On Avenue A between 12th Street and 13th Street.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
East Village of the Damned
"Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80" (the East Village in this case)
The Times has a feature today on a Halloween costume party at the Educational Alliance’s Sirovich Senior Center on 12th Street.
The article, titled Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80, starts like this:
Anyone hazarding a guess about the demographics of Manhattan might name the East Village the youth capital of the island. It's a place where anyone over 30 starts to notice that her standard fashion go-to's are suddenly has-beens and that everyone else in the environs has preternaturally dewy skin. One friend decamped from the neighborhood when she turned 32 and decided that that was too young to be the oldest person in her building...
Influx of youngsters aside, the piece also notes that in the Community District 3 (EV, LES and Chinatown), "31 percent of people who are 65 or older are living at or below poverty level, the second-highest rate for the elderly in New York City."
Friday, October 30, 2009
Neighbors call for a boycott of the Moonstruck Diner
At Fifth Street and Second Avenue. If you can make out the sign, a blind man cut his hand on one of the diner's "7-9 commercial bikes that are always blocking the East 5th Street sidewalk." And the Moonstruck Diner "refuses to move those obstacles."
So until they remove the bikes, the organizers are asking you to eat elsewhere. How about the Odessa?
So until they remove the bikes, the organizers are asking you to eat elsewhere. How about the Odessa?
Cooper Square Hotel honors Homer Simpson
Yesterday, most of the the shrubbery (which was new!) was ripped up on the Fifth Street side of the hotel...
...to make way for, uh, this.
...to make way for, uh, this.
By the way...
Please let me know if you see anyone out this weekend wearing the Michelle Obama mask. Like the one here at Duane Reade on Avenue B and Second Street.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at the Michelle Obama Halloween mask at Duane Reade
Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at the Michelle Obama Halloween mask at Duane Reade
Report: No action taken yet on Le Souk (Update: "Two nights ago it finally closed down.")
In his "Mixed Use" column at The Villager, Patrick Hedlund follows up on the news last week that Le Souk is losing its liquor license. Residents who live near the hookah hotspot on Avenue B near Fourth Street shouldn't celebrate just yet.
Susan Stetzer, Board 3's district manager, said that despite the recent action, the club was up and running this past weekend.
"People that live in the area were celebrating the news, and by Sunday night they were complaining to the community board," she said.
The S.L.A. only has the power to confiscate liquor licenses and can't actually close the location. According to Stetzer, police at the East Village's Ninth Precinct had not been contacted about the ruling or asked to take any action.
"I must say, I'm a little frustrated," she added, recalling that after Le Souk's first cancellation, the club continued to operate for eight months. "It is really difficult to get any information on what the S.L.A. is doing about this."
UPDATE! Per the comments:
"I live across the street from Le Souk and couldn't wait for it to close! Two nights ago it finally closed down. No restaurant, no club, no bouncers, traffic, or underage squealers or fighters."
Previously.
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