The owner-founder of JuiceGo on 9th Street dies

[Photo by Steven]

JuiceGo opened in late February at 333 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Several readers had noticed that the storefront, which sells a variety of made-to-order cold-pressed juices, smoothies, salads and sandwiches, hasn't been open lately. There hasn't been any sign on the storefront noting a temporary closure.

Sadly, it turns out that founder-owner Satish Patel died on April 9.

Sorry for the long closure everyone. The founder of JuiceGo and our dad passed away Sunday morning. Please keep us in your thoughts as we continue to mourn the loss of our Father Satish Patel. Thanks everyone.

A post shared by JuiceGo (@juicegonyc) on Apr 12, 2017 at 9:28am PDT

There's no word at the moment when/if JuiceGo might reopen.

In announcing the signing of the 10-year lease here last August, Eastern Consolidated noted:

“JuiceGo is a groundbreaking concept because its owner/founder Satish Patel has developed a unique cold press juicing device that produces 100 percent fresh and nutrient-filled cold pressed juices that are made-to-order on site. Mr. Patel has extensive experience in the health food industry, having owned one of the largest produce markets in New Zealand. He’s also spent 15 years managing and owning a number of hospitality businesses in the United States, and decided to open his first JuiceGo shop in New York City.”

On 3rd and 13th, Bluemercury arriving; dinosaur mural not yet extinct

Bluemercury, the luxury beauty retailer, is the incoming tenant for the southwest corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street, as these photos via EVG reader Laura K. show...



They are currently looking to hire "beauty junkies." (A nod to the area's "Taxi Driver"-era past?)

Gothic Cabinet Craft shop closed in January 2016 after 47 years in business on this corner. A listing showed that the asking rent here was nearly $30,000 a month. The owners of Brazen Fox across the street were interested in opening a bar-restaurant here, but those plans never took hold.

Early last fall, workers wrapped up the building with a sidewalk bridge and construction netting for "emergency" façade repairs... an EVG reader at the time wondered if this might be the end for the dinosaur mural ...


[Photos from last fall]





But! The workers came and went after a few months ... and the mural has survived for now...



Anyone know the back story of this particular mural?

Looking for signs of Artichoke on 14th Street

Last November, we noted that Artichoke was apparently moving to a new space directly across 14th Street from their current compound.

Several people have asked if this was still a go. Well, DOB permits show that Artichoke signage is in the works for No. 321 between First Avenue and Second Avenue...


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There haven't been any formal announcements just yet.

We did recently detect a piece of discarded Artichoke crust outside the new locale...





One EVG reader who lives near Artichoke says that the move can't come fast enough... calling Artichoke, who opened here in 2008, a bad neighbor, with crowds, bright lints and the "constant humming of the old exhaust vents" ...



There are currently nine Artichoke locations, eight in NYC and one in Berkeley, Calif.

Disc-O-Rama closing on 8th Street

A little news outside the neighborhood in case you haven't heard ... the Disc-O-Rama on Eighth Street between MacDougal and Sixth Avenue is closing on April 28.

Sales are up to 40 percent off now.

Disco-O-Rama first opened in NYC in 1976, per their website. I recall the location on Union Square and West Fourth Street closed some years ago. Not sure about the Moscow location that was always present on their signage.

Easter Sunday's parting shot

Photo on St. Mark's Place today by Raquel Shapira

Week in Grieview

[Photo on Astor Place by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Kelly Hurley, who was struck by a box truck while biking on First Avenue at Ninth Street on April 5, died from her injuries. (Friday) Reactions to Hurley's death (Friday)

Joe and Pat’s mark their arrival on First Avenue (Wednesday)

Slashing reported outside Karma on First Avenue; bad night gets worse for victim (Wednesday)

RIP Guilherme Barreto (Wednesday)

Out and About With Elizabeth Atnafu (Wednesday)

The Irish Times Pub and Eatery NYC has plans for 10th Street and Avenue C (Wednesday)

Annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival set for Aug. 27 in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Owners of Mable's Smokehouse in Williamsburg looking to bring Tex-Mex to Second Avenue (Tuesday)


[Photo in Tompkins Square Park by Grant Shaffer]

D.L. Cerney is now open on Ninth Street (Saturday)

Porchetta returns (for six weeks) to Seventh Street (Monday)

Former men's boutique space yields to a threading and waxing salon on Ninth Street (Wednesday)

Report: David Schwimmer looking at new East Village homes (Thursday)

Sister Midnight debuts on Avenue A (Tuesday)

History of La Plaza Cultural now on display (Thursday)

The Post reports on the "East Village crime wave" (Monday)

Cherin moving to a larger space next door on Sixth Street (Thursday)

Danny Meyer's incoming pizzeria looking for CB3 approval for a 4-table sidewalk cafe (Thursday)

Report: Alan Cumming to help revamp Eastern Bloc on Sixth Street (Tuesday)

Baron's Dim Sum slated for Sixth Street (Thursday)

Ravi DeRossi's Coup opens; profits go to organizations threatened by Trump White House (Friday)

... and new art on the gate at East Village Social on St. Mark's Place... photo by Steven... and the art is by @KwueMolly, @StarFarther and @Himbad...



