Spotted by EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams on East Ninth Street near First Avenue.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
It was a tough day to be wearing a heavy black-and-white coat
Spotted by EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams on East Ninth Street near First Avenue.
June 1
East Village artist (and EV Grieve commenter) VH McKenzie came across this today on East 10th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A ...
A little thirsty looking... And how about some verification? She did have a Duane Reade receipt handy...
Gruber MacDougal, chief spokesperson for the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS), is at the opening of the new Relais & Châteaux hotel, Villa Clarisse, in Saint Martin de Ré and unavailable for comment.
A little thirsty looking... And how about some verification? She did have a Duane Reade receipt handy...
Gruber MacDougal, chief spokesperson for the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS), is at the opening of the new Relais & Châteaux hotel, Villa Clarisse, in Saint Martin de Ré and unavailable for comment.
Update on last night's Avenue B laundromat fire
Last night, the FDNY responded to a report of a fire on Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth. Several eyewitnesses put the fire at the Laundry & Dry Cleaners at 44 Avenue B. For passersby, the damage seemed minimal enough. We posted a photo of a burned-up laundry cart.
Building resident Stacie Joy sent us the above photo and a quick account of the damage inside:
The fire was from the laundromat on the ground floor. It traveled up the back of the building and hit the new construction (wood subflooring) in the apartments in the back. They evacuated us and we returned to find our places deep under water.
Some doors were busted, holes in roofs, windows opened by firefighters but everyone is alive and fine. The worst of it is all the thick acrid black smoke and the water damage.
Tompkins Square Park, June 1, 1967 — 'Hippie Heaven'
Original caption: "Hippie Heaven. New York: Hippie heaven is in Tompkins Square Park June 1 where a couple of the clan dance and play music in the sunshine, The park, which was the scene of a bloody melee late May 30 when 200 hippies refused police orders to stay away from the park's grassy sections, played host to the hippie's once again as the biggest outpouring of New York's dropout generation converged here to show police they cannot be intimidated."
IMAGE:
© Bettmann/CORBIS
DATE PHOTOGRAPHED
June 01, 1967
Continuing to question the BMW Guggenheim Lab's benefits to the local community
Work continues in the former rat-infested lot on East First Street near Second Avenue where, starting in August, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will open as "as an urban think tank and mobile laboratory."
As the news releases goes, "the BMW Guggenheim Lab will explore issues confronting contemporary cities and provide a public place and online forum for sharing ideas and practical solutions."
Meanwhile, more leaders on East First Street are continuing to question the Lab's benefits to the local community. For instance, according to one local restaurant owner, the Guggenheim selected Roberta's, a Brooklyn-based restaurant, to hold the food contract at the Lab's outdoor café. In turn, Guggenheim officials have asked what kinds of free programming East First Street businesses could provide to the Guggenheim.
While local leaders support the rat-reduction efforts in the long-empty lot, the insult to the dignity, sustainability and history of the community is bothersome. Here are more points from a letter to local leaders by Lyn Pentecost, executive director of The Lower Eastside Girls Club on East First Street. (This is a shorter version of the original letter.)
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Guggenheim wants our rat-infested First Street lot
Residents pitching in to help refurbish First Street garden
Designs for urban life apparently don't include trees
As the news releases goes, "the BMW Guggenheim Lab will explore issues confronting contemporary cities and provide a public place and online forum for sharing ideas and practical solutions."
Meanwhile, more leaders on East First Street are continuing to question the Lab's benefits to the local community. For instance, according to one local restaurant owner, the Guggenheim selected Roberta's, a Brooklyn-based restaurant, to hold the food contract at the Lab's outdoor café. In turn, Guggenheim officials have asked what kinds of free programming East First Street businesses could provide to the Guggenheim.
While local leaders support the rat-reduction efforts in the long-empty lot, the insult to the dignity, sustainability and history of the community is bothersome. Here are more points from a letter to local leaders by Lyn Pentecost, executive director of The Lower Eastside Girls Club on East First Street. (This is a shorter version of the original letter.)
It takes great chutzpah for an uptown museum and a high-end car company to promote community sustainability at the expense of...well, community and sustainability!
