On the CB3-SLA docket: A new home for Han Dynasty on 3rd Avenue; a Sunflower for 2nd Avenue

Here's a look at two of the applicants who will appear before Community Board 3's SLA committee this evening. (See below for info on watching online — or in person.) 

• Han Dynasty (Han Dynasty East Village Corp), 98 3rd Ave (op) 

Han Dynasty has enjoyed a successful run at 90 Third Ave. between 12th Street and 13th Street for the past 10 years.

The restaurant's ownership is on the agenda tonight (questionnaire here) for a new liquor license for a space several storefronts to the north at 98 Third Ave. — the formal Bar None...

The application on file at the CB3 website doesn't mention whether this is a move or, perhaps, a second location. Ownership did not respond to an email seeking clarification.

We assume the lease is up at 90 Third Ave., and they are moving nearby. (They did something similar at a Han Dynasty in Philadelphia.)

Bar None closed in the spring of 2022 after nearly 17 years in service.

• Sunflower East Village (RJM Hospitality LLC), 88 2nd Ave (op)

The NE corner of Second Avenue and Fifth Street will be home to another location of Sunflower, a cafe serving breakfast-brunch on Third Avenue between 25th Street and 26th Street.

The EV location looks to have the same menu/vibe, though with dinner service. Find the questionnaire here. (Note: There will only be a service bar here — no bar seating.)

Sunflower is owned and operated by the same folks as the previous tenant here, Eros, the Greek restaurant that quietly closed in August 2022 when a "temporarily closed" sign arrived on the front door. Eros took over for their diner concept, The Kitchen Sink, in September 2021.

Tonight's meeting starts at 6:30. Find the Zoom link here. This is a hybrid meeting, and there is limited seating available for the public — the first 15 people who show up at the Community Board 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.  

Yo La Tengo celebrates Sun Ra Arkestra at its annual Hanukkah show finale

Photos and reporting by Daniel Efram

Yo La Tengo capped off its 2022 Hanukkah shows by bringing on The Sun Ra Arkestra for its Dec. 25 finale, providing a mischievous and trippy end to this year's Festival of Lights benefit series at the Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets for this yearly event sell out very quickly and brighten many a mood for those remaining in the NYC area for the holidays. 

Each show has a different beneficiary, and the South Bronx's Word of Life International was the target of this Sunday's final series performance. The organization's Feed The Community Program provides food support to individuals and families at risk of hunger, addressing food insecurity and inequity that has persisted in the South Bronx for decades. 

According to Todd Abramson, the talent buyer for White Eagle Hall and series production confidant, "the event has run most years since the inception in 2001 with the exception of a number of years off after Maxwell's [in Hoboken] closed."

"2022's Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows were another triumph," Abramson continues. "I am amazed every year by the amount of work. Each YLT show is different and not just in regards to the setlist. It's very rare when they don't have at least one extra musician, if not an entire band, join them for at least part of their set (and the encores). They really strive to bring the audience something special and unique. Mazel Tov!" 

The Sun Ra Arkestra has been playing yearly since the Hanukkah shows moved from Maxwell's (ending in 2012) to the Bowery Ballroom in 2017. Led by Marshall Allen, who at age 98, has complete control of this Afro-futurist group of 12. Allen has played in the group since 1958.

As is traditional at these YLT events, the Arkestra also joined Georgia Hubley, James McNew and Ira Kaplan on stage to help bring the musical space trip to its climax with evergreen renditions of "Speeding Motorcycle" (Daniel Johnston), "Dreaming" (Sun Ra), "All the Glitter is Gone" (Yo La Tengo), "Emulsified" (Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers), "More Stars Than There Are In Heaven" (Yo La Tengo) and the rousing "Nuclear War" (Sun Ra) with the timely lyrics:

If they push that button

Gonna blast your ass 

So high in the sky 

You can kiss your ass 

Goodbye, goodbye

Encore songs included "Take Care" (Alex Chilton), "3/5 Of A Mile In 1/10 Of A Second" (The Jefferson Airplane) and "I Can't Stand It" (The Velvet Underground). 

