Second Avenue this afternoon.
Read more about Flood Wall Street today here.
Photo by Derek Berg.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Avenue A and East Houston intersection shaping up, pretty much
[Photo of Houston and A from July by Maggie Wrigley]
After nearly four
See — less confusion and chaos. You can see the streets! And new curbs!
An aside, does anyone know how to get to the hospital… oh, forget it!
Anyway …
And via Twitter, EVG reader Mike Brown reminded us of the new Greenstreets and street configurations on these corners…
[Click on images to enlarge]
No sign of a cab stand in these designs.
The East Houston Reconstruction Project is now scheduled (PDF!) to be completed by mid-2016, according to the latest city estimates.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Coming soon to East Houston: Construction, hell, rodent control stations
Long-threatened East Houston reconstruction starting this month
How you can help Punjabi Grocery & Deli stay in business
Taking a pit stop at 98-100 Avenue A
As we pointed out on Friday, there isn't much, if anything, left of the former theater-turned-grocery at 98-100 Avenue A between East Seventh Street and East Sixth Street.
And what's it looking like from the top?
An EVG reader shared these photos...
Developer Ben Shaoul is putting in a 6-floor residential building with 29 apartments and ground-floor retail here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A little bit of Hollywood on Avenue A
Inside the abandoned theater at East Village Farms on Avenue A
Workers back demolishing what's left of 98-100 Avenue A
Bowlmor Lanes replacement: 23-floor residential building
[EVG photo from July]
After 76 years in business at 110 University Place, Bowlmor Lanes closed for good this past July 7.
Bowlmor was the last of the businesses here on the west side of University between East 12th Street and East 13th Street to clear out to make way for some unspecified luxury development via landlord Billy Macklowe, who bought a long-term controlling position in the building back in 2012.
Late last week, developers filed preliminary plans with the city for what's next: A 23-floor residential building.
Per New York Yimby, who first reported on the filing:
Residences at 100 University Place will be slightly smaller than those inside its new neighbors, with 107,965 square feet of residential space split between 52 apartments, resulting in an average unit size of just over 2,000 square feet – still very large, especially for Manhattan standards.
SLCE is listed as the architect of record.
And what about SLCE's work?
Per Curbed:
SLCE ... has a track record for building sorta boring but not offensive apartment buildings and hotels ... But will whatever design they produce offend the neighbors, because of its sheer height (309 feet) amid a low-rise neighborhood? All bets point to yes.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Building that houses Bowlmor Lanes will convert to condos, like everywhere else around here
76-year-old Bowlmor Lanes closes for good today
Bowlmor says goodbye
M & J Asian Cuisine coming to 14th and B
[Photo by Bobby Williams]
Workers put up the new signage Friday at the restaurant opening soon on the southeast corner of Avenue B and East 14th Street.
We don't know too much else about the new place (ownership, opening date, etc.) at the moment.
The previous tenant, AlphaBet Cafe, closed this past April 1.
As for that AlphaBet Cafe signage, workers stuffed it into bags on the curb.
Thanks to ace East Village photographer (and EVG Facebook friend) Michael Paul for the tip and above photo.
Also, hat tip to EVG regular Crazy Eddie who passed along this news of the new tenant a few months back.
205 A Gallery now open at 205 Avenue A
The retail space at Icon Realty's recently gut-renovated 205 Avenue A — home of rooftop ragers — is now also home for now to an art gallery.
The first group photography exhibit is titled "you can count on me."
One EVG reader who went for the opening last Thursday said there were a lot of "selfies and Polaroids of girls in underwear."
The rent for the retail space had an asking price of $10k monthly.
Full reveal now at 31-33 Second Ave.
The plywood came down from the new retail space at 31-33 Second Ave. late last week … showing off the full exterior of Ben Shaoul's new residential building here just south of East Second Street.
As BoweryBoogie pointed out, a Petco-branded store is set for the retail space. (The rendering showed Petco signage.)
Per previous reports, workers remodeled the existing commercial space on the ground floor ... remodeled the existing apartments on the 2nd and 3rd floors ... and added three floors on top of the existing building. Each floor will contain two apartments, according to DOB documents.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ben Shaoul planning a 3-story addition at 31-33 Second Ave.
Now at Red Square — AMERICA'S LARGEST COSTUME SELECTION
Hey, the Ricky's Halloween pop-up shop is now open in the Shoppes of Red Square along East Houston…
As the sign promises, there is a large selection for just about everyone (what is the difference between an infant and a toddler?) … except maybe pets.
We'll be back for a comprehensive review of the costumes, especially the sexy ones. (Or are they sexy plus couples?)
Of course, we have been browsing the Ricky's Halloween costume superstore website… where, for example, the Adult Lady Gaga 2009 VA White Performance Costume has been slashed from $69.99 to $9.91…
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Fall in love with this section of East 4th Street
[EVG photo from today actually]
At the Times today, writer Julie Besonen checks in with a piece on two good reasons to visit East Fourth Street between the Bowery and Lafayette. (Spoiler: The Merchant's House and Swift Hibernian Lounge.)
Among tother things, the article provides an update about the new 8-floor hotel going up next door to the Merchant's House.
To the article:
Margaret Halsey Gardiner, the museum’s executive director, struck a conciliatory note. “We’re trying to work with the developer and their engineers on protection plans that will ensure the safety of the house during demolition of the garage, excavation of the foundation and the construction of the hotel,” said Ms. Gardiner, who is known as Pi.
