EVG favorite The Emerald Inn, the Upper West Side saloon that has been serving up drinks since FDR was in office, is officially closing on April 30. The fucking rent increased from $17,500 to $35,000. And because this is the way of NYC these days — a Kate Spade store is taking over the space.
Endless possibilities await a discerning East Village buyer to invest, live or work in this townhouse gem. Opportunity for expansion and/or conversion with an additional approximate 3,620 sqft unused buildable sqft (air rights). On the 97' lot, this 20' wide and 48' deep townhouse is currently configured as 4 free-market floor-through rental apartments totaling approximately 4000+ gross sqft. In addition, the building has an unfinished basement, beautiful 700+ sqft south facing garden and additional 200+ sqft sun deck.
Hallways are in great condition and a new boiler is being changed from oil to more efficient and affordable gas. All apartments have renovated baths and kitchens with dishwashers, washer/dryers, central air conditioning and hardwood floors. The gross rental income from the property is currently $165,600 per year, well below market value. There are no controls and the property could be delivered vacant or with tenants in place to negotiate a new lease.
The opportunities are endless to make this townhouse your new home or a wonderful investment for your future!
Researchers from the University of Vermont mapped out the city’s happiest areas using a complex formula that can pinpoint tweet locations and rate their relative “happiness” and “sadness” based on certain key words.
While most of Manhattan south of Central Park had people tweeting happily, there were pockets of unhappiness in the East Village, Chelsea and the area around City Hall. There were also a large number of sad tweets coming from the area around the United Nations.
"How to Survive a Plague" is the story of two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
It was thrilling. I guess probably everybody would say that, but for me the thrill was that we ran this massive outreach and education campaign around it. And all of this is an effort to give the film a life of its own and to establish it in the marketplace of ideas so that people will turn to it for this history. And an Oscar nomination gives it that much more standing and makes it more probable that it will reach wide audiences for a long time.
[Photo by Bob Arihood from 2010]
