Here, next to East Village Cheese on Third Avenue... at that short-lived boutique...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
[Updated] At the Mars Bar vigil tonight
Around 6:30, we received notice of a planned candlelight vigil at the Mars Bar for 8 p.m. Several readers are at the scene... one estimate has 25 people outside the now-shuttered bar. With candles!
[Updated] Goggla sends along some photos. You can find more on her Flickr page.
She has some videos too... including people collecting their art from inside the bar ... and a version of "Mars Bars Blues."
Dining with the red-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park
Last night, Bobby Williams pointed out the arrival of a red-tailed hawk in the Park.
This evening, East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy saw the hawk too... right at dinner time.
Per Stacie: "It was an awesome spectacle, except for the kids pelting the hawk with super-soakers and rocks."
This evening, East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy saw the hawk too... right at dinner time.
Per Stacie: "It was an awesome spectacle, except for the kids pelting the hawk with super-soakers and rocks."
That's it: The Mars Bar is closed for good
Earlier, we mentioned that the DOH had shuttered the Mars Bar today. Goggla just stopped by. They're not reopening. That's it. Per Goggla, George is frantically taking down art. So — if you have stuff here, now would be a good time to stop by and collect it.
Updated: Slum Goddess has a post on the closure with some recent pics. Per Slum Goddess: "I will miss this place more than any normal person should miss a bar considering I don't much care for bars really..but this one was special! NYC just became a lot more boring."
Tourists discover the Hare Krishnas today in Tompkins Square Park
Bobby Williams notes that there were a good number of tourists in the Park today....
Meanwhile, we don't have an explanation for this...
Meanwhile, we don't have an explanation for this...
[Updated] Mars Bar is closed, temporarily or not
The EV Grieve inbox is busy this afternoon with reports that the Mars Bar has closed for good.
However, one source said the DOH shuttered the Mars Bar.
We called the bar. Whoever answered (with a "hello" and not a "Mars Bar") said that they were just temporarily closed. Oh?
"The health department shut us down."
They thanked us and hung up before we could get any further.
According to the DOH website, the bar was last inspected on May 23, with 16 violation points. But for some big stuff, like filth flies and live roaches.
Updated 6:02 — A walk by the bar confirms that it is closed. A piece of cardboard with "closed" written on it is visible on the door. And the gates are down.
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
Ray is now a U.S. citizen (Neither More Nor Less ... The Villager)
The new High Line doesn't need old auto centers (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
A brief history of Donald Capoccia's EV developments (The Local East Village)
A new hotel for Mott Street (Curbed)
The woo-wooers of 1872 (Ephemeral New York)
Tiengarden reopens on Allen Street (BoweryBoogie)
Your guide to changes coming to 14th Street between Second and Third Avenue
1) Plywood is up at the former fast-food triplex on the corner of Second Avenue. We're awaiting word on what's coming into this space.
2) As Eater reported, Eddie Huang is opening his second Baohaus location... coming to the Thai Me Up space. Having seen the gutted interior, July 25 seems like an optimistic opening date.
3) Plywood is up now at the coming-soon IHOP.
4) The Exquisite DVD store is open, though the space is for lease...
5) The new awning is up at the relocated Xoom. We expect to hear about an opening date very soon.
6) The Super Saving Store is closing near Third Avenue...
7) The Mystery Lot now features a Happy Hour...
2) As Eater reported, Eddie Huang is opening his second Baohaus location... coming to the Thai Me Up space. Having seen the gutted interior, July 25 seems like an optimistic opening date.
3) Plywood is up now at the coming-soon IHOP.
4) The Exquisite DVD store is open, though the space is for lease...
5) The new awning is up at the relocated Xoom. We expect to hear about an opening date very soon.
6) The Super Saving Store is closing near Third Avenue...
7) The Mystery Lot now features a Happy Hour...
Biking on lower Bowery and the Manhattan Bridge promises to be messy for the next few months
Longtime lower Bowery resident Curt Hoppe passes along this photo of the new bike lane on the street...
As Gothamist has reported, this is all part of the Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation work that starts today. It's a little confusing, these plans. But have a look.
[Via Gothamist]
So Manhattan-bound cyclists will exit the bridge on the Bowery and bike north to Prince Street... along the pre-existing path...
Per John Del Signore at Gothamist: "The change is annoying because on the Brooklyn side, cyclists will now have to dismount and carry their bikes up and down the stairs to get to the path. And they'd better get used to it, because this is the way it's going to be through January 2012. WHY GOD?!"
Meanwhile, Hoppe is curious how the Fung Wah Bus company will deal with this. Their buses typically idle exactly where the new bike lane is painted in on the Bowery.
Said Hoppe, "What a mess this is going to be."
As Gothamist has reported, this is all part of the Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation work that starts today. It's a little confusing, these plans. But have a look.
So Manhattan-bound cyclists will exit the bridge on the Bowery and bike north to Prince Street... along the pre-existing path...
Per John Del Signore at Gothamist: "The change is annoying because on the Brooklyn side, cyclists will now have to dismount and carry their bikes up and down the stairs to get to the path. And they'd better get used to it, because this is the way it's going to be through January 2012. WHY GOD?!"
Meanwhile, Hoppe is curious how the Fung Wah Bus company will deal with this. Their buses typically idle exactly where the new bike lane is painted in on the Bowery.
Said Hoppe, "What a mess this is going to be."
