Now!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Then what?: The Mars Bar gets a paint job
Monday, May 10, 2010
Passing the torch?: The Rent on Kent truck parks next to the Christodora House
I saw the Rent on Kent truck tool around Tompkins Square Park yesterday... perhaps scouting for some "arty, young Lower East Side-type professionals" ... and, in a nice touch, the truck later parked on Ninth Street at Avenue B next to the Christodora House...
A Rip Con production on the Bowery
I continue to obsess over watch the retail space in 52E4, the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery near Fourth Street... more lease/rent/buy/anything! signs went up Friday...
...Looking at the new signs, I think this space would give me some pause...if you want to read into it... Rip Con? Rip Co?
Of course, I still pay my ConEd bill every month.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at 52E4's commercial space, and that cake no one ate
Boutique on Bowery possibly opening today; new lease signs appear at 52E4
...Looking at the new signs, I think this space would give me some pause...if you want to read into it... Rip Con? Rip Co?
Of course, I still pay my ConEd bill every month.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at 52E4's commercial space, and that cake no one ate
Boutique on Bowery possibly opening today; new lease signs appear at 52E4
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Two minutes on 11th Street and Second Avenue
Russell Simmons arriving in his chauffeured ride for a stop at Liquitera...
...and an exuberant Chelsea fan drinking a pint... part of a crowd moving from Nevada Smith's to Lunasa...
...and an exuberant Chelsea fan drinking a pint... part of a crowd moving from Nevada Smith's to Lunasa...
Early word on Mast
The used book store opened yesterday on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Fourth Street...
And the store is not called (regretfully?) THINGS WITH WORDS AND PICTURES IN THEM THAT ARE NOT GLOWING RECTANGLES or Off Track Books or Better Books Than Those Sold By That Crazy Sassmonster In Front Of The Old Methadone Clinic Down The Street Who Threatened My Girlfriend After She Laughed At His Sea Shell Chandelier...
Anyway, people who shopped here yesterday have good things to say...
EV Grieve reader BaHa said, "Not just art and photography, good selection of fiction. Picked up an Edith Wharton I had wanted for 30% off cover. Nice people, too."
And from another reader:
Previously on EV Grieve:
More on the Avenue A used bookstore
And the store is not called (regretfully?) THINGS WITH WORDS AND PICTURES IN THEM THAT ARE NOT GLOWING RECTANGLES or Off Track Books or Better Books Than Those Sold By That Crazy Sassmonster In Front Of The Old Methadone Clinic Down The Street Who Threatened My Girlfriend After She Laughed At His Sea Shell Chandelier...
Anyway, people who shopped here yesterday have good things to say...
EV Grieve reader BaHa said, "Not just art and photography, good selection of fiction. Picked up an Edith Wharton I had wanted for 30% off cover. Nice people, too."
And from another reader:
I bought an hp lovecraft book and "all the pretty horses." They were around $6 each. Curated I think in this case means "classics" or well known or essential reading. Which is kind of nice as long as they have more of a more recently published selection. I asked them what the store was called and they said "mast."
Previously on EV Grieve:
More on the Avenue A used bookstore
Paul Richard sign removed from Shepard Fairey mural
Yesterday!
Today!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural
Today!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural
The problems with selling stuff out of converted bread trucks
The Daily News today has a piece on NY artist Marco who is now selling his wares from a refurbished bread truck:
"[T]hings don't always go smoothly.
On a recent night, Marco parked his truck on the lower East Side, drawing quite a bit of unwanted attention.
Hordes of drunken revelers stopped by, expecting to order food.
"They wanted shawarma, falafel," Marco said. "They want meat patties and pizzas."
Jack Kerouac on Seventh Street
Thanks to EV Grieve reader Mykola "Mick" Dementiuk for sending along this link to Book Patrol... As you may know, there's an exhibition of Allen Ginsberg photos now on display at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. titled "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg."
Here's one of the photos...
The caption reads:
The exhibit runs through Sept. 6.
Here's one of the photos...
The caption reads:
Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter – Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.
The exhibit runs through Sept. 6.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural
Per an EV Grieve reader:
There's a Paul Richard tag on the Fairey mural. It's one of those Paul Richard gallery label tags, a larger one than usual, more a warning size sign. Perhaps located near the earlier hole in the Fairey mural. It says, IIRC, "Please do not graffiti the mural."
No Leviticus posters, yet.
An open house for a new restaurant on Avenue A
At 12th Street and Avenue A... a new bar/restaurant is in the works...
