Can't be easy to make it work with high rents here... and given the $1 competition at 2 Bros...
Anyway, change is certainly coming to the corner... You have the Theatre Condos upstairs.... with the new gaming shop upstairs... Work is under way on the former Andy's Chee Pees location... A worker on the scene said it would be "another store." Hmmm....
Previously on EV Grieve:
Hello again: Revisiting the past of St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue
When the Gap moved into the East Village
For further reading:
St. Marks Cinema and Theatre Condos both via Jeremiah's Vanishing NY.