And, as always, the grand finale is a lovely version of "My Little Corner of The World, " sung by Kaplan's mom Marilyn. This song was made famous by Anita Bryant (1960) and Marie Osmond (1974) and was later covered by Yo La Tengo on its album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One in 1997.

Yo La Tengo's new album, This Stupid World, is out on Feb. 10, 2023. 

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Daniel Efram is an East Village-based photographer-curator. He is the producer of "The Steve Keene Art Book."

Setlist credit: Jesse Jarnow Frank & Earthy

Remembering East Village artist M. Henry Jones

M. Henry Jones, a longtime East Village-based animator, filmmaker and 3D photographer, died this past June at age 65.

This Thursday evening at 7, his many friends and loved ones are coming together for a memorial at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue at 10th Street. 

Here's more about him and his work via the Burchfield Penney Art Center: 

In 1975 he moved to New York City, where he attended the School of Visual Arts. He soon became one of many prominent figures in the East Village alternative art space, working with several artists and musicians, and founding Snake Monkey Studios, a concept based out of his apartment on Avenue A. 

Jones' films throughout the 1970s and 1980s transcended the boundaries between moving and stagnant imagery, employing a meticulous and carefully crafted process to give viewers a unique visual experience. His early works are also representative of some of the earliest interactions between music, and films intended to complement its structure; one of Jones' most widely recognized films, "Soul City," is a stroboscopic color film created in collaboration with The Fleshtones. The two-year production of the two-minute film required each individual frame of the group's performance footage to be precisely cut, tinted and rephotographed. 

The film made its debut on the music and art scenes in 1979 and was unlike anything that had ever been done before. "Soul City," along with Jones' other animations for musicians pioneered the music video artistic concept years before MTV and the rise of music videos as we know them today.

David Hershkovits shared this about him in a July post at Legsville: 

Visiting him in his studio or running into him in the East Village neighborhood where we both still lived was an adventure in its own right. My head would spin getting lost in the weeds of his enthusiasms, but I'd always walk away elevated by the conversation, inspired by his hands-on approach and dedication, in his words, "to make the world a better place." 

And from curator Marc H. Miller of Gallery 98: 

Fans of Jones often refer to him as a “technical genius” but he is probably better described as a forward-looking visionary blessed with stubborn perseverance. Because his first works date nearly a decade before the widespread use of computers and digitization, Jones was restricted to labor-intensive analog techniques to create effects that would soon be facilitated by digital programs like Photoshop. 

Today we marvel not only at the visual effects he produced but also at the arduous, time-consuming processes he needed to use to achieve them. In hindsight, it becomes clear that the technology itself was the true subject of Jones’ work, as well as its most important component.

EVG Etc.: Recovering from COVID-19; taking aim at third-party delivery fees

[St. Mark's Place at 3rd Avenue]

• East Village resident Majorie Ingall on the recovery from COVID-19 (Tablet)

• Remembering downtown star — and East Village resident — Nashom Wooden (Popular Publicity ... previously on EVG)

• Jimmy Webb's love for NYC and tight pants (The New Yorker ... previously on EVG)

• The fruit cart returns to First Avenue just north of 14th Street (Town & Village)



• The Department of Transportation and the NYPD not into converting roadways into public space for coronavirus-crammed New Yorkers (Streetsblog)

• Thoughts on the shuttered Starbucks on First Avenue and Third Street and what the neighborhood might look like post pandemic (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

• Amelia and Christo, the red-tailed hawks of Tompkins Square Park, are well — AND PLEASE DON'T USE A DRONE TO TAKE PHOTOS OF THEIR NEST (Laura Goggin Photography)

• NYC rents remain high — for now (Curbed)

• New York state is facing a $13.3 billion budget shortfall (Gothamist)

• City Council is taking up a series of bills on April 29 that could introduce a stricter fee cap on third-party delivery services (Eater)

• Via the EVG inbox: Citywide music performance of "For Our Courageous Workers" planned April 29 at the 7 p.m. cheer for front-line workers (Tenth Intervention)

• Take a look around the 98 Bowery archives (Official site)

• The Hester Street Fair goes virtual (Vogue)

... and East Village-based artist-actor Robert Galinsky recently launched a 30-minute talk-variety show that streams live Monday through Friday at 10 p.m. on Facebook.com/RobertGalinsky. Upcoming guests include Tony winner Maryann Plunkett and documentarian Clayton Patterson.

