Saturday, September 12, 2020
This should be a photo of the Empire State Building
Still working out the kinks of the new Blogger platform. (Please see the earlier posts today. I would link to them, but...) Over the next few days we will be testing the new platform and working out the kinks of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Anyway, the new uploading system is a little screwy... So please excuse our appearance while we're under re-construction.
There will be a few more (pointless than usual) posts for testing purposes in the hours and days ahead.
The 1st Tompkins Square Arts + Crafts and Book Fair is TODAY
Come and get works of art, hand made crafts, books, records, videos, and more — all offered by members of your community on the Lower East Side. There will also be book readings, musicians and speakers. At dusk, we will be showing the amazing film called "Loose Change" (a student-made documentary about 9/11).Fair times are listed from noon to 6 p.m. Visit the Facebook invite for more details.
Noted
Parking in the time of curbside dining. As seen this morning on Avenue A at Sixth Street. Still working out the html kinks on the new Blogger content tool. Testing, testing.
This morning in photos of the sun through trees
So things may look a little funky for awhile... this also may mean fewer posts for the near future ...
Friday, September 11, 2020
'Hold' on
Death Valley Girls have a new record, Under the Spell of Joy, out on Oct. 2. Ahead of that, here's a single from the release titled "Hold My Hand."
'Open' your eyes to this nighttime walk through the East Village
Here's info about a new nighttime walking tour through parts of the neighborhood... via the EVG inbox...
"OPEN" is a series of temporary light art installations occupying a selection of storefronts in the East Village. Visitors are invited to discover the neighborhood anew via a mapped out nightwalk. The walk links both empty and occupied storefronts transformed through a mix of light projections and radiant effusions of color.
Sponsored by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY), the Flint Collective NYC partnered with lighting manufacturers and local business owners to respond to a city transformed by the global pandemic. In the rhythm of closed storefronts "OPEN" offers an optimistic pause of light and color.
"People may be cynical in thinking of these storefronts as failed capitalism, but each one has a history and plays a vital role in creating and sustaining vibrant communities," said Yasmina Palumbo of neighboring business MUD NYC and site partner for OPEN.
The installation is spread out across eight sites in the East Village and is active from Saturday Sept. 12 through Sept. 20, 7:30-11 p.m.
The following sites are on the tour:
• 155 Avenue B
• 111 East 7th Street
• 336 East 11th Street
• 307 East 9th Street
• 436 East 9th Street
• 337 East 9th Street
• 107 Ave B
• Secret Site
And if a map helps...
Ki Smith returns home, and debuts Ki Smith Gallery on 4th Street
The Ki Smith Gallery is now open on Fourth Street (first reported here) ... EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by the soft opening on Wednesday evening to check out new works on paper by Caslon Bevington, Morell Cutler, Charlie Hudson, Max "Senor Melon" Hodgson, Sono Kuwayama, Julia Powers, Luke Ivy Price, Kiyomi Taylor and Sei Smith...
[Sono Kuwayama]
[Caslon Bevington]
[The work of Kiyomi Taylor]
[Charlie Hudson]
Ki Smith is an East Village native and current resident... he most recently showcased emerging artists from a space on West 125th Street. Smith has worked for 10 years as an independent curator. His résumé includes launching the Bushwick-based gallery and performance space Apostrophe in 2012.
"It took us 10 years to make it back to the East Village where I grew up," Smith said with a laugh.
The gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. You can follow them on Instagram here.
Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices opens on today on Avenue A
[Photo by Vinny & O]
The EV outpost of Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices and Ice Cream officially opens today at 145 Avenue A at Ninth Street.
Daily hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The business dates to 1928 when Ralph Silvestro started selling Italian ice (or water ice) from his truck around Staten Island. The first retail store opened in 1949 on Port Richmond Avenue in Staten Island. In recent years the company has franchised out, expanding to other parts of NYC as well as Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester County.
This marks the third outpost in Manhattan.
Previously.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Sept. 10
EVG reader IzF spotted this today on Third Street between Avenue C and Avenue D... currently the leader.
City nixes MoRUS Film Festival this weekend at the Peachtree Community Garden
Updated 2 p.m.: Green Thumb now says that MoRUS can complete the last three nights of the festival on Oct. 2-4.
The four-night MoRUS Film Festival is now down to one evening.
According to a MoRUS spokesperson, the NYC Parks GreenThumb, citing COVID-19 concerns, are now prohibiting the screenings Friday through Sunday at the Peachtree Community Garden on Second Street.
MoRUS is refunding tickets for those nights.
Tonight's screenings at Le Petit Versailles on Second Street near Avenue C are still a go:
• Thursday, Sept. 10: "InSects & FlowerSex (The Birds & The Bees)"
Le Petit Versailles, 247 E. 2nd Street, 8 p.m.
A lively, living mixed-media series of shorts featuring films from 1930s to 1970s. In keeping with Le Petit Versailles' legacy of creative disruption, the evening will include avant garde movies such as "Killers of the Insect World" and "Woody Woodpecker & The Termites from Mars" with live sound by LeLe Dai aka Lullady, a radio collage soundtrack by Jeanne Liotta and live soundtrack performances by Pinc Louds and by Richard Sylvarnes.
The viewing for these screenings will be on the sidewalk outside the space.
This was the eighth annual Film Festival for the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, which archives urban activism from 155 Avenue C.
