Noting a new sign along Tompkins Square Park… around the East Ninth Street entrance at Avenue A ... a popular site for people to dump a few tons of bread for the pigeons…
Of course, some Park regulars like the rats fat.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
How rats get fat
Noting a new sign along Tompkins Square Park… around the East Ninth Street entrance at Avenue A ... a popular site for people to dump a few tons of bread for the pigeons…
Of course, some Park regulars like the rats fat.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Sources: It might snow tomorrow
Item! Snow in New York... in December! Novel!
Depending on the source, we could see between 1-3 inches...
...or between 3-6 inches...
Either way, we will have a chance to rebuild the mini Straw-Through-the-Head Snowman in Tompkins Square Park.
Champagne wishes
East Houston and First Avenue last night via EVG contributor James Maher. (Find more of his photos here.)
The legal battle over the estate of Johnny Thunders
At the time of his death at age 38 in April 1991, Thunders — born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. — apparently had about $4k to his name. However, his sister in Queens, the administrator of his estate, parlayed that sum into several hundred thousand dollars through the years.
Since she died four years ago, none of his heirs have reportedly received any payments.
Per the Post:
Thunders’ half-Swedish daughter, Jamie Michelle Susanne Genzale, 26, was set to take over as administrator of the remaining $160,000 when all hell broke loose.
Jamie, a single mom working as a shop clerk in Stockholm, couldn’t afford the $75,000 bond that’s required by the court for her oversee the payments — so no one has been paid in four years, her Swedish lawyer told The Post.
But Thunders’ sons, Vito and Dino Genzale, are now suing to bar her from controlling the funds.
Vito , 36, of New York, has done stints in the state’s toughest lockups, including Attica and Sing Sing, for drug dealing.
Dino, 34, of Texas, has a rap sheet that spans 16 years and four states with charges ranging from marijuana and cocaine offenses to robbery, theft, indecent exposure and assault.
And now the sons are trying to track down their mother as well, whose last-known address was in Springfield, Ohio, to get her on their side in the ongoing legal fight.
Previously on EV Grieve:
On the phone with Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls
After 18 years, Il Bagatto has closed on East 2nd St.; but you can still get their food next door
Il Bagatto has closed on East Second Street. The restaurant took its usual summer break in late July … and never reopened.
The owners, husband-and-wife Julio Pena and Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta, made the official announcement on Friday in an email to its friends and regulars… the good news is that their sister cafe, Il Posto Accanto, remains open next door… and Il Bagatto's food is still available there for delivery.
Here is the official closure notice:
After 18 years filled with hard work, joy, so many new friends and some tears, we are closing down our first child and beloved... Il Bagatto
BUT we are all here, right next door at Il Posto Accanto!
B is still cooking, Julio is still hosting and you will recognize our wonderful family of staff that has been with us since forever both in the kitchen and on the floor.
Come to visit and support our family venture at 190 East 2nd street, have your favorite Il Bagatto dishes and let the staff help you navigate the Il Posto Accanto full menu.
I am positive you will find new favorites to add to old ones.
A listing for the Il Bagatto and Il Posto Accanto spaces at 190-192 E. Second St. near Avenue B showed up on the RKF site back in January … no word on the status of that...
In the newest installment of how to steal a bike and destroy a tree in the East Village
An EVG reader who lives on East Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B shared this story about a young tree on the south side of the street … late Saturday night, "there was still a living tree there, and a bike stupidly locked to it."
And then yesterday morning?
The tree was basically snapped and half… and the bike was gone…
"Unbelievable; that tree was doing so well until someone thought it was a good idea to destroy it to steal an old bike," said the reader. "What an awful loss to our block."
Figaro Villaggio announces itself on First Avenue
Signs are up now for Figaro Villaggio, the Italian wine bar-restaurant taking over the Banjara space on First Avenue and East Sixth Street. (Banjara is now sharing space with its sister restaurant Haveli on Second Avenue.)
We're assuming the Figaro folks will be painting the restaurant's exterior… because the existing Banjara blue and the new Figaro colors are currently clashing.
Figaro Villaggio is from the same owner as La Pasta Bistro Grill on MacDougal ... and the same owner currently has a Figaro Bistro Grill on Second Avenue between 50th and 51st...
And Figaro Villaggio is on tonight's CB3/SLA committee docket for a new liquor license. The paperwork (PDF!) on file at the CB3 website show proposed hours of 10 a.m. - 1 a.m. Sunday-Thursday; until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
No word on an opening date. A look inside reveals that there's a lot of work to do.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Banjara space yielding to Figaro Bistro Grill, 15 comments
Banjara moving soon to the Haveli space on Second Avenue
Happy news for Lucky's Dry Cleaners and Laundry on East 11th Street
At the end of November, we reported that Lucky's Dry Cleaner and Laundrys would have to close… in part because the landlord apparently wanted to break proprietor Linda's lease while she took an indefinite leave of absence to care for a family member in China.However, EVG reader Brian Katz happily passes along an update on the situation here. Linda's landlord is allowing her to leave to attend to her family while also allowing her to transfer her store (for the duration?) to her good friend who has more than a decade of experience running a laundry and dry cleaners.
