Until 6 p.m. down at Essex and Hester... find the list of vendors here.
The good people from the East Village Vintage Collective are there... with this gem to wear to the picture shows...
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Vintage Day at the Hester Street Fair
Until 6 p.m. down at Essex and Hester... find the list of vendors here.
The good people from the East Village Vintage Collective are there... with this gem to wear to the picture shows...
Last weekend for Matcha Cafe Wabi on 4th Street
[Photo via Instagram]
Matcha Cafe Wabi will close tomorrow after nearly three years at 233 E. Fourth St. near Avenue B.
The owners announced the news on Instagram:
We thank each and every one of you for the wonderful memories and the the chance to make the best matcha for you. It was truly an honor! Thank you for making Wabi your go-to place. I hope one day soon, we will have the opportunity to open up a new place, with the same name and to make sure, there are plenty of tables and chairs 😂. Stay healthy, safe and happy, all! ❤️
The small shop, serving matcha lattes, sencha tea and other Japanese-style drinks and pastries, opened in December 2014. It's owned by the folks at Pirka Salon next door.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Matcha Cafe Wabi now open on East 4th Street
Open house Sunday at the all-new Matcha Cafe Wabi
Friday, September 7, 2018
'Reverser' of fortune
The Oh Sees just released this video for "Overthrown" ... off the latest record, Smote Reverser, via John Dwyer and company. If you're counting, then his Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees tally is something like 21 full-lengths, eight EPs, two live albums, four compilations and assorted 7-inch singles.
P.S.
The "Overthrown" video may cause a seizure. Maybe this live clip from late 2017 is better...
[Updated] 2 days of shows in Tompkins Square Park this weekend
The Shadow and the Time Warp Zine are presenting free concerts tomorrow and Sunday in the Park.
Here are the band lineups (they'll be guest speakers as well) ...
SEPT. 8:
• The Drew Stone Hit Squad
• The Carvels
• Suicide Sister
• Damn Kids / Hammer Brain
• The Minutes
Updated: Rain has washed out Sunday's show.
SEPT. 9:
• Mora Tao
• Love Pirates
• Night Terror
• VON LMO
• (More performers to be announced)
Find more details at the Facebook event page here.
Jimmy Carbone is on the mend
[Photo via Instagram by @jtaggfoto]
This has been an extremely challenging summer for Jimmy Carbone, the East Village resident and restaurateur.
Carbone, the proprietor of the currently closed Jimmy's No. 43 (and Mugsy's Chow Chow previously), shared the above photo on Instagram this past week of his "new look," featuring a spine brace and wheel chair.
His brother Christopher provide background in this update on Wednesday:
As you know, Jimmy had been in the hospital since June, where they found spinal infection and he had two emergency surgeries.
Since then he had been in and out of ICU and the Acute Rehabilitation wing of the hospital for recovery and rehab. Jimmy was recently shifted to a less intensive facility: NYU Gouverneur Medical Rehab on the Lower East Side.
1. Infection: generally stable, but there is still bacteria lingering in the spine where the rods were installed that can't be cleared out due to the sensitive area in the spine. He will be taking antibiotics for at least another year with the hope there is no relapse.
2. Legs & Spine: Doctors report that Jimmy is very lucky that he was finally diagnosed in June. He was very close to being permanently paralyzed in his legs. Now with ongoing rehab work, he is getting stronger with sitting up with back brace for longer periods of time – and LEGS are BEGINNING to MOVE and get STRONGER!!!
Now Jimmy is STANDING with support for brief periods and Taking SUPPORTED STEPS as well — with Walker/Crutch-support to walk in the future: seeing a chance to cross a finish line, even if it takes a long time… One day, One week at a time.
Financial difficulties forced Carbone to close Jimmy’s No. 43, the restaurant he owned and operated on Seventh Street near Second Avenue for 12 years, in August 2017. (Read more about that here.)
Carbone fell sick last fall and wound up in a hospital. "That was from my 20 years of running a restaurant," Carbone told me on the phone in February. "I let my health go. I had diabetes."
He had lost weight (40 pounds) and was trying to get healthy when doctors at NYU Langone made the spinal diagnosis — stemming from a knee infection last fall. (You can find more information at the Jimmy's Wellness Fund here.)
Meanwhile, the 9th annual Pig Island NYC takes place tomorrow on the Red Hook waterfront. Carbone, who founded the food-and-beer fest, sounded confident of attending via this Instagram post earlier this week:
Hell yeah, I'll be there! I'll take a hospital day pass, practice occupational therapy tasks like: taking a wheelchair in a taxi, using crutches in public, and getting some sun! I've been cooped up in hospitals since June 19, I will not miss this 9th annual event...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Jimmy Carbone and Paloma Rocket collaborating on new venture for the Jimmy's No. 43 space
On 6th Street, the Brant Foundation's inaugural exhibit will feature the work of Basquiat
The Brant Foundation will make its debut on Sixth Street in March 2019 with an exhibition of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
ARTnews, whose parent company is owned by Peter Brant, made the announcement yesterday.