Read the whole article here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: Landmarks Preservation Commission OKs plans for hotel next door to the Merchant's House
Week in Grieview
[Photo by James and Karla Murray]
City OKs residential use at the former Amato Opera on the Bowery (Wednesday)
First sign of future development at 79-89 Avenue D (Tuesday)
Angelica Kitchen is latest East Village restaurant in danger of closing (Wednesday)
Out and About with Mike Schweinsburg (Wednesday)
Security guards and Stop Work Orders for Icon Realty-owned East 12th Street building (Thursday)
That low-flying helicopter above Avenue B (Thursday)
BSA tells Ben Shaoul to remove the illegal penthouse on East 5th Street within 60 days (Wednesday)
An Urban Etiquette Fucking Drugs Sign (Monday, 48 comments)
Workers cut down a red oak in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)
A visit to Fly Dove NYC, a new boutique on East Seventh Street (Friday)
Retail space for lease in the new Cooper Square dorm (Monday)
Touching up the Joe Strummer mural (Friday)
Revisiting Cafe Mogador (Friday)
Boarding up the former Mobil station on Avenue C (Tuesday)
Salon V leaving East 7th Street after 10 years (Tuesday)
Ian Schrager unveiled the sales office and model apartment for his incoming hotel-condo tower at 215 Chrystie (Thursday)
You always post photos of abandoned stuffed lions on St. Mark's Place (Thursday)
Citi Bike fixing all those cracked seats (Tuesday)
… and we forgot to note this yarn installation (???) next to Artichoke on East 14th Street…
This will take a little time to get used to
The central part of Tompkins Square Park without the shade of the leaning elm…
Of course the Hare Krishna Tree is still a sight…
NYPD releases Rev. Billy after yesterday's Bendy Tree arrest
The NYPD arrested Rev. Billy yesterday morning after he tried to prevent workers from cutting down the leaning elm in the middle of Tompkins Square Park.
Rev. Billy tried to climb the tree, which workers were already removing. Then he stood on top of the Parks Department's cherry picker.
He argued that the tree was healthy enough to preserve, that the Parks Department should get other opinions from arborists.
[Photo by Gary Golembiewski]
Several people watching yelled back that, as sad as it was, it was time for the tree to go, that the tree presented a danger. Others pointed out that the branches that were being cut still looked healthy.
After a short prayer, Rev. Billy came down from the truck, where the waiting officers handcuffed him and led him away.
According to Rev. Billy this morning, the NYPD charged him with Obstruction of Government Administration (he pleaded guilty), and sentenced him to time served — about 14 hours. The NYPD released him a little before midnight.
Previously on EV Grieve:
UGH: Bendy tree in Tompkins Square Park has been condemned
Bendy-lujah
Saturday, September 20, 2014
More about Angelica Kitchen's uncertain future
As we noted this past week, Angelica Kitchen is facing an uncertain future. The 38-year-old vegetarian favorite launched a public awareness campaign to help keep its doors open on East 12th Street.
Gothamist spoke with owner Leslie McEachern about the situation. She signed a new 5-year-lease in March for $21,000-plus a month. (When she opened in 1985 on St. Mark's Place, her rent was $450 a month.)
Per Gothamist:
"The rent was already way too high per square foot compared to what others in the neighborhood are paying," McEachern says. "We need to make $7,000 a night just to make overhead; utilities, rent, taxes, insurance, the whole shebang." Last winter, with its multiple Polar Vortexes, was particularly difficult for Angelica, and McEachern says there were "many" days over the winter where the restaurant "barely brought in $2,000. We were barely able to stay open."
Before that, Angelica was hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy. "We lost a lot of money during that week because our insurance refused to pay business interruption insurance, which it did with other businesses in the East Village. Things just dropped off after Hurricane Sandy. The whole neighborhood economy just slammed shut, for quite a while."
Read the rest of the post here.
Angelica Kitchen is located at 300 E. 12th St. near Second Avenue.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Angelica Kitchen is latest East Village restaurant in danger of closing (35 comments)
That's it for Bendy Tree
… a little later via EVG reader blm…
Previously on EV Grieve:
UGH: Bendy tree in Tompkins Square Park has been condemned
Bendy-lujah
NYPD arrests Rev. Billy for trying to stop Bendy Tree's removal
Rev. Billy arrived this morning at Tompkins Square Park, where workers are cutting down the leaning elm in the middle of the Park.
He stopped work when he climbed atop one of the trucks…
The NYPD was called to the scene… and they eventually arrested him … no word just yet what the charges are…
[Via EVG reader Russ]
… then work resumed on cutting down Bendy Tree…
As previously reported, an arborist hired by the Parks Department found the favorite tree structurally unsound and recommended that it be cut down.
Previously on EV Grieve:
UGH: Bendy tree in Tompkins Square Park has been condemned
Bendy-lujah
Bendy tree is coming down this morning
As of 8:16 a.m. We didn't stick around to watch...
…and moments before the trucks arrived...
Previously on EV Grieve:
UGH: Bendy tree in Tompkins Square Park has been condemned
Noted
EVG Discarded Mattress Correspondent Derek Berg spotted this on East Fourth Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery early last evening… not quite sure what this electrical get-up is…
As with most things in life, there is likely a logical explanation.
Friday, September 19, 2014
'Head' games
Here is the L.A.-based Bleached with "Dead In Your Head" from last summer. And they just released a new 7-inch single this past week... which Other Music has...
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