As they say in their press release: "The theme for the inaugural BMW Guggenheim Lab will be Confronting Comfort: The City and You — how urban environments can be made more responsive to people's needs, how people can feel at ease in an urban environment, and how to find a balance between notions of modern comfort and the urgent need for environmental responsibility and sustainability."
And yet First Street was chosen as the location for this "urban experiment" precisely because we have addressed many of the problems the brains behind the Guggenheim/BMW lab have newly discovered. We already have a strong and viable community structure in place! One that residents have spent the past 30 years cultivating and nourishing. We have at least a dozen tenant-owned coops and homesteads, heavily used recreational facilities: handball court and playground, a wonderful community garden, the historic Catholic Worker house, and many mom-and-pop galleries, restaurants and small businesses. Was there really no need to 're-think' and study the critical problems of, say, urban Bushwick or any other community lacking the organization and amenities of the newly gentrified/touristified LES?
To add insult to injury, the main entrance to our new community center/think tank has been placed on Houston Street. Right across from Whole Foods, and will host a lovely outdoor café in the just finished Parks Department garden. It is highly unlikely that our small businesses and organizations will benefit from this expression of urban caring. The only impediment to the beauty of this scenario was the homeless bicycle repair man who has provided a valuable entrepreneurial service on the NE corner of 2nd Ave and Houston St. for a number of years. A few weeks ago, the Parks Department had his entire tool pushcart confiscated and dumped into a sanitation truck.
Forgive my outrage — but am I the only one who sees the irony/tragedy in both ruining a man’s livelihood and making it more difficult for bicyclers to bike the city. How sustainable is that? But why would BMW (or an art museum for that matter) care? They are a car company, and this is a huge PR opportunity for all involved!
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Guggenheim wants our rat-infested First Street lot
Residents pitching in to help refurbish First Street garden
Designs for urban life apparently don't include trees
Kenny Scharf's quick work on Delancey
EV Grieve reader IPinchU came across Kenny Scharf creating a quick mural on a rolldown gate next to the Bowery Ballroom last night...
Maybe Robert Tierney doesn't hate the East Village after all
A few people were beginning to wonder anyway in the aftermath of the failed attempts to get the the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission to protect 35 Cooper Square or 326-328 E. Fourth St.
As the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) noted yesterday, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has agreed to expand the boundaries of their proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District study area to include additional streets and buildings called for by GVSHP, the Historic Districts Council, the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, and the East Village Community Coalition.
The additions to the study areas include buildings along Avenue A, East Sixth Street, Second Avenue and East Second Street. Among the items of interest per the GVSHP: "101 Avenue A, an 1876 tenement of striking architecture which has housed everything from a German Social hall in the 19th century to a drag performance art space (the Pyramid) in the 1980s."
Read more from the GVSHP here.
Here is a letter from Tierney, chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, on the matter.
Previously.
As the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) noted yesterday, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has agreed to expand the boundaries of their proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District study area to include additional streets and buildings called for by GVSHP, the Historic Districts Council, the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, and the East Village Community Coalition.
The additions to the study areas include buildings along Avenue A, East Sixth Street, Second Avenue and East Second Street. Among the items of interest per the GVSHP: "101 Avenue A, an 1876 tenement of striking architecture which has housed everything from a German Social hall in the 19th century to a drag performance art space (the Pyramid) in the 1980s."
Read more from the GVSHP here.
Here is a letter from Tierney, chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, on the matter.
Previously.
SOS Chefs, high-end supplier to A-list restaurateurs, is closing on Avenue B
Here at 104 Avenue B near Seventh Street, SOS Chefs has been supplying chefs and foodies alike with with everything from almond syrup to truffle oil to Turkish figs. (New York magazine once noted that Momofuku’s David Chang and Prune’s Gabrielle Hamilton are fans.)
However, as the sign on the door to customers notes, SOS is closing up its shop.
Per the sign: "We are going to take some time to discover new things, and to see what the next steps may be in the evolution of SOS Chefs."
One reader who recently stopped in said that the owners wanted to spend more time with their family. No word on where the Guard Cat will relocate.
However, as the sign on the door to customers notes, SOS is closing up its shop.
Per the sign: "We are going to take some time to discover new things, and to see what the next steps may be in the evolution of SOS Chefs."
