Lab -320° closes after 6 months in the former Sock Man space on St. Mark's Place

After six-plus months in business, Lab -320° has closed at 27 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...





The owners announced the closure of the hand-rolled ice cream shop on Facebook on Dec. 30...



Lab -320° began its tenure as Lab -321, which did not amuse the owners of -321° Ice Cream Shop in Brooklyn ... who sent along a cease-and-desist letter. (And it likely didn't help Lab -320° that the popular 10Below Ice Cream opened up at 42 1/2 St. Mark's Place later last year.)

The previous longtime tenant at 27 St. Mark's Place, The Sock Man, closed last January after a reported rent hike via landlord Raphael Toledano. Sock Man owner Marty Rosen later opened a new location in late November at 99 1/2 St. Mark's Place.

Lab -320° was the fourth shop to open in 2016 in the East Village serving the traditional Thai street food ... Roll It Up on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue closed in November for the season...



Signage on the gate points to an April 2017 reopening...



Thanks to EVG correspondent Steven for all the photos!

Previously on EV Grieve:
Here's the rolled ice cream shop taking over the former Sock Man space on St. Mark's Place

Updated: Breeze Nail Spa closes for renovations on 2nd Avenue

An EVG reader wrote in to say that Breeze Nail Spa on Second Avenue abruptly closed at the start of the New Year without any notice to its patrons.

Per the reader: "They are a huge neighborhood spot with a good following and I walked by tonight and the place was cleaned out entirely!"

As these photos via Steven from yesterday show, workers were clearing out out the storefront here between Third Street and Fourth Street...



Updated 11:30 a.m.

Per a commenter, the outgoing message phone at Breeze notes a temporary closure for renovations.

Updated

They are back open...

New Year, new slippers

Apparently it's out with the Poop Emoji Slippers on the first day of 2017 here on 11th Street. (These are outside No. 424 between Avenue A and First Avenue if you want to adopt.)

Thanks to Christine Champagne for the photo!

Noted

Second Avenue near Sixth Street this evening via @edenbrower...

Diversions: Thurston Moore interviews Iggy Pop in the documentary 'I’ve Nothing But My Name'

In case you haven't seen this...Rough Trade named Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression Album of the Year. On this occasion, Rough Trade asked Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore to interview Iggy in his Miami home (both of them coincidentally once lived in the Christodora House on Avenue B) for the documentary titled "I’ve Nothing But My Name."

Rough Trade released this interview in three parts at the end of December...

Images 2016

January

RIP David Bowie...


[First Park]

The great Blizzard of Jan. 23...


[East 10th Street via Peter Brownscombe]

... and the day after...


[East 1st Street near 1st Avenue]

The great snow, oh you know...


[Photo via ‏@sandispino]

DOUBLE RAINBOW...


[Photo by Caz Lulu via Facebook]

Panhandling evolution...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

February

Losing the war against the rats...


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

St. Mark's Bookshop closes...



Another cold, cold night...


[Photo by @georgygirlnyc]

March

One year later...


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

A new era begins...


[Photo by Steven]

April

Here's Johnny...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

You will be missed...



May

So long Yaffa Cafe mural...


[Photo by Allen Semanco]

Saving Air Shaft Rabbit...



At least Chris Christie isn't actually going to be Secretary of the Interior...


[Photo by Karts]

June

Tompkins Square Park's Prince-inspired piano...


[Photo by Steven]

At the annual Drag March...


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

ABC No Rio closes for now...


[Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk]

July

The kids learn to fly...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

A Sunday morning walk on St. Mark's Place...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

Campaigning in Tompkins Square Park...


[Photo by Steven]

Bagging a Rattata ...


[Reader-submitted photo]

August

A hotel in the works for 11th Street...


[Photo by Grant Shaffer]

A sign of progress in the ongoing Astor Place/Cooper Square Reconstruction project...


[Photo by Vinny & O]

September

A new space on Seventh Street for Abraço...


[Photo by Steven]

111 years later...



A fire at Caracas Arepa Bar...


[Photo by EVG reader Joaquin]

A new home for Comrade Lenin...


[Photo by Peter Marciano]

October

Fall in Tompkins Square Park...



A crowd in Tompkins Square Park for Choking Victim ...


[Photo by Goggla]

November

The cube returns to Astor Place at long last...


[Photo by @unitof]

A vote for the neighbor's best restaurant ...


[Photo by Peter Brownscombe]

Another March Against Trump...


[Photo by Steven]

After a brief closure at McSorley's...


[Photo by Steven]

December

The NYPD vs the Hells Angels...


[Photo by Event Photos NYC]

SantaConned again...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

At the 25th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting...


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

A look at the future?...


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

The 3 most-viewed EVG posts of 2016

In keeping with the spirit of the listicle season...

1) Report: Man reportedly shot moving orange cones outside Hells Angels HQ on 3rd Street (Dec. 12)

2) The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street (Sept. 30)


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

3) Breaking (pretty much!): Target is coming to 14th Street and Avenue A (July 29)

Sunday times

Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression made some year-end listicles for best records of the year... here's "Sunday" from that March release from the former EV resident.