In May 2016, a 10-by-10-foot section of the facade started to separate from the building on the 15th floor. (At this point, the bridge had been in place for seven months.) The city closed Third Avenue while the repairs were made.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
7 years later, the sidewalk bridge is coming down on the NW corner of 3rd Avenue and 9th Street
Election Day
Olde Good Things is closing its Bowery outpost
A for-rent banner arrived above the storefront several weeks ago, providing a hint of closures to come.
Most things are between 20-40% off, per the front-window signage...
This outpost of the architectural artifact dealer specializing in reclaimed building materials and antiques arrived here in 2013.
Olde Good Things has two other NYC locations as well as one in Los Angeles and a warehouse in Scranton, Pa.
Compilation Coffee has closed for now on St. Mark's Place
Multiple EVG readers passed along updates that the pour-over coffee shop has not been opening in recent days, and there are packing containers inside the storefront.
Yelp reports that the business is temporarily closed, with a May 1, 2023, reopening, while Google lists Compilation Coffee as "permanently closed." The shop's website notes that Compilation Coffee Roasters 2.0 is coming soon...
Industry vet Noah Jashinski, who has worked with brands like Intelligentsia, Blue Bottle and Stumptown, is behind Compilation Coffee, which just debuted in early September.
The business was looking to set itself apart in its offerings — no fancy iced mocha frappé drinks — and support to the community with the following values statement: "We believe in inclusion, transparency, and service."
The shop also had a curbside space built for patrons last week ...
Monday, November 7, 2022
Report: Police arrest suspect in the murder of Jaden Stokes at Campos Plaza
Photo from Oct. 29
Police have arrested a suspect in the deadly shooting on Oct. 27 inside Campos Plaza, 635 E. 12th St. at Avenue C.
According to published reports, Lindell Cox, 31, was charged with murder in the death of 21-year-old Jaden Stokes.
Surveillance footage shows a man, who police have said is Cox, wearing a mask and firing multiple shots inside the NYCHA's building lobby while Stokes and a 24-year-old man were waiting for the elevator. The other man was wounded by a gunshot in the leg.
A motive for the shooting wasn't revealed.
A GoFundMe established to help the Stokes family pay for funeral expenses states that Jaden had just started a new job as a School Youth Mentor. He received his first check on the day he was killed.
Basquiat's former loft space on Great Jones is available for lease
Here are some particulars via the listing at Meridan Capital Group:
• Historic full-building restaurant opportunity
• Previously owned by Andy Warhol and art studio/home of Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Fully equipped restaurant space with venting & gas in place
• Massive skylight in ground floor dining room
• The lower level consists of 2 walk-in boxes, dry storage and office space
• The second floor consists of open loft space with high ceilings and multiple skylights
• All uses considered
The back of the ground-floor space had been home to Bohemian, an invite-only Japanese restaurant that provided some intrigue for food writers 10-plus years back. (As we understand, Bohemian's parent company, Play Earth Inc., owns the building.)
In July 2016, Village Preservation, in partnership with Two Boots Pizza, unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark Basquiat's time here from 1983-1988.
You can read this post at Village Preservation for more history of the building, which once served as the HQ for Five Points Gang ringleader Paul Kelly.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Wegmans watch on Astor Place
Gut renovations continue inside the retail space on the NW corner of Eighth Street at Lafayette ... which will be the first Manhattan outpost of Wegmans. (The one in Brooklyn opened in 2019.)
Wegmans will occupy space on both the street and lower levels of No. 770 for a total of roughly 82,000 square feet. The grocery is reportedly set to open in the second half of 2023. (Published reports state that Wegmans plans to employ more than 500 people at this store, including 200 full-time positions.)
As previously reported, Kmart closed in this space after 25 years in July 2021. Wegmans had agreed to buy out the fading retailer's lease to make this deal possible.
Motorino closed for renovations; return set for Nov. 18
The pizzeria will BRB...
This Motorino outpost closed on Oct. 18 for "equipment maintenance, a new sign and a fresh coat of paint." Their Instagram account says, "We'll be back on Nov. 18, ready for another 12 years in the East Village."
The locations on the UWS and the original in Williamsburg remain open.
Motorino arrived here in the fall of 2009.
Thanks to Steven for the photos!
