Whoa! BP!
Inside, while trying to overcharge me $1 for a fucking bottle of water, the attendant told me that the station made the switch on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, bagels are still on the menu...
But can we ever eat a BP bagel?
Friday, August 3, 2012
Gas station switcheroo shocker on Second Avenue: Gulf now a BP; bagels still served
Last night, we went for our usual morning bagel at the Gulf station on Second Avenue and East First Street and...
Whoa! BP!
Inside, while trying to overcharge me $1 for a fucking bottle of water, the attendant told me that the station made the switch on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, bagels are still on the menu...
But can we ever eat a BP bagel?
[The good old days of Gulf bagels]
Whoa! BP!
Inside, while trying to overcharge me $1 for a fucking bottle of water, the attendant told me that the station made the switch on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, bagels are still on the menu...
But can we ever eat a BP bagel?
Report: Police arrest suspect wanted in string of LES muggings
The NYPD made an arrest last night in connection with a string of robberies dating back to May 5.
Per CBS New York, "Dion Whitehead, 38, of 484 East Houston St., was hit with four counts of robbery pertaining to the alleged mugging of at least 16 people since May, spanning from Houston Street to East 23rd Street, police said."
And the Daily News had this graphic...
Per CBS New York, "Dion Whitehead, 38, of 484 East Houston St., was hit with four counts of robbery pertaining to the alleged mugging of at least 16 people since May, spanning from Houston Street to East 23rd Street, police said."
And the Daily News had this graphic...
Hey, look at 51 Astor Place
Beams! Structure! Starting to go up in a hurry...
And soon...
Today in photos of a dead rat on the L train platform
At 14th Street via Dave on 7th...
So early, so many bad headline possibilities!
The commute was killing him.
What a rat race.
"I like Grizzy Bear's earlier stuff."
Oh, you can do better.
The expanded Benny's is now open
Benny's has taken over the space next door here on Avenue at East Sixth Street... where they used to run their to-go business ... Anyway, the extension is open... looks like more seating... Anyone been inside since they expanded?
It's for you
A payphone on the west side of Avenue C between East 10th Street and 11th Street. Blood or ketchup? You decide.
Headline and photo by Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C
Stars and stripes
Spotted by EVG reader Robert Miner on the St. Brigid's plywood ...
And perhaps a companion piece to yesterday's post on Avenue B.
A Gathering of the Tribes starts its annual Charlie Parker Festival tonight
Check out the website for more details.
Meanwhile, the East Village portion of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival is Sunday, Aug. 26. More details to follow...
Desperately Seeking 'Real People'
Spotted on Second Avenue near East 14th Street. If you call, could you please find out what the free gifts are?
Thanks!
Thursday, August 2, 2012
New Order live in the East Village from 1981
So New Order is embarking on their first North American tour since 2005 ... Oct. 18 at Roseland Ballroom. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10.
Which is an excuse to post this video of "Ceremony" live at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue (between Ninth and St. Mark's) from Nov. 19 1981.
Our buddy Karate Boogaloo has a lot more about this show, including a review of it by Tim Sommer, a correspondent for the UK magazine Sounds:
Heh. Pseudo-Continentals!
See the rest of the post, including a video of the entire show, over at Stupefaction.
Which is an excuse to post this video of "Ceremony" live at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue (between Ninth and St. Mark's) from Nov. 19 1981.
Our buddy Karate Boogaloo has a lot more about this show, including a review of it by Tim Sommer, a correspondent for the UK magazine Sounds:
"Standing around the Ukranian National Home on Manhattan's lower Second Avenue puts me in a sour mood. This is a prestigious gig in an odd venue, and the audience, like the hall, is truly pretentious in it's self-conscious unpretentiousness. The place is full of the cream of New York's pseudo-Continentals, the transparent and ridiculous '80's would-be bohemians with their long dark coats, scarves and faces. Unfortunately, very much the crowd you would expect for New Order. The evening's whole mood has been strongly anti-rock, so it's refreshing and pleasantly surprising when New Order's set begins brightly, with real strength and power."
Heh. Pseudo-Continentals!
See the rest of the post, including a video of the entire show, over at Stupefaction.
Aspiring sinkhole starts sinking on Avenue C
Spotted at East 10th Street. Please call 311 once it reaches the East Village Tavern's sidewalk seating.
