Blue picket fence alert this evening on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place... outside the former Chase ... soon to be the Swiss Institute.
Photo by Lola Sáenz
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Noted
Blue picket fence alert this evening on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place... outside the former Chase ... soon to be the Swiss Institute.
Photo by Lola Sáenz
Lines ahoy!: Trader Joe's coming to Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side
The 15-story building will include a 22,000-square-foot Planet Fitness on the second floor when construction wraps in 2018. You can head to The Lo-Down for more details on this development.
A TJ's recently opened in Kip's Bay. And maybe one will still open at 500 E. 14th St. That incoming CityTarget is only expected to take half of the retail space at 14th Street and Avenue A.
Welcoming Steiner East Village
Steiner East Village, Douglas Steiner's 82-unit condoplex rising on Avenue A at 12th Street, received welcome messages the other night.
EVG reader John shared this photo... a Cool and a SMELLS...
Report: Woman, 73, killed by M14D on East Houston
The victim, whose identity has not been released, was 73, according to ABC-7. None of the passengers on the M14D were apparently injured. The investigation continues.
Updated 5:30 p.m.
Streetsblog has more details on the deadly collision.
Anna Colon, 73, was crossing East Houston Street north to south at around 9:50 a.m. when the driver, who was also southbound, hit her while turning left from Avenue D onto East Houston, according to NYPD.
And...
East Houston at Avenue D is a wide two-way street with concrete medians in the crosswalks. Drivers injured 15 people walking at the intersection between 2009 and 2015, and had injured one other person there this year as of August, according to city crash data.
Residents told the Daily News that this intersection is dangerous.
“I feel afraid every time I cross that corner. I hold my breath and keep an eye out for a bus," said Rosalind Collazo, 49. “The buses go fast and don't stop. It's not the buses, the cars go fast too. They do U-turns when they are not supposed to.”
Colon had nine children, according to the Daily News.
The luxurious reveal of the future 253 E. 7th St.
[What's left of No. 253 as of Sept. 10]
As we first reported last month, the city signed off on permits for a new 6-story residential building at 253 E. Seventh St. between Avenue C and Avenue D.
Yesterday, New York Yimby got a look at the rendering via Issac & Stern Architects... incoming!
Per NYY:
The structure will span 10,466 square feet with six units averaging a spacious 1,498 square feet apiece. That is a strong indicator that this building will hold condos, and most units will have their own floors, including a penthouse on the sixth floor with its own private upper level.
Public records show that the property owner is an LLC going by DRK East 7th Street, who paid $5.7 million for the plot in a filing posted on Aug. 22.
This is the second new condo project to break ground on this block in the past few years ... joining Seven East Village, aka, 277 E. Seventh St. The Flowerbox condo building at No. 259 arrived in 2007.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Options for this lovely East 7th Street townhouse include demolition
New building in the works for 253 E. 7th St.
The disappearing 253 E. 7th St.
253 E. 7th St. is now a pile of bricks
Property at 253 E. 7th St. now for sale; perfect for a 'dream custom mansion townhouse'
New plans for a 6-story building at 253 E. 7th St.
New 6-story residential building OK'd for 7th Street
[Image from 2014 via Massey Knakal]
'Indie music hall and restaurant' in the works for Colonnade Row
The other day, the Times checked in with a roundup of fall bar openings.
Here's one intriguing new venue: The owners of Elvis Guesthouse on Avenue A and Baby's All Right in Williamsburg are reportedly opening "an indie music hall and restaurant" at 428 Lafayette St. (See photo above with helpful arrow.)
The preview didn't mention that this will be in Colonnade Row, the landmarked series of Greek revival buildings near Astor Place. No. 428 is next door to Indochine.
The unnamed, two-level venue will be similar to Baby's All Right, with a bar and restaurant. Said Co-owner Billy Jones: "If you have a space and the rent is so high, you have to come up with creative ways to activate it for longer periods of time." Said co-owner Zachary Mexico: "Pay your rent with brunch."
There wasn't any mention of a possible opening date.
If it's October, then it also must be Hitchcocktober
[Photo from last week]
This Halloween season, Village East Cinema on Second Avenue at East 12th Street is once again presenting Alfred Hitchcock films (Hitchcocktober!) on Thursday evenings.
