The politics of stickers

Spotted on East Seventh Street at Cooper Square...

...and in Tompkins Square Park...

[Bobby Williams]

I previously posted both of these on the EV Grieve Facebook page, where you can find other non-blog photos and links and crap.

260 Bowery soon to be set free

Last Wednesday, we looked at the groan-worthy new rendering for the currently vacant Amato Opera building ...

There's also a newish rendering for 260 Bowery ... currently the Standard Sheetmetal Fabrication Corp., which we discussed back in May.

Before!

Now!

You have been liberated!

Noted

A reader notes that the Starbucks is now open on First Avenue at East 13th Street ... "and it was pretty full."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Today in rumors of another Starbucks opening in the East Village

219 First Avenue ready for a chain store, probably

Starbucks confirmed for 219 First Ave., former home to Allen Ginsberg's favorite Chinese restaurant

What it costs to live in newly renovated apartments above a Starbucks in the East Village

Web of trouble? Here lies Spidey's rickshaw

Bobby Williams spotted Spidey's rickshaw here on East 10th Street near Stuyvesant Street... Perhaps operator Shaun Emerson is nearby? Or is there something far more sinister happening here...?

His rickshaw was stolen once before... BoweryBoogie caught up with Rickshaw Spidey recently on Ludlow Street ...

Anyway, we have a call out to Aunt May.

Graffiti looking to expand on East 10th Street

[Google]

Atelier Muse, a bridal boutique at 224 E. 10th St., closed earlier in the summer... and it looks as if the store's next-door neighborhood, Graffiti, the acclaimed small-plates place from chef Jehangir Mehta, has designs on expanding.

An unnamed applicant for 224 E. 10th St. is on this month's CB3/SLA docket. According to documents on file at CB3 (PDF), Mehta would expand from his current small space, adding four tables (20 seats total) and a stand-up bar with five seats.

Looks as if they'd expand their hours too, from 10:30 p.m. currently on Sunday-Thursday to midnight, and from 11:45 p.m. on Friday-Saturday to 2 a.m.

The SLA & DCA Licensing Committee meets on Monday at 6:30 p.m., at the JASA/Green Residence, 200 East 5th Street at Bowery.

Chris Frantz hosting 'Downtown Rockers' this afternoon on East Village Radio

From the EV Grieve inbox ...

Listen live to EVR.com today at 4 pm ET as Tom Tom Club's Chris Frantz hosts a very special show, honoring NYC's proverbial downtown music scene. ... A former guest of the EVR studio, Chris will host Downtown Rockers, a special show by the EP's name this afternoon at 4pm ET.

The 2-hour special will be highlighted with Frantz's inimitable knowledge of the neighborhood scene from "back in the day", as well as featuring music from the band's new release and commentary from friends of Frantz, including The Dead Boys' Cheetah Chrome, Blondie's Debbie Harry, Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers' Jerry Harrison and Television's Billy Ficca. Frantz's wife and Tom Tom Club bandmate Tina Weymouth will also be contributing to the special.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

[On East Third Street]

Fifty-seven-year old Lord John's Bootery becomes a 16 Handles on Third Avenue (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Red Mango opens Friday in Stuy Town (pcvstBee)

Formerly historic 135 Bowery now for sale (BoweryBoogie)

Video interview with the Union Square bully (Gothamist)

Get ready for the Big Gay Ice Cream cookbook (Grub Street)

Protesting a proposed bus stop on Essex Street (The Lo-Down)

Ack: "Guy Fieri's 500 seat restaurant is opening on Thursday and there's nothing you can do about it" (Eater)

And Melanie at East Village Corner shares a photo... crews for "Blue Blood" are back on parts of Avenue A and elsewhere...

...and an EVG reader shared this photo of a van for Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten ... one of his reps was shopping at the St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery Greenmarket this morning... buying a lot of peaches while trying to prevent receiving a parking ticket from the NYPD...

Looking at the Immaculate Conception Church

The flea market at the Mary Help of Christians' lot ended its run Sunday on Avenue A at East 11th Street. The flea market will be moving over to the Immaculate Conception Church on East 14th Street and First Avenue in October, first noted by The Villager.

The church was renovated a few years back ...

We figure that vendors/shoppers will enter the church's courtyard via this entrance on East 14th Street...

Have you ever been back in here? It's a lovely spot... quite peaceful, really, considering what a horror show the intersection of East 14th Street and First Avenue can be.

We're assuming the vendors will be in this space...

Bonus photo of the exterior of everyone's favorite East Village helical-slide-showcasing duplex penthouse next door...

Anyway, it's a smaller space than Mary Help of Christians... not sure how it can handle the usual sprawl. They'll likely be fewer vendors. Not sure if it will – or can — have the same vibe... We'll see.

A few people shared thoughts on all this the other day on our post... Early sentiment seems to be: Better than nothing. What do you think about the new location for the flea market?

Moving day(s)

As you probably noticed, the entire neighborhood a lot of people moved these past few days... Maybe you did too? I know of three people who moved to Brooklyn.