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Remembering David Peel

Friends of David Peel turned out yesterday afternoon to honor the musician during a memorial wake at the Peter Jarema Funeral Home on Seventh Street...



Later, there was a singing tribute of his music in Tompkins Square Park...







The longtime East Village resident — known for his 1960s anthem "I Like Marijuana" and later for collaborations with John Lennon and Yoko Ono — died on April 6. He was 73. (The Times has a feature obituary here.)

His burial is tomorrow morning at 11 at Calverton National Cemetery in Riverhead, N.Y.

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Top two photos by Chris F.

Bottom three photos by Steven

D.L. Cerney is now open on 9th Street

As we noted a few weeks ago, the D.L. Cerney boutique was opening a new storefront for its hand-made, vintage-style clothes at 324 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

EVG correspondent Steven caught up with co-owner Linda St. John yesterday outside the now-open shop.

St. John closed her previous location on Seventh Street at the end of 2012 after 28 years in business ... to leave the city for awhile and focus on her art and writing.

Her hours are noon to 8 p.m.

Sign up time for the 14th Street Y CSA

Via the EVG inbox...

It's time to sign up for your local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Mountain View Farm supplies farm fresh food to the 14th Street Y CSA. Sign up now to join — and every week you will pick up a massive box of glorious, fresh vegetables at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

The farm has been busy in the greenhouse since mid-March and is currently prepping the fields for planting. They have already seeded onions, beets, fennel, leeks, cabbage, broccoli, kale, lettuce, celery, celeriac, swiss chard and so much more! Everything is looking really good in the greenhouse and the first share will be here before you know it!

Visit their website for more information and follow the link to purchase a share.

And feel free to come meet the farmers at the 14th Street Y — in the lobby — on Tuesday (April 18) from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Come taste some samples of the veggies they will be supplying.

Memorial and singing tribute for David Peel tomorrow

There's a Memorial Wake for David Peel at the Peter Jarema Funeral Home, 129 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue, tomorrow from 3-7. (The flyer via Facebook incorrectly states 4-7.) Afterwards, there will be a singing tribute of his music in Tompkins Square Park.

The longtime East Village resident died on April 6. He was 73.

Parting 'Shot'

Here's Magazine, with a post-Buzzcocks Howard Devoto, from 1978 with "Shot by Both Sides."

Jesus falls on 3rd Street and other Good Friday scenes

[Photo on 3rd Street by EVG reader David]

Here today on Third Street between Avenue B and Avenue C, parishioners from Most Holy Redeemer/Nativity Parish and St. Mary Grand took part in the "Way of the Cross" procession, a Good Friday tradition that marks the last stage of the journey that Jesus walked in his earthly life.

EVG correspondent Stacie Joy shared these photos... this year, the church officials mic'd the cross so you could hear the pounding of the "nails."

The Easter rush at East Village Meat Market

The ham rush is on... Second Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street this afternoon... photo by Steven

Report: NYPD looking for suspect who took $60 plumber's snake from 4th Street apartment

The #NYPD is asking for your help identifying this man in regards to a burglary in the confines of our precinct #EastVillage ☎️800577TIPS pic.twitter.com/m3GOEgMvdB

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) April 14, 2017

DNAinfo has more on the story:

The burglar walked into the back of the building near East Fourth Street and Avenue C at around 10 a.m. on April 7 and reached into an open window, grabbing the plumber's snake, which is valued at around $60, police said.

And there is video...



Anyone with information that could help in the investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You may also submit tips online.

RIP Kelly Hurley

[Photo via Facebook]

Kelly Hurley, who was struck by a box truck while biking on First Avenue at Ninth Street on April 5, has died from her injuries. She was 31.

Hurley, who lived on the Lower East Side, was riding in the northbound bike lane around 7:20 a.m. According to published reports, a box truck driver, also traveling north, made a left turn onto Ninth Street and struck Hurley, who had the right of way. The Daily News reported that she "skidded to try and avoid the truck, but it slammed into her."

The driver remained at the scene. He has not been charged. The investigation is ongoing.

This past Sunday, a friend said that, despite her significant injuries, doctors had been optimistic that she would recover. However, there were complications from one of the surgeries, the friend said. Doctors removed her from life support on Tuesday, DNAinfo reported.

For the past two-and-a-half years, she worked as the senior studio manager of training and development at SoulCycle. Hurley was a 2007 graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

She was also the co-founder of the Movemeant Foundation, an organization that provides "body-positive, self-confidence building tools, resources and experiences" for girls and women.

On Tuesday evening, a group of 12-15 cyclists placed flowers at the scene where the collision took place.


[Photo from Tuesday]

Reactions to Kelly Hurley's death

Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, released a statement yesterday about Kelly Hurley's death.

