EVG reader Bill Buchen shares these photos of Santa arriving at Engine 28/Ladder 11 on Second Street between Avenue B and Avenue C this afternoon ...
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Season's greetings from the FDNY on 2nd Street
EVG reader Bill Buchen shares these photos of Santa arriving at Engine 28/Ladder 11 on Second Street between Avenue B and Avenue C this afternoon ...
Week in Grieview
[1 explanation for the recent cold weather via Derek Berg]
Stories posted on EVG this past week included...
Bea Arthur Residence nearly ready to accept first tenants on 13th Street (Thursday)
After 42 years on St. Mark's Place, the Grassroots Tavern closes on New Year's Eve (Monday)
Permits filed to renovate Webster Hall (Tuesday)
MTA, DOT outline plans for life without the L train (Thursday)
Fire at 80 E. Third St. (Friday)
Sidewalk bridge finally hauled away from the Verizon building on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)
The latest installment of I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Friday)
EVG contributor James Maher has an exhibit at the Manny Cantor Center titled "Storytelling in our Immigrant City" (Monday)
Traffic lights for the East Houston-FDR-East River overpass (Monday)
$1 coffee talk (Thursday)
Another case of stolen packages from an East Village lobby (Wednesday)
243 and 245 E. 2nd St. asking nearly $18 million (Wednesday)
Citi Bike of the week (Thursday)
Honeyhaus is the latest departure on 11th Street (Monday)
Opossum drama in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)
A look at the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree (Sunday)
Checking in on the Moxy hotel project (Tuesday)
Applicants looking to bring live jazz to the former East Village Tavern (Monday)
The "other" hawk (Sunday)
More about Poke N' Roll, coming soon to 9th Street (Tuesday)
Gramercy Kitchen debuts on 3rd Avenue (Tuesday)
Chat 'N Chew looks closer to reopening on Union Square (Wednesday)
Boris and Horton, the dog friendly coffee shop, now hiring on Avenue A (Monday)
House of Fluff pops up on the Bowery (Tuesday)
Construction watch: 606 Broadway and 300 Lafayette (Wednesday)
... and yes, these were seemingly everywhere after Friday evening's snowfall... plenty more where these came from...
[Photo by Steven]
[Photo by Lola Sáenz]
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Report: Law firm files lawsuit against Jared Kushner for unpaid bills
Per the report:
The law team Cornicello, Tendler & Baumel-Cornicello filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Dec. 7 against Kushner Cos. and 19 of its subsidiaries that own or manage properties. Cornicello seeks $102,000 for work it did between December 2014 and May 31, 2015.
In 2014 and 2015, Cornicello represented Kushner properties in at least 32 landlord-tenant cases, mostly involving apartments in the East Village, records show.
A Westminster rep told the News that they are "working to resolve the matter."
As the News notes, East Village tenants and local elected officials have accused Kushner Cos. and its property manager, Westminster, in lawsuits and in other complaints of using harassment-as-eviction tactics through the years.
In 2013, Kushner started buying up some 40-plus buildings in the East Village. According to the Cooper Square Committee, only Steve Croman owns more residential buildings in the East Village than Kushner does.
Kushner removed himself as the company’s CEO back in January to become a senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Trump.
Reader photo at 118 E. 4th St. from March 6.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Tenants claim: Kushner and Westminster want to destroy this building's beautiful garden
Reports outline how Kushner Companies is aggressively trying to empty 170-174 E. 2nd St.
Local politicos join residents of 2 Jared Kushner-owned buildings to speak out about poor living conditions, alleged harassment
Jared Kushner's residents at 118 E. 4th St. would like gas for cooking and some heat
Jared Kushner's East Village tenants wish he'd resolve issues closer to home
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Report: Sidewalk sinkhole injures 1 on 4th Street
Person falls in large hole in East Village sidewalk, officials say https://t.co/UrwFHyzKnL
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) December 16, 2017
There's not much information available at the moment about a 5x4 section of sidewalk that gave way this morning on the north side of Fourth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. The Daily News and NBC 4 report that one person was taken to Bellevue with unspecified injuries.
