On Lafayette near Broadway.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Balls
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
No pressure or anything
City businesses stand to miss out on making $141 million this fall if the Yankees fail to make the playoffs for the first time in 13 years, according to a study commissioned by the Post. The report conducted by NYU adjunct professor John Tepper Marlin shows that if the Yankees snag at least a wild-card berth, a first-round appearance could fill the coffers of bars, restaurants and other businesses across the city with $26 million. [New York Post]
Two Boots Video lives
Given the high rents in the neighborhood...and the fact that no one seems to go to a store to rent DVDs these days...here's some postive news. The folks at Two Boots Video are remodeling and consolidating their space on Avenue A. They'll be squeezing everything into the southern part of their stronghold on Avenue A and Third Street. There's more information on the Two Boots Video site...Such as! The space will now be called the Two Boots Video Nook. (Sure, "nook" doesn't conjure up images of massive selection, but I'll take it.)
Staying put on East Third Street
Residents at 176 E. Third Street have been offered up to $125,000 apiece to move out of their rent-stabilized apartments. They declined. As the Post notes:
The residents charge that the buyout bid by Icon Realty Management, owned by Terrence Lowenberg and Todd Cohen, would destroy the building's sense of community.
"They offered me $120,000," said Carolyn Chamberlain, 65, a secretary who pays $400 for her two-bedroom apartment in the six-story, prewar building.
"I told them I would only be interested if it was middle-six-figure offer. It's outright harassment," she said.
Alexander Camu, a bartender, said he turned down a $125,000 offer.
"I moved here when the neighborhood was crap," he said. "I turned down the offer because I'm being paid to leave my life."
Bob Arihood has been covering this story at Neither More Nor Less. Read his coverage here.
Ninth Street Espresso opening on 10th Street today
Next to Life Cafe. (Meanwhile, the flagship Ninth Street Espresso on Ninth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D will be closed all this week.)
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ninth Street Espresso coming to 10th Street
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ninth Street Espresso coming to 10th Street
Celebrities are just like us! (Dive bar edition) (aka: OMG! It's Keanu!)
According to this week's Page Six Magazine, "stars are forgoing getting trashed at clubs —- and seeking a far trashier scene." Like bars WE like to go to! And so the magazine features six such places where you don't have to pay $12 for a bottle of beer: "Pull up a stool to New York’s greatest, and grubbiest, dive bars." (Their words, not mine.)
Here's their report on Joe's on East Sixth Street:
Alphabet City Dive-y-est Element: Gunk-covered floor and bathrooms tinier than airplane stalls — all presided over by the toothless but friendly day-shift bartender, Tommy.
Celebrity Customers: While the former speakeasy hasn’t changed — or perhaps been mopped — since owners Joe and Dot (who refuse to give their last names) took over in the ’60s, stars have made Joe’s their dirty little secret. “Drew Barrymore comes here and so does Matt Dillion,” reports barfly Magda. “Keanu Reeves was just in last month, playing pool,” she adds. “Celebs are sick of getting their covers blown and want a taste of reality,” says Tracy Westmoreland, owner of legendary but now-closed dive Siberia. That “shipwrecks” like Joe’s are more popular than ever signals “the new golden age for dive bars,” he adds.
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