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Week in Grieview
• At the last night of the Pyramid Club on Avenue A (Monday)
• Citing a reorganization, Mikey Likes It Ice Cream closes Avenue A location (Thursday)
• A very Avenue B Halloween (Tuesday)
• A fundraising raffle to help Lower East Side families this Thanksgiving (Tuesday)
• Owners of Joyface debut HiLot on Avenue C (Tuesday)
• Key Food is back to 24/7 (Monday)
• The 9th Precinct touts a big drug bust in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)
• Just what the doctor ordered? MedRite Urgent Care debuts on 14th and 3rd (Friday)
• Check out the new single by Hello Mary (Friday)
• A busy week for milling in the East Village (Monday)
• Demolition complete on the Bowery for the New Museum annex (Wednesday)
• Mug & Cup space is now in possession of the landlord on Avenue C (Thursday)
• Activity at the former Associated on 14th Street (Wednesday)
• The former Nomad space is for rent on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)
• How long will this booted Dodge Durango sit here on 11th Street? (Friday)
• SantaCon 2022 is now on the clock (Monday)
• Double-decker plywood report (Monday)
... and a last look at Halloween courtesy of Derek Berg...
The Dorothy Day takes to New York Harbor
The $85 million state-of-the-art ferry is named for Day, the activist and journalist with ties to the Lower East Side, where she worked with the poor and founded The Catholic Worker. (The St. Joseph's House is on First Street and Maryhouse on Third Street.)
City officials said that Day regularly rode the Staten Island Ferry to reach her cottage on Staten Island's South Shore and is buried in Pleasant Plains.
According to officials, the ferry will serve passengers for the first time later this year.
Today we officially commissioned the Dorothy Day, the third and final new Ollis-class #StatenIslandFerry. The $85 million state-of-the-art ferry is named for Day, the legendary 20th-century Catholic peace activist who lived and worked #onStatenIsland. pic.twitter.com/i1fC0I6mJG
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) November 4, 2022
Meanwhile, here's a video of the launch and sea trial from September ...Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a convert to Catholicism who led the Catholic Worker movement. Day has been submitted to the Vatican as a candidate for canonization by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) November 4, 2022
📷: Day's granddaughter joined us for the Commissioning Ceremony pic.twitter.com/b5m9AFHJ2m
The Church of the Nativity at 44 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street was Day's home parish. Several years ago, parishioners asked the Archdiocese of New York to build a shrine for Day within Nativity.
The Archdiocese later sold the property to developers, who demolished the church and neighboring structures to make way for an 11-floor mixed-use building that will rise on the east side of the avenue ...
Top image via Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc./Nativity lot photo by Felton Davis
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Noted
EVG Etc.: City Council approves redistricting; Anna Delvey launches dinner series
Fall at Albert's Garden on 2nd Street
• Your Election Day questions answered (NY1)
• Local City Councilmember Carlina Rivera and others speak out about the warehousing of rent-stabilized units (The City)
• NYC migrant crisis highlights long standing homeless shelter issues (Gothamist)
• City Council approves redistricting maps (City & State ... Village Preservation)
• Sietsema checks out MayRee on First Street (Eater ... previously on EVG)
• Pete Wells says that the French-influenced Claud on 10th Street "is one of the most impressive places to hit the East Village in several years" (The New York Times ... previously on EVG)
• The Thrillist guide to the East Village (Thrillist)
• Under house arrest, Anna Delvey is launching a dinner series out of her East Village apartment (Eater)
• The "Meet Me in the Bathroom" doc is now playing at the IFC Center (Official site... previously on EVG)
• UFOs on the big screen (Anthology Film Archives)
• Glendalis is the protagonist of this 10-year photographic voyage on the Lower East Side (i-D)
• Scarlett Johansson and David Yurman hosted a shopping soiree to benefit the Lower Eastside Girls Club (Vogue)
• The noise and traffic are constant complaints from the neighbors near Clinton Street and Grand Street (PIX11)
• Goggla captures the fall bird migration (Laura Goggin Photography)
• Heidi Klum's Halloween worm costume at the new Moxy Hotel on the Bowery inspired some good memes (Hyperallergic)
Saturday's opening shot
And the new clocks at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (above!) on 10th Street and Second Avenue arrived in September 2018.
Friday, November 4, 2022
Hello again
Photo for EVG last year by Stacie Joy
Big week for local band Hello Mary... the trio — bassist Mikaela Oppenheimer, guitarist Helena Straight and drummer Stella Wave — announced the release date for their debut LP — March 3, 2023.