Marc H. Miller on 20 years atop 98 Bowery

Artist and curator Marc H. Miller, who we've featured on EVG through the years (see links below!), will be at Howl! Happening tomorrow (Saturday) night discussing his life downtown ... particularly the years he lived in a loft at 98 Bowery as an observer and participant in the changes taking place in art and music.

A quick overview of what to expect:

Drawing from the site’s archive of photos and video clips, Miller recounts stories about Harry’s Bar and CBGB; the seminal 1978 Punk Art show; collaborative work with Bettie Ringma, Curt Hoppe, Alan Moore, and Paul Tschinkel — all residents at 98 Bowery; his year in Amsterdam; and the varied roles he played in the East Village art scene and in the rise of hip-hop culture in the 1980s.

Miller is the curator of the Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk exhibition at the Queens Museum (2016), and for his video interview with Jean-Michel Basquiat in Paul Tschinkel’s Art/new york series. His online store Gallery 98 has reanimated vintage art ephemera.

Miller will also be unveiling an an updated version of his website 98 Bowery: 1969-89.

The presentation begin tomorrow (Oct. 19) at 7 p.m. at Howl! Happening, 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

You can also read a Q&A between Miller and Eric Davidson at Please Kill Me right here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Life at 98 Bowery: 1969-1989 (Q&A with Miller)

Revisiting Punk Art

On the Bowery: CBGB and its impact on the visual arts and downtown nightlife

A chance to see some 'Downtown Art Ephemera'

Marc H. Miller is curating a short, two-week exhibit titled "Downtown Art Ephemera, 1970s-1990s," which runs through July 25 at the James Fuentes Gallery, 55 Delancey St. between Allen and Eldridge.

There's a reception today from 5-7 p.m., which provides a good opportunity to see some of the 150 cards and posters from Miller's online Gallery 98 collection.

Per a release on the exhibit:

All the downtown New York art stars of that time are represented ... : Basquiat, Goldin, Haring, Holzer, Hujar, Koons, Mapplethorpe, Piper, Prince, Schnabel, Smith, Sherman, Warhol, Wojnarowicz etc. Sections on Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB), Fashion Moda, the Rivington School, Fun Gallery, International with Monument, and Mary Boone Gallery will chronicle a lively and contradictory period when art, commerce, branding, populist politics and issues of identity were all part of the mix.

Miller discusses the exhibit in an article at Vice.



Images via online Gallery 98

Previously on EV Grieve:
Life at 98 Bowery: 1969-1989

Revisiting Punk Art

Week in Grieview

[Photo by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

RIP Neftaly Ramirez (Monday)

At the new home of the Chinese Hawaiian Kenpo Academy on 2nd Avenue (Thursday)

A bad sign at Heart of India on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)

Polish G. I. Delicatessen has officially closed (Monday)

Reader report: Cleaning power and a clean up on Cooper Square (Thursday)

Becky's Bites and Stuffed Ice Cream are now open (Friday)



The Joey Ramone street sign is currently MIA from Joey Ramone Place (Friday)

Wagamama says hello on 3rd Avenue (Friday)

98/99 Favor Taste opens on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

The Great Jones Café is now closed, permanently or not (Friday)

1st LinkNYC kiosk coming to St. Mark's Place (Monday)

The Pourhouse might be in the poorhouse with back rent due in excess of $60k (Tuesday)

Michelle Alteration & Boutique now open on Avenue C (Wednesday)

Dokodemo now serving Japanese street food on 4th Street (Friday)



80 E. 10th Street rises, teases (Tuesday)

GURGLING TUB ALERT (Wednesday)

Oh yes the former Caffe Bene storefront is still for rent (Wednesday)

Former San Loco space for rent on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

The blanding of Union Square West (Tuesday)

Bonefade Barbers mark arrival on Avenue A (Monday)

Retail rent at 190 Bowery is $2 million a year (Wednesday)

Campaign to get a wax statue of Paul Giamatti at Madame Tussauds™ comes to the East Village (Sunday)



All ping-pong pics in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg...

