East Village-based artist Robert Galinsky has been going to Rikers Island and other area correctional facilities to help incarcerated teens via workshops on literature, creative writing and reading. He has launched an online auction to help advance the initiative — Literacy for Incarcerated Teens — and better assist teens in prison. Money raised from the auction will be put toward tools to facilitate the workshops and provide continuous resources such as guest artist talks, books and pencils. Several local shops, including Ninth Street Espresso, Roost, B Cup Cafe, Abraço and the East Village Vintage Collective have donated gifts for auction. You can find the auction details here.
On Saturday, June 4, from 12-8 pm Love Gang will be transformed to feature exclusives from Spanish clothing brand KLING while permanently operating as a store within a store. We’ll be treating guests to gift bags, cocktails and an array of fun and whimsical treats.
KLING SPAIN is a pop-iconic fashion brand born in downtown Madrid with a hearty dose of girlish, playful style that represents itself in an appealing amusing way. Kling's unique collections are full of Liberty-style dresses and cool shorts, including a vintage twist to the shirts, dresses, skirts, and sweaters. A mix up of sweet with street for girls who just want to have fun.
Man, 22, shot to death in courtyard of Lillian Wald Houses https://t.co/sDpwvYIEkI pic.twitter.com/nDGBIfKeEX
— PIX11 News (@PIX11News) June 3, 2016
Developed by 399 E8 Development LLC, residences at THREE99 are designed to a high standard. All apartments include oak hardwood floors, floor-to-ceiling windows and in-unit washer/dryers. Most apartments also come complete with private balconies or gardens.
The homes’ open kitchens feature solid-surface countertops, porcelain tile and Carrara marble backsplashes and a full suite of stainless steel appliances — including dishwasher. Baths at THREE99 come in a wide variety of contemporary finishes. All are complete with custom ceramic tile, soaking tubs and European-style vanities and fixtures.
THREE99 provides residents the latest in-demand amenities — including a state-of-the-art fitness center, billiards lounge, pet spa and virtual doorman system. The building also offers a refrigerated package receiving area, bike storage and individual storage rooms. Residents and their guests will enter the building via a grand lobby area with eye-catching chandelier and soothing ‘green wall.’ Great for entertaining, THREE99’s common roof deck is complete with lounge-style seating, lush green lawn areas and skyline views.
[The lot in February 2010]
Icon Realty Management is working with local art galleries to create mural art on the sides of some of their buildings. Providing a public platform for artists to exhibit their works for New Yorkers to enjoy and contributing to the art community has been a continued endeavor that Icon has supported throughout the years.
Working with Dorian Grey Gallery in the East Village, Icon will have artists Penn and Lambros paint the side of their Mott Street building. Jeremy Penn is a NYC modern artist who has been exhibited and received honors from curators across museums. Penn uses mixed media to combine materials such as magazines, word plays and mirrors. Lambros is a NYC street artist focused on stencil art and graffiti illustrating recurring themes of power, lust and rebellion. Icon’s 307 Mott Street building has been a rotating art wall for the past four years with works by Jonathan Matas and most recently a mural by Mustart.
Icon is also working with artist Jerkface to paint 128 Second Ave. Jerkface is a NYC-based street artist and Queens native who is known for painting several nostalgia-inducing murals around the City.
“Public art is so important to the character of neighborhoods, especially in the East Village,” said Terrence Lowenberg, Principal at Icon. “As a lifelong New Yorker, art has always been a central part of our City. We are proud to do our part at Icon to continue that tradition. We look forward to doing even more in the future.”
The building will be home to just five expensive condos (four duplexes and the penthouse), starting at $6.5 million for the cheapest and going up to $17 million for the three-floor, tower-topping penthouse. True to form, each apartment will also have ultra-luxury finishes, including cabinetry designed by Selldorf Architects and "disappearing kitchens" outfitted in white oak and soapstone.
There will also be a private entry on 3rd Street through a "landscaped mews" lined with seasonal greenery, including magnolias and evergreen shrubs.
Police said he tackled the woman to the ground inside of the building’s vestibule. He then ripped her purse out of her hands and took off down East 10th Street.
The woman found her purse a few blocks away.
MAN ALL HANDS 500 E 12TH STREET, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE ON 5TH FLR, UNDER CONTROL
— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) June 2, 2016
There is a certain house in the East Village that some neighbors believe is haunted. It is on 10th Street. The doors are peeling and the address "104" looks as though it was written in blood.
"The house I do believe is haunted. Alas, it is only with memories." He recalled the wet nurse, Frances, who washed rags all day and was eventually carted out to the mental asylum a decade ago. There was "The Invisible Man," who was never heard or seen. The homicidal brothers who plotted to kill Mr. Oliver. Helen, his sister. And Old Man Milburne, the last tenant, who recently went to the old folks home.
Built in 1879, this magnificent, sun-drenched residence is a restoration enthusiast's dream project.
The building offers an unparalleled opportunity to design the home you've always wanted. Its current features include four floors, eight fireplaces, skylight, original moldings, a quaint south-facing garden, an English basement with a separate street entrance, plus a basement below. With additional air rights, this building is primed for vertical expansion, offering opportunities for a roof deck, duplex unit, and more.