The series begins this week with "The Birds" ...
And upcoming:
Oct. 13 — "Suspicion"
Oct. 20 — "Dial M for Murder" in 3D
Oct. 27 — "The Trouble With Harry"
Oct. 31 (Halloween night!) — "Psycho"
You may buy advance tickets here. The movies start at 8 p.m.
Reader report: The trash at PS 15
An East Fourth Street resident shares this via the EVG inbox...
This is the chronic garbage situation on East Fourth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D outside PS 15.
The top photo is the garbage that was put out on Friday afternoon and sat there all weekend until it was picked up yesterday. This is the norm. The bottom 2 photos are what was left AFTER the garbage pickup — a smaller, but still disgusting mess.
As you can see, the school puts out a slew of garbage bags and has created a dump site on the block. Apparently, they are held to a different standard and have a different garbage pickup schedule than residents on the block. This situation has created a major rat problem on the block and in the nearby community gardens. Rats can be seen swarming this mess at night and in the early morning. No amount of calls to 311 is bringing any improvement.
Monday, October 3, 2016
Report: Avenue B's Babu Ji settles wage lawsuit
Eater has the story late this afternoon:
Notorious restaurant labor attorney Maimon Kirschenbaum sued Jessi and Jennifer Singh on behalf of two employees for pocketing tips and not paying overtime. Last week, the Singhs agreed to pay employees Warren Bayani and Mehmood Qureshi a total of $95,000, split almost evenly between the two of them and Kirschenbaum. The owners did not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement, according to public court records.
Read the full story at Eater.
Babu Ji opened in June 2015. The owners are planning to open a location in San Francisco.
Village Style has left the East Village
Back in August, we reported that the Village Style Vintage Shop at 111 E. Seventh St. was moving to Bushwick this fall ... leaving behind its storefront here between Avenue A and First Avenue...
Workers cleared out the space late last week...
The space has been on the market ... with an asking rent of $9,750 per month.
The shop, part of the L Train Vintage family, also operates No Relation Vintage clothing on First Avenue between 12th Street and 13th Street.
Ownership did not offer a reason for the move.
Thanks to Steven for the photos; H/T EVG reader Marty E.
Soothsayer has been closed lately; owners seeking an upgrade to full liquor
[Photo Sunday by Steven]
Several readers passed along word that brown paper appeared in the windows of Soothsayer, the Vietnamese restaurant at 171 Avenue A, early last week. There wasn't any accompanying note on the door/windows or on social media about a temporary closure. (Soothsayer was closed last week and through the weekend.)
However, someone posted paperwork on the front door about CB3's SLA committee meeting this month, where reps for Soothsayer will appear to upgrade to a full liquor license as well as a license for the rear garden. (You can find their paperwork for the October meeting at the CB3 website.)
The restaurant between 10th Street and 11th Street, run by siblings Stephan and Kimxuan Brezinsky who grew up in Stuy Town, opened back in January.
In July 2015, Soothsayer upset a few neighbors after asking for support for a full liquor license and use of the back patio. Soothsayer reportedly withdrew its application at the July 2015 CB3/SLA meeting.
In September 2015, CB3 OK'd a beer-wine license without use of the outdoor space. The proprietors also agreed to hours of 5:30 p.m. to midnight during the week, with opening hours of noon on Saturday and Sunday.
The October SLA committee meeting is Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. Location: The Thelma Burdick Community Room, 10 Stanton St. at the Bowery.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Incoming restaurant on Avenue A asking residents to rally for their liquor license and back patio (42 comments)
Big Blue returns to IHOP Way
The Big Blue awning has returned to the under-renovation IHOP on 14th Street.
This location between Second Avenue and Third Avenue closed for the renovations on Sept. 18. While the awning is back, the dining room still has a ways to go...
The rent for the former St. Mark's Bookshop
Two weeks ago we mentioned that the former St. Mark's Bookshop was for rent at 136 E. Third St.
At the time, there was only a mention on LoopNet. As a follow-up, the for rent sign arrived late last week at the storefront in the NYCHA-controlled First Houses between Avenue A and First Avenue.
The listing is now also live at the NYCHA website. The asking rent is $60 per square foot ... the entire 1,328-square-foot space (no basement access) is available for $6,640 per month.
