Week in Grieview

[Photo on Avenue A last Sunday by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2018 (Monday)

Cuomo calls off full L-train shutdown (Thursday) Reactions and questions over Gov. Cuomo's surprise subway announcement (Friday)

A visit to Rossy's Bakery & Café on 3rd Street (Thursday)

East Village in Images 2018 (Tuesday)

Webster Hall returns this spring (Thursday)

Metropolis Vintage is on the move to a larger space nearby on Broadway (Wednesday)

Report: Suspect arrested in connection with sexual assaults in the East Village dating to 2014 (Saturday)

The Continental has likely closed for good on 3rd Avenue (Wednesday)

Sushi by M opens on 4th Street (Wednesday)

Juicy Lucy's 1st Street outpost is on a winter break (Thursday)

New tenant for 37 St. Mark's Place — REVEALED (Friday)

Cienfuegos bows out to make way for Honeybee's on Avenue A (Friday)

This 12th Street penthouse includes a home gym, screening room and 1,600sf guest apartment (Wednesday)

The art of Sir Shadow and the remaining residents of the Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Monday)

... and checking in on the New Year's Resolution on 14th Street...



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Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg) ... 

• The next iteration of the Knitting Factory coming to the East Village (Wednesday) 

• A liquidation sale at La Sirena on 3rd Street (Thursday) 

• A 'retail opportunity' at the former Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Monday) 

• Delicore: The line to see Diplo at Katz's After Dark Sunday night (Monday) 

• Here's the first look at the new residential building coming to 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday)

• Keyapalooza! Key Food is hosting a 6-day 'RE-GRAND Opening' next month (Friday) 

• Asbestos abatement to begin at the former East River Park amphitheater — 9 months after it was demolished (Monday) 

• The Li'l Park Drag Show takes the stage at La Plaza Cultural (Tuesday) 

• A retail wine and spirits store is in the works for the former Black & White space on 10th Street (Wednesday) 

• City removes several abandoned curbside dining structures in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• Reports: Dan Goldman is the Democratic nominee for the 10th Congressional District (Wednesday)

• Lucky No. 77: Victory Tattoo NYC opens in the former Hells Angels HQ on 3rd Street (Thursday) 

• Here's more about Rabbit and the Fragile Flour, opening next month on 7th Street (Wednesday)

• Wegmans is hiring on Astor Place (Monday) 

• The ever-changing East Village skyline's newest addition is a 32-foot-tall Link5G tower (Friday) 

• Dunkin' to make triumphant return to 250 E. Houston St. (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Pizza Loves Sauce coming to East Houston (Thursday)

• At the Nuyorican Poets Café's annual block party (Sunday)

• Signs of dinner life at Prune (Tuesday) 

• First sign of the new gallery opening in September at 313 Bowery (Monday)

• People keep stealing catalytic converters (Friday) 

• Thoughts on a new tenant for a former laundromat (Tuesday) 

• Report: Trader Joe's closed the Union Square wine shop after learning of plans to unionize (Monday) 

• Senses working overtime: The former Taj Mahal is now home to a psychic on 6th Street (Thursday)

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Whatever happened to that really ugly hotel planned for the Bowery?

Mystery Building Week continues. (See here and here for previous installments.)

The Salvation Army's East Village Residence closed here at the Bowery and East Third Street in August 2008. (Find some history of the space here.)

[February 2011, of course, because it doesn't snow here anymore]

And all was quiet for a few years. Until Jan. 11, 2011, when Lois Weiss at the Post reported that the France-based Louzon Group had bought the building and were planning on opening a new hotel here. Across the way from the Bowery Hotel. And two blocks from the then-Cooper Square Hotel (now the Standard East Village). Not to mention the rebranded Whitehouse Hotel and Hostel across the street. And close enough to the 569 hotels planned for the Lower East Side.

Remember the first rendering?

[Via Curbed]

Then! The next rendering! Keep in mind: This is not a joke.

[Via the Observer]

And yes — that's a Jumbotron up there.

As you'll recall, the reaction was... brutal? My favorite comment, via the EV Grieve Facebook page, came from Luc Sante:

It would be cheaper and more useful just to blow up the building and leave a 30-foot crater.

Anyway! Two years later, there's no sign of this hotel. (Which is a very good thing...) There's nothing on file for the property with the DOB. No demolition permits in the works. Nothing.

Did the Louzon Group changed its mind? They paid $7.6 million for the property. Anyone know what's going on with the space? Let us know via the EV Grieve email.

[Image created by Shawn Chittle]

Previously on EV Grieve:
Reactions to new Bowery hotel: 'It would be cheaper and more useful just to blow up the building and leave a 30-foot crater'

Why do the French hate us?