The inaugural show will be curated by the Brant Foundation’s founder, Peter Brant ... and art historian Dieter Buchhart. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Foundation Louis Vuitton, will include loans from Brant collections as well as international museums and other private collections.
Brant said in a press release, “Basquiat has been a cornerstone of the East Village art scene for decades, and to bring his work back to the neighborhood that inspired it is a great privilege. Our family is thrilled to launch the Brant Foundation’s New York space with an artist who is central to the collection, and above all to share his legacy with the community that was fundamental in shaping it.”
Basquiat lived and worked at 57 Great Jones St. near the Bowery at the time of his death in 1988 at age 27. (He also lived for a year in 1979 in this East Village apartment, as you may recall.)
Brant reportedly began acquiring Basquiat's work shortly after being introduced to him by Andy Warhol in 1984. "Jean-Michel Basquiat is the quintessential Van Gogh figure of our time," Brant said in a 2013 interview. "He left with us a genius body of work."
The show opens on March 1 and will be on display through May 15. No word at the moment about about hours or admission. (The Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich is open to the public by appointment and free of charge.)
As for the building, the Brant Foundation at 421 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue features 7,000 square feet of exhibition space over four floors.
Here's a recap from recent years:
Brant bought the building for $27 million in August 2014.
The gut renovations started in April 2016 at the former Con Edison substation and Walter de Maria studio.
Brant's daughter Allison Brant oversees her father's contemporary art collection. This feature on her in the April 2017 issue of Town & Country reported:
Allison will also run this second space, which is in the East Village and will primarily be used to showcase the foundation's permanent collection. "So many artists my father collects have a connection to that neighborhood," she says.
And here are a few more photos from earlier this summer...
... and on the Seventh Street side...
Previously on EV Grieve:
About that "giant-robot laboratory" on East Sixth Street
RIP Walter De Maria
What is your East Village dream home?
Walter De Maria's 'giant-robot laboratory' going for $25 million; inside is amazing as you'd expect
Here's what Peter Brant wants to do with his new exhibition space on East 6th Street
When the world's top collectors of Dom Pérignon rosé came to the East Village for dinner
Reader report: 421 E. 6th St. will house Peter M. Brant's personal art collection
Peter Brant's East 6th Street Outreach Tour 2015 continues
Peter Brant meets the neighbors
Hardware store replacing hardware store on 4th Avenue
The Ace Hardware outpost at 130 Fourth Ave. between 12th Street and 13th Street closed back in April.
After being on the rental market for several months, the storefront has a new tenant — Union Square Supply, as this photo via EVG reader Doug shows...
This will be a sister store for Fulton Supply Hardware, which opened down on Fulton and Gold in 1970.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
TBT: Breaker, breaker: The Bandit spotted on Second Avenue
First posted on Sept. 5, 2011... RIP Burt Reynolds...
Perhaps dining at a nearby "choke and puke"? (And if you really want to watch the trailer for this cinematic milestone ... go here.)
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Perhaps dining at a nearby "choke and puke"? (And if you really want to watch the trailer for this cinematic milestone ... go here.)
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Report of a suspicious package outside Cooper Union
EVG reader Chris Rowland shares this photo from outside Cooper Union... where the NYPD has blocked off the area due to a report of a "suspicious package."
Cooper Union's Great Hall also happens to be playing host tonight to the Democratic primary debate for New York State Attorney General ... however, they have not been told to leave, per a reporter on the scene...
There is a suspicious package outside Cooper Union where NY AG debate is being held. Debate hall not being evacuated. I was ushered off block right before a live shot at 7:15. Will apprise. @NY1 pic.twitter.com/WZuHoK4nAG
— Josh Robin (@joshrobin) September 6, 2018
Updated
The suspicious package turned out to be a "harmless suitcase."
Grant Shaffer's NY See
Here's this week's NY See, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's comic series — an observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around the neighborhood.
This morning in inflatables
First, on Astor Place, EVG reader Liz S. shares this photo (subject line: "can't bear it") of the Thomas Burberry Bear ... the bear has been making the rounds showing off the brand's new logo, having been spotted at Xintiandi Taiping Lake, Shanghai.
Meanwhile, on Seventh Street and Avenue B, the Philosophical Zombie notes the always mesmerizing lime green inflatable tube man welcoming back students to the St. Brigid School...
3rd Annual Alphabet City Short Film Festival is Saturday at the 6BC Botanical Garden
The 6BC Botanical Garden, located on Sixth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C, is playing host to the 3rd Annual Alphabet City Short Film Festival Saturday evening.