The Bean's new home on Broadway
On Friday, we reported that the Bean is expanding its operation from its Third Street/First Avenue home... We're just confirming the second location on Broadway at 12th Street across from the Strand...
...at the former home of Quiznos and its toasty bullets.
...at the former home of Quiznos and its toasty bullets.
Part of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America HQ is for lease
At 203 Second Ave., for lease signs are now up... the first and second floors are available ...
This is the national headquarters for The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. (The Ukrainian Museum moved to its new home on East Sixth Street in April 2005.)
Last August, a fire in the stairwell of the upper floors damaged part of the offices. The renovated offices were dedicated this past June 11.
Related reading on EV Grieve:
Ukrainian Sports Club ready to go retail on Second Avenue
This is the national headquarters for The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. (The Ukrainian Museum moved to its new home on East Sixth Street in April 2005.)
Last August, a fire in the stairwell of the upper floors damaged part of the offices. The renovated offices were dedicated this past June 11.
Related reading on EV Grieve:
Ukrainian Sports Club ready to go retail on Second Avenue
The Marshal seizes the shuttered Bowery Wine Company
Last weekend, as we reported, the Bowery Wine Company called it quits on East First Street... On Friday, the Marshal served the now-vacant restaurant with a seizure notice.
As we've noted, August Cardona, owner of dell'Anima, L'Artusi and Anfora, will take over the space ... and expanding into the empty storefronts to the east.
As we've noted, August Cardona, owner of dell'Anima, L'Artusi and Anfora, will take over the space ... and expanding into the empty storefronts to the east.
Pulino's enters Bowery sidewalk cafe garden party; DBGB put on notice
Three months after DBGB installed a garden oasis on the Bowery, corner mate Pulino's has retaliated with its own urban greenery...
Check mate, Boulud!
Check mate, Boulud!
A sidewalk shed for Something Sweet
Blue Glass notes the arrival of a sidewalk shed outside Something Sweet, the homespun bakery on the corner of First Avenue and East 11th Street...
Per the DOB: Workers will replace the "joists, window lintels and stucco."
As long as no one gets any funny ideas about painting over the Russo's mural on the 11th Street side...
[2nd Russo's image via]
Per the DOB: Workers will replace the "joists, window lintels and stucco."
As long as no one gets any funny ideas about painting over the Russo's mural on the 11th Street side...
Sunday, July 17, 2011
A red-tailed hawk, back in Tompkins Square Park
...and with a rat dinner...
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Next time
Seventh Street and Avenue B. Photo by Bobby Williams.
I have no idea if this had anything to do with the women's World Cup final today... but it was a helluva game...
Week in Grieview
RIP Dominic Philbert (Monday)
A Second Line march for Ray Deter (Monday)
A lot of photos of the double rainbow (Wednesday)
No sleepwalking in this loft for sale on the Bowery (Thursday)
Fu Sushi reopened (Tuesday)
Rent the old Le Souk space for 25K (Wednesday)
The willow tree of Eighth Street is looking good again (Wednesday)
Grabbing health by the nuts, and other ad slogans (Friday)
Changes in the works for Banjo Jim's (Thursday)
Santa Monica-based Euphoria Loves Rawvolution opening an outpost on East 12th Street (Monday)
And no one commented on this post about water interruption! (Tuesday)
CNN will report live from Zum Schneider during the women's World Cup final
Doors opened at 1 for the championship game at 2:45 between the United States and Japan. A CNN truck in parked out front... to bring live reports during the game...
And if the U.S. team wins, then we're taking the fire truck!
From the EV Grieve archives: Looking at 1980s New York via network television
Originally posted on July 17, 2008....
Rolando at Urbanite brought back a memory for me with a post on The Equalizer from 1985. As he notes, The Equalizer shows Times Square in all its pre-Giuliani glory. (Via Jeremiah)
Here's a clip I found from the show's opening (New York looks so SCARY!):
And where was the Olde Garden, which you see at the 21-second spot?
Oh, and all this makes me think of Cagney & Lacey from 1982 (and what happened to Meg Foster?):
Still, I prefer the gritty realism of other shows. (ACID RAIN in MANHATTAN! @ the 2:26 spot)
Rolando at Urbanite brought back a memory for me with a post on The Equalizer from 1985. As he notes, The Equalizer shows Times Square in all its pre-Giuliani glory. (Via Jeremiah)
Here's a clip I found from the show's opening (New York looks so SCARY!):
And where was the Olde Garden, which you see at the 21-second spot?
Oh, and all this makes me think of Cagney & Lacey from 1982 (and what happened to Meg Foster?):
Still, I prefer the gritty realism of other shows. (ACID RAIN in MANHATTAN! @ the 2:26 spot)
Love is in the air in Tompkins Square Park, and stuff
Earlier today...
Which reminds me... Bobby Williams noted this couple getting married in the Park last week...
Which reminds me... Bobby Williams noted this couple getting married in the Park last week...
This afternoon in the 6th and B Garden
Per the 6th and B Garden website:
The Vagabond Velonators
Long time Local Musician, John Campo, has concentrated on writing music, lyrics, and arrangements that are centered around methods long lost in music, that can live again in his post Bop R&B Triplet Feel. Currently playing with Tom Ryan, rhythm guitarist, they will play arrangements, and sound that falls somewhere in between New Orleans and Harlem traditions, and more.
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