They were also profiled in Rolling Stone in a piece titled "Say Hello to the Next Great New York Rock Band."
And then there is a brand-new single-video... this is "Spiral."
Previously on EV Grieve:
About the 'First Mondays' reading series at Performance Space New York
Here's more about what to expect from the series, organized by writer-historian Sarah Schulman, on Monday, Nov. 7, and Monday, Dec. 5:
On Nov. 7, in an event Schulman dubbed "House Favorites," First Mondays features what Schulman describes as "a literary cornucopia of writers' writers, for readers who love writers." They include Lambda Literary Award and Arab American Book Award winner Rabih Alameddine ... poet and former director of the Asian-American Writers' Workshop Ken Chen ... and experimental poet, prose writer, and scholar of critical pedagogy and queer theory Sara Jane Stoner...
And on Dec. 5...
In an ongoing commitment to presenting alumni of Performance Space, First Mondays features an evening of new work-in-progress by Chris Cochrane — an innovator of improvisational new music and co-creator of THEM with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dennis Cooper — with his collaborators Viv Corringham and Miguel Frasconi.
The "First Mondays" readings start at 7 p.m. (a livestream option is also available). Events are free with RSVP ... which you can do here or here.
The readings take place at Open Room, Performance Space New York, 150 First Ave. (at Ninth Street), 4th floor.
How long will this booted Dodge Durango sit here on 11th Street?
An EVG reader shared this photo... of a new-model Dodge Durango — parked with a boot — on 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.
The boot arrived toward the end of September. The next day, the reader and a friend saw a young couple very thoroughly washing the vehicle inside and out.
We assumed maybe they were killing time while waiting to have the boot removed. Hours later we came by again and the vehicle had been stripped clean of license plates, registration information, VIN, etc.
The vehicle has sat here without plates and with deflated tires all of October.
Heading into November, the reader wonders how much longer the SUV will sit here. Perhaps it needs to be towed into the Avenue A bus lane to garner some city attention?
Just what the doctor ordered? MedRite Urgent Care debuts on 14th and 3rd
The walk-in clinic has more than 20 locations around NYC and the metropolitan area. The hours here: Saturday-Sunday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
And the new outpost is about 60 steps away from the CityMD location on 14th Street.
As for the new MedRite storefront, this space has been on the retail market since the Capital One® branch moved away in July 2016.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Noted
Photos by Derek Berg
Thanks to the magic of TV-making, there's a new medical cannabis dispensary on Avenue A... temporarily taking the place of Avenue A Deli & Grill just south of St. Mark's Place for a scene today...
Crews for "Law & Order," an American police procedural and legal drama TV series now in its 47th season, were also spotted on Avenue B and Eighth Street.
Citing a reorganization, Mikey Likes It Ice Cream closes Avenue A location
Founder Michael "Mikey" Cole and his team made the announcement in an Instagram post ... with word of a new flagship store coming in the spring...
To all of our fans and supporters, we are so happy and excited to announce that Mikey Likes It Ice Cream is currently reorganizing the company to expand our products and services to the global market. Also, during this transition, we will be opening new locations, and our new Mikey Likes It Ice cream Flagship store in the spring of 2023.
The post stated that the Avenue A store closed following the constant "day-to-day battle and hardship" during the pandemic.
We were just not able to recover fast enough and come to terms with our current landlord. Although we greatly appreciate the efforts to accommodate our needs, we understand how the pandemic itself hurt all business owners.
Although a bittersweet moment, we are very grateful for what this store has given us as a family. Over the years, we have had the opportunity to meet so many people from various walks of life and have been able to create friendships that we would’ve never had without having this store.We have become a staple in the community and have enjoyed watching the children of the community come to the store as children and grow into mature, responsible adults. From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to thank all of our customers and staff that have been loyal to Mikey Likes It Ice Cream over the years.
Cole started the business from his parent's Stuy Town apartment, where he grew up. He later opened his first outpost here on Avenue A in 2013 and expanded to Harlem. You can read our 2013 interview with Cole here.
Ice cream aside, we enjoyed the changing artwork on the rolldown gate in the first few years ... where Andre Trenier created one of his 1980s-inspired murals corresponding with the shop's flavor of the month... favorites included Grace Jones... Teen Wolf ... Tootie from "Facts of Life" and ... Prince.
Until a new outpost opens, you can still find Mikey's products for delivery online.