It reads in part:

The crash happened in one of the so-called “mixing zones” where drivers are allowed to make careful left turns from First Avenue as cyclists are going straight through intersections with the green light.

Mixing zones only work when motorists yield. Time and again, New York City motorists have proven incapable of exercising basic care, with deadly results. As with pedestrian crossing phases that similarly rely on the hope of motorist compliance, this deadly traffic signal design flaw must be corrected so that there is a clear unambiguous right-of-way signal phasing for bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists alike.

The NYPD is making a mockery of the data driven principles that undergird Vision Zero. As they have done in the wake of other recent tragedies, the NYPD unleashed a ticketing blitz on cyclists shortly after the preventable crash that killed Kelly. Yet data show the majority of bikers and walkers are killed not by their own mistakes, but by speeding, unyielding and lawless motorists.

Of the 18 cyclist fatalities in 2016 for which details of the crash are known, 13 were caused directly by the criminal or reckless actions of a driver — including failure to yield, driving while intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, speeding, and ignoring red lights. As the DOT upgrades design to account for widespread lawless driving, the NYPD must redirect enforcement towards the real killers on our streets.

As mentioned in the above statement, officers from the 9th Precinct were ticketing cyclists yesterday for a variety of infractions on First Avenue at 10th Street — one block from where the collision occurred last week.

Per Streetsblog:

Red light running has nothing to do with the crash that claimed Hurley’s life. She would have had a green when the truck driver ran her over, since the intersection design requires cyclists and turning drivers to negotiate the same space at the same time.

And here's @NYPD9Pct one block north right now. pic.twitter.com/opjGDa8XnK

— Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) April 13, 2017

A cyclist was killed by a driver who failed to yield in @NYPD9Pct so Captain Vincent Greany told his officers to ticket cyclists because...

— Jessie Singer (@jessiesingernyc) April 13, 2017

The driver of the box truck who struck Hurley remained at the scene on April 5. As The Village Voice reported yesterday, the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad investigated the crash, "but he was not charged with failure to yield, or failure to exercise due care, or any other crime." The collision remains under investigation.

Ravi DeRossi's Coup opens tonight; profits go to organizations threatened by Trump White House

[Photo from the other day]

Ravi DeRossi debuts his latest bar tonight on Astor Place.

Coup joins his local bar-restaurant empire that includes Death & Company, Mother of Pearl, Avant Garden and Cienfuegos.

The idea for Coup came about in the wake of Election 2016.

Per The New York Times:

“For the few weeks after the election, I couldn’t get out of bed,” he said. “It was all I could do to read the news.”

So, to snap himself out of it, he did what he does best: open a bar.

And...

“One-hundred percent of the profits are going to organizations that are either being defunded by the current administration or need money to fight the current administration, like Planned Parenthood and the A.C.L.U.,” he said.

Gothamist has more on how all this will work:

The space features two bars, one of which will host a rotating lineup of the city's best bar talent, who will choose a cause of their choice to which that evening's bar sales will be donated. The list of signed on talent is impressive, including Best American Bartender of the Year for 2015 Ivy Mix of Leyenda, Jim Meehan of PDT, Joaquin Simo from Pouring Ribbons and Alton "Good Eats" Brown himself. Each will create specialty cocktails for their shifts.

At the other bar, guests are given a wooden token with each beverage purchased, which they'll drop into jars bearing the names of different charitable organizations. The donation groups will rotate on a day-to-day basis. The dollar amount from the tokens in each jar will be calculated, the total of which will be donated to said charity by Coup.

Cocktails and glasses of wine are $20 each; beer and cocktails are $15. Coup is also gratuity free. You can find the drink menu at the Coup website here.

The space at 64 Cooper Square was previously home to DeRossi's Bergen Hill.

So long to the BeerStore signage

Lions BeerStore closed on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street last month.

Not sure where the BeerStore signage had been stored since the place became Wall 88 ... but it emerged today...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

... where it was up for grabs in the trash on the curb...




[Bottom 2 photos by Vinny & O]

Sneak preview at Che Cafe tonight on 7th Street

Che Cafe is holding a free tasting tonight from 6-8 at 86 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

This quick-serve venture is via Mark Merker, who started Harry's and Benny's Burritos in 1987. Che specializes in empanada pouches aka Chechenitas.

Come on in a taste our Che's. Free tasting tonight. Thursday from 6-8 pm

A post shared by Che Cafe (@che_cafe_nyc) on Apr 12, 2017 at 9:32pm PDT

The small space was home until last fall to Abraço, who moved across Seventh Street.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Che Cafe bringing empanada pockets to 7th Street

Fruit vendor returns to 1st Avenue and 6th Street

As the headline implies, the fruit vendor is back in action on First Avenue at Sixth Street after a winter hiatus from this spot... EVG reader Riley McCormick, who shared the top photo, said the stand returned here yesterday...

And a reader-submitted photo from this morning...