East 14th Street near Avenue A this afternoon via EVG reader Michael...
Monday, March 31, 2014
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[Drilling at the former Mary Help of Christians site via Bobby Williams]
A look at the new boxset Miles Davis Live at Fillmore East (The Arts Desk)
More abut Max Fish's possible return to the LES (BoweryBoogie)
Cooking at the Bowery Mission (DNAinfo)
A visit to Malaysia Beef Jerky in Chinatown (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Revisiting Record City on Broadway (Flaming Pablum)
Bill Cunningham's period fashion photos now at the New York Historical Society (Architectural Digest)
Is Little Italy on the brink of extinction? (New York Post)
133 Third Ave. lives on with 16 floors of glass and NYU dorm views
When we last checked in on the new building going up at 133 Third Ave. back in December 2012, a construction mishap (oopsies!) "sent wet concrete oozing through a wall and into an NYU dorm next door."
Anyway, we haven't seen much, if any, work here of late… but there is one new detail: A rendering on the plywood showing what's to come… (brace)
Those southern exposures are going to provide the best upclose views of an NYU dorm that money can buy!
Feeling lucky? 12 East Village co-ops hit the lottery
[Random photo of East 9th Street that really has nothing to do with this post]
The Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association is holding its first "affordable housing lottery" in 13 years… with lucky contestants vying for 12 below-market co-ops in the East Village.
Serena Solomon first reported on this Friday at DNAinfo. Per her article:
The winners of a housing lottery will be able to buy into the co-ops for "a few thousand dollars," and then they will only have to pay a monthly maintenance fee of less than $550, according to Val Orselli, the association’s director.
The last time the association sent out a request for applications was in 2001, and nearly 8,000 came in, Orselli said.
There are income requirements. To qualify for a studio, a person must make between $18,050 to $48,100. To qualify for a two-bedroom, a couple must make $20,600 to $55,000. (Updated via comments: Apparently only studios and 1-bedroom apartments are available.) Also, half of the units spread out in the 21 buildings that Cooper Square runs, are reserved for people who live within the boundaries of Community Board 3 — namely the East Village, Lower East Side and Chinatown.
To receive an application, you have to send a standard postcard to Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association c/o Postal, 75 East 4th St. Suite 4149, New York, N.Y., 10003.
And because someone will ask. This is straight from the Cooper Square website:
• You can not get an application online.
• You can not visit the MHA office to pickup an application.
• You can not call the MHA for an application.
• The ONLY way to get an application, is to mail a postcard as described above. You can not send a regular envelope, it has to be a postcard.
The application deadline is April 21.
An eviction notice for This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef
[March 12]
On March 12, the city closed This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef for "for operating without a permit."
A handwritten note appeared a few days later here at 149 First Ave. noting the oversight with the paperwork…
The says that they'd reopen "early in the week" (this being the week of March 17).
Now, though, an eviction notice has arrived on the door…
The notice is dated today.
Keep an eye out for a 'homeless' Richard Gere today
Filming continues today for "Time Out of Mind," a drama in which a homeless man (Richard Gere) tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Dakota Fanning).
Crews will be around parts of First Avenue between East Sixth Street and East 10th Street… Oh, just look at the sign for the film boundaries…
And here is just one photo that the Daily Mail had of Mr. Gere from the shoot last week…
Doc Holliday's turning 20 this week
Wow… 20 years for the bar (with two Ls) at 141 Avenue A at East Ninth Street…
[File photo from 2010]
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Zoltar caught moonlighting in Gettysburg, PA
EVG reader Dave - everywhere shared this photo from a recent trip to Gettysburg, PA. Despite the accusatory headline, this Zoltar is not the same as our Zoltar outside Gem Spa on Second Avenue. For starters, no tags! And his crystal ball wasn't smashed with a skateboard!
