A few scenes from the first weekend of the World Cup

As I exclusively reported, the 2010 World Cup started last Friday... and, even if you weren't interested in the games, you likely happened upon some kind of soccer-inspired scene in the East Village...

Starting with the World Cup Capital, Nevada Smith's... where a police officer was watching the line entering for the Argentina-Nigeria match...





Outside Zum Schnieder on Avenue C and Seventh Street before the start of the Germany-Australia match yesterday afternoon... line stretched halfway down the block...




Outside Karma on First Avenue near Fourth Street on Friday ... where Uruguay fans/citizens might want to talk to whomever created the chalkboard sign...



U-R-Gay?



On St. Mark's Place... after South Korea's 2-0 victory over Greece...




Meanwhile, thanks to EV Grieve reader Blue Glass for the following photos... Blue Glass was walking on Third Avenue prior to the start of the U.S.-England match, and witnessed the crowds waiting to get into Nevada Smith's and the Village Pourhouse on Saturday afternoon ... (good thing Third Avenue was blocked off for the street festival...)

Former Nevada Smith's down to its last floor; city OKs work for new building

Just checking in on the former buildings that were 74-76 Third Ave. ... 76 is gone... and 74, the former Nevada Smith's, is a floor of rubble for now...

Like the hanging tags now on the side of the theater... And the soccer/football bar will eventually reopen at 100 Third Ave.

Meanwhile, as for the rest of 74-84 Third Ave., it may look something like this one day ...

That is the rendering that RKF has been using to lease the retail. As The Deal Deal noted, Karl Fischer is architecturing an 82,000-square-foot, nine-story residential building with 94 units here.

On Friday, the city approved the plans for the new building.

Nevada Smith's World Cup fever

On Friday, ESPN (and CNN) held forth at Nevada Smith's on Third Avenue for the World Cup selections...







Which will mean that you will meet the World Cup Loving Friend of EV Grieve one of these days...

Report: 99-year lease in play for 74-84 Third Ave.

[From November 2011]

The Real Deal reported last night that a development company called YYY Third Avenue signed a 99-year ground lease "that requires payments each year of about $1 million" for 74-84 Third Ave.

The site is currently home to a in-progress demolition of the former Yummy House and Nevada Smith's. As The Deal Deal noted, Karl Fischer is architecturing an 82,000-square-foot, nine-story residential building with 94 units here. (The permit is still pending for all this.)

A YYY Third Avenue rep said that the site would be a rental building with studios, and one-, two- and three-bedroom units. "He declined to comment on the annual rental payment or elaborate on the project."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Those persistent rumors about 74-76 Third Avenue and the future of Nevada Smith's

The East Village will lose a parking lot and gain an apartment building

Construction starts this week at Karl Fischer-designed apartment building on Third Avenue

That is according to the always-reliable worker on the scene here at 74-84 Third Ave., the former home to Nevada Smith's, Yummy House and a parking lot.

The temporary parking lot closed up last week...







...and a little credit for Karl...



Anyway, the worker said digging will commence this week for this...

As The Real Deal reported, the corner will one day house an 82,000-square-foot, nine-story residential building with 94 units. And retail.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Those persistent rumors about 74-76 Third Avenue and the future of Nevada Smith's

The East Village will lose a parking lot and gain an apartment building

Yummy House DOA

Yummy House next to Nevada Smith's on Third Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street has closed...

Week in Grieview: Hard rain, dead trees — and truck nuts

[Watch out Flaming Cactus!]

Workers chopped down trees at 51 Astor Place (Monday)

It rained and stormed and stuff (Friday)

We wondered about the future of Nevada Smith's (Friday)

Bowery Beef leaving the Bowery Poetry Club? (Thursday)

A model and snow on Great Jones (Tuesday)

Spotting truck nuts (Tuesday)

A suspicious fire at the Flea Market Cafe (Tuesday)

A 33-unit apartment building to rise at the former home of a Community Board 3 member (Monday)

Open Mic Night returned to the Sidewalk (Monday)

Your "Lower Manhattan Theme Song 2011" (WOO!) (Wednesday)

East Village stories and images from 2011

A sampling from our 3,652 posts from 2012...

January

Fire at the East Village Village Farm

[EV Grieve reader Special Monkey]

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The Great Thunder Blizzard of 2011...

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The Icicle Audi...

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A birthday celebration for Ray ...

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February

The Hells Angels unveil new line of defense for their bench...

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Tompkins Square Park regular Grace Farrell, 35, froze to death while sleeping outside an alcove next to St. Brigid's ...

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Efforts to save historic 35 Cooper Square from demolition...

[Bobby Williams]

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March

A lot of fuss about a sign on Avenue A ...

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Photographic evidence of the elusive Pigeon Lady ...

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April

We started getting that bad feeling...

[Bobby Williams]

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The MTA v. an East Village artist...

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May

The DOH shutters Ray's for too long...

[Dave on 7th]

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We all met the Chillmaster...

[Via Marty After Dark]

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To 186 years of history on Cooper Square ...

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June

Former Burial Society now a hole in the ground on East Fourth Street...

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Howl! came earlier this year...

[Photo by Shawn Chittle]

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July

Introducing the Flaming Cactus of Astor Place...

[Bobby Williams]

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Walk Man quickly came and went...

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The TSP Ratstravaganza...

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Farewell, Mars Bar ...

[Goggla]

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August

The BMW Guggenheim Lab opened, think tanking ensued.

[Photo by Bob Arihood]

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The NYPD went all out to find the people who beat up Gavin DeGraw ...

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Earthquake...

[AC]

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Hurricane Irene wreaks havoc...

[Photo by Shawn Chittle]

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September

After 30 years, Life Cafe closes (for now)...

[Michael Sean Edwards]

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The free Willie Nelson catches fire...

[@joshchambers]

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October

The Mystery Lot faces a condo after life...



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The IHOP opened, and people ate there...

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Joe's Bar on East Sixth Street closed, opened and closed again... and the proprietor, Joe Vajda, died in November... we await the fate of the bar...

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November

We waited for President Obama to drive by on East 12th Street ...

[Photos by Michael Sean Edwards]

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Nevada Smith's closed to relocate, with luxury housing on the way for the corner on Third Avenue and 12th Street...

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One construction positive: The ongoing renovation of St. Brigid's on Avenue B and East Eighth Street ...

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December

The end.

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Well, that's a fucking depressing way to end a year in review ... so to new hopes and beginnings and all that ...

[Bobby Williams]