Top three photos by EV Grieve reader 8E, who noted "It was a partial viewing tonight. Clouds blocked the last five minutes."
Via John... at 14th Street and Avenue B...
And waiting at the ConEd plant by Faces ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
How was your Manhattanhenge?
The view west across 14th Street...
Top three photos by EV Grieve reader 8E, who noted "It was a partial viewing tonight. Clouds blocked the last five minutes."
Via John... at 14th Street and Avenue B...
And waiting at the ConEd plant by Faces ...
Top three photos by EV Grieve reader 8E, who noted "It was a partial viewing tonight. Clouds blocked the last five minutes."
Via John... at 14th Street and Avenue B...
And waiting at the ConEd plant by Faces ...
Cardinals vs. Blue Jays in Tompkins Square Park
You know, Interleague play... eh... birdwatching today...
Photos by Bobby Williams.
When discarded footie pajamas channel Keith Haring
From this afternoon at Ninth Street and Avenue C... the photo and headline come courtesy Andrew Adam Newman on Avenue C.
More details about Ninth Street Espresso's plan to sell beer
DNAinfo talked with owner Ken Nye about his plans. A few items from Serena Solomon's article:
• They're asking for an 11 p.m. closing time.
• They'd offer a maximum of three beers on tap.
• Nye is planning to open by the end of the summer, "doubling the existing space with an enclosed backyard."
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
RIP Atlas Barber School (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Teen shot in back with BB gun near Campos Plaza on East 12th Street (New York Post)
A 25-story building in the works for vacant Chrystie Street lot (BoweryBoogie)
NYC schools ignoring gay bullying (The Village Voice)
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo talks downtown NYC (Lower Manhattan Diary)
Delays for Delancey Street safety upgrades (The Lo-Down)
A look at Calliope now open on Second Avenue at East Fourth Street (Grub Street)
About the larger Rai Rai Ken on East 10th Street (Fork in the Road)
The spirit of Coney Island (The Gog Log)
...and Goggla passed along these photos of something called Porchetta.Hog on East Fifth Street just east of Second Avenue...
...neither of us had noticed it before... and the menu says they opened on May 8.
Chowhound readers noted its arrival as early as May 14... and according to Chowhound commenters, the place is not affiliated with Porchetta over on Seventh Street... Anyone try this place yet?
Ben Shaoul and company put East Fourth Street buildings on the market for $25 million
Some residents of 118 and 120 E. Fourth St., which went under new management about 18 months ago, knew something was up in their building. One resident reported seeing various men in suits being shown around the building in recent months.
Now we know why. Massey Knakal has just listed 118-122 E. Fourth St.
Here's the listing:
Massey Knakal Realty Services has been retained on an exclusive basis to arrange for the sale of three adjacent walk-up apartment buildings; one 6-story, one 5-story and a 4-story that includes newly added bulkheads to private terraces. The buildings are on two lots with 75’ of frontage, approximately 26,000 gross square feet and 69 units. Located just east of Broadway and the Bowery in one of New York City’s most famous and desirable neighborhoods, the East Village is known for its diverse community, vibrant nightlife, retail diversity & restaurant density, artistic sensibility, and recent gentrification.
The buildings feature 69 apartments split between 47 fair market and 22 rent stabilized units of which there are 31 studios, 34 one-bedrooms, 3 two-bedrooms and 1 three-bedroom. The fair market apartments have been fully gut renovated and feature beautiful dark hardwood floors, dark cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, marble bathrooms, new moldings, and high-end light fixtures.
Current ownership has also completely renovated all of the building’s common areas, installed a coin-operated laundry room, upgraded the electric, repointed the facade wherever necessary, re-paved the courtyard which has beautiful decorative stone that includes a bike rack as well as installed a new intercom system, private roof decks and private backyards in the 118 building. These improvements have dramatically increased the amount of upside to be realized with the building’s 22 remaining regulated units.
If you've been following along at Occupy East Fourth Street, the blog we featured here, then you'll know all about these recent "improvements." The site is full of renovation-demolition horror stories, like this one.
As we understand it, Ben Shaoul's Magnum Management, in partnership with Meadow Partners, bought the buildings in late 2010. Fortune East LLC is the company that manages the buildings.
The asking price for the buildings is $25 million.