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[Photo on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

At the 'Lower East Side Rally Against Hate' in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Condos at Rite Aid's new neighbor on First Avenue will range from $1 million to $6 million (Thursday)

Rookie officer stationed at the 9th Precinct dies in car crash (Friday)

Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen is now open daily on Seventh Street (Monday)

Out and About with Lola Sáenz (Wednesday)

Report: East Village landlord Raphael Toledano close to losing prize Chelsea building (Tuesday)

Today is the last day for Turntable Lab before move to new 10th Street storefront (Thursday)

East 12th Osteria closes on 1st Avenue, moving to the West Village (Monday)

New bakery on the way for the Whole Foods Market® Bowery (Monday)

Mandolino Pizzeria has opened on 13th Street (Tuesday)

An appreciation: the Village East Cinema (Friday)

Pichi & Avo wrap up new work at the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall (Monday)

Todd Hase brings custom furnishings to Seventh Street (Wednesday)

Report: Anyway Cafe robbed at knifepoint (Wednesday)

There's a new barber shop on Ninth Street (Thursday)

Sugar Cafe closes after service today (Wednesday)

98 Favor Taste signage arrives on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

Reader mailbag: A call to keep the lights on the holiday tree in Tompkins Square Park (Friday)

Mr. White bringing 'new Southern cuisine' to St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

Progress at Little Tong Noodle Shop, coming soon to First Avenue (Friday)

Seat saved for Merrick Garland on Astor Place (Tuesday)

Checking in on Artichoke's new 14th Street home (Tuesday)

Gramercy Cafe closes; Gramercy Kitchen coming soon (Monday)

That last day of January when it snowed a little bit (Tuesday)

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Looking at some East Village gym options

[Reader photo from last week]

The coming soon signage for Blink Fitness arrived last week at 98-100 Avenue A.

The 12,000-square-foot facility, expected to be open this fall between Sixth Street and Seventh Street, has advertised fees "as low as $15 a month." Blinkers can pay $10 extra a month for a premium membership that includes access to any location. (Updated: This Blink location will be $25 a month, per a rep.)

After our post last week we heard from several readers who say they'll sign up for Blink, the low-budget sibling in the Equinox family ... mostly because of the price and also due to a lack other neighborhood gym options. (This is not taking into account more specialized places, such as Mile High Run Club on Fourth Street between the Bowery and Lafayette, CrossFit East River on Ninth Street near Avenue C or Nimble Fitness on St. Mark's Place. And SoulCycle on Lafayette and FlyWheel Sports in the Death Star.)

The Dolphin locations abruptly closed on both East Fourth Street and, several years earlier, on Avenue B.

One reader expressed frustration with the summer hours recently posted at the basement-level Iron and Silk on Third Street near Avenue A...



They are only open for four hours on Saturdays and closed on Sundays, two key days for people who work during the week...



There's the Synergy Fitness Club on 14th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue that, despite the sign saying they are open 24 hours, isn't open 24 hours...



Several members have described this gym to us as "sketchy" with random opening hours... then there was this flyer campaign that someone recently launched nearby... claiming "Synergy Fitness will send your account to Collection without ANY NOTICE"...



There's also the newish New York Sports Club on Avenue A between Second Street and Third Street. (Their website advertises a $39.99 single-club rate with multi-club access rates of $64.99 and $74.99.) Meanwhile, the 14th Street Y has multiple membership packages, though the prices aren't listed online.

Of course there's East River Park and the jungle gym at Tompkins Square Park. You can also get creative and take advantage of a stationary Citi Bike.

