Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Former Love Saves the Day space on the market
East Noodle & Izakaya closed here at 119 Second Ave. at East Seventh Street last August … after sitting empty these past nine months, two small for rent signs have arrived on the front window … we didn't spot the listing online anywhere … we're curious about the asking rents here.
This was, we think, the second ramen place to try this high-profile space since Love Saves the Day closed on Jan. 18, 2009, after 42 years in business. Word was their rent tripled.
Jeremiah Moss had a post on this corner just last week. Check that out here.
P.S.
Since the phone number on the for rent sign got cut off … it's 347-608-4058 in case you are interested…
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
East Noodle & Izakaya has apparently closed on Second Avenue
Well, yeah... it hasn't looked open lately... The phone is temporarily disconnected... and there are piles of trash bags inside the restaurant, as you might be able to see from this photo...
If memory serves (usually not), this was the second ramen place to try the location of the former Love Saves the Day... a renovation that brought out some anti-ramen graffiti and tiresome daily blog updates by one local blogger.
Love Saves the Day closed on Jan. 18, 2009, after 42 years in business.
Previously.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Winter Friday Flashback: Last day for Love Saves the Day is Sunday
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On Dec. 2, Jeremiah was first to report that Loves Saves the Day will shutter its iconic corner store on Seventh Street and Second Avenue. A sign on their storefront confirms the store's last day.
Meanwhile, what will become of the pay phones on the south side of the store? No way will Duane Reade keep them once they open their newest location here...(And yes -- I will burn in Hell for writing that...)
Friday, August 17, 2012
Summer Fridays rehash: Desperately Seeking 1985 New York City
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There's a free screening tonight of 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan
I like it for a lot of reasons, such as seeing youngish John Turturro, Steven Wright and Giancarlo Esposito, among others, in small roles. And director Susan Seidelman rounded out the film with several downtown musicians/performers — Richard Edson, Rockets Redglare, Richard Hell, John Lurie, Arto Lindsay, Ann Magnuson. And, of course, you get to see some mid-1980s New York, including several scenes in the East Village. (Nice, too, that many of these places are still around some 23 years later, including Gem Spa, Trash & Vaudeville, B & H Dairy and Love Saves the Day.)
Wacky Neighbor had a post on Susan's production design in September 2004. As he notes, the players behind the look of the film were Woody Allen regulars at the time.
Meanwhile, here are a few screenshots from Desperately Seeking Susan.
On Second Avenue.
In front of Love Saves the Day.
Ohhh! Don't mess with the guy with the bucket of the Colonel hanging around Second Avenue and 7th Street!
Outside the Magic Club. (In the film, the club is said to be on Broadway. According to Wikipedia, some of the interiors and exteriors were filmed in Harlem.)
* The filmakers had initially wanted Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn to play the roles of Roberta and Susan. But the director decided to cast newcomers Rosanna Arquette and Madonna instead.
* Madonna barely beat out Ellen Barkin to the part of Susan. Barkin was the producers first choice for the part, but the director claimed Barkin had a lack of substance.
* The Statue of Liberty can be seen in the film when it is still covered in scaffolding during its two year renovation.
* The DVD commentary track for the film (recorded in 1996) noted that after Madonna's first screen test, the producers asked her to take four weeks of acting lessons and get screen-tested again. Although the second screen test wasn't much of an improvement, the director still wanted her for the role, as much for her presence and sense of style as for anything else.
* The 1964 sci-fi movie The Time Travelers is playing in scenes 6 and 23 (melts at the end of the movie).
* The movie was originally filmed in the summer of 1984, early in Madonna's rise to popularity, and was intended to be an R-rated feature. However, following the success of the singer's 1984-85 hits "Like a Virgin" and "Material Girl," the film was trimmed in content by Orion Pictures in order to receive a PG-13 rating in order for Madonna's teenage fanbase to be able to see it
* The interior / exterior shots of The Magic Club were filmed in Harlem.
* Some of the scenes were filmed in Danceteria, a club that Madonna frequented and which gave her a start in the music business.