Here's info via Facebook:
Join us for a rare screening of diverse shorts by local filmmakers. Curated by 6BC member and filmmaker Kris Enos.
• “I Aint Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin” 2015, 7 minutes
A concept music video that harkens back (...or forward?) to a time of hobo prophets, mulligan stew, orange ladies, bowery boys, bawdy vaudeville acts, and the fuzz. A burlesque club musician en route to work imagines magical dreams ... or is he living them? Featuring cameos by several Downtown NYC filmmakers and performers.
Director: Bill Poznanski
• "SunnySide Up" 2003, 26 minutes
A comedy from NYC... Where do babies come from? Marie doesn't want to know, but she's going to find out.
Director: Charles Krezell
• “Downfall” 1989, 6 minutes
An experimental documentary, shot between 1988-1989. The East Village May Day protests, interspersed with New York City Marathon footage. The demolition and beginnings of gentrification in Alphabet City — a neighborhood under siege.
Director: Kris Enos
• “Willow Weep For Me” 2017, 8 minutes
After 41 years of Cher, a willow tree beloved by her community and strongly identified with La Plaza, she's dismantled for the neighborhood safety. Her life is celebrated with a wake in the garden, officiated by community members.
Director: Alvah Holmes
• Mahagonny Songspiel Animation Reel” 2018, 5 minutes
Hand-painted animation inspired by Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht's early operatic work. The city of Mahagonny offers prosperity, but its citizens prove to be its undoing.
Director: Klay-James Enos
• “Penelope & Kennedy” 2017, 19 minutes
Two women face the challenges of their unique relationship.
Director: Anthony Laura
The films start at 8 p.m.
Emmy Squared's owners are bringing grilled pizza to the former GG's space on 5th Street
[EVG file photo]
Matt and Emily Hyland, who run Emily and Emmy Squared, have announced their intentions for the former GG's space on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.
In a fall preview at New York magazine, the Hylands say they'll be bringing the under-represented grilled pizza to the address.
The Hylands reportedly went to "grilled-pizza mecca" Al Forno in Providence, R.I., on their first date while attending Roger Williams University.
Per New York:
Hyland plans to cook his pizzas over a hybrid gas-and-charcoal grill. The key, he says, is achieving a crust that’s crisp, but not cracker-crisp, and also soft. He’ll use a nifty combo of Fontina, Pecorino, and a fancy, eminently meltable Jasper Hill Farm shredded-cheese blend on some of the pies. And that’s not all. More so than at their other restaurants, the kitchen will delve into non-pizza dishes including housemade pastas like spaghetti chitarra with clams and bonito butter; grilled whole fish and head-on shrimp; and johnnycakes treated like polenta and topped with, say, roasted mushrooms and bitter greens.
Emmy Squared was originally thought to be taking over GG's. However, that space has been dormant since GG's closed on Dec. 23.
Emmy Squared, with its Detroit-style pizza and double burgers, opened on First Avenue at Fifth Street in July.
The still-unnamed grilled pizzeria is expected to open in November, per New York.
Gotham Pizza looks closed
Several readers in recent days have noted that Gotham Pizza has not been open during its usual business hours ... with the space cleaned out here on 12th Street at Third Avenue, as these photos by EVG reader Laura K. show (and H/T @JCooper911!) ...
Gotham's phone is still in service, though there isn't any answer. The various online delivery services note that this Gotham location isn't currently taking any orders.
The pizzeria, part of a mini chain, opened here in August 2016.
Their slices were serviceable though nothing spectacular... and why bother with the excellent slices at Joe's beckoning around the corner on 14th Street. And telling — despite the proximity to five dorms (four NYU and one New School), Gotham Pizza never seemed all that busy.
The corner space last served up the FroYo via Funkiberry. There were more slices before this with AAA (New) Amici Pizza.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Funkiberry-replacing pizzeria revealed on 3rd Avenue
Hey, the Funkiberry closed on 3rd Avenue
Hey, the Funkiberry space is for lease on 3rd Avenue
Hey, Funkiberry is now open on 3rd Avenue
Hey, the Funkiberry sign is up on 3rd Avenue
The Detox Market now open on East Houston
More than two years after the new-building reveal, 76 E. Houston St. at Elizabeth has a new tenant... the Detox Market recently opened for business.
This is the first NYC outpost for the shop, with multiple locations in Los Angeles and Toronto, that offers "green beauty brands to detoxify your life" ...
The two-story structure, which is adjacent to the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall (also owned by Goldman Properties), was a long time coming. Construction took several years. (BoweryBoogie reported in October 2014 that work slowed down here due to Certificate of Occupancy issues and a dispute over the property line.)
No. 76 was previously home to the big top of Billy's Antiques.