Image from the summer via @mikeylikesiticecream
The 9th Precinct touts a big drug bust in Tompkins Square Park
In a tweet on Tuesday, the 9th Precinct announced the following bust in Tompkins Square Park, which yielded "242 vials of cocaine and 108 decks of heroin."
A sign of police activity to come?
Per the tweet: "We heard your complaints about the drug activities going on in the park and we’ve deployed more resources to the park area."
242 vials of cocaine , 108 decks of heroin and $834 were recovered from a drug dealer at Tompkins Square park by our public safety team. We heard your complaints about the drug activities going on in the park and we’ve deployed more resources to the park area. pic.twitter.com/5su2K9bVxd
— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) November 1, 2022
Mug & Cup space is now in possession of the landlord on Avenue C
Photos by Stacie Joy
We hadn't seen Mug & Cup open for several months here at 115 Avenue C between Seventh Street and Eighth Street.
There's now legal documentation on the door... the Marshal has taken possession of the storefront on behalf of the landlord...
No. 115 had been vacant for the past few years as the building was sold and gut-renovated. The retail space has been empty since Le Jardin Bistro closed in June 2015. Previous ventures here included Apartment 13 and The Porch.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Wednesday's parting shot
Photo by Steven
Every Ten Minutes Stop Working and Take Smoke Break.Every Employee Must Take Approximately 30 Smoke Breaks Per 8 Hour Work Day.
Late afternoon fall foliage report
Demolition complete on the Bowery for the New Museum annex
This space will eventually yield to the New Museum's 8-story annex...
News of the annex, which will nearly double the New Museum's size to 115,277 square feet, dates to 2016.
No. 231 on the Bowery was home to Daroma Restaurant Equipment until the spring of 2011 when they moved down the Bowery (and the owner pleaded guilty to tax fraud). The New Museum bought the building for $16.6 million in September 2008. According to The New York Times, the address once provided "raw studio space for seminal New York artists like James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselmann."
The New Museum opened on the Bowery in December 2007. No word on an opening date for the annex.
Here's more about the new building designed by OMA, Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas ... via the OMA website:
The sleek, angular volume will connect laterally to the original museum and house three gallery floors, a cafe, a bookstore, offices, community and educational program space, art storage, and outdoor terraces.
As a reminder, the renderings (via OMA) for the new structure ... as first seen when the plans were announced in June 2019...
The New Museum opened on the Bowery in December 2007. No word on an opening date for the annex.
Details about smashing pumpkins (not the band!) at La Plaza Cultural
Reps from the NYC Compost Project will be there to turn those (likely rotting) decorative items into compost for city parks and green spaces.
The event is rain or shine, and there are other family-friendly activities planned during the Pumpkin Smash.
Thanks to Steven for the photo!
Activity at the former Associated on 14th Street
Asbestos Abatement signage went up earlier in October... (and the Wrong Language police checked in later)...
As you may recall, back in February 2021, Stuy Town management informed residents that Chef's Local Harvest, a 10,000-square-foot grocery store, would open in this space (this year).
The family-run market is owned and operated by father-son duo Paul and Aaron Fernandez, who helped create the Union Market chainlet (as seen on Avenue A and Houston) and Ideal Marketplace in Chelsea.
Here's more from the announcement to residents in February 2021:
Paul Fernandez has operated best-in-class supermarkets in New York City for the last 40 years and has worked to provide quality service and products throughout his career. He grew up in Little Italy after immigrating to the United States at 14, and is a founding member and principal in the Union Market chain, as well as America’s Food Basket Banners.
Chef's Local Harvest will feature a combination of fresh produce, fish and meat, in addition to a wide selection of prepared food and grab-and-go options via a café, deli and more.The space will also conveniently include an entrance directly connecting to the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village community, providing quick and easy store access for our community. The store will be open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
We're told that this is all still going to happen... and that there's a discussion about some kind of entertainment/performance space in the store... with an outdoor cafe and a new entrance at the mezzanine level. (The deal included 7,300 square feet of the usable basement, per The Real Deal.)
As we understand it, given the unique situation of the interior of the Stuy Town-Peter Cooper Village being zoned as R7-2, any type of commercial enterprise must be a "resident amenity." Hence, any liquor license has to be a "club" one only for "residents and their guests."
Associated closed in December 2019. Joseph Falzon, the store's owner, previously told Crain's that a confluence of factors had cut business nearly in half. For starters, construction on 14th Street for the L train obscured the supermarket with a 12-foot fence for nearly two years.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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