Grant Shaffer's NY See
Here's the latest NY See panel, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around NYC ... as well as political observations on current events...
Development watch: Novum EV
Here's a look at the 7-floor, 20-unit residential building under construction at 238 E. Third St. between Avenue B and Avenue C.
The broker bunting arrived on the sidewalk bridge here earlier in the summer for the condoplex, which is going as Novum EV (Or NOVUM EV)...
The listings for the 1- and 2-bedroom units (and penthouse) do not appear to be online just yet. Noted amenities include fitness studio and wet bar, outdoor recreation area, cold storage and triple glass exterior windows.
Landlord Vinbaytel Property Development has put up several East Village condos in recent years, including at 227 E. Seventh St., 67 Avenue C and 26 Avenue B.
Workers demolished the previous building on the lot, a two-level structure once owned by the Blue Man Group, in the summer of 2019.
Previously on EV Grieve:
7-story residential building planned for former Blue Man Group facilities on 3rd Street
Swiss Institute is back open on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place
[Image via]
The Swiss Institute, the nonprofit arts organization, reopened yesterday here on the southeast corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place.
The return exhibit is titled Tenet, based on Christopher Nolan's budding blockbuster of the same name (which we can't see in NYC for the time being ... because theaters remain closed).
A preview via artnet News:
[T]he time inversion-themed film — specifically the delay of its release — has served to inspire a presentation of video works by Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Moyra Davey, Yu Honglei and Steffani Jemison.
Like "Tenet," each of these pieces features the manipulation of time, with the artists rewinding, speeding up, slowing down, or otherwise editing their footage to alter the normal sequence. Each work will be on view at the institution for one week during the show’s run.
The show runs through Nov. 1. Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 2-8 p.m.; Saturday, noon-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-6 p.m. The admission is free. You can also visit Printed Matter in the lobby.
The nonprofit institution was created in 1986. They opened the EV outpost in June 2018 at the site of a former Chase branch.
ICYMI: Cuomo says indoor dining can resume in NYC on Sept. 30 — at 25-percent capacity
[B&H Dairy as seen in 2018]
In case you didn't catch this news yesterday afternoon... Gov. Cuomo announced that indoor dining in New York City can resume on Sept. 30 with a 25-percent occupancy limit.
And the bullet points on guidance for indoor dining in NYC:
- 25 percent occupancy limit
- Temperature checks will be required at the door for all customers
- One member of each party will be required to provide contact information for tracing if needed
- No bar service — bars will only be used as service bars, a source of making drinks and serving them tableside
- Masks must be worn at all times when not seated at a table
- Tables must be six feet apart
- Restaurants close at midnight
- Strict adherence to all State-issued guidance
- Restaurants should operate with enhanced air filtration, ventilation and purification standards
- Limit air recirculation and allow for outside air ventilation
- Outdoor dining will continue in the interim
Indoor dining has been banned since the COVID-19 PAUSE went into effect on March 22. More than NYC 1,000 bars and restaurants have shuttered since then, per Eater.
East Village closures include Jewel Bako, Porsena, Oda House and Mermaid Inn... and maybe Odessa.
A deli for the former deli at the long-vacant storefront at 118 1st Ave.
A quick note from the EVG tipline... a deli looks to be the new tenant for the long-vacant NE corner space at 118 First Ave. at Seventh Street. (H/T Upper West Sider!)
Paperwork filed for this address with the state lists the corporation name as East 7th Deli & Cafe Corp. (The storefront is no longer on the rental market.)
No. 118 First Ave. had been vacant since Golden Food Market closed here in the summer of 2017 after 35 years in business. Before their lease wasn't renewed, an LLC with a West 11th Street address bought the building in the spring of 2017 for $5.8 million, per public records.
Golden Food Market owner Ali Fardos now runs East Village Organic a few storefronts away.
A tapas-wine bar was in the works for No. 118 in April 2018, but those plans never materialized.
Checking in on Checkers
[Photo by Steven]
The Checkers outpost has First Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street had been very quiet these past six months... and there was some speculation among Checkers Watchers® that this quick-serve location was not going to reopen following the COVID-19 PAUSE. (Last we checked, this Checkers looked checked out.)
However, as the top photo from yesterday shows, Checkers returned to service this week for takeout and delivery... and there's even one seat for dining alfresco.
Hard to believe but this Checkers has already been here for almost six years.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
[Postponed] A march for a safe schools reopening
Updated 9/10: Given today's rain, the march has been postponed until next Thursday — Sept. 17.
Students, parents and teachers from District 1 will be gathering on Seventh Street and Avenue B tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon to rally for a safer return to school this fall
Here are details about the March for Our Schools and Our Lives via the EVG inbox...
Please join schools and community allies from across District 1 for a March for Our Schools and Our Lives, Thursday, Sept. 10, 3-5 p.m.
At a time when we should be investing new resources into our under-funded schools to get kids back to learning, parents back to work, and the economy up and running, school budgets across NY State have been decimated making educating our kids challenging for a normal year. The State’s funding cuts have made it all but impossible to open schools safely during the pandemic.
For that reason schools across District 1 have joined forces to demand better for our children, our teachers, our families and our entire community because our lives literally depend on it.
The march will end at City Hall.
Students are set to arrive for in-person classes on Sept. 21. Many public school teachers reported back to their schools yesterday in the first phase of the system reopening.
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