tenant's first roof party.
This would probably never happen in Hancock Park.
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
The end (of the view and daylight) is near
On Monday, we had an update on the former Sigmund Schwartz Gramercy Park Chapel on Second Avenue between 10th Street and Ninth Street. Plans call for an additional three floors here.
A reader sends along an aerial view looking north at the property. As you can see, construction hasn't started yet.
However, when it does, the folks living next door with the south-facing windows will likely lose any view and daylight. Which really sucks.
Another former East Village funeral home now on the market
On Monday, we had an update on the former Sigmund Schwartz Gramercy Park Chapel on Second Avenue ... there's news about another former East Village funeral home now, though nothing quite as dramatic as a three-story extension courtesy of Ramy Issac that will happen on Second Avenue...
The former Brettschneider Funeral Home at 49 Seventh St. just east of Second Avenue is on the market for $5.2 million. The funeral home moved out in 2005 (or was it early 2006?).
The Corcoran listing notes that three of the five units received gut renovations in 2006. And here's part of the rest of the listing:
Here's a shot of how the funeral looked a few years ago ...
[Via Flickr]
The former Brettschneider Funeral Home at 49 Seventh St. just east of Second Avenue is on the market for $5.2 million. The funeral home moved out in 2005 (or was it early 2006?).
The Corcoran listing notes that three of the five units received gut renovations in 2006. And here's part of the rest of the listing:
Exceptional investment opportunity for five free market apartments in a prime East Village location ... Erected between 1857-1862, this well-maintained 25'x74' townhouse is built on a 25'x93.5' lot with a garden, totaling 6,826 interior square feet. Each of the five apartments occupies an entire floor ... Four of the five apartments can be delivered vacant. With the exception of the first floor one-bedroom apartment, each rent paying occupant is on a month-to-month lease, paying below market rents of $3,800, $3,900, and $4,000 per month. There is significant potential for rent increases, as similarly sized apartments in the neighborhood command higher prices. The first floor occupant will remain for an additional ten year lease term.
Here's a shot of how the funeral looked a few years ago ...
Heart of Glass
Some excerpts:
"The Bowery used to be synonymous with people who lived on the street and were alcoholics," Glass says with little nostalgia of many veteran Villagers. "In the '80s, if you wandered over to Avenue B . . . there would be people walking in the middle of the street hawking drugs! Just announcing what they had for sale! It was that open.
"I am not sorry to see that part of the East Village disappearing. It was a very grungy part, you know?" He admits that Tompkins Square Park "is much better than it used to be. ...
Still, Glass is aware (and sad) that many of the economic realities that allowed him to become an artist, back when the East Village was a neighborhood of Ukrainian immigrants and Yiddish theaters, no longer exist.
And!
"It was very common when I was a kid — I call myself a kid until I was in my thirties; that would have been until the late '60s and early '70s — it was very common to find a loft in the East Village . . . empty synagogues and that type of thing," Glass says. "You could find a loft for $150, $200 a month.
"Now, that's impossible," Glass says, though it never stops the Big Apple. "One of the things that's made New York so impressive is the constant wave of young people looking for fame, fortune, art, whatever, something."
Read the full article here.
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