Romney victory party tonight at Heathers

I was a little slow and thought it was real for a moment.

One of the newish co-owners kindly spelled it out for me.

Per Ray Lemoine: "This is a joke party. As in, we fucking hate Romney and this is satire."

But there is an Election Night party here.

Another East Village Subway closes

Multiple readers have pointed us to the Subway on Second Avenue near East Ninth Street, where workers removed the sign and gutted the sandwich shop today. This makes the second Subway to close in the East Village this past month. The Subway on First Avenue near East 13th Street shut down in October.

Voters get a taste of heavy metal on Avenue C

EVG reader CRyan reports on this incident that occurred around 1:20 this afternoon...

Voters got an earful of crunching metal while exiting the Voting station at Avenue C and 11th Street. A flatbed truck transporting a car was performing a right turn onto 11th Street from Avenue C, when a livery car service sedan, apparently pulling out of bus stop, got a taste of Heavy Metal.

Indeed.

Housing Works’ Keith D. Cylar Health Center back open on East 9th Street

From the EV Grieve inbox...

Dear Neighbors, Friends and Community partners:

Housing Works’ Keith D. Cylar Health Center is now reopened, after being closed all of last week due to Hurricane Sandy. The center is in Zone A so we were ordered to evacuate and therefore suspend services.

Today we are open and ready to serve again. Our full-fledged medical facility offers primary care to anyone regardless of HIV status, insurance or ability to pay (sliding scale fees will be offered). Our new Cylar House Behavioral Health Clinic offers long-term psychotherapy, crisis intervention, psychiatric services, and other mental health services and accepts most insurance, but will also service local residents regardless of HIV status or ability to pay (sliding scale fees will be offered).

We want to thank all of our staff who worked to get our center up again, in order to support the community and prevent our community members from going another day without receiving lifesaving services.

If you have any questions about our services, please contact us: 743-749 East 9th St.
212-677-7999 ext. 4202

Primary Care Hours: Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm

Behavioral Health Clinic Hours: Monday—Thursday: 7am-7pm, Friday: 7am-6pm

A reader asks if others are in this Verizon situation

A longtime EV resident on East 10th Street west of Avenue B sent along the following email this morning... the resident hasn't had landline service since Oct. 29.

Two visits from tech this past weekend. Last report from tech was "no dial tone in equipment in backyard at 528 E 11th St," which connects to equipment in backyard on 10th St. There is service closer to Ave A.

Business on ground floor of my building was told by Verizon that service will be restored "by Dec 3." No neighbors in my building have landlines. No luck actually speaking to Verizon.

I'd like to find out if others are in this situation, and what we can do together. I'm a senior in a 5th fl walkup. My "emergency cell" is $.30/min, so I need a working landline.

The pedestrian line for gas this morning at Mobil

Avenue C and East Houston. People with various canisters to refill their pumps, generators, etc. The vehicle line still goes to Avenue D. Soon, this gas station will close to yield to a luxury development...

The line to vote this morning

Here's the line to vote this morning around 8 at Theater for the New City on First Avenue ... as the photo by @spak shows, the 200-person line wrapped around East Ninth Street...

Also:

Overheard 3x on east 12th: "great turnout, longest line i've seen" #vote #2012 (cc @evgrieve )

— J (@itsjelani) November 6, 2012

Ongoing LES relief efforts

We'll update this post all day.

For now, a good place to start:

The Lower East Side Recovers website

Plus:

GOLES is running low on supplies.

The list below can dropped off at 6th street community center. 638 east 6th st. Between avenue b and ave c. Contact is Citlalic and Howard. 212-677-1863.

-Diapers -Baby Items, baby foods (lots) -Batteries -Flashlights & candles -Peanut Butter & Jelly -Bottled Water -Fruit n vegetables -Sliced Bread - Feminine hygiene products Blankets

Spotted on East Houston...

8-story residential building now in the works for 75 First Ave.

Sandy apparently took down the plywood outside 75 First Ave. last week... (This also happened during Irene.)

Provides a good look at the lot...

...and an opportunity to update the situation here. Back on Oct. 26, Off the Grid noted that there's a new permit on file (not yet approved) calling for an 8-story residential building. The original plans in 2007 called for a 14-story building that looked like this...

We haven't seen renderings yet for the reconfigured 8-story development, which will be rentals.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Developer: A shorter building in the works now for 75 First Avenue

51 Astor Place's glass act

Just noting some progress at 51 Astor Place, where panels of glass now adorn the north side along East Ninth Street... photos yesterday by EVG regular William Klayer.

At first glance this reminded me a little of the New York Hilton...

Previously on EV Grieve:
51 Astor Place demolition begins July 1; 17 months to build new black-glass tower

East Village — the new Midtown?

Lenin showing support for Obama in 2012?

Photo of Red Square on East Houston via EVG regular peter radley.

This is what East 14th Street looked like on the evening of Oct. 29, 2012

[Photo by Jane Israelson Rubin via Facebook]

This year, we'll post photos like this of various buildings, streetscenes, etc., to capture them as they looked at this time and place...

Resources to help NYC’s businesses recover from Hurricane Sandy

You can find all the details at Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's website here.

Line for the BP station down to two blocks

Shortest that I've seen it here on Second Avenue and East First Street since the power returned...

Businesses coming back to life on Avenue C

Here are a few photos that EVG reader Robert Walker shared from last Monday night after the Sandy storm surge raced down Avenue C (here at East Eighth Street) ...

[Via The Guardian UK]

Late this afternoon, I walked by and saw the businesses here at East Eighth Street back open...

Also on Avenue C, Alphabet City Beer Co. reopened today in a limited capacity... Co-owner Zachary Mack reports that they suffered major losses, including their taps and walk-in cooler... but they are opening cans and bottles... You can read more about how they were able to reopen here. Next door, the Bobwhite Lunch & Supper Counter was also hoping to be back open tonight ...

The 'despair' at Campos Plaza

WNYC has a report on the "despair" at Campos Plaza on Avenue C at East 12th Street...

Afternoon gas check

Waiting for a gas delivery at the Mobil station on East Houston and Avenue C...

...where cars are parked back to Avenue D and north several blocks up the Avenue. Mobil photos via EVG reader William Klayer...

And at the BP station on Second Avenue at East First Street, Shawn Chittle notes the line goes back to St. Mark's Place...

There's only 1 voting change in our area

Thats's for people who were to vote at the Bard HS Early College poll site. This will now be at PS 188/196 at 442 East Houston.

Find all the changes in the five boroughs via the Board of Elections here.

GOLES accepting donations on Avenue B

Via GOLES:

Anyone who would like to donate non-perishable food, water, blankets, flash lights or batteries, GOLES is accepting them at their office (169 Avenue B) today from Noon to 7 pm and the rest of this week until power is restored in buildings that still don't have power due to flood damaged basements. Volunteers are welcome, even if you can only spare an hour.

An anecdote from the blackout

A longtime East Village resident shared this anecdote from last week... about a trip to the West Village to check on an elderly housebound couple ...

We ran for, and caught an infrequent bus. Surprisingly, although packed, people cheerfully made room for us. At some point, a rumor circulated that it was the bus driver's birthday. The entire bus sang "happy birthday," followed by "hip, hip hooray." The bus driver got on the loud speaker and said his birthday wasn't until March. We all had a good laugh, and felt better for it.