EV Grieve

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

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...

Sunday, January 1, 2017

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...