Things that I won't be doing tonight

I keep getting e-mails from my good friends at Ticketmaster saying that seats are still available for tonight's Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium. Plus, you can come early and watch the all-stars warm up for tomorrow night's annual All-Star Game! Wow, that sounds boring! Still, maybe I could get Nate McLouth's autograph! (Yeah, "who?" is right.)

So, I finally thought I'd take a look. Maybe I'd pluck down my $20 for a tier reserve seat.

Ha!

Let's see, Tier 11, Row X....$150. Plus! The $8 "convenience charge."

So what's the make a decent seat? Box 72, third-base side...$600! Plus! The $8 "convenience charge."

At Apiary: New American and no booze for minors

Apiary has been described as a "new American" restuarant. Open Table (via Eater) offered this description: "Apiary fills a unique niche in the East Village...the chef’s interpretation of American, Regional and Seasonal ingredients will exceed the expected and excite the palates of the guest, offered with all the warmth of hospitable service in a refined setting." It opens soon at 60 E. Third Ave. near 11th Street, a location that used to house the type of business that is becoming extinct in the neighborhood: a laundromat.

By the way, the management at Apiary wants you to know that minors won't be served any booze. Noted.

"White collar funk" on 23rd Street

This is a video, dubbed "white collar funk," made by Paul Dougherty in the 1970s on 23rd Street. You can read about the project here.



His collection includes the a Ludlow Street before and after as well as some interior footage of St. Brigid's. I posted this video in April (not knowing that Jeremiah had posted it in January).

How to sell cologne these days

At 11th Street and Third Avenue.
And what's wrong writing with a pencil or pen and notebook? Regardless, this is horrible. I just don't get what this has to do with expensive cologne.

Vasmay Lounge is moving

[Photo via Twerking Hard in the East Village]

This past Wednesday, I was yammering away about buildings for sale in the neighborhood that also housed bars. And why this was cause for concern. One of these locations was Vasmay Lounge on Houston at Suffolk. (Site of the former Meow Mix.) Well, Twerking Hard in the East Village reported today that Vasmay's has closed...and moved to the former Essex Ale House location on Essex and Houston. (He also reminds us of one of the former bars in the that Essex Ale House spot -- Filthy McNasty's. Have a few stories about that place...)

Anyway, will be curious to see what happens to the former Vasmay space at 269 E. Houston St.

About that hole in the middle of 7th Street and Avenue B

Uh, it's bigger. Yeah, yeah -- it's funny until someone's Lexus gets swallowed. Then we'll hear about it.


Meanwhile, someone may want to look at the holes on St. Mark's and Avenue A and 10th Street and Third Avenue. Or not.

Fliers around Tompkins Square Park this morning

Wonder how long before someone removes these headlines about the Tompkins Square Riots, from Aug. 6-7, 1988. Don't want to upset the yunnies with any unpleasantness...

Live like Keith Richards, Russell Simmons, Britney Spears...

On June 9, Curbed reported on the former Silk Building apartment that, through the years, Keith Richards and Russell Simmons owned. Most recently, Britney Spears sold it for $4 million. As Curbed noted on June 9, the new owner was trying to flip it for $6,595 million.

Well, the pad above 4th and Broadway can still be yours for $6,595 million. It was featured in the "homes of the week" section in the Post this past Thursday.

According to the Post:

Now you can live like a rock star, pop icon or music mogul! We mean that literally, insofar as this "exclusive" newly renovated penthouse in the Silk Building has been previously owned by Keith Richards, Britney Spears and Russell Simmons. There are four levels with three bedrooms - including a full-floor master suite with two bathrooms (out of 4½ total), a mini-bar, a sitting area with a wood-burning fireplace, hand-rubbed custom cherrywood closets and a private hidden entry door. The upstairs guest suite has a terrace with an "incredible" view of the Empire State Building. The condo is fully wired with a new Crestron smart-home system that controls all the lights, putting you in the mood no matter what music you listen to.