The plan for the new Beth Israel building calls for breaking ground in 2017. Once that is completed, the existing building, at 16th Street and First Avenue, will be sold, with the proceeds helping to offset the costs of the change, hospital officials said.
The new building will have about 70 beds with an emergency department several blocks away, officials said. It will also include expanded outpatient facilities at three sites with more than 35 operating and procedure rooms and 16 physician practice locations to be used by over 600 doctors.
“I’m worth a fuckload of money, bro,” he said.
The statement was all the more remarkable considering that just five years ago the New Jersey native was waiting tables.
In an industry known for colorful personalities, Toledano — who goes by the nickname “Rafi” — has emerged as an unlikely up-and-coming player in the city’s competitive multifamily market. Over the past nine months, he has become one of the East Village’s biggest landlords, after his investment firm, Brookhill Properties, agreed to buy 28 buildings in two separate portfolios from the Tabak family for a combined $140 million. He currently owns more than 400 units — counting only the buildings he’s already closed on.
Altogether, Toledano values his entire portfolio, the bulk of which are aging East Village walk-ups, at $500 million.
Toledano’s plan is to rehab the units, paving the way for destabilization and rent hikes. It’s a playbook move for multifamily investors. But listen to him talk, and he might as well be building on Billionaires’ Row.
“I consider myself the ultimate of developers because I’m taking a run-down, neglected building and developing it,” he said. “Gary Barnett has the easiest job — he gets vacant land, he gets an architect, a good contractor, and he builds up. For me, it’s not like that.”
Name: Ceasar Noel Soto
Occupation: 5th grade student (until June 28)
Location: Village View playground/basketball court
Time: 3:45 p.m. on Monday, May 23
I’m from Lower East Side and I was born in, I think, Beth Israel hospital.
I enjoy school. I play a lot with my friends after school and on the weekends, and I mostly play football and baseball. A little bit of basketball, sometimes. I just don’t get to play basketball that much, or that often. I play with a couple of my friends. My favorite position in football — I like to, like, run the ball, because I know I am big and I can take a bunch of hits. That’s offense. Offense is the people who have the ball. Defense is the people who are trying to tackle the people with the ball. So when that happens all you hear is big clashes and boom! Boom! Boom! And people falling, grabbing, throwing, stuff like that.
My parents don’t mind it because they know as a big kid I am not afraid to get scarred. I got scarred here and here [shows off scars], and then I cracked open this meat right here [points to bridge of nose] and it showed my bone. So I got 20 stitches. Yeah, I get hit a lot and I am used to it. That happened when I was 11, back in last summer, when a bike I was riding had no breaks. And I just blanked out and I was bleeding and I didn’t even know I was bleeding until I tasted the blood and it was just leaking out and it looked like I was crying blood.
I love playing sports at my school park at PS 140. It’s the best park you could ever play in with your friends. People know me around there, so if anything happens, they know where I live and stuff like that. A lot of my friends live next to there so if anything happens I can go straight to their house. There’s not that much drama, like at other parks. There’s not that much ruckus and you can do whatever you want as long as it’s not too loud. I haven’t gotten into trouble — not yet. But if my friends get into trouble they know where I live so I can help them. Any trouble, like if someone’s trying to attack them, or if my friend, he’s walking by himself and two people … he’s gonna come to me and then it will be an even fight. Not two versus one, which you can’t understand. If this happens, he knows I got his back.
My cousins are my best friends in the neighborhood because they live right there on Second Street. They don’t play sports with me ’cause they mostly like to hang. They don’t get to see me that often and I’m like a bigger brother to them. I’m 12 now and will be 13 next May. I do have a girlfriend but she doesn’t go to my school. We met over my Xbox and then we met up with each other inside of my school. We’ve been in a relationship for already a month. She’s 13, she’s only one year older than me. So when I hit 13, she’ll be 14. Relationship is good! No fights, nothing, she just loves me, ’cause of how I treat her.
My favorite places in the neighborhood are mostly my school and the store, Ben’s [Deli on Avenue B]. I like to go to my grandma’s house. She lives in the Baruch Houses. I also like Dallas BBQ. I love the bacon bar-b-que ribs! I also like to go Upstate New York with my dad. And he said when I hit 15, which is three years away, he’ll teach me how to drive, and when I am 16, he’ll come with me to get my driver’s permit. I’m kind of excited ’cause then when I have kids I can teach them how to drive, just like my dad taught me and my little brother. My brother has about 10 more years until he can do that.
When she realized the car was taking her north on the FDR Drive, away from Brooklyn, it was too late. The driver passed the 96th St. exit and demanded her cash, threatening to shoot and sexually assault her, authorities said.
She complied, handing over her iPhone, wallet, $20 in cash, a debit card, a MetroCard, a jacket and a pair of gold earrings. The woman managed to get out the car on E. 125th St. between Park and Madison Aves. The driver exited the highway somewhere in upper Manhattan, cops said.