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a reader-submitted photo from the Ninth Street Community Garden & Park) ...

• Here's the new, larger residential building planned for 280 E. Houston St. (Monday) 

• The 'Daze' of our lives: Adam Zhu's new photo book chronicles today's downtown youth culture (Wednesday) 

• Renovations underway at the former Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Tuesday) 

• At the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting (Monday) ... Seeing the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree in a whole new light (Saturday) 

• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Harvey L. Silver's 'Changin' Times' (Friday) 

• Bad Brains on the Bowery with Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman (Thursday) 

• The New Museum is collecting coats for the Bowery Mission (Tuesday) 

• Cautionary tales: A song inspired by an East Village move (Friday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: The Commodore aims for Avenue C; an all-day Italian cafe for 12th Street (Monday) 

• The Zero Irving food hall is now OPEN (Thursday) 

• Memphis Seoul announces itself on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Before Dallas BBQ (Tuesday ... Wednesday ... Thursday) 

• Crab Du Jour sleeps with the fishes on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Gen Korean BBQ House drops the plywood for a full reveal on 14th Street and 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Pizza for the former Subway (sandwich shop) on Avenue B (Thursday)

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EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[At Union Square Stadium 14 via Michael Sean Edwards]

Laurie Anderson's lovely tribute to Lou Reed (New York)

Owners of the Bowery's Whitehouse Hotel suing longtime tenant who always sues them (New York Post)

Family puts up rent-stablizied apartment in the East Village to make bail for gypsy (Daily News)

Remembering See/Hear on East Seventh Street (Flaming Pablum)

The extreme first release from Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label (Dangerous Minds)

Orchard Hell Building grows (BoweryBoogie)

"[A] vote for Bill de Blasio is a vote against Bloomberg's vision of the city" (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Night in Tompkins Square Park (Gog in NYC)

Luscious Jackson back after 14-year hiatus (Gothamist)

Subway looking for ways to make you fatter, jumpier

So on Monday, the Subway here on the Bowery started advertising some new items... Coffee! And! Pizza(?).

And why are there still grand opening signs up? This location opened at the end of 2009.

And just so you'd have to notice, the Subwayers hung the notices from the sidewalk shed outside the Whitehouse next door...

Not sure if other participating Subway shops are offering these items.

To be honest, I did walk into the new Subway on Avenue B over the weekend. For jolleys. And, the weirdest thing — one foot off Avenue B and it felt as if I'd been transported to the basement of Penn Station. I swear I even heard someone mention Ronkonkoma. I quickly left.

Previously on EV Grieve:
And this pretty much sums it up: City's 45,679th Subway taking over former Downtown Music space on the Bowery

Another Housing Court meeting for Whitehouse Hotel tenants

Previously on EV Grieve:
More tenant meetings for White House residents; plus the bed bugs will be exterminated

Week in Grieview

[Performer Leo Gu Gu in front of Eastern Bloc last week via Grant Shaffer]

Murder charge for driver who crashed into East Village Farm & Grocery (Tuesday)

NoHo flea market gutted for new condos (Monday)

New 12-story, mixed-use building in the works for Avenue D (Thursday)

NY Copy & Printing finds a new home after losing lease on East 11th Street (Wednesday)

Dok Suni is closing after 22 years (Tuesday)

Jennifer Blowdryer's East Village (Tuesday)

The hawks of Tompkins Square Park are now parents (Friday)

Out and About with the shopkeepers of Anna (Wednesday)

New hotel in the works at the Whitehouse Hostel on the Bowery (Monday)

The Russ & Daughters Cafe opens (Wednesday)

A look at the exhibit "Dealing With Things Is Tricky" featuring Frank Ape (Sunday)

Perbacco is closed for remodeling (Thursday)

Demolition commences on East 14th Street to make way for two retail-residential complexes (Tuesday)

Honoring Alan Cumming at Theatre 80 (Tuesday)

Speaking out against Steve Croman (Thursday)

More on the transformation of 243-245 E. Second St. (Friday)

A new Indian restaurant on East 6th Street (Tuesday)

$18,975 asking rent for former South Brooklyn Pizza space (Wednesday)

Liquiteria opening in former Blimpie space on Fourth Avenue (Thursday)

Apiary becomes Après (Friday)

Bibi Wine Bar opens on East Fourth Street (Thursday)

Cooper Square dorm update (Monday)

Work on the Miss Lily's 7A Cafe sidewalk awning (Monday)

Construction watch at 536 E. 13th St. (Friday)