[Updated] A look at the rest of tonight's CB3-SLA meeting docket

[45-47 Avenue B]

CB3's SLA committee meeting is tonight 6:30 in the CB3 office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

To date, we've look at several applicants:

• 98 Favor Taste, 37 St. Mark's Place

• Unnamed pizzeria, Avenue C and Eighth Street

• Vietnamese restaurant, 119 St. Mark's Place

• Desi Galli, 172 Avenue B

And one applicant we looked at is no longer on the agenda. The owners of the Brazen Fox had plans to open another bar-restaurant directly across the street from their current two-level bar-restaurant on Third Avenue and East 13th Street.




We do not know why they are a scratch from the meeting. In any event, this would be a tough sell... a full liquor license with a sidewalk cafe for a space (Gothic Cabinet Craft shop) that was not previously licensed within a saturated area... from applicants who already operate a successful space right across the street. Not sure what the public benefit is here.



And there was neighbor opposition to the application as well... based on the flyers on the block...



Meanwhile, here's a quick look at some of the other East Village applicants on tonight's meeting agenda...

Applications within Saturated Areas

• Fish Market Inc, 45 Ave B (wb)

A venture called Lamia's Fish Market is in the works for the long vacant storefront at 45 Avenue B between East Second Street and East Third Street. The questionnaire (PDF) on file for public viewing at the CB3 website shows a restaurant with 40 tables seating 160 people. The proposed hours are 4 p.m. to midnight Monday though Friday; 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday and Sunday.

Lamia Funti is the name of the applicant. Media outlets have identified her as the co-owner of Le Souk on La Guardia Place along with her husband Marcus Jacobs. He was reportedly an owner of Le Souk at 47 Avenue B... Le Souk was a years-long thorn in the side of neighbors, as widely reported here ... and here ... and here ... and here. In October 2009, the State Liquor Authority cancelled Le Souk's liquor license. (Read the SLA release here.)

Updated 4/19

The committee voted to deny the application. The Lo-Down has the details about the operators here.

• Baker's Pizza (Baker's Pizza LLC), 201 Ave A (wb)

The pizzeria that opened back in February between East 12th Street and East 13th Street is seeking a beer-wine license.

Sidewalk Cafe Application

• Lionsbeerstore (Beer Factory LLC), 104 2nd Ave

• Biang (Wen Zi Inc), 157 2nd Ave

The previous tenant at this address, Alder, had an eight-table, 16-seat sidewalk cafe.

New Liquor License Applications

• AGN Restaurant LLC, 166 1st Ave (op)

This is the former North River/Nite Owl space near East 10th Street. The owners of the Belfry on East 14th Street are looking to open a bar-restaurant here serving American comfort food, according to the questionnaire (PDF) on file at the CB3 website.

The proposed hours are 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday; until 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.

• Proto's Pizza (Fifty East LLC), 50 2nd Ave (wb)

Items not heard at Committee

• Virgola (Virgola 3 LLC), 221 Ave B (wb)

They were denied at the February meeting ... this will be the second Virgola location in the East Village.

• Dumpling Go (Dumpling 2 Avenue Inc), 188 2nd Ave (wb)

The restaurant has been closed for the past week. Looks like a renovation, though there aren't any signs for customers.

Owner of 99 Favor Taste bringing Korean-style barbecue and Chinese hot pot to St. Mark's Place

Those long-empty storefronts at 37 St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue will finally (probably!) be getting a new tenant.



The applicant seeking a beer-wine license for the location is Liju Lin, who has run the 99 Favor Taste restaurant in Sunset Park since 2011 ... and the Grand Street location since 2012.

Per the questionnaire (PDF) posted to the CB3 website, the St. Mark's spot will be 98 Favor Taste. The restaurants specialize in traditional Korean-style barbecue and Chinese hot pot meals. The hours will be noon to 2 a.m. daily.

