...and at the future home of Starbucks at East Third Street...
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Neighbors asked to be vigilant about construction at 315 E. 10th St.
As renovations continue at 315 E. 10th St. in the East 10th Street Historic District*, neighbors are being asked to be vigilant about how the work is being done... EVflip sends along photos of these signs spotted on East 10th Street today... (Technically, the sign asks for people to be "vigillent" ... we get it...)
Previously on EV Grieve:
A bid to protect the integrity of 315 E. 10th St.
Landmarks Preservation Commission expedites hearing on East 10th Street Historic District
Workers quickly start dismantling roof of historic 315 E. 10th St.
[Updated] Reader report: Renovations begin in earnest at 315 E. 10th St.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A bid to protect the integrity of 315 E. 10th St.
Landmarks Preservation Commission expedites hearing on East 10th Street Historic District
Workers quickly start dismantling roof of historic 315 E. 10th St.
[Updated] Reader report: Renovations begin in earnest at 315 E. 10th St.
In the shadows of old Astor Place
Photo of Jerry Delakas, the newsstand guy of Astor Place, taken last night by James Maher.
Read more about Jerry's plight at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.
Noted
In "The Hunt" column this week at The Times, two third-year NYU law students go through the trials and tribulations of finding off-campus housing...
"Michael said, 'I don’t care if I am in Alphabet City, as long as I have a nice apartment,'" [real-estate agent Julia] Perez said. That was unlike most of her apartment-hunters. "Everyone wants to have a nice apartment on Second Avenue."
A celebration of Mike Hamm's life
Mike Hamm moved here from Austin, Texas, two years ago. He worked at Lancelotti Housewares and Alphabets on Avenue A.
"He loved the East Village — it inspired him," Cara Brininstool told me via email. Mike, like many others, had the dream of moving to New York City and exploring what life had to offer, she said.
The two of them moved here together. She said that they were best friends.
Mike died on Jan. 7. He was 29.
Cara said that he had an undiagnosed condition called arteriovenous malformation that caused a series of brain hemorrhages. He remained in a coma through another hemorrhage and a stroke. Cara said that Mike's family and friends never left his side during the 11-day hospital stay.
"We actually got complaints that we were causing a fire hazard because there were so many friends who had gathered in the waiting room," Cara said.
"Mike was the kind of person who got excited when the music playing in his headphones synced up with the bustle of the city around him," she said. "Turning a corner or breaching the city's surface from the subway at the climax of the song — things like this thrilled him and made him giddy."
Next Friday, Mike's friends and family are gathering at Heathers on East 13th Street to celebrate his life.
As previously noted, the Centre-fuge Public Art Project is dedicated in his memory.
City issues permit for demolition of formerly historic 316 E. Third St.
Well, this was really just a matter of waiting for the permit...
Preservation groups tried to protect 316 E. Third St., a circa-1835 house. Unfortunately, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) rejected a hearing on the matter last fall.
And here are the permits that the city issued yesterday. The way things are going around here, workers probably already tore down the place.
So, the townhouse that formerly belonged to Community Board 3 member Barden Prisant (who moved his family to Prospect Park South) will become a Karl Fischer-designed, 33-unit apartment building, as Curbed first reported last August. (The garden and trees to the east of the house will also be dug up to become part of the new structure.)
Last week, developer David Amirian told the Post that he will offer only studios and one bedroom units here. "The market right now is to build rental. You want to build affordable housing for young people," he said.
One last thing: The DOB has yet to actually approve the plans for the new building.
Previously on EV Grieve:
33-unit, Karl Fischer-designed building rising at former home of Community Board 3 member
Landmarks Preservation Commission rejects hearing for 316 E. Third St., paving way for 7-floor condo
Your chance to live in an old firehouse on East 11th Street
There's an old firehouse converted into residences on East 11th Street just east of Avenue B...
...and two of the floor-through spaces are now on the market...
Interesting space with skylights, roof deck, etc., though you'll be paying for it...
Here is the $7,000-per-month unit...
And the $7,500-per-month unit...
Spotted these two listings at Streeteasy ... Per the listing at Bold New York, looks as if you can snag the whole building for $24,000 monthly ... Apparently Anderson Cooper has made living in old firehouses, uh, hot...
...and two of the floor-through spaces are now on the market...
Interesting space with skylights, roof deck, etc., though you'll be paying for it...
Here is the $7,000-per-month unit...
And the $7,500-per-month unit...
Spotted these two listings at Streeteasy ... Per the listing at Bold New York, looks as if you can snag the whole building for $24,000 monthly ... Apparently Anderson Cooper has made living in old firehouses, uh, hot...
Buy a loft building — with your very own billboard! — on the Bowery
Over on the Bowery near East Fourth Street, this five-story "loft building" is on the market for $6.5 million. Let's see what you get, via Massey Knakal:
[T]his 5 story plus lower level loft building is configured with floor through live-work lofts, ground floor retail, and a lower level bar. The building currently has signage which is leased out to Van Wagner for fifteen years fifteen years with 10% increases every 5 yrs. The retail and lower level are occupied by one tenant doing business under two names: Antik and King’s Cross, which are two of the trendiest Downtown bars and clubs. Their lease is a fraction of market at only $28/SF. Meanwhile, the average loft rents for $33/SF, which is half of market. The building is an excellent opportunity for an investor looking for long term upside in the below market rents.
First, are Antik and King’s Cross really "two of the trendiest Downtown bars and clubs"?
And! Billboard!
We always wanted to own a billboard.
Here's what's advertising up there now...photographed during The Storm of the Saturday®...
That is so true. No one is safe!
• Your kindly old landlord just sold your apartment building to a hotshot developer.
• You saw your new upstairs neighbors move in a drum kit and keyboards
Oh, sorry — we'll stop...
Say goodBao to Tahini on Third Avenue and St. Mark's
So Eater had the scoop yesterday that Michael "Bao" Huynh is taking over the Tahini joint here ... and opening an "Old School Style Philly" cheesesteak place called — Mikey's Cheese Steak. He'll serve a Korean version, Mexican version and Italian version of the sandwich. He already owns Baoguette down St. Mark's Place next to the incoming 7-Eleven.
No word yet if he'll remove the "falafel" and "shawarma" painted on the front of the building.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
André Balazs on his 'more quiet' Standard
"It’s a more residential, more quiet — more introspective, if you will — Standard."
And!
"There will not be a nightclub, and the chef — we’re talking to a bunch of people now and it will be a very dramatic redesign of the space, but it won’t be a nightclub."
The Holiday Cocktail Lounge is closing Saturday night
We feared the worst when 75 St. Mark's Place went on the market last fall. Aside from several apartments, the building is home to the beloved Holiday Cocktail Lounge, whose future seemed shaky ever since its owner, Stefan Lutak, died two years ago.
Meanwhile, the Holiday is on next month's CB3/SLA agenda under new license applications. Suspicious, given that they already have a license.
Well. Turns out the building in in contract...
A well-place tipster notes that the Holiday as we know it will close after Saturday night. "Locks will be changed immediately."
We understand that another bar will take its place. What happens to the current appearance is unknown.
Per the tipster: "Another EV historical institution gone."
Indeed.
And now, a walk-off passage from an article by former East Village resident Mike Hudson in the Niagra Falls Reporter a few years back:
[L]ike many Manhattan dives the Holiday Lounge had its writers.
For years Allen Ginsberg had a large apartment in a building almost directly across the street, and he and other Beat writers like Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke spent considerable time with the bookies, dope dealers, working girls and alcoholics for whom the Holiday was a second home.
For further reading:
Holiday Cocktail Lounge (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
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