One reader who recently stopped in said that the owners wanted to spend more time with their family. No word on where the Guard Cat will relocate.
The amazing Spider-Man's amazing lighting
Shawn Chittle notes the late-night filming of "The Amazing Spider-Man" on the Williamsburg Bridge. Taken from Avenue A and 11th Street toward the southeast around 1:30 a.m.
Here are some shots by James and Karla Murray on Flickr.
On the town, and at the Mars Bar
Fleet Week and the Mars Bar. Photo taken last evening by a fond, wistful neighbor of the Mars Bar.
Photo play on the Scribbler's wall
The plywood along the long-dormant development on 10th Street at Fourth Avenue continues to be an ever-changing tapestry ... featuring everything from the anti-psychotherapy musings of the Scribbler to defaced Lady Gaga ads... and the latest art project, someone has placed photocopies of dozens of photos on the wall...
For more on the Scribbler and this corner, visit Jeremiah's Vanishing New York here.
For more on the Scribbler and this corner, visit Jeremiah's Vanishing New York here.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
[Updated]: Fire on Avenue B
Several residents have reported a major FDNY presence on Avenue B ... one reader said that there's a fire in a building on the west side of the Avenue between East Third Street and East Fourth Street... More details as they become available.
[Photo via The Late Adopter]
Updated 10:40 —
Per @lauramanney
"8 trucks, 27 firefighters, 1 flaming laundry basket rescued on avenue B"
Updated 10:52 p.m. —
Per @JeanaCosta
"Big fire (now out) on Avenue B. I counted 13 fire trucks + ambulances down there."
Updated 11:01 p.m. —
Unconfirmed reports that the fire started at one of the two laundromats between Third and Fourth...
Another East Village monster sighting
Another monster sighting ... this time outside La Plaza Cultural Armando Perez on Avenue C at Ninth Street... Captured by EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams...
With a food supply inside the community garden?
With a food supply inside the community garden?
Today in photos of a swarm of bees on a Lower East Side mailbox
Just sharing a photo by @cookielaz of a swarm of bees on Mulberry and Grand...
BoweryBoogie has more here.
BoweryBoogie has more here.
Teriyaki Boy on East 10th Street closes
EV Grieve correspondent Blue Glass notes that the Teriyaki Boy on East 10th Street between Second Avenue and First Avenue has closed... workers were clearing out the Japanese fast-food restaurant this afternoon ...
Their phone number has been disconnected... and the website is no longer active.
Their phone number has been disconnected... and the website is no longer active.
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
Man shot Friday night on 12th Street near Avenue C (Neither More Nor Less)
More drug problems at Village View (Scoopy's Notebook, 2nd item)
Reaction to the "NYPD Rapists" flyers in the East Village (DNAinfo)
Thoughts on the New Museum’s role in changes on the LES (Open City ... via The Lo Down)
The vampire look in Tompkins Square Park (East Village Corner)
Zig Zag returns — for "Men in Black III" (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Two Boots expanding to Baltimore (BoweryBoogie)
Luke's Lobster expanding to Wall Street (Eater)
That lousy deuce at Prune (Grub Street)
Looking at Bellows' "The Lone Tenement" (Ephemeral New York)
Claim: The Fifth Avenue Apple Store is New York’s top photo attraction (9 to 5 Mac)
Foodie wave hits Rockaway Beach (The Wall Street Journal)
Is part of the former Le Souk spot on the market on Avenue B?
Workers have put up new "restaurant/store" for lease signs on two empty properties on Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth Street... We spotted signs at the former animal hospital...
...and at part of the former Le Souk empire a few doors to the south. (There were no signs at the main Le Souk entrance.)
NYCRS officials haven't posted the listings just yet, so we don't know yet if all (or any!) of the Le Souk complex is involved in the lease... If so, then it might mean the end to those mysterious late-night parties and after-prom bashes...
...and at part of the former Le Souk empire a few doors to the south. (There were no signs at the main Le Souk entrance.)
NYCRS officials haven't posted the listings just yet, so we don't know yet if all (or any!) of the Le Souk complex is involved in the lease... If so, then it might mean the end to those mysterious late-night parties and after-prom bashes...