[EVG photo from 2011]
Previously on EV Grieve:
Deal off to bring Crif Dogs to the former Billy's Antiques space
The Houston/Bowery Mural Wall has been boarded up
Full stop work order for 76 E. Houston St., and the return of Billy's Antiques (sort of)
Checking in on the incoming building at 'the four corners of Downtown'
The painting Billy Leroy left behind
Banksy's grim reaper and the old Bowery ghosts
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Wednesday's parting shot
The fledgling ponders a sign in Tompkins Square Park today... photo by Steven.
Report: Developer Gregg Singer says Mayor de Blasio lied about city's P.S. 64 outreach
During a recent media roundtable at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Mayor de Blasio said that Gregg Singer, who owns the former P.S. 64 on Ninth Street, "has been exceedingly uncooperative" about selling the building back to the city, as The Villager reported.
However, Singer told Patch that he hasn't heard from anyone at the mayor's office about the property he bought in a city auction in 1998.
Some background: During a town hall forum at P.S. 188 last October, de Blasio said that the Giuliani administration should not have auctioned off the property, and that he would work to "right the wrongs of the past," as DNAifno reported.
"For the administration to put that building into private hands failed miserably, and we’ve seen the negative affect that that has had on the community. So I'm announcing tonight the city's interest in re-acquiring that building," de Blasio said, eliciting cheers from the audience.
And during the media roundtable on Aug. 23, de Blasio said the following, as reported by The Villager:
“We’ve tried to have a productive conversation about purchase,” he said. “We’ve gotten nowhere so far. We’re not giving up. We’re working very closely with the councilmember, Carlina Rivera. I’m very frustrated with that owner.”
Eminent domain, though it may not be an immediate option, is “certainly something I want to know more about, but I had hoped the best solution here would be a direct purchase,” de Blasio explained. “That’s not off the table. It’s just we’re just not getting any cooperation so far.”
And as Patch reported last Friday afternoon:
"When I read the report that Mayor de Blasio told the media that I had been 'exceedingly uncooperative,' I was astonished at the brazenness of the mayor's lie," Singer told Patch.
"I know that politicians are not known for their strict adherence to the truth, but when someone like the mayor can claim to be frustrated because I have been uncooperative when I have not received a single email or phone call from him or anyone in his office is simply unbelievable."
Singer challenged the mayor's office to produce email and phone logs that the city has reached out to him.
Singer has said that he has no intention of selling the building, which he bought for $3.15 million. He wants to turn the landmarked property into a dorm called University Square, which continues in a holding pattern while the DOB maintains a Stop Work Order on the building.
In years past several local elected officials, community activists and residents have asked for the return of the building at 605 E. Ninth St. Avenue B and Avenue C for community use. The building became a community center after the school left in 1977. The group was evicted when Singer took over as the landlord.
Previously on Ev Grieve:
The Times explores the past, present and future of the former P.S. 64
Openings: Pizza Rollio on 9th Street; Afandi Grill on 1st Avenue
[Photo by Steven]
Pizza Rollio has opened their outpost at 437 E. Ninth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.
The pizzeria, which sells its super-thin, arugula-topped pies served in long strips, is owned by Miyuki Talwar and her family, who run similar establishments in the Philippines.
This will be the third Pizza Rollio in the city, joining the Plaza Hotel Food Hall and on West 18th Street.
Here's more about their pizza from the Daily News in 2016:
In a city with pizzerias on almost every corner, Pizza Rollio serves the seemingly impossible: a totally unique pie. Its rectangular creations are light and delicate — built on paper-thin sheets of dough that are baked and sliced into wide ribbons perfect for wrapping around peppery bites of alfalfa sprouts and arugula, the salad-y condiment served with every order.
-----
Meanwhile, at 149 First Ave. near Ninth Street, Afandi Grill has made its debut. The restaurant offers cuisine from Central Asia. Per the website:
Afandi has Xinjiang style hand-pulled noodles, dumplings, world famous Uzbek pilaf and home made pastries. There is a veggie option for each dishes.
You can find their menu and hours here.
This storefront has been vacant since This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef closed in March 2014.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Pizza Rollio bringing its skinny slices to 9th Street
Afandi Grill bringing food from Central Asia to 1st Avenue
A free buffet for voters at 99 Favor Taste on St. Mark's Place
[Photo by Steven]
The owners of 99 Favor Taste at 37 St. Mark's Place at Second Avenue want you to vote.
As the banner above the entryway declares: "You vote, buffet on me!" The deal is good during the primary election on Sept. 13 as well as the general election on Nov. 6.
The restaurant, which offers traditional Korean-style barbecue and Chinese hot pot meals at multiple NYC locations, opened here in July 2017.
Aside from a free meal for voting, 99 Favor Taste also comps your meal on your birthday.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)