After 38 years at four locations, St. Mark's Bookshop closed for good last Feb. 28.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Week in Grieview
[A Pulaski Day float outside St. Stanislaus today via Steven]
Stories posted on EVG this past week included...
A patient visit to the medical marijuana dispensary on 14th Street (Friday)
Lot that housed one of the buildings destroyed during the deadly Second Avenue explosion sells for $6 million (Tuesday)
Part of a community garden reappears 16 years after it was bulldozed (Monday)
More details on the 14-story building coming to the long-empty lot on 14th and C (Wednesday)
Out and About with Boris Ryback (Wednesday)
Three years later, school emerging from behind scaffolding and construction netting (Monday)
Maison Kayser now open on Broadway (Monday)
September opening for the Second Avenue Tompkins Square Bagels zapped by an electrical issue (Tuesday)
Reader report: Cafe Silan space will become a French bakery (Tuesday)
Verdigreen vintage furnishings boutique leaves the East Village (Thursday)
Sales launch for Ben Shaoul's Katz's-dwarfing new condos (Tuesday)
Carma East opens on Sixth Street (Friday)
Clearing out the Edge (Thursday)
USA today: 'Merica NYC signage arrives (Friday)
The Lenin statue, safe for now on a Norfolk Street rooftop (Tuesday)
Tonkatsuya has apparently closed on Sixth Street (Thursday)
The former Schnitz space is for rent (Friday)
Some love for the former Yaffa Cafe mural space
[Photo by Allen Semanco]
NYC street artist Hektad is creating one of his heart murals outside 97 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...
The wall space was home to the Yaffa Cafe mural for nearly 23 years. A worker painted over that back in May. The cafe closed for good after 31 years in September 2014.
A new restaurant, Taberna 97, will be opening here soon.
Updated
And the finished mural...
A look at Shepard Fairey's mural Rise Above, now complete on 11th Street at 1st Avenue
Shepard Fairey's mural on 11th Street at First Avenue is complete. (He started work on Wednesday.)
The L.I.S.A. Project's Wayne Rada told DNAinfo:
[T]he goal of the undertaking is to supply some brightness and positivity for the locals wandering below — especially the children coming and going from neighboring elementary school.P.S. 19.
The mural features an image of Fairey's daughter when she was 3 years old. (She is now 11.)
Photos by Steven
The 26th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is Oct. 22
[Photo yesterday by Steven]
The posters are up in Tompkins Square Park... the Dog Parade is Oct. 22 from noon to 3 p.m.
Giuliana Rancic, host of E!'s Live from the Red Carpet and co-host of Fashion Police, is the emcee.
Find more details here. Relive last year's costumes here.
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Rocktober is kicking off in fine fashion ... with a street fair/festival on Third Avenue from Astor Place to
EVG deputized Street Fair correspondent OlympiasEpiriot shared the above photo.
As noted last week, the de Blasio administration is proposing changes to the city’s street fairs to make them less tube socky and generic.
[Updated] 82-year-old woman found dead; great-grandson in custody for murder
The suspect’s 39-year-old mother was also tied up by her wrists and ankles, but she managed to free herself and call 911, the Daily News reports. When police arrived, they found the body of Ella Mae Bias. (Media reports have identified the family's last name as both Biaz and Bias. The updated reports use Bias.)
Police found Gary Bias in his car just over the Williamsburg Bridge.
amNewYork reports that a law enforcement source says it "appeared there was a family dispute that preceded the incident, however police are still investigating what the nature of the argument was."
Per the Daily News: "A neighbor said he would regularly hit up his great-grandmother for cash after her Social Security checks arrived on the first day of the month."
Updated Oct. 2
The Post reports that Gary Bias "told cops the women were conspiring to kill him." The Post also notes that he "is believed to be mentally ill."
Friday, September 30, 2016
Mr. Mister
Here's The Julie Ruin with "Mr. So and So" from the band's second record, Hit Reset, from this past summer.
Tickets went on sale today for the band's Nov. 10 show at Irving Plaza.