Upon opening on Grand Street, the Voice gave 99 Favor an enthusiastic review... calling it "a feastly orgy: trays heaped with raw meats and fishes, feathery greens and fungi, boiling and bubbling pots, and popping and sizzling meats top every table. Diners crowd around, heads-down, slurping noodles and soup with chopsticks, only looking up to tend the meat, cooking at arm's distance away."

These storefronts have been vacant going on five years now. Timi's Gelateria Classica™ closed at the end of 2011 in one of the spaces… while Michael "Bao" Huynh's Baoguette Cafe shut down at summer's end in 2012.

The SLA meeting is April 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the CB3 office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Timi's Gelateria Classica™ facing eviction on St. Mark's Place

[Updated] Baoguette Cafe still looks rather closed

Revisiting 'Bettie Visits CBGB'

[Debbie Harry and Bettie Ringma]

Via the EVG inbox...

David Owen, the co-founder of London vintage booksellers IDEA Books Ltd, has chosen Marc H. Miller and Bettie Ringma's “Bettie Visits CBGB” as what he calls a “Superbook”: a rare work of exceptional cultural significance. Owen makes his point in an entertaining and evocative radio program just released by Radio Wolfgang.

A sound collage that mixes interviews with music, the program evokes the Bowery and the glory years of CBGB, using as its centerpiece this collection of 10 color snapshots in a handmade leatherette portfolio. The photographs in “Bettie Visits CBGB” show a young Dutch woman posing with Patti Smith, Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Richard Hell and other musicians ...

The program, produced by Olivia Humphreys, provides a human look at a remarkable five-year period of cultural history. Among those interviewed are Ringma and Miller, the creators of the portfolio; painter Curt Hoppe, their Bowery neighbor and collaborator; photographer Roberta Bayley, the doorwoman at CBGB; cartoonist John Holmstrom, the founder of Punk magazine; and Susan Springfield, the singer in the Erasers.

Miller, one of the creators of the portfolio, is founder of the website 98 Bowery and the related Gallery 98. To see pictures from the “Bettie Visits CBGB” series, click here. The radio program can be accessed on the website of Radio Wolfgang.

By the way, CBGB closed nine years ago today.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Q-and-A with Curt Hoppe: Living on the Bowery, finding inspiration and shooting Mr. Softee

Life at 98 Bowery: 1969-1989

Q-and-A with John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk Magazine

John Holmstrom on the CBGB movie and the East Village of 2013

Week in Grieview

[Photo by Derek Berg]

RIP Adam Purple (Wednesday)

More about the Birdman closing Rainbow Music on First Avenue this month (Monday)

Woman dies after jumping from actor's East 3rd Street apartment (Tuesday)

It's diorama season at the Ninth Street Community Garden & Park (Wednesday)

Condos at Ben Shaoul's 98-100 Avenue A will start at $1.3 million; high-end gym eyed for retail space (Wednesday)

Silver Monuments Works packs up its tombstones for a move to Queens (Tuesday)

Raphael Toledano secures $124 million loan for 16-building East Village portfolio (Friday)

Construction underway at the Bea Arthur Residence for homeless LGBT youth on East 13th Street (Monday)

Where to get your shoes repaired around here (Monday)

The Marshal seizes Nevada Smiths on Third Avenue (Wednesday)

A memorial for LES Jewels, who died on Sept. 14, 2013 (Monday)

Avant Garden opens on East Seventh Street (Tuesday)

Looking at Futura's 'Concrete Jungle' on the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall (Monday)

Coffee Project New York opening soon on East Fifth Street (Thursday)

Veselka is free from its sidewalk bridge (Tuesday)

Thinking about the future (and past) of Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

Party progress at Icon Realty's 205 Avenue A (Monday)

Planet Fitness muscling in on Essex Crossing (Tuesday)

Black Seed bagels about two weeks away from opening (Friday)

Kenneth Cole readies new storefront on the Bowery (Wednesday)

East Village Cheese, now with an East Village Cheese sign (Monday)

25 E. Seventh St. is for sale (Thursday)

… and here's a look at Hektad's new mural that went up last week on East 11th Street at First Avenue…

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

A look at Ash Thayer's book "Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000" (The Link)