Friday, October 29, 2010
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
Police arrest suspect in Tuesday night's Stanton Street shooting (The Lo-Down)
The Best of Manhattan (and Beyond) issue from NYPress (NYPress)
What's replacing the "Hell" marquee at the New Museum (Curbed)
Where you can still shop at Love Saves the Day (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Skeletons! Including a dancing one at Mars Bar! (The Gog Log)
The way it was: "The Punk Rock Movie" (Stupefaction)
And First Avenue Correspondent Blue Glass notes that ConEd continues work on First Avenue at Ninth Street after the underground fire/explosion the other day...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
More vintage doom: Beauty Crisis is closing
[Many thanks to EV Grieve reader Blue Glass for the tip and photos.]
Meanwhile, the vintage carnage continues...among the closures this year:
Monk Thrift Shop on Avenue B
Atomic Passion on Ninth Street
O Mistress Mine on 11th Street
Andy's Chee-Pees on St. Mark's Place
Fab 208 is moving into a smaller space on Seventh Street
Not to mention previous closings:
Love Saves the Day
Howdy Do
99X
Previously on EV Grieve:
East Village vintage stores doomed?
Atomic Passion has closed
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Toy Den makes way for massage den
And guess what's coming to this space?
Nothing against massage and bodywork shops (I think), but I'd venture to say that we have enough massage and bodywork shops to keep everyone relaxed in the East Village for some time...
Given the closures of Love Saves the Day and Howdy Do, I suppose you could say these are also tough times for stores that sell kitsch and vintage toys and dolls too...
Monday, January 11, 2010
East Village vintage store shutterings continue: Andy's Chee-Pees on St. Mark's Place is closing
...they have another store on Eight Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Andy's was established in 1977. (And I remember that the store used to be on the other side of St. Mark's Place, closer to Trash and Vaudeville...)
Hard to believe a store like this can't make it on St. Mark's Place. Of course, the pricey Theatre Condos are upstairs...and the developer has been advertising commerical space for lease...
Update: Walked by tonight, and the store was cleared out...
So let's take a quick tally of some of the neighborhood's unique vintagey stores that have closed of late:
Love Saves the Day
Howdy Do
99X
Monday, November 23, 2009
The ramenators continue the branding process
Flashback to this spot last year...
Previously.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Corner restaurants popular for film shoots today (and probably other days...)
...and HBO's "How to Make it in America" at the ramenators at the former Love Saves the Day location on Seventh Street and Second Avenue.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Anti-ramen graffiti remains at former Love Saves the Day spot
Since then, we've continued to keep tabs on the progress of the renovation. On Thursday, we noted the removal of the plywood.
Oddly enough, though... most of the graffiti was left up...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The ramenating continues
At the former Love Saves the Day store on Second Avenue and Seventh Street. There's still a bit of the old shop's color there inside...
Previously.
Dog day afternoon
The artist is from Union City, N.J. I'm not familiar with his work.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Ramenification of Love Saves the Day continues
Here's how it looks now...
Also, as the Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) noted, the plywood covered two tags by longtime NYC graffiti artists, SEN4 and KAY2... their fate will soon be sealed under several coats of paint along with the rest of the colorful LSD façade...
[LSD tile photo via Racked]
Monday, May 18, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Traveling the East Village streets of late summer 2007 (and who wants to go see "Mr. Bean's Holiday"?)
Given the films on the marquee ("Rush Hour 3!" "Mr Bean's Holiday!") this has to be late August or early September 2007. You know, it's not really all that long ago...but if you start to take a tour of the neighborhood, you see how much has changed... Momofuku didn't rule First Avenue... the former CBGB space is still for rent...there were more record stores than froyo joints on St. Mark's Place...several glassy towers were holes in the ground or just on the way up... Here are a few highlights via screenshots of the street views...:
The Toll Brothers tower at 110 Third Ave. ...
Five Roses Pizza on First Avenue...
The Kurowycky butcher shop is still in business; the International has yet to reopen on First Avenue...
Fontana shoe repair is still open on 10th Street...
Alt Coffee open next to Doc's on Avenue A...
The spacecraft had yet to land...
Cemusa bus shelter going up on Avenue A...
Buy a CBGB T-shirt...
No bank on 10th Street and Third Avenue...
The A Building rises...
Before the darkness on 13th Street...
The Sylvia del Villard Program of the Roberto Clemente Center at 13th Street and Avenue B. Now home to this.
Eddie's Tower of Toys stood...
No John Varvatos in the CBGB space...
Love still Saves the Day at Second Avenue and Seventh Street...
Take a spin on Google Maps for yourself....you may even see someone on the street that you recognize.