Avenue B is for Change
Let's put together all the recent changes on Avenue B that we've covered in recent months... We'll start on East Houston and head north ...
... where the liquor store remains closed after several years...
... and the hardware store next door is still on the market after closing last fall ...
At 14 Avenue B, another applicant is going before the CB3/SLA committee this month in hopes of opening some kind of bar-cafe-restaurant...
Across the street, The New World Order, a vintage boutique, closed in May... and the empty storefront offered up a photogenic night-time shot...
However, there is already paper over the windows... another business on the way in...?
On the corner, a well-placed tipster told us in April that Thomas DeGeest, founder of Wafels & Dinges, will open his first café based on the same concept as his popular food trucks in circulation around the city.
In late May, Zaitzeff abruptly closed... this space and the basement location next door of the former Dolphin Gym sit empty...
Next door, the former Croxley Ales Beer Garden is full of weeds ... while Croxley Ales plans to expand to the storefront to the north. (Not pictured)
Up on the southwest corner, a chunk of the ivy-covered building is empty after Mama's sudden departure...
On the east side of the street between Third Street and Fourth Street, the stretch of storefronts that included the LeSouk empire are empty... Neighbors have been buzzing about that rumor that the building will receive a few extra floors during an upcoming renovation (only rumor for now) ...
Max, the 12-year-old Italian place near Fourth Street, will have a new location in Williamsburg ... when that opens, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Avenue B location will close...
On the northwest corner of Avenue B and East Fourth Street ... Kate's Joint closed in April ... word is an organic market will be opening here...
And at Fifth and B, the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation will become upscale housing...
Meanwhile, expect some dumpsters here in the coming weeks and months...
The Hare Krishnas moved out of their home at 96 Avenue B last summer, as BoweryBoogie first reported.
[BoweryBoogie]
At 98 Avenue B, Pizza Grupo will be moving into Layalay, the former B&T hookah hotspot, from its current home at 186 Avenue B...
[Ah the memories! 98 Avenue B a few years ago...]
And, of course, at Eight Street... St. Brigid's continues its restoration...
[Monday... by Bobby Williams]
Between East Ninth and East 10th ... the former pet shop is still for rent... it closed in May...
On the corner of East 10th Street, the sidewalk shed finally came down outside the former Life Cafe space after too long ... the 30-year-old Life closed last Sept. 11, as we first reported... (And Ninth Street Espresso will expand into part of the space...)
Next door, Lakeside Lounge closed on April 30. Workers have gutted the exterior in preparation for a new bar from some folks involved with Niagara...
An applicant is on the August CB3/SLA docket for the former Mercadito Cantina space that we hear will be a BBQ joint ...
On the east side of the Avenue, No. 165 was on the market... with promises of retail and two-more floors. The building is now in contract, per Streeteasy.
Up on the next block, we've been writing about 185-193 Avenue B, a former theater and, later, church... workers just started demolishing the place to make way for a 12-story apartment building that will include community space and the new home for the Elim Pentecostal Church...
What else... a space for rent near East 13th Street...
... and the Copper Building retail space has yet another broker...
And as we reported last November, an "artisanal cocktail bar" is opening upstairs from Bee Liquors (in the space that has been home to White Noise and Uncle Ming's). Yesterday, Paper noted that the space will be called Pouring Ribbons, and run by American Bartender of the Year Joaquín Simó, who worked the last five-plus years at Death & Co.
Lastly, maybe, you can rent the former Luca Lounge space for the low price of $19,995 per month.
If you made it this far without bursting into tears or something... I've counted 22 empty storefronts. (I didn't mention a few that have been closed for some time.) Still, for all these sweeping changes... there are some really good places on Avenue B, from bars (Mona's, Manitoba's, Vazac's, B-Side) to stores (Bee Liquors, Sunny & Annie's, Amor Bakery, Wendigo) to institutions (GOLES, Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union) to restaurants (Cafe Rakka, Y Cafe — you have your favorites ...) ... and just two franchises: one national (Subway); and one local (Duane Reade). Wonder how long that chain-free feeling will last...
Previously on EV Grieve:
There are more than 20 empty storefronts along Avenue B
... where the liquor store remains closed after several years...
... and the hardware store next door is still on the market after closing last fall ...
At 14 Avenue B, another applicant is going before the CB3/SLA committee this month in hopes of opening some kind of bar-cafe-restaurant...