The first tenants moved into 315 E. 10th St. on Friday ... also, someone apparently outgrew his or her "Star Wars" phase...

I saw a sanitation official writing a ticket for an apartment building on East 13th Street where someone left huge piles of crap out front... which is why some people chucked their stuff away from buildings...

... and people left two-part notes on this throwaway couch on Second Avenue and East Fifth Street ... via @Ewingweb ...

Here's what's left of 185-193 Avenue B

Nothing.

Don't expect to see any construction just yet here on Avenue B at East 12th Street for the 7-story apartment building — the city hasn't approved the plans.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Inside the Charles

Former landmark countercultural theater now for rent on Avenue B

7-story building in the works to replace former countercultural theater/church on Avenue B

Led Zeppole apparently becoming Chubby Mary's on East 14th Street

As you can see, Led Zeppole, the fried-dessert homage to Coney Island on East 14th Street, has apparently given way to something called Chubby Mary's ... also from the Artichoke Pizza team...

Zumiez opening first Manhattan outpost on Broadway and East 13th Street

The Seattle-based skate/snowboard shop is opening its first Manhattan outpost on Broadway and East 13th Street... the coming soon signs are up now in the space that was last home to Forbidden Planet, which moved a few storefronts to the south earlier in the summer ...

Per the Zumiez website:

We made our debut in the Seattle area in 1978, with a single store location at Northgate Mall. Now we have grown, and currently have over 400 retail stores that reach across the United States. We do what others have only dreamed of! We provide you with cutting edge clothing, footwear, accessories, DVDs, hard goods for skate and snow for active lifestyles. Everything we do revolves around the customer—you are the heart of our company.

Zumiez has a store in Queens and Staten Island, but not in Manhattan...

[Updated] Baoguette Cafe still looks rather closed

On Sunday, we noted that Michael "Bao" Huynh's Baoguette Cafe on St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue looked rather closed... and in some disarray. A sign out front said that they'd be closed for a couple of hours... They are still closed.

Huynh seems to go through quite a few concepts, such as DOB 111 and Barbao on St. Mark's Place... which came and went... and BaoBQ on First Avenue, which closed last month.

Updated 9-4 12:15 — Eater gets confirmation that Huynh has closed this location.

DANGER at the former kind of weird sushi place on the Bowery

Here at EVG favorite That kind of weird sushi place on the Bowery ... which has been closed since December... a new sign has appeared...

DANGER!

[Bobby Williams]

Anyway, we kind of lost track what was coming in here... An entity titled Wisemen (355 WM Restaurant Inc) went before the CB3/SLA back in January to open a full‐service restaurant serving meat‐focused small plates ... as far as we know, that was all OK'd. Hope that they mind the Hazardous Gas Cylinders.

Soft opening set for new Lucky Chengs's, where Leonardo DiCaprio has already seen some breasts

According to the Lucky Cheng's Facebook page, the drag cabaret will likely have a soft opening at their new 52nd Street location on Sept. 26 (subject to change, of course...)

Also, the hiring process continues:

UPDATE ON Lucky Chengs INTERVIEW AND AUDITIONS:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH at 240 W 52nd St.

12pm for interviews as a boy. Bring a resume and a picture of you as a girl.

5pm for auditions as a girl. Bring a number no longer than 2 minutes.

***Everyone must audition regardless of applying for host, bar, or server.***

***This process will be filmed by Peacock Productions for potential inclusion in a reality television show project. You DO NOT have to be filmed in order to be considered for employment.****

Last note about the new Lucky Cheng's ... Martin Scorsese has made use of the new space. According to Page Six, his crew "decked out the soon-to-be-open drag bar ... to look like a strip joint" for a scene in his upcoming "The Wolf of Wall Street," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey.

Per Page Six last Friday: "The girls were rubbing their breasts in Leo’s face," says a source. "There were five or six of them, but he seemed very professional and looked great in an ’80s-style suit."

Not sure what the "five or six of them" refers to...Uh, meanwhile, no official word yet on a new tenant for the current space on First Avenue...

Previously.

Labor Day story from Extra Place, 1913

From the Library of Congress Flickr page:

11:30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a dilapidated tenement, 5 Extra Pl., N.Y.C. They all work until 9 P.M. when busy, and make about $2 to $2.50 a week. Father works on street, when he has work. Jennie was a truant, "I staid home 'cause a lady was comin'."

1913 January. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

Many thanks to EVG reader @superterrific for the link.

Noted

Spotted on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B by EVG reader Amy, who notes, "street art or trash?"

Or both.

A home we may be interested in buying on Avenue B

I believe this is an 1984 Fleetwood Southwind Eagle 1. Does it come with air rights? I'd like to add a few addition floors to it.

Pop art

Spotted on East 10th Street near Third Avenue.

Mary Help of Christians lot, 9:36 a.m., Sept. 3

The flea market ended for good yesterday here.