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EVG reader Yenta Laureate spotted workers moving the very first books/periodicals into the new St. Mark's Bookshop at 136 E. Third St. west of Avenue A this afternoon... to be in place for a possible Sunday (soft) opening...
Dear Rodeo Bar patrons and music lovers,
We are deeply saddened to announce that after 27 years in business, Rodeo Bar and Grill is closing its doors after July 27, 2014.
Here at New York's longest-running honky-tonk, we stayed open during some of the city’s toughest times — Hurricane Sandy, the 2003 blackout, 9/11 — but recent rent increases, combined with a changing landscape, have made it impossible for us continue.
For the past three decades, Rodeo Bar has been home to thousands of bands, and we’re proud to have helped define the country, Americana and rockabilly scene in New York City for all these years. But more than that, we were supported by an incredible community of people from New York and all over the world who helped make this bar great. We can’t thank y’all enough.
For the rest of July, we’re open every night, and the music schedule is killer — and free, as it always has been. So come on down and join us for every show, every Shiner, and every moment with the horse trailer we call home. We’re going out with our boots on.
Much Love, and Until the Buffalo Sings,
Rodeo Bar
Real estate scion Jared Kushner is using lawsuits, disruptive construction and neglect to force rent-stabilized tenants out of two buildings he owns in the East Village, as he converts them to high-end apartments, according to court documents and residents.
[T]he Kushner ownership entity has also aggressively turned to the courts. Since acquiring the buildings, they filed suits in New York’s Housing Court against tenants in seven apartments among the 43.
Some have resulted in tenants vacating, while other residents have fought back.
The book shelving is designed to stimulate the ocular experience. Vertical supports are pulled back to pronounce the horizontal edges of the shelving. Sharp corners are eliminated, smoothed into a continuous series of horizontal bands which allow the eye to glide around the space without visual friction. Vision is further privileged by adjusting the form of the shelving. Lower runs are canted so as to tilt book spines towards eye level of the viewer. Section titles are literally etched into the wood of the shelving to maintain the continuity of the lines.
With a facade of brick and oversized multi-panel windows, it blends, for the most part, into its surroundings. Now that the interiors have revealed themselves, it turns out that they, too, look pretty nice and inoffensive — the large windows give the living/dining rooms that luxury development feel and the backyard, while not large, is filled with grass and, you know, exists.
ANON: A downtown New York contemporary photography gallery located on the corner of 7th St. and Avenue C. Part documentary, part fine art gallery, we show the motion and language of the city through photography and the physical space.
Please join us for our opening show tonight at 8 on the corner of East Seventh Street and Avenue C.
We will be presenting Jon-Paul Rodriguez's body of work titled "Some Are Born Two Endless Ninght." The work is a visual homage to William Blake's poem, "Auguries of Innocence."
NYU, which leased the lot to the garden center, wants to do a massive renovation of its Academic Support Center at 383 Lafayette Street and expand it into the East 4th Street lot.
New LPC chair Meenakshi Srinivasan said there was much that was positive about the proposal and that restoration and enlargement of the existing building would be "helpful" to the area.
They're getting accustomed to trees, having spent their entire lives on an air-conditioner. I find it interesting that all three birds fledged to the buildings across 9th Street and seemed to prefer roofttops to treetops.
Who can cook like Mom?
This is the question that we kept asking ourselves on our hunt for authentic and delicious Taiwanese-Chinese food around New York City.
The short answer was no one unless you happen to have her secret recipes. After years of searching, we finally concluded that the only solution was to make it ourselves.
We quickly realized though that this was no easy feat. Before going out of town, Mimi used to stay up late washing, chopping, shredding, mixing, and wrapping dozens of fresh dumplings to make sure our Dad had something nutritious to feed us. When we left for college, she would come visit us with coolers of dumplings and jars of her secret sauce, enough to feed us and all our friends for weeks. The tradition continued when we moved into Manhattan as our refrigerators were always stockpiled with fresh dumplings, each one individually hand-wrapped. It was Mimi's way of taking care of us even when she was not around.
"I love this place," said Andres Restrepo, the Bowlmor district manager. "We've had families with four generations of bowlers coming here to hang out on a Sunday. Grandpa tells about times when Union Square wasn't the safest time, then his son talks about the 1980s.”
Indeed, in the bad old days, a manager was once murdered in the alley. But more recently, the lanes have been a glamorous haunt for A-listers such as the Strokes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jimmy Fallon and Al Pacino.