Craigslist ad of the day
We'll keep this in the ad's all-cap style… and presented without comment...
LOCATED IN MANHATTANS HIPSTER TERRITORY!!! YOU NEED NOT SAY MORE ABOUT THIS GEM....!!CAN YOU IMAGINE WALKING TWO OR THREE BLOCKS TO CLASSES... HANGING OUT LATE NIGHT....THEN WALKING HOME.... DOING THE DOUBLE HEEL TAP IN THE AIR!!! HAHAHA!!! JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED!! "I THINK THIS SPELLS SATISFACTION FOR ME AND MY ROOMIE!!!!
Uh, WOOOOOOO?
[H/T Bagel Guy]
OK, here's 84 Third Ave. without the scaffolding and stuff
Hey! It's our now weekly look at 84 Third Ave., the Karl Fischer-designed 9-story retail-residential complex at East 12th Street… now without any construction netting, scaffolding, etc.
Check it out. It doesn't cost anything to just look…
Photos by peter radley
When it snows
Well, we mostly survived the Great Snowstorm of Dec. 8.™
And no snowfall, however light, could go without someone scrawling the outline of a penis on a car. Dave on 7th and others noted an array of crude snowffiti along East Seventh Street and Avenue B and Avenue C...
Well, if this kind of thing will continue to happen (oh, and it will) … then we might as well make it look pretty...
Thanks to Luke on 7th for the above image.
And no snowfall, however light, could go without someone scrawling the outline of a penis on a car. Dave on 7th and others noted an array of crude snowffiti along East Seventh Street and Avenue B and Avenue C...
Well, if this kind of thing will continue to happen (oh, and it will) … then we might as well make it look pretty...
Thanks to Luke on 7th for the above image.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Week in Grieview
[Dr. Jones I presume? Yesterday on 2nd Avenue]
John's of 12th Street has a new owner (Thursday)
Visit the East Village of 1967 (Tuesday)
7-Eleven closes on St. Mark's Place (Sunday … Wednesday)
SantaCon will start on Dec. 14 in TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK (Thursday)
Out and About with Rew Starr (Wednesday)
Comet watching in the East Village (Monday)
AC plummets from the Christodora House (Friday)
Vicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches has closed (Wednesday)
10-story building in the works for this East Houston corner (Monday)
East Village gift ideas (Friday)
A decrease in the number of chain stores in zip 10009 (Wednesday)
Red Hook Lobster Pound coming to the East Village (Tuesday)
Saved by the Book underway at St. Mark's Bookshop (Tuesday)
Cafe Rakka closes; Rakka Cafe reopens (Monday)
Mudspot Café now open in First Park (Thursday)
A St. Mark's Place scene: A Mercedes, some pot and the Bieber on the stereo (Tuesday)
A new restaurant taking over the Toucan and the Lion space on East Sixth Street (Friday)
Peter Stuyvesant Post Office now also open to ruin your Sundays this month
The Sunday hours continue this month at the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office on East 14th Street. (And apparently not everyone could agree on the hours, as you can see that 2 p.m. got changed to 1 p.m.)
Regardless! We all know how much fun it is going here. (A reminder here and here.)
And people, as people do, have taken to Yelp to offer their opinions on this branch … the overall average rating: 1 star!
Here's one recent 1-star review:
This place is hell on earth. I'm writing this review whilst standing in line- it's now been over an hour waiting to pick up an express international courier package I never received a notice for (with everyone else that's been screwed over by usps in this area)
I feel like it's a Survivor TV show challenge- survival of the postal service fittest. I'm watching people concede the line after waiting TOO long, hungry babies crying, there are the elderly sitting on the floor due to body aches, there are loud fits and nervous breakdowns from customers at the service box when rude staff aren't helpful after they've been waiting a half life for a stamp.
2 hours later, I need to pee. And I'm still waiting.
In any event, this is likely the last holiday season here … as this branch is supposedly closing in the spring. The USPS will lease the former Duane Reade on East 14th Street near First Avenue for retail services, such as stamp sales and P.O. boxes.
Previously on EV Grieve:
UPDATED: Did you hear the rumor about the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office branch closing?
Report: Closure of the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office is pretty much a done deal
Concern mounts for snowman on Second Avenue
Passersby are troubled by the snowman continuously nodding off on the job here on Second Avenue near East Houston…
How do you explain this to the children?
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Today's (hungry) hawks
Above, on East 11th Street off First Avenue via Greg Matherly of Reciprocal Skateboards…
And in Tompkins Square Park via Goggla… (find more hawk highlights from today here)
… and Bobby Williams…
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