Not much of a Henge last night… people were out ready, though…
Perhaps it will by more Henge-worthy this evening at 8:12 for the Full Sun on the Grid.
Photo on Third Avenue and East 14th Street by James and Karla Murray
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Waiting for Manhattanhenge
Not much of a Henge last night… people were out ready, though…
Perhaps it will by more Henge-worthy this evening at 8:12 for the Full Sun on the Grid.
Photo on Third Avenue and East 14th Street by James and Karla Murray
Friday, May 29, 2015
Sees the day
Thee Oh Sees have a fine new record out titled "Mutilator Defeated At Last." There haven't set any tour dates around NYC just yet… so until then, enjoy some live footage from a show in Paris the other night…
[Updated] Avenue A is getting part of its sidewalk back
The orange barricades have been blocking much of this sidewalk in recent months, prompting at least one person to write signs asking for the return of this part of Avenue A.
Updated
A reader noted that the sidewalk is open … and Manny seems to be fully restocked.
EV Grieve Etc.: New bowling alley for the LES; Celluloid classics at Anthology Film Archives
[Photo on 1st Avenue by Derek Berg]
A bowling alley/entertainment venue called Splitsville Lanes set for Essex Crossing (The Lo-Down)
Celebrating some classic celluloid at Anthology Film Archives (The Wall Street Journal, find the schedule here)
Juice war shaping up in the East Village (The Awl)
At CB3's fundraiser to help Second Avenue businesses recover (NY1)
Reviews of newcomers Noreetuh and Oiji on First Avenue (Grub Street)
The hawklets are growing so quickly on Avenue A (Gog in NYC)
Some LES photos from the 1980s (BoweryBoogie)
When McSorley's finally admitted women (Ephemeral New York)
Try the Ramones or New York Dolls cookies (Dangerous Minds)
Be careful when installing your AC (New York magazine)
NYC-area airports are pretty awful, research says (Gothamist)
The Black Rose, which opened at 117 Avenue A a few weeks back, debuts their first live DJ series tonight: the Friday Night Disco Body Boogie Party, featuring 1970s disco DJ Joey Carvello spinning vinyl and hosted by Rebecca Lynn of Mobile Mondays. Starts at 10 p.m. More info here.
… and RIP Scandalous, who died Thursday at age 13 (and a half)… She lived on East Seventh Street with her owner Drew Rabbitclub…
Manhattanhenge requests the pleasure of your company this weekend
[Photo from Union Square last July by James and Karla Murray]
Manhattanhenge — "when the setting sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid
Here are the particulars via Gothamist:
Half Sun on the Grid
Friday, May 29 8:12 P.M. EDT
Monday, July 13 8:21 P.M. EDT
Full Sun on the Grid
Saturday, May 30 8:12 P.M. EDT
Sunday, July 12 8:20 P.M. EDT
The weather promises to be quite lovely this evening, so the Manhattanhenging should go well. Had a good practice run last evening... via @WonderlandNYC...
More about the new Café Pick Me Up-Gnocco combo on East 10th Street
As we previously noted, Café Pick Me Up on Avenue A at East Ninth Street will close for good after service on Sunday.
The owners also operate Gnocco, and plan to move the cafe to that restaurant at 337 E. 10th St. just west of Avenue B next week.
DNAinfo's Lisha Arino has a few more details on how all this will work.
Gnocco has only been open for dinner, but beginning June 3, it will expand its hours and will start serving most of Café Pick Me Up’s coffee and food offerings, including pastries, sandwiches and omelets, said Gian Luca Giovanetti, who co-owns both locations with Pierluigi Palazzo and Clemente Valguarnera.
Daytime customers will also be able to order pizza at lunchtime, Giovenetti added. Gnocco will be open for breakfast, lunch and delivery every day starting at 10 a.m., he said.
Gnocco seats 74 people, he said, and includes a backyard outfitted with a few power outlets.
The Café Pick Me Up-Gnocco mashup is expected to open Wednesday, where you can get a free coffee starting at 10 a.m.
Café Pick Me Up's owners have said that a rent hike at 145 Avenue A courtesy of Icon Realty as well as higher property taxes led to the decision to close the 20-year-old space.
Icon is currently listing the storefront… asking $15,000 a month for the space, which includes 600 square feet on the ground floor and 724 square feet in the basement.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Rent hike forcing Cafe Pick Me Up into its smaller space next door on Avenue A (59 comments)
[Updated] Cafe Pick Me Up expected to close for good after May 31
Café Pick Me Up closes Sunday night ahead of a move to share the Gnocco space on East 10th Street
Reader report: Con Ed enjoys digging up East 6th Street
From the EVG inbox this past weekend...