Across the street, The New World Order, a vintage boutique, closed in May... and the empty storefront offered up a photogenic night-time shot...
However, there is already paper over the windows... another business on the way in...?
On the corner, a well-placed tipster told us in April that Thomas DeGeest, founder of Wafels & Dinges, will open his first café based on the same concept as his popular food trucks in circulation around the city.
In late May, Zaitzeff abruptly closed... this space and the basement location next door of the former Dolphin Gym sit empty...
Next door, the former Croxley Ales Beer Garden is full of weeds ... while Croxley Ales plans to expand to the storefront to the north. (Not pictured)
Up on the southwest corner, a chunk of the ivy-covered building is empty after Mama's sudden departure...
On the east side of the street between Third Street and Fourth Street, the stretch of storefronts that included the LeSouk empire are empty... Neighbors have been buzzing about that rumor that the building will receive a few extra floors during an upcoming renovation (only rumor for now) ...
Max, the 12-year-old Italian place near Fourth Street, will have a new location in Williamsburg ... when that opens, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Avenue B location will close...
On the northwest corner of Avenue B and East Fourth Street ... Kate's Joint closed in April ... word is an organic market will be opening here...
And at Fifth and B, the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation will become upscale housing...
Meanwhile, expect some dumpsters here in the coming weeks and months...
The Hare Krishnas moved out of their home at 96 Avenue B last summer, as BoweryBoogie first reported.
At 98 Avenue B, Pizza Grupo will be moving into Layalay, the former B&T hookah hotspot, from its current home at 186 Avenue B...
[Ah the memories! 98 Avenue B a few years ago...]And, of course, at Eight Street... St. Brigid's continues its restoration...
Between East Ninth and East 10th ... the former pet shop is still for rent... it closed in May...
On the corner of East 10th Street, the sidewalk shed finally came down outside the former Life Cafe space after too long ... the 30-year-old Life closed last Sept. 11, as we first reported... (And Ninth Street Espresso will expand into part of the space...)
Next door, Lakeside Lounge closed on April 30. Workers have gutted the exterior in preparation for a new bar from some folks involved with Niagara...
An applicant is on the August CB3/SLA docket for the former Mercadito Cantina space that we hear will be a BBQ joint ...
On the east side of the Avenue, No. 165 was on the market... with promises of retail and two-more floors. The building is now in contract, per Streeteasy.
Up on the next block, we've been writing about 185-193 Avenue B, a former theater and, later, church... workers just started demolishing the place to make way for a 12-story apartment building that will include community space and the new home for the Elim Pentecostal Church...
What else... a space for rent near East 13th Street...
... and the Copper Building retail space has yet another broker...
And as we reported last November, an "artisanal cocktail bar" is opening upstairs from Bee Liquors (in the space that has been home to White Noise and Uncle Ming's). Yesterday, Paper noted that the space will be called Pouring Ribbons, and run by American Bartender of the Year Joaquín Simó, who worked the last five-plus years at Death & Co.
Lastly, maybe, you can rent the former Luca Lounge space for the low price of $19,995 per month.
If you made it this far without bursting into tears or something... I've counted 22 empty storefronts. (I didn't mention a few that have been closed for some time.) Still, for all these sweeping changes... there are some really good places on Avenue B, from bars (Mona's, Manitoba's, Vazac's, B-Side) to stores (Bee Liquors, Sunny & Annie's, Amor Bakery, Wendigo) to institutions (GOLES, Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union) to restaurants (Cafe Rakka, Y Cafe — you have your favorites ...) ... and just two franchises: one national (Subway); and one local (Duane Reade). Wonder how long that chain-free feeling will last...
Previously on EV Grieve:
There are more than 20 empty storefronts along Avenue B
10 months later, John Legend's Bowery condo finally in contract
Nearly 10 months to the date that Grammy-winner John Legend listed his condo at 52E4 — the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery and East Fourth Street — it entered into contract last week, according to Streeteasy.
Last September, the price started at $2.95 million — but two markdowns (5 percent total!) brought it to $2.795 million.
Despite the celebrity connection and model-in-panties-photoshoot cachet, the place seemed to be on the market a good long time. We always wondered if something was keeping away buyers ... like the 7-Eleven on the ground floor or fear of the French hotel coming (probably) some day to the corner of East Third Street ...
Or not. There aren't any current listings for the building...
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