At the 9th Precinct's holiday party
EVG contributor Derek Berg stopped by the 9th Precinct's annual holiday party this morning on Fifth Street ... and shared these photos of the festivities...
Video: Opening night at MoMa's Club 57
[Image via]
As you likely read about somewhere, "Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983" opened last month at MoMa ... the retrospective explores the influential venue at 57 St. Marks Place between First Avenue and Second Avenue. (This exhibit has generated a lot of press... most recently with this interview published Thursday at The Brooklyn Rail with guest curator Ann Magnuson.)
Yesterday, MoMa posted this video from the opening...
You have until April 1 to catch "Club 57" at MoMa.
H/T Christine C.!
Santa is coming (came) to the 9th Precinct
The 9th Precinct's annual holiday party is going on right now ... until 1 p.m. on Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
And there's probably a SantaCon joke here somewhere...
Nobody makes a better entrance then #SantaClaus arriving at our #EastVillage neighborhood party #NYC @NYPDCommAffairs #NYPDConnecting pic.twitter.com/oJ0mzrkjy8
— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) December 16, 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
[Updated] Report of a fire at 80 E. 3rd St.
FDNYalerts MAN 2-ALARM 80 E 3 ST, MULTIPLE DWELLING FIRE IN THE SHAFT BETWEEN BUILDINGS,
— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) December 16, 2017
The address is between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Fire in East Village pic.twitter.com/bkPOcgIKBF
— Nick Shippers (@nickshippers) December 16, 2017
Updated 12/16
NY1 reports one person was injured. (The report described it as non-life threatening.)
FDNY officials said the fire started in a shaft on the third floor of the five-story building. No word on a cause yet.
Updated 9 a.m.
A look at the building now...
Updated 10:45
An EVG reader who lives in the building shared these photos of the apartment where the fire started...
The resident of this unit has apparently lived in the building for a very long time...
The reader lives in the back of the building ... and that apartment only suffered minor water damage. People living in the front needed to leave. Those apartments have extensive water damage.
Much ado about 'Nothing'
"Nothing Feels Natural," the debut record from Washington, D.C.'s Priests, made a few top-10 lists this year... the above video features live versions of "JJ" and "Nothing Feels Natural."
EV Grieve Etc.: Lead-dust nightmare on 12th Street; more vendors for the new Essex Market
[A view on Avenue A yesterday by Grant Shaffer]
An ongoing lead-dust nightmare in this 12th Street building currently owned by Madison Realty Capital (The Villager)
City Council passes bill to increase transparency for urban renewal areas (The Lo-Down)
Thoughts on "What About Me," Rachel Amodeo's drama shot in the East Village in the early 1990s, playing Dec. 27 and Jan. 1 as part of MoMa's "New York Film and Video: No Wave–Transgressive" series (The New Yorker)
Critic Robert Sietsema likes Gino Sorbillo Pizzeria, recently opened on the Bowery (Eater ... previously)
Incoming vendors at the New Essex Market include a new concept from Radouane Eljaouhari, who ran Zerza (and briefly, the dubious 'Merica) on Sixth Street (The Lo-Down)
A cinematic celebration for Jonas Mekas’s 95th birthday (Anthology Film Archives)
A feature on the mother-son who run Au Za’atar on Avenue A at 12th Street (The Daily Meal)
Some photos from the East Village Arts Festival at the Tompkins Square Library (Slum Goddess ... previously)
Essex Crossing rental will be named for Sonny Rollins (Curbed)
The Luke’s Lobster’s "Star Wars" giveaway (The Voice)
From the Gilded Age, Christmas in the tenements (Ephemeral New York)
And several EVG readers have shared crowdfunding campaigns currently underway for two East Village residents... Barbara Caporale, a longtime community gardener and activist who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, is in danger of losing her home. You can read about the campaign here. There's also a campaign for Jimmy Carbone, owner of the currently closed Jimmy's No. 43 on Seventh Street. The campaign is to help him cover medical treatment and other debts. Read about that here.
