For Whom the PBR Tolls

Just noting a little memorial that appeared in the past few days at the Blarney Cove, which closed for good last Tuesday on East 14th Street.

Here then is EVGB on 14th Street

Extell's two new 7-story buildings on 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B have a name — EVGB.

That's short for "East Village's Greatest Building."

The EVGB branding, with a random "go big" tossed in, arrived on the two retail-residential developments — 500 E. 14th St. and 524 E. 14th St. — back on Monday, as these photos via an EVG (not EVGB!) reader show.

To date, only the corner space at No. 500 at Avenue A has been taken — that will be the small-format Target store.



Newmark Knight Frank has the retail listings... there's one 14,509 square-foot space adjacent to the incoming Target for rent. (Negotiable rate!) At No. 524 a few doors to the east, there are two retail spaces encompassing 14,331 square feet.


[Image via Extell]

EVGB's residential amenities include a fitness center, children’s play room, an indoor pool and steam room. The rentals have yet to hit the market. Soon though! The application process is underway for 50 middle-income units at No. 524.

Extell's EVGBs replaced a nearly block-long row of single-level structures that didn't have an acronym, businesses including Bargain Bazaar/Express, Petland, Rite Aid and the Blarney Cove.



Previously on EV Grieve:
New 7-floor buildings for East 14th Street include 150 residential units

Target offers details about its flexible-format store opening summer 2018 on 14th and A

The disappearing storefronts of East 14th Street

Extell's new development at 524 E. 14th St. launches lottery for 50 affordable units

Week in Grieview

The Yippie Museum Cafe is closing (Friday)

Tacos Morelos coming to East 9th Street (Monday)

Update on crowdsourcing campaign for injured East Village Farm and Grocery worker (Friday)

The glassy future of East 10th Street and Fourth Avenue (Tuesday)

Former funeral home becomes Townhouse 49 on East 7th Street (Monday)

The polite tip jar thief (Thursday)

A case against using the term 'crusty' (Friday, 86 comments)

More about Davey's Ice Cream, opening this summer on First Avenue (Tuesday)

The Blarney Cove closed (Tuesday)

New security cameras for Campos Plaza (Tuesday)

Driver crashes into gate at Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

Phillip Giambri's East Village (Wednesday)

Rite Aid's new look on First Avenue (Tuesday)

Illegal penthouse coming down on East Sixth Street? (Friday)

Retail for 51 Astor Place (Tuesday)

Name change at Billy Hurricane's (Tuesday)

This block of East 14th Street is about half of what it used to be (for now)

[Click image to enlarge]

The demolition of the one-level row of buildings along East 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B is complete.


[From Friday]

From east to west, workers took out the former ABC Animal Hospital, Petland, Bargain Express, Rite Aid, Blarney Cove, Rainbow, the beauty shop, Jackson Hewitt, Pete's-a-Place and Stuyvesant Grocery.



No. 520 is all that remains between the pits. (The Dunkin Donuts is moving down the street, though.)



Speaking of the pits…


[From Friday]





Anyway, you can go take a look yourself through a blogger portal. Don't cost nothing.



Many of the businesses here either relocated or closed to make way for two, 7-floor retail-residential buildings. Gary Barnett of Extell Development grabbed up eight parcels in a 99-year lease worth $35.14 million.

The building plans are still awaiting the city's approval.

Previously on EV Grieve:
New 7-floor buildings for East 14th Street include 150 residential units

Unless marked, the photos are from Saturday

[Updated with correction] 8-lot parcel of East 14th Street primed for new development

After months of rumors about the future of East 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, we finally have some answers.

Of the three rumors previously presented, turns out that we'll be looking at the doomsday scenario for most of the block:

All the space starting at the ABC Animal Hospital west to Avenue A will be developed into some type of housing-retail complex.

According to public records, in late November, eight parcels consisting of 222 Avenue A and 504 - 530 E. 14th St. were leased for a 99-year period by the respective owner to East Village 14 LLC.

(East Village 14 LLC is a Delaware Company that registered with the New York State Department of State in October 2012.)

Public records put the cost of this parcel at $35 million.

CORRECTION: Amended an earlier version of this aerial view. The deal does not include 520 E. 14th St., the 6-story apartment building that includes a Dunkin Donuts and the Royal Custom Tailors in the retail space.

And here are the parcels of land included in the deal:

[Click image to enlarge]

So we're looking at everything from where Stuyvesant Grocery and Pete's-a-Place were before the fire on May 12, 2010 at Avenue A east to, and including, the Animal Hospital. The lone exception: 520 E. 14th St. Presumably new development will happen on either side of this building.

