14th Street and First Avenue via the Long Lost Intern of EV Grieve (LLIOEVG).
Friday, February 3, 2012
We'll always have the L train
14th Street and First Avenue via the Long Lost Intern of EV Grieve (LLIOEVG).
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
Urban etiquette signage: "By the turn of the century, the East Village was being taken over by assholes" (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Tahini says that they are NOT CLOSING on Third and St. Mark's to make way for another Michael "Bao" Huynh Baotery (Eater)
Check out the Lower East Side Heritage Film Series at Seward Park Library (The Lo-Down)
Godard films Jefferson Airplane atop a Midtown hotel in 1968 (This Ain't the Summer of Love)
Why does the East Village have so many NFL team bars? (The New York Times)
The Oak Room closing for good at the Algonquin Hotel (The New York Times)
Condos replacing parking garages in Manhattan (The Real Deal)
See The City Skyline Change, From 1876 To 2013 (Gothamist)
City preps new safety plan for Delancey (The Villager)
Full-length Renoir at the Frick starting Tuesday (Nonetheless)
The rat was outside Beth Israel on 16th and First Avenue yesterday...
And today...
Max moving to Williamsburg; closing Avenue B space
On Tuesday, Eater reported that Max, the 12-year-old Italian place on Avenue B near Fourth Street, was opening a new location in Williamsburg this spring. In a follow-up piece today, The Wall Street Journal reported that Max is actually closing its East Village location.
Luigi Iasilli, an owner, wrote in an email that he plans to close the East Village location as the neighborhood is getting "slow."
"I finally found what I believe I was looking for," he said of his Williamsburg site. "For me, [it is] going back to the roots, small space, $3,000 rent, a small yard, a mixed ethnic neighborhood with only a bodega across the street."
Slow?
Anyway, this departure will leave four empty storefronts on the east side of Avenue B between East Fourth and East Third Street. Just think — four new bars.
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?
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