Did anyone go to this open house?
Previously on EV Grieve:
New bar slated for 12th Street and Avenue A
Did anyone go to this open house?
Previously on EV Grieve:
New bar slated for 12th Street and Avenue A
Street fair!
On Second Avenue below 14th Street... bring your umbrella sunglasses...
... and Tums....
... and Tums....
Friday, May 7, 2010
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
EV Heave discovers why people have been barfing by the Coop — at least this past week (EV Heave)
EV Heave thanks New York for making him or her the fastest-growing blog about the Cooper Union Serial Vomiter probably in the world (EV Heave)
The top-10 things that make NYC look like crap (Lost City)
Presale SATC2 tix already on sale at the Loews Village 7 (Nonetheless)
The Downtown Dream Hotel is ugly and shiny (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Subway banners are up at 66 Delancey (BoweryBoogie)
A walk with Goggla (The Gog Log)
Look at the new New School building (Curbed)
Martial arts in Union Square (Slum Goddess)
Outrage over LES gas outages (The Lo-Down)
More iPad ad tomfoolery.
And a reminder about tomorrow:
For additional information, visit The East Village Community Coalition Web site.
"A reminder of how beautiful our neighborhood can be"
That was the e-mail message from EV Grieve reader Anthony Devers, who sent along this shot this morning from St. Mark's Place...
"Crazy Landlord" cleans up his corner: Here comes a "sexier Balthazar"
On March 20, 2009, we first noted the "crazy landlord" sign on the long-dormant corner of Second Avenue and Third Street... Since then, the corner has attracted plenty of street art...
...even with the rumored Belgian Ale House coming in here...
After a back-and-forth between painters and taggers, the street art team seemed to have won, as the corner full of wheat paste and spray paint and stickers remained for months... Yesterday, though, workers came and painted the whole thing...
...even the "crazy landlord" sign came done...
This is serious!
Last week, Eater had more gory details on the new Belgian joint coming to this location... it will be called the Belgian. Here are the owner's words to Eater:
[Sigh]
Thanks for the memories, Crazy Landlord corner...
...even with the rumored Belgian Ale House coming in here...
After a back-and-forth between painters and taggers, the street art team seemed to have won, as the corner full of wheat paste and spray paint and stickers remained for months... Yesterday, though, workers came and painted the whole thing...
...even the "crazy landlord" sign came done...
This is serious!
Last week, Eater had more gory details on the new Belgian joint coming to this location... it will be called the Belgian. Here are the owner's words to Eater:
It is a beautiful high ceiling space with a very Gothic basement with a sidewalk vault all around, similar to Bacaro. The basement will have a separate bar and dining as well as beer and wine cask rooms and an area for brewing.
The main floor will have a large canopied bar, large tables beer hall style with old oak and mahogany church pews. The large french doors will open to a wraparound sidewalk cafe sitting 40 or so under large colorful awnings. It will be romantic yet appropriate. Think a sexier Balthazar marries a corpulent Fette Sau and the offspring is The Belgian.
[Sigh]
Thanks for the memories, Crazy Landlord corner...
Appreciating Graceland's graffiti
Speaking of paint jobs... I'm wondering how long before the now-vacant Graceland gets groomed on Avenue A and Second Street... in preparation for its new tenant, apparently another grocery -- one that can afford the $22,000 monthly rent. Part of Graceland, which closed on April 25, has been painted over...
Anyway, just an appreciation before it's all gone...
And you'll spot a familiar name...
As others have commented, it seems strange to find this corner dark at night... and with all the stands and partions removed...
...though, after this happened, I was able to spot part of the store's original sign...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Graceland is closing in the next 10 days
Nicky's staying in the East Village; Graceland moving out?
Graceland addresses its customers
Anyway, just an appreciation before it's all gone...
And you'll spot a familiar name...
As others have commented, it seems strange to find this corner dark at night... and with all the stands and partions removed...
...though, after this happened, I was able to spot part of the store's original sign...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Graceland is closing in the next 10 days
Nicky's staying in the East Village; Graceland moving out?
Graceland addresses its customers
Pulino's pulls it back off the Bowery
All this week I noticed that a handful of tables had made their way onto the sidewalk outside Pulino's on the Bowery...
Tuesday!
Wednesday!
...and Thursday! No more tables on the sidewalk...
What gives? No sidewalk permit?
Tuesday!
Wednesday!
...and Thursday! No more tables on the sidewalk...
What gives? No sidewalk permit?
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