Week in Grieview
[Photo by EVG contributor jdx]
RIP Dennis Zentek (Monday)
Tompkins Square Park regular Spike struck and killed by SUV on Third Avenue (Thursday)
How about a Trader Joe's for Avenue A? (Tuesday, 85 comments)
Plans for new 9-floor building filed for Mobil station on Avenue C (Monday)
El Sombrero has closed (Sunday)
Out and About with Pamela Joy (Wednesday)
Virage closed for renovations (Monday)
M8 weekend service is returning (Friday)
Max Fish making an LES comeback (Thursday)
"Dirt dag" Urban Etiquette Sign! (Tuesday)
Plans revealed for 347 Bowery (Thursday)
The conclusion of "Dirty Old New York" (Wednesday)
Former Odessa Cafe & Bar is back on the market (Monday)
Ugh: 98-100 Avenue A lies in ruins (Tuesday)
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Tuesday)
First look at the all-new 50-62 Clinton St. (Wednesday)
Mod World the documentary (Friday)
Here's the new home for St. Mark's Bookshop (Thursday)
More about the future of the former 7A (Tuesday)
Saturday, March 29, 2014
'Dial M for Motherfucker' 25 years later
To mark the 25th anniversary of Pussy Galore's "Dial M for Motherfucker," Nick Hutchings at The Quietus tracks down the band members (Jon Spencer, Julia Cafritz, Bob Bert, Neil Hagerty and Kurt Wolf) to discuss the making of the record.
An excerpt from Mr. Spencer:
Pussy Galore, while we were working on familiar tropes and recognisable forms and genres was very much sort of anti-music or reacting to, kicking against something.
I think that confrontation was a big part of Pussy Galore.
It was an honest to goodness rock & roll band as well. I don't think you'd be doing this interview if there weren't some cool rock songs in there, if there wasn't some meat. If it was just a conceptual affair and it was just confrontation full stop then we wouldn't have mattered as much to people.
According to the always-reliable Wikipedia, a song from the record, "Kicked Out," is played in an episode of the Fox show "House" titled "Games" ... "when Gregory House plays it to annoy Wilson and induce a seizure in a patient."
Heh.
Anyway, here's a live Pussy Galore performance from a few years earlier … 1987… if you want to annoy your neighbors… or just to enjoy!
For all your moving parts
Window shopping on East 14th Street… headline and photo courtesy of Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C.
Friday, March 28, 2014
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[Tompkins Square Park the other morning]
Arrest made in shooting of Riis Houses teen (The Villager)
Celebrating 10-plus years of East Village Radio (The Village Voice)
Check out Charles Schick and Regina Bartkoff in "The Two-Character Play" at Bullet Space (292 Theatre)
Soaking up Ukrainian culture in the East Village (The New York Times)
Lucky's wants to stay on East Houston (BoweryBoogie)
Spell checking this street sign (The Lo-Down)
More about The Wash House on East First Street (Gothamist)
The first performance by the Ramones 40 years ago (Off the Grid)
Checking out the Predator on East 7th Street (Scouting NY)
Helping save a beloved shoe-repair business (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Tour Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles (Dangerous Minds)
... and tomorrow night at MoRUS on Avenue C via the EVG inbox...
Don't Waste People
Documentary Premiere with Director Julia Waterhous
Saturday, March 29
7 PM
In Honor of Women's History Month, MoRUS Opens its Doors for an Evening with Female Activist Filmmaker Julia Waterhous
"Don't Waste People" seeks to give voice to waste pickers in Delhi against dominant discourse that favors policies that exclude the poor. The film challenges assumptions, cultivates empathy, and encourages inclusivity.
The issues presented represent a global trend, and the secondary goal of "Don't Waste People" is to bring perspective to societies where wastefulness is encouraged by advertisements selling consumption under the guise of prosperity.
Find details here.
March 28
EVG reader Andrew spotted this beaut this morning on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...
While we mentioned the lack of any time stamp to prove that this is from today and not, say, Dec. 26 (is it? Please say no!)... we are allowing this one to stand, so to speak.
You see, under Evidence Rule 901, photographs are typically admitted as demonstrative evidence to illustrate discarded holiday/Christmas trees. When used purely as demonstrative evidence, legal issues regarding authentication are somewhat relaxed so long as a competent witness can testify that the photograph fairly and accurately depicts the tree about which he or she is submitting.
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