So, this is at least the fourth time since January that Con Ed has torn up East Sixth Street between Avenue A and B in front of our building. Jackhammers, heavy machinery, later tar and mechanical stompers. CRAZY NOISE! They obviously can’t find the problem.
My issue is they invariably show up at 6 p.m. on Friday to start the work. Start jackhammering about my son’s bedtime at 8. Now it’s a holiday weekend so its probably triple time. I think its a kind of boondoggle. There is no reason that this work always starts at 6 on Friday.
It makes the apartment uninhabitable. Of course, if there is a leak then they are simply incompetent. They were here two weeks ago and ripped the sidewalk in front of our building. I don’t know what’s worse, the noise or the fear they are incompetent.
Is there anything to do about it?
Going mobile on 2nd Avenue
Slum Goddess spotted this double-wide headed down Second Avenue at East Fifth Street last night…
Any ideas of where it's going?
Reminders: The Follow Me Friday Small Business Crawl on 2nd Avenue is tonight
Reposting from last week ... Via the EVG inbox...
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Council Member Rosie Mendez today announced the Council will host a “Follow Me Friday” tour of the East Village with local business owners, community members and elected officials on Friday, May 29.
The Follow Me Friday Small Business Crawl will help highlight and promote East Village businesses recovering from the aftermath of the March 26 building explosion ... and will begin with a moment of silence at the site of the explosion on 2nd Avenue and 7th Street. The small business tour will begin at 5:30 PM and will include the following stops:
• Moment of silence for victims of recent explosion (Northwest Corner of 2nd Avenue and East 7th Street)
• Tour of Moishe’s Bake Shop (115 2nd Avenue)
• Tour of New Yorker Market (107-113 2nd Avenue)
• Tour of Café Mocha (116 2nd Avenue)
• Tour of Bar Virage (118 2nd Avenue)
• Tour of Himalayan Vision (127 2nd Avenue)
• Tour of Enz’s (125 2nd Avenue)
• Tour of Jimmy’s No. 43 (23 East 7th Street)
Those wishing to join the event should RSVP by sending an e-mail here
Thursday, May 28, 2015
This evening in photo opps on St. Mark's Place
Probably NSFW
A reader sent us some photos from 20 St. Mark's Place this evening around 6-ish … where some kind of photo shoot was taking place on the steps in front of Sounds…
Later, EVG reader Sammy provided some narrative here between Second Avenue and Third Avenue:
I think it must be a photo shoot but the only ones taking pics are the bystanders. Soon she is completely topless and posing. After a few minutes she comes down to street level and shoots the shit with some people who had been watching. Takes some pics with people. Then a dude with a wheeled duffel bag says, "OK we gotta go," and without really covering up, she leaves with this guy. I have no idea what the hell was going on.
Thursday night twilight
Photo of Second Avenue and East Fourth Street tonight by EVG reader Lilly Artymshyn
Claim: Landlord of 444 E. 13th St. threatened 'to drop dynamite on the building'
As we reported earlier today, residents who live at 444 E. 13th St. plan to sue their landlord for "deplorable conditions" as well as for ongoing threats and harassment.
The rent-regulated tenants, along with their legal counsel and City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, held a press conference outside the building between Avenue A and First Avenue this morning at 10 to speak out against landlord Goldmark Property Management and their associates.
EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos from the press conference.
The residents said that they have haven't had gas for cooking or hot water since April 17 in the building that houses several children under the age of 7.
[Resident Patricia Ramirez]
Here's more from the Daily News:
They claim they've … endured racist taunts and threats to call immigration from the landlord's aggressive agents.
"They don't know the reality," said tenant Angel Salazar, 39. "Most of us are legal. That's why we are not afraid."
Tenants' lawyer Stephanie Rudolph said "this threat of retaliation and racial discrimination is egregious." She said only nine of the 18 units remain occupied — everybody else has been forced out.
[Stephanie Rudolph]
"There are tape recorded conversations where the landlord is threatening to drop dynamite on the building and then let everyone 'figure it out themselves,'" said Rudolph, a staff attorney at the Urban Justice Center.
There was no immediate response from Goldmark, whose agents include former NYPD Sgt. Miguel Cueto. The cop cost the city $2 million after he and his partner ran over and killed a Brooklyn man in their squad car three years ago.
[Rosie Mendez]
[Resident Cesar Bello with son, Ivan]
[Residents Lidia Puentes and Emma Gomez]
Said one longtime resident: "They are killing us. They don't have any feelings and they think everything's about money."
DNAinfo has more on the story here.
Part of the Tompkins Square Lawn got seeded today
Not quite sure what it was seeded with at the moment...
