Looking at the future luxurious corners of Lafayette Street

[February 2009]

The west side of Lafayette between Great Jones and Bond will soon be home to two luxury residential buildings… The former tenants of these corners, the ZP Auto Repair Shop and a parking lot, are long gone.

First, allow us a moment of silence for the wall above this space that brought us Harrison Ford's giant head …



… and Claire Forlani's disembodied scotch ad hands…

[Head bowed]

Anyway!

The new buildings are apparently going up simultaneously … already up to the second level in spots… (these photos are from Saturday)…



There is 372 Lafayette St. …





… and 10 Bond St.





The first units in No. 10 hit the market earlier in the month … Curbed pointed out a 2,775-square-foot home for $6.9 million … and for the more budget-minded, an 1,866-square-foot residence for $5.3 million.



Previously on EV Grieve:
New skyline for Lafayette Street?

Another corner still primed to fall on NoHo

Demolition starts on former garage and lot; new developments coming for Lafayette Street

Week in Grieview

Fuck, Kim's Video & Music is closing (Monday)

Details on the 2 new residential buildings coming to East 14th Street (Thursday)

RIP Derek Lloyd, director of production at PS 122 (Friday)

The Christodora House gym and pool for sale (Wednesday)

Life in a building undergoing another round of gut renovations (Tuesday)

More photos of the hawk eggs (Monday)

Avenue C "residents with children" not happy with Babel Lounge (Monday, 37 comments)

Out and About with Bill Gerstel (Wednesday)

A new Nicky's at the old Nicky's (Tuesday)

Cocktail maven vying for former Exchange Alley space (Wednesday)

2 new real-estate offices for East Ninth Street (Monday)

Bar Veloce hostage drama from 2002 dramatized for cable (Wednesday)

Virage is now Bar Virage (Thursday)

Brick Lane Curry is finally relocating (Tuesday)

A peek inside the former 7A (Friday)

"Farm-to-table-Mexican" for the former Boukiés space (Monday)

A smaller sidewalk cafe for The Fourth (Thursday)

The Sunburnt Cow closes for good (Friday)

Need plants?

As the sign says... today from 10 am.-1 p.m. at El Sol Brilliante, 522-528 E. 12th St., between Avenues A and B.

The 'Wall Dogs' of New York City

Not East Village related... but interesting nonetheless... here's a 4-minute documentary from Vocativ about the painters who make those hand-painted ads on the sides of NYC buildings.

Check out the recently released "Don't Look Down" right here ...



H/T Laughing Squid

A symbol of beauty, promise .. and the Con Ed plant

The faintest of double rainbows this afternoon … over (sorta) the Con Ed plant …

Photo via EVG reader Emily…

And here's another angle via Zero Boy ...

Another drone landing today in Tompkins Square Park

Felton Davis reports that the MQ-9 Reaper was a big hit in Tompkins Square yesterday, and will be "landing" again today at noon.



There were also leaflets titled "Stop the Madness of Drone Warfare," which include a survivor's account of a drone attack on a wedding party in Yemen last December.

Felton also notes that the Hellfire missiles were pointed AWAY from the church of Saint Brigid-Saint Emeric.

Photos by Shane Knight

Debbie Harry, Rosario Dawson and other 'Heroines of the Lower East Side'

Work continues on Centre-fuge Cycle 13, the rotating outdoor gallery/construction trailer here along East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Unlike previous cycles, No. 13 is a solo effort by Lexi Bella … in a collection titled "Heroines of the Lower East Side" to coincide with the first Lower East Side History Month, which kicks off on Thursday (BoweryBoogie first reported on this back on April 18).

There are some familiar faces so far …





… and LaMama founder Ellen Stewart …



The murals should be completed by Thursday.

Find more info about Centre-fuge here.

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And sort of an accidental shot…

Welcome to the East Village — home of beer

We've been watching the ad mural for Modelo come to life on East 12th Street at Avenue A … (former home of the "Girls" mural).

Last Saturday!



A few days later!


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Today!



Not sure who these folks are in the ad… People who some ad executives think live here … people who some ad executives want to drink Modelo… people who are just random people on a mural…

Lighting 'Flesh and Bone'

A scene last night from East 10th Street and First Avenue … where filming for a new series called "Flesh and Bone" took place…

Photo by S. Varet.

Get your Load on again today

From the EVG inbox...

Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) hosts its eighth Load OUT! — a twice yearly "riot" of repurposing and recycling activities today. FABnyc will gather gently used materials from arts organizations and other donors throughout the East Village/Lower East Side for this one-of-a-kind extravaganza, taking place at 11 E. 3rd St. (between Second Avenue and the Bowery) from 12-3 PM.

Load OUT! is specially designed to showcase creative thinking about sustainability and the arts. Artists and art students are welcome to take home any costumes, props, and furniture they need for their artistic endeavors, free of charge. Community members and non-artists can also attend Load OUT! for a small entrance fee of $5, and take away any amount of materials free of charge. Everything remaining will be repurposed or recycled responsibly by GrowNYC, Wearable Collections, Lower East Side Ecology Center, and United War Veterans Recycling. Any unrecyclable items will be properly disposed of by the NYC Department of Sanitation.

Load OUT! also features clothing, textile, and e-waste community collections - open and free for everyone from 12-3PM. Lower East Side Ecology Center will collect e-waste, and GrowNYC will collect clothing and textiles. A list of accepted donations is available here.

So sad about us

Here's EMA, aka Erika M. Anderson, with "Marked" from her 2011 release "Past Life Martyred Saints." She has a new record out on Matador ... and is playing the Mercury Lounge tonight (sold out, though).

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Photo by Grant Shaffer]

Recommended! Last weekend to go see the excellent Charles Schick and Regina Bartkoff in "The Two-Character Play" at Bullet Space (292 Theatre)

Venerating Pope John Paul II's blood at St. Stanislaus on East 7th Street (The Daily News)

A look inside Huertas, the new Spanish restaurant on First Avenue (Eater)

East Side Stories — The 2014 East Village Theater Festival continues through May 4 (Metropolitan Playhouse)

Re-doing a former "man cave" on East 11th Street (New York Post)

Video of Delancey Street in the 1970s (BoweryBoogie)

The libraries of the East Village and Greenwich Village (Off the Grid)

City pays $55,000 to OWS protester injured by NYPD (Gothamist)

Paperwork filed for 68-floor tower at the former Pathmark site on the LES (The Lo-Down)

A look at the disappearing Iron Triangle at Willets Point (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

EVG regular Blue Glass notes how lovely the pear trees are around the neighborhood this spring...



And we want to see "Famous Nathan," the documentary about Nathan's Famous hot dog empire ...



Amusing the Zillion has more about the film here.