And because people have asked before: The Blarney Cove is included in this land grab.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Conspiracies: What next for 14th Street and Avenue A?

Those ongoing rumors about the future of East 14th Street between Avenue A and B

Petland is moving away from East 14th Street, fueling more new development rumors

[A special thanks to the EVG reader who helped dig into the records]

The Blarney Cove is open!

And despite the fire a few storefronts away.... I called and they said everyone's fine and they were open for business. And patrons could be heard in the background to prove it....




[File photos]

Popeye returns in September

Come to think of it, we haven't seen Popeye lately. More our fault. Haven't been by the Blarney Cove as much of late during the day. Guess he finally got that balky back fixed.

He'll be back behind the bar in September.



Lucy is gone until Sept. 10....now this.

Week in Grieview

[Lafayette and Bond via a reader]

The Blarney Cove closing at the end of the month (Monday)

Workers start dismantling Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church (Wednesday)

Ben Shaoul buys 98 Avenue A (Friday)

Free movies returning to Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Someone keeps vandalizing this Citi Bikes docking station (Wednesday)

A Low Life 7 recap from Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Zoubi, famous East Village cat, needs dental surgery (Monday)

Danny Lama shares stories of the Fillmore East and the Toilet (Wednesday)

Facebook moving to 770 Broadway, aka Midtown South (Tuesday)

Development back in action for 14th and C (Thursday)

Captain America saves Kiehl's (Tuesday)

Church of Scientology members must see "After Earth" a minimum of 3 times (Thursday)

Looking at prices for the luxury apartments at former nursing home (Monday)

Betola Espresso Bar relocates to Brooklyn (Monday)

TREEMAN (Wednesday)

Where did he leave his shoes on Avenue B? (Thursday)

OK, gross (Wednesday)

Supercuts leaving St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Peter Stuyvesant Post Office closure all but a done deal (Tuesday)

Former East Village topless advocate now in Philadelphia (Thursday)

... and, sorry, we did NOT have a story about the Nestle Nesquik Mobile parked on East Ninth Street yesterday ...


[William Klayer]

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

Some news of interest from this week...in case you've been traveling...

The Times concludes its Then/Now series with shots of Times Square (New York Times)

Everything on the Coney Island boardwalk is for lease -- including Ruby's (Curbed)

Jefferson Market to live again? (Flaming Pablum)

The gas station at the end of the world (East of Bowery)

Appreciating Joe Jr.'s (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

More destruction on Ludlow Street (BoweryBoogie)

Marking the sixth anniversary of Joe Strummer's death (Stupefaction)

At the Blarney Cove! (Greenwich Village Daily Photo)

Here's what we did last summer

Some scenes from the summer of 2013.

JUNE

We watched the annual Drag March


[Photo by editrrix]

We bid farewell to the Blarney Cove



We saw a random bouncy castle out back of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on East Fourth Street



We came together to help a gravely injured employee of East Village Farm and Grocery


[Photo via @Xeus]

We got to hang out with Iggy Pop in 1993.



We mourned Arturo Vega



We rooted for Ray getting an A


[Shawn Chittle]

We learned that Midtown South has new boundaries.



We met Treeman


[EVG reader Jeremy]

We watched Katz's turn 125


[Photo by Stephen Popkin]

We talked a lot about Citi Bikes, one way or another



We took in Art Around the Park during the Howl! Festival


[Bobby Williams]

JULY

We found new uses for Citi Bikes


[Photo by Julius Klein]

We lined up to say bye to Max Fish


[Photo by @toddsines]

We saw the end of Tu Casa's mural


[EVG reader Ann]

We went on vacation for the first time



We watched Katie Holmes on Avenue B


[EVG reader Vinny]

We took care of a baby bird



We found ways to cool off.



AUGUST

We watched Mary Help of Christians disappear


[Dan Efram]

We saw people write things on where David Schwimmer will live


[EVG reader Marc]

We had our last meal at Odessa Cafe and Bar



We almost fell into this...



We watched the Joe Strummer mural get blasted into oblivion


[Bobby Williams]

We looked for 13 Portals


[Jim Flynn]

We learned about Nestor



We watched a man steal a bike



We welcomed an actual normal new restaurant



We marveled at Rite Aid



We learned that the 9th Precinct illegally recruited a player for its basketball team


[Slum Goddess]

We took this photo



We went to the Tompkins Square Park riot 25th anniversary shows...


[Bobby Williams]

We enjoyed many amazing sunsets...


[Bobby Williams]