Spotted on Avenue B: Subway Sandwich signage
As we reported last week, a Subway Sandwich shoppe is coming soon to Avenue B between 13th Street and 14th Street. And as the photo shows, that wasn't a bad dream.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Today's sign of the apocalypse: Subway opening on Avenue B
Would AC/DC drink Brooklyn Summer Ale in concert?
Looking at the current window display at the Pop Market at the Morrison Hotel gallery on the Bowery...
...not sure if the bottle of Brooklyn Summer Ale is supposed to be part of the set (product placement!)... there's a bottle of Jack Daniels on the left side of the display, by the Keith Richards photo...
...not sure if the bottle of Brooklyn Summer Ale is supposed to be part of the set (product placement!)... there's a bottle of Jack Daniels on the left side of the display, by the Keith Richards photo...
Xoom moving to CitiFitness on 14th Street
Back in March, the Xoom smoothie shop closed on Seventh Street for an anticipated move to another location in the neighborhood.
On Friday, after finalizing al the paperwork, Xoom owner Jennifer London sent out the following note:
We will be moving to 242 E. 14th Street just west of 2nd Avenue. We are going to be re-vamping the smoothie bar at CitiFitness. Xoom will be open to the public and you do not have to go through the gym to get to it. This space offers a wonderful opportunity for us to be in a high traffic area, and to have a built in customer base of gym members. We hope to re-open in July.
All of us at Xoom will obviously miss 7th Street, but are excited for this new opportunity. Oh, and, if you don't know already, my friends at Big Gay Ice Cream Truck are opening their new store front in Xoom's old space on 7th Street.
Previously.
Today in sneak peeks inside the Veselka Bowery
Workers have removed the paper from the coming-soon Veselka Bowery location on East First Street, offering a glimpse of the work-in-progress inside...
Veselka owner Tom Birchard told Fork in the Road on March 7 that the place here should be ready in late May or early June. Mid-June seems more likely now...
Veselka owner Tom Birchard told Fork in the Road on March 7 that the place here should be ready in late May or early June. Mid-June seems more likely now...
123's sales office moves out; Prime moving up?
On East 10th Street, it appears the 123 Third Avenue sales team has packed up and moved out of the office that opened here last July.
Before!
Now!
...taking the 123 signage with it...
Makes sense now that the 123 Third Avenue tower is like 90 percent sold. As Jeremiah pointed out recently, Prime & Beyond — a cross between "Peter Luger and Chipotle" per Zagat — is taking over the long-dormant space that previously housed Danal.
One rumor: The Prime folks downstairs will be taking over the 123 space upstairs.
Previously.
Before!
Now!
...taking the 123 signage with it...
Makes sense now that the 123 Third Avenue tower is like 90 percent sold. As Jeremiah pointed out recently, Prime & Beyond — a cross between "Peter Luger and Chipotle" per Zagat — is taking over the long-dormant space that previously housed Danal.
One rumor: The Prime folks downstairs will be taking over the 123 space upstairs.
Previously.
Memorial Day Weekend in review
Someone hung "NYPD Rapists" flyers (Sunday)
The Marshal seized Hirai Mong on St. Mark's (Saturday)
There was another protest outside the Continental (Saturday)
Lady Gaga posters were vandalized and replaced overnight (Monday)
We watched a model at work on Ninth Street (Sunday)
We went to the Loisaida Festival on Avenue C (Monday)
We looked at "Hangover Part II" promos at 7-Eleven (Monday)
A missed connection on the N train (Sunday)
There was a good punk concert Sunday in Tompkins Square Park, that wasn't so crowded...
Someone tagged the ping pong table in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)
The Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream shoppe opened on Seventh Street (Saturday)
On Friday afternoon, Jeff proposed to Caitlin in front of a specially created mural by Tats Cru on Second Street at Avenue A...
And she said yes. Via Twitter, she told us that she was and is still in shock over the proposal.
Monday, May 30, 2011
20 years ago: The East Village Memorial Day riot on Avenue A
Bob Arihood has photos and a narrative of what happened after the NYPD shuts down the "Housing is a Human Right" concert in Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day 1991. You can read his report here.
[Photo by Bob Arihood]
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