I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant
East Village resident Susan Schiffman has been photographing the apartments of rent-stabilized tenants living in the East Village for her Instagram account, I Am a Rent Stabilized Tenant. She will share some of the photos here for this ongoing EVG feature.
Photos and text by Susan Schiffman
Tenant: Johnny Rozsa, since 1999
When I moved here in 1999 I [started] living on Avenue A. I sublet from a friend of mine and I had that place on Avenue A for two years. It was a railroad apartment and it was really nice. I didn’t need an AC because there was a magical through breeze. When I moved out I found my present flat accidentally.
This apartment and the apartment next door were both available. The apartment next door had a basement. Mine has a sunroom, so I went for the greenhouse. That’s been there for like 30 or 40 years. I brought all of my stuff over, I just walked it all over from the other apartment.
What do you love about your apartment?
Even though it is tiny, it is warm and cozy in the winter. It’s got 12-foot ceilings ... so it doesn’t feel cramped. And it’s only me. I don’t need to be in LA in a 12-room mansion — I don’t need that. I’ve had that and it’s OK that I don’t have that now. I also had a little cabin in the woods in the middle of Beverly Hills. It was sort of like this.
What I love about this is I have the backyard and I have the Park in the front. Look at how quiet it is. I don’t hear sirens, I don’t hear anything. It’s quiet. It is dead quiet. I’ve got so many pluses. I don’t feel like I’m in New York City — I feel like I’m upstate somewhere.
It’s nice to have the greenhouse so the lemon tree will survive the winter. I love the mourning doves, hundreds of them, every day. It’s just like living in the country.
If you're interested in inviting Susan in to photograph your apartment for an upcoming post, then you may contact her via this email.
Photos and text by Susan Schiffman
Tenant: Johnny Rozsa, since 1999
When I moved here in 1999 I [started] living on Avenue A. I sublet from a friend of mine and I had that place on Avenue A for two years. It was a railroad apartment and it was really nice. I didn’t need an AC because there was a magical through breeze. When I moved out I found my present flat accidentally.
This apartment and the apartment next door were both available. The apartment next door had a basement. Mine has a sunroom, so I went for the greenhouse. That’s been there for like 30 or 40 years. I brought all of my stuff over, I just walked it all over from the other apartment.
What do you love about your apartment?
Even though it is tiny, it is warm and cozy in the winter. It’s got 12-foot ceilings ... so it doesn’t feel cramped. And it’s only me. I don’t need to be in LA in a 12-room mansion — I don’t need that. I’ve had that and it’s OK that I don’t have that now. I also had a little cabin in the woods in the middle of Beverly Hills. It was sort of like this.
What I love about this is I have the backyard and I have the Park in the front. Look at how quiet it is. I don’t hear sirens, I don’t hear anything. It’s quiet. It is dead quiet. I’ve got so many pluses. I don’t feel like I’m in New York City — I feel like I’m upstate somewhere.
It’s nice to have the greenhouse so the lemon tree will survive the winter. I love the mourning doves, hundreds of them, every day. It’s just like living in the country.
If you're interested in inviting Susan in to photograph your apartment for an upcoming post, then you may contact her via this email.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Citi Bike of the day
Spotted on Allen and Stanton on the LES... at least you wouldn't have to adjust the seat. Or worry about the tire pressure.
Last SantaCon reveler ready to call it a week?
Kidding! This looks like a real Santa.
Photo from Ninth Street and Avenue A this morning via @xtea ...
The lion in winter*
Outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery this morning via Lola Sáenz...