Bowery Mission names new president and CEO (The Lo-Down)

Woman punched at Katz's for standing too close in line (DNAinfo)

Manny Cantor Center hosting a Survey of Working Artists on the Lower East Side (BoweryBoogie)

Art and ephemera connected to No Wave Film, 1976-1985 (98 Bowery)

Police looking for suspect in mugging on Essex and Hester (PIX 11)

An oral history of CBGB (Medium/Cuepoint)

A winter view of the Depression-era East River (Ephemeral New York)

"When you look at all the reasons why New York City has left such an indelible mark on the world, it ultimately has precious fuck-all to do with having been born here." (Flaming Pablum)

Q-and-A with John Waste of Urban Waste (Noisey/Vice)

Red Velvet Oreo Ice Cream coming to Davey's on First Avenue this weekend (Grub Street)

Update on residential conversion of 41 Great Jones (Curbed)

In case you wanted Andy Warhol-inspired Chuck Taylors (Tasting Table)

A surprising trip to Foley's on West 33rd Street (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Cops keeping surveillance on Washington Square Park visitors in real time (Washington Square Park Blog)

For your Valentine's Day: EVG's favorite love songs, sort of (Stupefaction)

... and "Law and Order: SVU" was back in the neighborhood filming this week, including at First Houses on East Third Street between Avenue A and First Avenue...


[Photo by Yenta Laureate]

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Photo earlier this week on East 2nd Street by Bill Buchen]

A crime of passion from the 19th century that played out on East 13th Street and Avenue A (Ephemeral New York)

More details about DF Mavens, opening today on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place (DNAinfo)

The Manhattan Borough President's Office now accepting applications for Community Board membership (DNAinfo)

Still time to see Art & Ephemera from 98 Bowery, 1969-89 (The Lodge Gallery)

Update on the new Dirt Candy on Allen Street (Eater)

The end of Cafe Edison (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Please do not push your sofa out a 6th-floor window (BoweryBoogie)

… Animals, the Wayland's sandwich shop on Avenue C and East Ninth Street, has started local delivery — Monday-Friday from Noon-6 p.m.



… and noted…

overheard in an #eastvillage cafe, "and by tinkerbell i mean cocaine."

— jdx (@jdx) December 24, 2014

Week in Grieview

[2nd Avenue via Derek Berg]

6 more floors in store for the soon-to-be unrecognizable St. Marks Hotel (Thursday, 34 comments)

Police say this guy has burglarized 10 East Village apartments (Tuesday)

118 E. 1st. St. will yield to a new 9-floor residential building (Wednesday)

Remaining tenants at 504-508 E. 11th St. welcomed home with eviction notices (Friday)

Broken steam pipe wipes out East 12th Street toy shop (Tuesday)

A familiar name is set to become the new owner of d.b.a. (Monday)

RIP Korzo Haus (Monday)

Out and About with Kim Kalesti (Wednesday)

Never-ending construction continues to hurt Punjabi Grocery & Deli (Thursday)

Soup and broth to go at Brodo (aka Hearth) (Monday)

The Marshal seizes Lumé, another restaurant that couldn't make East 8th Street and Avenue C work (Tuesday)

98-100 Avenue A finally demolished (Friday)

A call to action from Miss Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street (Wednesday)

The 14th Street Pizza Bagel Cafe abruptly closes (Monday)

Vegtown opens on East 14th Street (Monday)

Snack Dragon has officially closed (Monday)

A few details on the 23-floor building replacing the soon-to-be demolished Bowlmor Lanes (Wednesday)

Watch David Johansen interview Johnny Thunders outside CBGB circa 1976 (Tuesday)

348 Bowery is for rent (Monday)

95 Avenue A is sinking (Thursday)

Free Robot Butler plug! (Wednesday)

… and Maria's Cafe may have a new home… but they still serve up one of the least-expensive breakfasts around … Avenue C between East Third Street and East Fourth Street …

Week in Grieview

[Chewie, Avenue B]

Former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office slated to be demolished (Monday)