Now we'll go to the Park for a live report…
@evgrieve HAVE YOU SEEN THIS LATEST FASCISM?! pic.twitter.com/ww5twXvl2y
— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) May 28, 2015Photos by Bobby Williams
Reader report: Rent hike KOs Delicacity (RIP Robin Raj) on 3rd Avenue
A reader let us know that Delicacity (aka Robin Raj!) is closing for good very soon at 114 Third Ave. near East 14th Street. The reader, a regular here, reports that the landlord passed along a hefty rent hike.
In the meantime, you can enjoy 50 percent off most everything in the store...
Robin Raj and their cartoon food illustrations moved here from the corner in January 2009. Robin Raj turned into Delicacity in February 2012.
The address was formerly the Grace and Hope Mission.
Previously on EV Grieve:
More Robin Raj intel (and what about those cartoon hams?)
Oh no! Robin Raj is no longer Robin Raj!
Robin Raj finally makes the move, though there's no sign of the cartoon ham
Live above Robin Raj
E. 13th St. tenants filing lawsuit against landlord for alleged harassment, poor living conditions
[444 E. 13th St. photo from March via EVG reader Gamelan]
Several families who live at 444 E. 13th St. are filing a lawsuit against their landlord for "deplorable conditions" as well as for ongoing threats and harassment, according to a media advisory about the tenants' situation.
The residents and their legal and housing reps will hold a press conference this morning at 10 outside 444 E. 13th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue to discuss the lawsuit.
Here's background via the EVG inbox:
The Community Development Project (CDP) of the Urban Justice Center, in collaboration with Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), is representing nine rent-regulated Mexican immigrant tenants of 444 E. 13th St. who are suing their landlord, Raphael Toledano, and his agents in Manhattan Housing Court. They are asking the court for an injunction against illegal harassment, the restoration of basic services, and repairs to individual apartments and common areas.
In addition to the wide range of alleged illegal harassment and discrimination practices from agents hired by the owners, tenants have gone without heat, hot water, and gas since mid-April.
Other alleged bad practices by the landlord include:
· Threats of demolishing the building;
· Threatening Mexican tenants who the owner alleges are undocumented; racist and discriminatory remarks about Latino tenants;
· Relocation pressure by agents;
· Health and safety hazards due to illegal construction and unsafe work on the gas lines.
There are currently several Stop Work Orders on the building, including for illegal renovations and unauthorized work on the gas lines, according to DOB records.
Meanwhile at 444, workers have carved out a new storefront on the ground-floor in the building. According to the listing (no longer online), the "Landlord will present as a restaurant ready space." The asking rent is $10,000 a month.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A storefront arrives on East 13th Street
Reader report: Mono + Mono hoping for a mid-summer return
Last that we heard, the owners of Mono + Mono were hoping to be serving their Korean fried chicken (and playing some of their classic jazz albums) on East Fourth Street again by last fall.
However, the place has yet to reopen since the fire here at 116 E. Fourth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue back on April 21, 2013.
Now, an EVG reader heard from workers at the space that they are planning to reopen mid-summer. (The reader also noted that a pile of vinyl records that survived the fire were sitting on the bar.)
There is an approved permit on file with the city for a "roof replacement and removal of existing fire damaged mechanical equipment." March 23 was the proposed job start.
There's nothing about a reopening date on Mono + Mono's website or social media properties. A full vacate for the address is still in effect, per the DOB.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Early-morning fire at 116 E. Fourth St., home of Mono + Mono
(Kind of) An update on Mono + Mono
What is happening with the Mono + Mono space?
Report: Mono + Mono plans fall reopening
Learn about the East River Resiliency Project tonight
Via the EVG inbox…
Join us to discuss the future of the East River Waterfront!
LOCATION: Church of St. Brigid, 119 Avenue B (enter on E. 8th Street)
DATE: Thursday, May 28, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Community Design Workshop for Flood Protection on the East River
Join the Lower East Side/East Village community to discuss plans for the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project, intended to reduce risks from extreme weather and climate change and improve quality of life. We will discuss the potential for flood and storm protections to be built into community and park space along the East River.
What do you want flood protection on the East River waterfront to look like? Come and let your voice be heard!
Find a PDF of the presentation here.
As the sushi rolls on 1st Avenue
Sometime in the past week or so, Milosun Sushi closed at 141 First Ave. … quickly giving way to an all-you-can-sushi place called Kikoo, per EVG reader Charlie Chen.
The new restaurant between St. Mark's Place and East Ninth Street hasn't opened yet, though they do have a website:
Our restaurant offers a wide array of fine Japanese fusion cuisine, ranging from traditional Sashimi Lunch, California Roll to new style entrees such as Tempura Udon, Color Dragon and Butterfly Roll.
Previously the place was Ippin, a sushi and noodle bar that lasted about six months here in 2013.
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