Here's the reaction to this news by the blog Living in a Building Managed by Fortune East:
$25,000,000? I wonder if I’ll ever finally get a fucking door that fucking works
According to public records, 118 East 4th LLC bought 118 E. Fourth St. in November 2010 for $4.025 million; 120-122 East 4th, LLC bought 120-122 E. Fourth St. on the same date for $7,475 million... good for $11.5 million total.
Chloë Sevigny's East Village home is for sale
Last Thursday, we posted photos of that lovely home at 119 E. 10th St. that was new to the market. A commenter said that this was Chloë Sevigny's apartment.
Given how many times that we've seen her home in various publications, you'd think that we'd have recognized it. The folks at maison21 put it all together, matching up the photos from a 2007 House & Garden spread with pictures from the listing.
From the listing...
... and the House & Garden...
Yep, it's the same place. And it's current asking price is $1.7 million. (And if you're into this kind of thing, Parker Posey also lived in the same building...)
Anyway, Sevigny told this to New York magazine last month.
Given how many times that we've seen her home in various publications, you'd think that we'd have recognized it. The folks at maison21 put it all together, matching up the photos from a 2007 House & Garden spread with pictures from the listing.
From the listing...
... and the House & Garden...
Yep, it's the same place. And it's current asking price is $1.7 million. (And if you're into this kind of thing, Parker Posey also lived in the same building...)
Anyway, Sevigny told this to New York magazine last month.
As for her home, she’s thinking about moving to a high-rise again; she wants more light and is tiring of co-op rules. “I’m looking,” she says. “Maybe I won’t find the right thing and I’ll just stay here. Or maybe I’ll fall in love and get married and move somewhere else entirely. You never know!”
This is the largest bone that I have ever seen lying on an East Village sidewalk
OK, or any sidewalk.
On Monday, we posted a photo by EV Grieve reader William Klayer showing a very large bone on the sidewalk... Well, we didn't quite get just how large this bone was... here's another angle of the bone that EV Grieve reader Mark spotted on First Avenue and Ninth Street...
New bone marrow dish at Prune?
Any theories? Conspiracies? Explanations?
On Monday, we posted a photo by EV Grieve reader William Klayer showing a very large bone on the sidewalk... Well, we didn't quite get just how large this bone was... here's another angle of the bone that EV Grieve reader Mark spotted on First Avenue and Ninth Street...
New bone marrow dish at Prune?
Any theories? Conspiracies? Explanations?
Vandaag says goodbye (and 'Proost!')
Yesterday morning, we had the post about Vandaag being closed of late on Second Avenue at East Sixth Street... later in the day, Eater got word that the nearly two-year-old Dutch eatery had closed for good.
A goodbye sign went up later in the afternoon... via EV Grieve regular peter radley...
[Click to enlarge]
Robert Sietsema at Fork in the Road noted the signage and closure yesterday afternoon. You can read his thoughts on the matter here.
Meanwhile, in an email, an EVG regular wondered if Vandaag ever actually had a "plumbing emergency" like the handwritten sign on its front window suggested. "Did they decide to close before or after the 'plumbing emergency?'"
A goodbye sign went up later in the afternoon... via EV Grieve regular peter radley...
Robert Sietsema at Fork in the Road noted the signage and closure yesterday afternoon. You can read his thoughts on the matter here.
Meanwhile, in an email, an EVG regular wondered if Vandaag ever actually had a "plumbing emergency" like the handwritten sign on its front window suggested. "Did they decide to close before or after the 'plumbing emergency?'"
When a sculpture arrives on East First Street
A reader takes us over to East First Street late yesterday afternoon... where four men were delivering this...
The sculpture arrived in style...
The movers understandably didn't have much to say about what they were transporting...
Anyone know what this is...? Or who the artist is?
The sculpture arrived in style...
The movers understandably didn't have much to say about what they were transporting...
Anyone know what this is...? Or who the artist is?
Angelina Cafe expanding, moving across Avenue A
[Circa 2009]Well, finally some positive news about a neighborhood restaurant expanding and not closing... RyanAvenueA passes along word that Angelina Cafe on Avenue A near East Third Street will be moving across the street later in the summer to 37 Avenue A... the long-empty space that was previously home to the Two Boots Restaurant.
In recent weeks, workers put paper up on the front windows at 37. Work is expected to take another two months.
Angelina Cafe at its new address is on the June CB3/SLA docket.
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