Boarding up the Alamo on Astor Place (Wednesday)

Out and About with Wasim Lone of GOLES (Wednesday)

An appreciation: Raquel's garden on First Avenue (Thursday)

Q-and-A with Richard Ocejo, author of 'Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars' (Tuesday)

The former La Vie prepped for the condo afterlife on East First Street (Tuesday)

Never-ending construction at 185-193 Avenue B continues to never end (Monday)

Gutting the former Odessa Cafe and Bar (Tuesday)

Checking in on the Tuck Shop (Friday)

A look at the first East Village apartment building named after a secondary character in an Ayn Rand novel (Wednesday)

Your chance to become a gypsy (Wednesday)

98-100 Avenue is now the pits (Monday)

Parmys Persian Fusion becoming Ravagh Persian Grill (Thursday)

The guy with the kids-in-the-car line is back (Sunday)

From Five Points to Vic's on Great Jones (Friday)

Korilla BBQ soft opening on Third Avenue (Wednesday)

Important post about Halloween costumes (Friday)

Researchers discover rats grosser than originally thought (Wednesday)

Wash House space for rent (Friday)

September's CB3/SLA docket is amazingly small

Wow, just nine items (nine items!) on the September CB3/SLA committee agenda. That just might be a record-low.

Anyway! First of all, the meeting is Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m. — Community Board 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

And now!

Applications within Saturated Areas
• To be Determined, 98 Ave C (wb)

This is the vacant storefront between Alphabet City Beer Co. and Alphabet City Wine Co. Don't have info on this applicant just yet.

• Taqueria Lower East Side (Barraza Foods Inc), 121 Orchard St (op)

• Nadico Hotel LLC, 163 Orchard St (op)

• Epicure Kitchen LLC, 45 Ave B (wb)

Oh, one of those long-empty spaces where LeSouk enjoyed its reign of terror.

Sidewalk Cafe Application
• Berkli Parc Cafe (HH Hospitality LLC), 61 Delancey St (small unenclosed)

New Liquor License Applications
• Taqueria Saint Marks (Barraza Foods Inc), 79 St Marks Pl (op)

• Sliders (Aleppo Slider LLC), 647 E 11th St (upgrade to op)

Haven't met anyone who has been to this place.

• To be Determined, 171 E B'way (op)

• Huertas (Molinero LLC), 107 1st Ave (upgrade to op)

Huertas, a restaurant featuring "the cuisine of Northern Spain," opened back in April.

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b=beer only | wb=wine & beer only | op=liquor, wine, & beer | alt=alterations

Morning drama at 98 Bowery

The NYPD responded to a report of a distraught woman who had climbed up 98 Bowery. Artist Curt Hoppe, who lives in the building, let the NYPD into his space... from there, they were able to bring the woman down to street level unharmed...



Hoppe complimented the NYPD's quick, professional response. "Thank goodness she's safe," he said.

Week in Grieview

[Photo by EVG contributor jdx]

RIP ‎Dennis Zentek (Monday)

Tompkins Square Park regular Spike struck and killed by SUV on Third Avenue (Thursday)

How about a Trader Joe's for Avenue A? (Tuesday, 85 comments)

Plans for new 9-floor building filed for Mobil station on Avenue C (Monday)

El Sombrero has closed (Sunday)

Out and About with Pamela Joy (Wednesday)

Virage closed for renovations (Monday)

M8 weekend service is returning (Friday)

Max Fish making an LES comeback (Thursday)

"Dirt dag" Urban Etiquette Sign! (Tuesday)

Plans revealed for 347 Bowery (Thursday)

The conclusion of "Dirty Old New York" (Wednesday)

Former Odessa Cafe & Bar is back on the market (Monday)

Ugh: 98-100 Avenue A lies in ruins (Tuesday)

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Tuesday)

First look at the all-new 50-62 Clinton St. (Wednesday)

Mod World the documentary (Friday)

Here's the new home for St. Mark's Bookshop (Thursday)

More about the future of the former 7A (Tuesday)