Tuesday, May 4, 2010
What's the buzz on East 10th Street?
In this apartment building on East 10th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, not everyone is thrilled about the new intercom system... activated via your cell phone or landline...
Monday, May 3, 2010
Police helicopter in action again
After last night's episode ...Several EV Grieve readers pinpointed the helicopter this evening to east of Avenue C and roughly a little south of Seventh Street...
We arrived to find a very low-flying helicopter... no word just yet on what or who they were looking for...
As EV Grieve reader Erin noted, "Last week a burglar came in through a 2nd floor window in our building on e 6th betw B & C. My neighbor screamed when she saw him, and he ran off. Some construction is being done on the ground floor, and the fire scape ladder had been extended down the ground - that's how I think he got up."
Previously on EV Grieve:
Rooftop burglar spotted on East 10th Street
We arrived to find a very low-flying helicopter... no word just yet on what or who they were looking for...
As EV Grieve reader Erin noted, "Last week a burglar came in through a 2nd floor window in our building on e 6th betw B & C. My neighbor screamed when she saw him, and he ran off. Some construction is being done on the ground floor, and the fire scape ladder had been extended down the ground - that's how I think he got up."
Previously on EV Grieve:
Rooftop burglar spotted on East 10th Street
There is NO ESCAPE
Looking north from Union Square on Park Avenue South... And white before Memorial Day? Tacky!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Breaking: Oh, God! No! No! NOOOOOOOO!
East Village eatery odd-n-ends: Roasted pig on Avenue C; snoop guard at Diablo Royale; orderly chairs at Village Pourhouse
Saturday saw Zum Schneider's annual May Day celebrating ...
...where people lined up on Avenue C and Seventh Street...
...to dine on swine...
The apparently shuttered Musical Box on Avenue B is giving away its couches...
Trash bags were up on the windows yesterday morning at the Cooper 35... Some students were inside filming, I was told by someone standing there... they were open as usual later...
Noted at Village Pourhouse on Third Avenue and 11th Street....
The coming soon Tallgrass Burger on First Avenue near 13th Street has posted its menu on the storefront...
The coming soon Diable Royale on Avenue A has put up snoop guards to ward off various bloggers and tipsters...
I have no idea what was happening here. However, as I learned in my Hyperlocal Blog Class, you always take photos of anything happening at Motorino on 12th Street...
I haven't been to the Holiday in months... since then they have added draft beer...
The owners of Ballarò Caffè Prosciutteria on Second Avenue prepped for their newly approved sidewalk cafe last week by repairing the big crack in the sidewalk out front ...
And for no reason, two photos of the Spring Lounge from last week... where Kate Hudson was holed up filming a scene for a movie that we will never see...
...where people lined up on Avenue C and Seventh Street...
...to dine on swine...
The apparently shuttered Musical Box on Avenue B is giving away its couches...
Trash bags were up on the windows yesterday morning at the Cooper 35... Some students were inside filming, I was told by someone standing there... they were open as usual later...
Noted at Village Pourhouse on Third Avenue and 11th Street....
The coming soon Tallgrass Burger on First Avenue near 13th Street has posted its menu on the storefront...
The coming soon Diable Royale on Avenue A has put up snoop guards to ward off various bloggers and tipsters...
I have no idea what was happening here. However, as I learned in my Hyperlocal Blog Class, you always take photos of anything happening at Motorino on 12th Street...
I haven't been to the Holiday in months... since then they have added draft beer...
The owners of Ballarò Caffè Prosciutteria on Second Avenue prepped for their newly approved sidewalk cafe last week by repairing the big crack in the sidewalk out front ...
And for no reason, two photos of the Spring Lounge from last week... where Kate Hudson was holed up filming a scene for a movie that we will never see...
What brownstone lovers dream of, apparently
So here we are on Stuyvesant Street... where a one-bedroom unit at No. 46 is now on the market... a one-bedroom home marked at $1.4 million...
According to the Corcoran listing:
The first open house was yesterday... You'll have to see the dream yourself on another day...
Update:
Ha, ha... a Curbed reader notices a little Photoshop magic on two of the photos in the listing... it has something to do with the lights... "Lights, Camera, Action at Historic East Village townhouse" (Curbed)
According to the Corcoran listing:
This house that dates from 1853 is located in one of Lower Manhattan's prettiest Landmarked Historic Districts where Stuyvesant Street meets East 10th Street overlooking St Mark's Church in the Bowerie, The Renwick Triangle and the Abe Lebewohl Triangle (garden). A truly special apartment in the only co-op on Stuyvesant Street. This handsome Anglo-Italianate town house is 33' wide. The Double Parlor and the English basement with pocket garden is just what brownstone lovers dream of...