* OK, technically still fall for another week
Bea Arthur Residence nearly ready to accept first tenants on 13th Street
[Photo from Sunday]
The Ali Forney Center recently celebrated a major milestone — the naming ceremony of the now-completed Bea Arthur Residence at 222 E. 13th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.
As previously reported, the 18-bed facility will house participants in the center's two-year transitional living program designed to prepare homeless LGBTQ young people for successfully living alone.
From a Facebook post on Dec. 1 via the Ali Forney Center, an organization supporting homeless LGBT youth...
This building ... was made possible by the love and generosity of the icon Bea Arthur. We are proud to dedicate this residence in her honor, and humbled to celebrate this momentous occasion alongside Bea Arthur's son and grandson.
The Bea Arthur Residence marks an important shift in the way that we are able to house and care for young people who have been discarded by their families simply because of who they are. Pending city approvals, we hope to begin housing young people here within the next few weeks.
To the countless staff, donors, city and state officials, architects, and friends of the Ali Forney Center who have breathed life into this remarkable project, we extend our sincerest gratitude and love, and look forward to moving our young people in to begin their journey to a bright future.
Arthur, who died in April 2009, left $300,000 to the Center in her will. In 2012, City Council as well as then-Borough President Scott Stringer awarded the Center and the Cooper Square Committee $3.3 million for the residence.
[Image via the Ali Forney Center]
Plans for this long-abandoned building were first announced in 2012. (The property had been owned by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development.) The groundbreaking took place in July 2015.
[EVG photo from 2012]
Previously on EV Grieve:
A haunted house on 13th Street?
Abandoned 13th Street building becoming the Bea Arthur Residence for homeless LGBT youth
Here's what the Bea Arthur Residence will look like on East 13th Street
Groundbreaking today on East 13th Street for the Bea Arthur Residence for homeless LGBT youth
MTA, DOT outline plans for life without the L train
[Image Monday via @katebirmingham2]
During the upcoming L train shutdown, parts of 14th Street will become car free while 13th Street will get the city's first two-way protected crosstown bike lane, officials announced yesterday.
The MTA and the city’s Department of Transportation unveiled the long-awaited plans on how to accommodate the estimated 225,000 people who use the L on a daily basis.
Major changes include:
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) December 13, 2017
🚌 exclusive 14th St #busway with rush hour restriction from 3rd-9th Aves
🚲 new 13th St 2-way protected #bikenyc lane
🚗🚚 #WilliamsburgBridge HOV3 restrictions & bus-only lanes from Grand BK to Delancey MN
🚶🚌🚲safety improvements along Grand St BK pic.twitter.com/ypM3SwshEV
Here's more from NBC 4:
• 14th Street closing to cars from Third Avenue to Ninth Avenue eastbound, and Third Avenue to Eighth Avenue westbound, to become a "busway" with rushphour restriction. Bus lanes and Select Bus Service will be added to that core of 14th Street in the next year, which will bring sidewalk expansion and tens of thousands of square feet in new pedestrian space.
"No street will be more affected by the L train disruption than 14th Street, and changes expanding access to pedestrians, bus riders, and cyclists will play a major role in moving L train riders quickly and efficiently," the DOT says.
• A bikeway running along 13th Street to keep cyclists out of the buses' way. Daily cycling volume is expected to double when the L train closes in Manhattan, so the DOT will add Manhattan's first two-way protected crosstown bike lane to 13th Street.
The DOT will also create brand new pedestrian space on Union Square West from 14th Street to 15th Street and 16th Street to 17th Street and a pedestrianized street that features a new bike parking hub on University Place from 13th Street to 14th Streets.
The shutdown of the L — between Bedford Avenue and Eighth Avenue to repair the Sandy-damaged Canarsie Tunnel — is expected to last 15 months with a start date of April 2019.
Previously
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More sources: NBC 4 ... the Post ... Curbed ... 2nd Ave. Sagas... MTA website...
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