Imagine a sunny holiday

Always a nice little end-of-summer (sob!) song ...circa 1980... the Marine Girls... featuring Tracey Thorn.

See you back on Tuesday! We're off to Montauk (have you heard of it?) for the weekend. Four more places there where we haven't thrown up yet!

Oh, that's not true. We'll be right here. As always.

Report: Extortion claims highlight Croman suit vs. former Warhol muse

There's legal drama involving four neighborhood buildings. The Real Deal has the scoop about Croman Real Estate suing socialite and former Warhol muse "Baby Jane" Holzer.

According to the suit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Croman reached a deal with Holzer in December 2012 to buy four rental apartment buildings she owns — 60 Avenue B, 159-161 Stanton Street, 193-195 Stanton Street and 343 East 8th Street — for a total of $40.1 million.

But Holzer is now threatening to rent out 18 empty rent-stabilized apartments in the buildings unless the buyers pay her an additional $2.5 million, Croman claims.

Croman claims Holzer is trying to extort millions of dollars from them.

Read the whole article here.

H/T Curbed

Troubling talk about 128 Second Ave, and the long-term future of the Stage

There is talk about 128 Second Ave. near St. Mark's Place. Word is the building is in contract... A resident with knowledge of the situation here said that the building is being sold "to a group of four relatively young guys" ... who were heard "talking about 'clearing out' the shop in the front — which is the Stage."



The Stage has been serving delicious and inexpensive Eastern European cuisine since 1980... While all this is far from official, the resident remains worried. "I can't stand another one of our wonderful places going down." And if you're a Stage fan, then the resident figures it's time to show them some more love.


[Photo by freelance photographer Michael Seto]

Previously on EV Grieve:
An appreciation: Breakfast at Stage

The street-smart style of Serendipity in Tompkins Square Park

Back in June, we saw the arrival of "Serendipity," the life-sized sculpture of Christopher Gamble's silhouette in Tompkins Square Park. The silhouette is in honor of Gamble, who was homeless for nearly 28 years. Fanny Allié's creation will be in the Park through November.

And throughout the summer, someone saw fit to add a few accessories to the sculpture, from the always dashing caution-tape scarf...



...to the Duct tape waistband-headband combo...



... to the Master Lock choker...



Here today, on Project Runway Season 14 in a year or two...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

There was something about Mary

Photos from yesterday of the late Mary Help of Christians complex by Dan Efram.





Previously.

Noted

And an incident to report over in Stuy Town... via the Town & Village Blog's Police Watch:

A resident of 310 First Avenue reported that her apartment was broken into last Friday at 4:09 p.m. She told police that when she entered the apartment, she saw a man inside her bedroom without permission to be there. He was also naked in her bedroom and when she went in the room, she saw him putting on her skirt. She said that she was unsure if she had locked the door and there was no forced entry. No arrests have been made.

There was not a description of the man provided in the report.

H/T Crazy Eddie

New business now open on Second Avenue

Meant to mention this earlier in the week... Twister, a family owned and operated, self-serve frozen yogurt shop, is now open on Second Avenue near East Seventh Street. (First spotted the sign at the former Spa Belles location back in January.) The employees handing out free samples outside were very nice.

And to head this off at the pass in the comments, Twister does NOT serve anything in a hoof. So no FroHoHo™. (Frozen Hoboken Hoof.)

Also making headlines, David Schwimmer

And in the last 36 hours or so, there was some media interest in the EVG post about someone painting "Ross is not cool" on the plywood outside David Schwimmer's new home on East Sixth Street. (Supermarket tablet The Globe will have it in its next print edition. Really.)

And because several people asked: We did not receive any compensation for the photo, which came from Marc, a neighbor. (Also, no one actually offered us money for the shot.)

Also, while the story did attract media attention, the number of page views paled in comparison to high-profile posts here that featured topless women. Like this one. Or this one. So, the takeaway? Celebrity sells, but you need boobs apparently.

Hey! There's a free surprise screening of 'Easy Rider' tonight in Tompkins Square Park

Hey now! From the Films in Tompkins website:

TONIGHT! Join us for a special surprise screening of EASY RIDER! That's right, we couldn't let a beautiful Thursday slip by without reviving one of our screenings that was rained out earlier. Gates open in 15 minutes and the film will start at sundown. Music before the film by MR. REED!

IT'S A THURSDAY AND IT IS NOT RAINING!

Workers are setting up the screen now.

Photos by Bobby Williams

Breaking (yes): Glass truck accident on 10th and B

Oh. @RTSNYC passes along these photos from East 10th Street and Avenue B just now... some sort of collision that wiped out the cargo on half of this glass truck... no word on any injuries at the moment.



Watch those bike tires later.

Updated 12:58

More from @RTSNYC:

"I think the glass shifted and shattered when the truck made the turn. No injuries that I could see. Woman in that SUV looked pissed."

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Quiet early morning in Tompkins Square Park]

More on the rent hike that may KO Army & Navy Bags on East Houston (DNAinfo)

More about the 51 Astor Place parody account (Commercial Observer)

About the sale of Kossar’s Bialys (BoweryBoogie)

13 Portals hooks up with Clayton Patterson (The Lo-Down)

Weighing in on Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken on Second Avenue (Eater)

Third Avenue survivor gets a new neighbor (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Fast Food workers strike (Gothamist)

Union Square West now and then (Flaming Pablum)

Belated birthday salute to Charlie Parker (Dangerous Minds)

Sometimes East Village resident Daniel Craig greets the paparazzi outside Gemma on the Bowery (E! Online)

Davey's Ice Cream set for Sept. 13 grand opening on First Avenue

[William Klayer, from June]

Summer is winding down (or not!) ... thought we'd check in with David Yoo, the proprietor of the incoming Davey's Ice Cream at 137 First Ave. between St. Mark's Place and East Ninth Street.

Yoo, a graphic designer who switched careers to ice cream shop entrepreneur, originally had hoped to open in late July or early August... We asked him for the scoop (sorry, that was awful): The grand opening is set for Sept. 13.

Here's more:

"We're pretty late into the summer season, so we've been revising our seasonal flavors for the late-summer/early-fall."

And!

Our year-round flavors include:

- Mexican vanilla bean (real vanilla)
- chocolate chocolate
- strong coffee (Kenya single-origin coffee beans from Birch Coffee)
- roasted pistachio nut (real pistachio)

Our rotational flavors reflect seasonal themes using the best available ingredients at farmer's markets when possible. These flavors will change often:

- camp s'mores (graham cracker ice cream with chocolate chunks and roasted marshmallows)
- fresh peaches & cream
- fresh sweet corn with salty caramel swirl
- blackpepper watermelon sorbet

"We make the ice cream entirely from scratch in the store. We use the best milk and cream from Battenkill Creamery and crack egg yolks into our ice cream mix every morning," Yoo said. "I know It's been taking me some time to get this shop open, but I want to be absolutely sure I'm providing only the freshest and highest quality ice cream out there. It will be worth it! I hope..."

Previously on EV Grieve:
More details on Davey's Ice Cream, opening later this summer on First Avenue