Photo by Bobby Williams
Saturday, October 4, 2014
A block party on East 9th Street today
We're told that the block party is rain or shine here on East Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C, so… looking like rain at moment, according to looking out the window.
It's beginning to look a lot like …ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
EVG Facebook friend/photographer Michael Paul spotted these in the front windows at Dee & Dee on East 14th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue…
Happy Easter.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Flyers warn of a 'sexual predator'
The above flyers are up along Avenue B and East Eighth Street and East Ninth Street.
The person responsible for the flyers said that the incident took place outside 295 East Eighth St. at Avenue B around 2 a.m. Friday. The suspect described in the flyer left the scene when a neighbor intervened and jumped the fence into Tompkins Square Park.
Tie me up, tie me down
Here is Primetime with "Tied Down." The London-based band released their debut 7" EP in August via La Vida Es Un Mus Records.
Doggone it: Someone stole the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade posters
[Photo from 2013 by Derek Berg]
That's the word from organizer Garrett Rosso, who reports that someone stole the FedEx delivery boxes from outside his apartment door yesterday.
It will be another week before more posters will arrive.
Meanwhile, he shared the information with us... the date is Saturday, Oct. 25 ... the rain date is Oct. 26...
Per Garrett: "Runway competition will be from Noon to 2:30 p.m. Then all pawticipants will follow this year’s BEST IN SHOW for a pawsitively posh, costumed canine parade around the entire park. All donations go to City Park Foundation for the maintenance and upkeep of the Tompkins Square dog run."
East Village now down a dorm
Renovations continue at 101 E. 10th St., the former SVA dorm at the corner of Third Avenue.
The 5-story building that houses a TD bank hit the market back in the spring. However, it appears that real-estate investment firm Atkins & Breskin still retains the property.
Regardless, the job site has a partial approval from the DOB, which notes a "gut rehabilitation of existing apartment building and change in the number of dwelling units. Obtain amended [Certificate of Occupancy]." So we're looking at a conversion to residential.
The Real Deal originally reported in March that "an additional 7,802 square feet of as-of-right air rights" existed for the building. There's nothing yet on file with the DOB to note any extra floors.
SVA students reportedly left the dorm after the spring term. A school official told The Villager that the school would use a new residence on East 24th Street at First Avenue.
More about Yaffa Cafe closing
[Photo from 1997 by @JenniferKellow]
As we first reported yesterday, Yaffa Cafe is now officially closed at 97 St. Mark's Place.
The DOH temporarily closed the restaurant on Sept. 5. In addition, the city ordered Yaffa's owners to shut down the backyard garden.
Last night, ownership posted this statement to their Facebook page:
Yes, Yaffa is closed. We really want to thank everybody who came to Yaffa and kept it open for 31 years.
I know we helped a few families to start a relationship at our establishment.
We had a great years and some not great, but now its time to go.
The city closed our garden, one of our not friendly neighbours complained to the building department, and they came and put 35 families out of work.
I am sure she is very happy.
Thank you all for supporting us.
Throughout the day yesterday, Yaffa fans took to Twitter to express their feelings.
I wouldn't care if the backyard was on fire or a rat was tap dancing on my tuna melt. I wish I could sit down at @YaffaCafe one more time.
— Francine (@FrancineD) October 2, 2014Heartbroken over the closure of @YaffaCafe. It held a very special part of my soul. #stripperinmanhattan #nyc pic.twitter.com/qb0r2kpGcr
— Bella Luna (@bawdybelle) October 2, 2014I have lots of fond memories from @YaffaCafe in #NYC; so much good conversation and carrot-ginger salad dressing. Now it has closed :-(
— Elizabeth Landau (@lizlandau) October 2, 2014Grub Street has a collection of the tweets here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A Google ad now covers the iconic Yaffa Cafe mural on St. Mark's Place
Yaffa Cafe will be back, though likely without its backyard garden
Yaffa Cafe is officially gone; back garden dismantled
How you can help save Siempre Verde Community Garden from luxury housing
[Photo from June via Facebook]
The following news release is via the EVG inbox from Wednesday evening...
The Siempre Verde Garden – located at 181 Stanton Street and 137 Attorney in the Lower East Side – is threatened by new residential luxury development proposed by a city agency, HPD.
The issue is coming before the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public & Private Housing Committee meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 6:30 pm. We are calling on community members to join us there to make their voices heard. A petition can be signed here.
Siempre Verde Garden was created by the community in the 1980s. In the summer of 2012, a diverse group of volunteers began transforming two rubble-strewn city-owned lots into an oasis where neighbors, children, plants, trees, birds and bees congregate. New foliage, plants and raised garden beds were put in. With the support of Greenthumb and the unanimous support of Community Board 3, Siempre Verde was given a license by November.
Since then, pounds of tomatoes, greens, herbs and other vegetables have been harvested and shared with neighbors. The garden has held over 70 community workshops and events including worm composting, children’s story time, art,
music & yoga workshops. Green space for residents is sorely lacking in the garden’s vicinity and the garden is home to some of the only trees in the immediate area.
The luxury development is backed by the Gottleib Bender family who own an adjoining lot bought for $5,000 in the 1970s. Since their lot has no street access and is too small for any development, they are proposing to add the garden’s small two city-owned lots to their parcel.
Even the combined lot would remove light and air from nearby tenements with limited income residents. Siempre Verde is calling for all those who support the garden to go to the CB3 meeting to show their opposition to more luxury housing being built in a community with very little green space. The meeting will be held at University Settlement, at 184 Eldridge St (between Rivington nd Delancey Streets) on Oct. 14 at 6:30 pm.
For more information about Siempre Verde Garden:
Website
Here's more on the story via The Lo-Down ... and BoweryBoogie.
Fit to a Teavana
The TEAVANA letters went up yesterday on Broadway at East Ninth Street.
As previously reported in July, the Starbucks-owned Teavana, a specialty tea and tea accessory retailer, was taking over the former Silver Spurs corner space.
Last December, Silver Spurs got rent-hiked out of its 34-year-old home here.
Thanks to EVG reader @elivalley for the photos!
Previously on EV Grieve:
After 34 years, Silver Spurs is closing on Broadway
Starbucks-owned Teavana coming to the former Silver Spurs space on Broadway
Bless your pets
From the EVG inbox…
Blessing of Pets
In Honor of St. Francis of Assisi
Saturday Oct. 4
1 PM
Immaculate Conception Church
East 14th Street and 1st Avenue
Note: Pets need not be Catholic to be blessed.
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