The first open house was yesterday... You'll have to see the dream yourself on another day...
Update:
Ha, ha... a Curbed reader notices a little Photoshop magic on two of the photos in the listing... it has something to do with the lights... "Lights, Camera, Action at Historic East Village townhouse" (Curbed)
Tweet this: A classic urban etiquette sign outside Tom & Jerry's
Outside Tom & Jerry's on Elizabeth Street...
For further reading:
‘Where Everyone Knows Your Twitter Handle’ (The New York Times)
For further reading:
‘Where Everyone Knows Your Twitter Handle’ (The New York Times)
Pants up at the Glover Center
The campaign against baggy pants has been in the news of late... Meanwhile, a sign awaits visitors at the Andrew Glover Center on Avenue B between Seventh Street and Sixth Street....
Here's a little background on Andrew Glover. He was an NYPD officer gunned down during a routine check of a car double-parked on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B on Sept. 16, 1975. He was 34. Sgt. Frederick Reddy, 50, was also shot and killed. Time magazine has an outline of the manhunt for the killers.
Here's an excerpt from an Associated Press article on the shootings.
Here's a little background on Andrew Glover. He was an NYPD officer gunned down during a routine check of a car double-parked on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B on Sept. 16, 1975. He was 34. Sgt. Frederick Reddy, 50, was also shot and killed. Time magazine has an outline of the manhunt for the killers.
Here's an excerpt from an Associated Press article on the shootings.
Deadheads: Rebranding East 10th Street
Along this rather deserted stretch of East 10th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue... realtors are using a summer-of-love-ish-approach to filling the recently renovated storefronts...
Previously on EV Grieve:
99X is closing
Previously on EV Grieve:
99X is closing
Phase 1: The Juice Press opens Thursday
A sign is up at the Juice Press on First Street near First Avenue... showing an opening date of Thursday... plus other details about what's to come here, such as cooking classes...
Previously on EV Grieve:
What's coming to the Robot Daycare/Missing Sock/Mime Academy space
Previously on EV Grieve:
What's coming to the Robot Daycare/Missing Sock/Mime Academy space
Breaking: Rooftop burglar spotted on East 10th Street
About 90 minutes ago, police blocked off part of East 10th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue... several people on the scene said that a man was spotted jumping between the buildings with a knapsack ... police sources believe this might be the same man responsible for a string of robberies in the neighborhood of late...
EV Grieve reader David sent along the following shots...
He saw at least one dozen police officers, five SWAT members and one dog... word is a gun and some narcotics were recovered by police... the search was called off by police a little after midnight, he says....
This was also the cause of the helicopter that everybody seemed to hear tonight...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: East Village burglar has hit nine apartments in last month
EV Grieve reader David sent along the following shots...
He saw at least one dozen police officers, five SWAT members and one dog... word is a gun and some narcotics were recovered by police... the search was called off by police a little after midnight, he says....
This was also the cause of the helicopter that everybody seemed to hear tonight...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: East Village burglar has hit nine apartments in last month
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Instructive if you have problems unifying your 1,800 square foot, four bedroom home
There's a Home & Garden piece in the Times titled "An East Village Apartment, Sleek and Childproof."
The piece begins...
AFTER hiring and firing two architects in three years, David and Blanche Uyttendaele had a home with a split personality.
The back of their 1,800-square foot co-op in the East Village was traditional — like a prewar apartment on the Upper West Side — with a long, narrow hallway that led to the three bedrooms and master bathroom. The front felt more like a loft, with one open living and dining space.
They needed to unify the space somehow, but that wasn’t their only challenge.
The Uyttendaeles (pronounced YOU-ten-dales), both 40, have two rambunctious boys ... who treat the apartment like a playground, racing around barefoot after school and leapfrogging from the coffee table to the sofa like small superheroes. So the space needed to be childproof as well.
Actually, I stopped reading at this point. Let me know how it ends.
[Photo: Elizabeth Felicella for The New York Times]
Shepard Fairey's Houston-Bowery mural is illegal, maybe
The DOB slapped a Stop Work Order on the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery... As AnimalNY noted, there are two options: obtain the proper permits for the "small building" or tear it down.
Here's a shot of the structure on the corner before Fairey's work went up...
Anyway, as an AnimalNY commenter commented..."its funny, that means no repairs to any damage like holes or torn off panels the guy who tossed bricks at it should go back, stop work order means no repairs under threat of criminal charges. you can only do emergency work if there is danger and with approval from the DOB."
So will the mural be vandalized again in the short term?
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