EV Grieve Etc.: the condo plans for the former Streit's; the trailer for 'Gimme Danger'
[Photo by Derek Berg]
Developers discuss their condo plans for the former Streit’s factory site on Rivington (The Lo-Down)
Interview with Wendy Scripps, founder of Wendigo Productions and Art on A (Geeks of Doom... previously)
Fall migration in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)
A review of the novel "Christodora," set on Avenue B against the backdrop of art, AIDS and activism in the 1980s (Slate)
The Post looks at the penthouse in the former synagogue on Sixth Street: Headline — "Mazel top" (The Post ... previously)
About the Cop Shoot Cop book project underway (Flaming Pablum)
An interview with the "Chinatown Art Brigade" (BoweryBoogie)
50th anniversary screening of "The Chelsea Girls" on Sunday (Anthology Film Archives)
An East First Street alcove studio with a $620,000 asking price (Curbed)
... and the trailer for Jim Jarmusch's "Gimme Danger" premiered on Wednesday...
The documentary on the Stooges opens Nov. 4.
[Updated] Checking in on the Shepard Fairey mural on 11th Street and 1st Avenue
Here's how it's looking this morning, via a photo by EVG reader JG... Fairey started work on it Wednesday... it appears as if there's a little more to go, delayed by the rainy/windy weather.
Updated 3:30 p.m.
DNAinfo has more details on the mural, which is an image of Fairey's daughter when she was 3 years old. (She is now 11.)
"The title of the piece is 'Rise Above,' and its meant to be an uplifting image, a positive image to make people smile or to make New Yorkers look up," said Wayne Rada of the Little Italy Street Art (L.I.S.A.) Project.
A patient visit to the medical marijuana dispensary on 14th Street
Written by an EV Grieve regular who wishes to remain anonymous
I had the opportunity to visit Columbia Care on East 14th Street last week as a patient.
First, I had to get a recommendation from a doctor and then use that to apply for a medical marijuana card from the New York State Department of Health to schedule an appointment with Columbia Care.
The card arrived in overnight mail looking very much like a driver's license. In fact, it had been mailed from the DMV and included the picture from my driver's license.
The doctor I visited had to be registered with the New York State Department of Health as a prescriber of medical marijuana. His office looked like a typical therapist's office. He saw me and, after reviewing my medical records and a consultation with his assistant (a marijuana expert from California, she told me), he gave me his recommendation on a form that he registered with the state while we chatted.
His office visit fee of $200 was paid on a Square attachment to his iPhone by debit card. The card from New York State cost $50 and they said they would bill me for it. The doctor's appointment was not covered by health insurance.
The Columbia Care facility, which opened in early January, is on 14th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. You must get buzzed in to the facility. A security guard sits inside the front door. He asked to see my ID card. After I showed it to him and mentioned my appointment, he turned to a small window where the receptionist sits and told him my name. They granted me access into the vestibule, and then through one more door.
The reception area is a soft white-light environment not unlike the waiting room for a high-tech spa complete with similar lighting and pleasing background music.
I was a little early so I took a seat. Right at my scheduled time, a pharmacist in a white lab-style coat came out of the back room and led me into the actual dispensary.
The dispensary was similarly lit, but it looked like a high-tech eyeglass store with glass display counters on one side. We continued past all this into an area that was labeled "patient consultation room." Here was a small conference room with a table and four chairs. It was very businesslike.
She sat down on the opposite side of the table from me and consulted my records. She then proceeded to ask me a few follow-up questions related to my experience with using marijuana and what type of medications I was taking at the time for the conditions that I was trying to treat. Then she told me about the product — what I was there to find out about. The big reveal!
The pharmacist said that they produced two different types of products: one was a tincture, which is an alcohol-based soluble mixture with marijuana that you put underneath your tongue. The other is a type of concentrated oil in a capsule that you use in a vapor pen.
The third type of product, pills or capsules filled with the marijuana, which is legal in New York State, is not currently available at Columbia. There isn't any smokeable or edible marijuana of any kind for sale.
Each type of product came in three varieties. The first type was 25 part Cannabinol to one part THC, the second type was equal parts Cannabinol to THC, and the third type was 25 parts THC to one part Cannabinol. She told me that the first type was best for nerve pain and the third type was more like an opiate-style pain killer.
So based on my medical records and what I told her, she recommended that I try the second mixed type in the vapor oil pen format. She then demonstrated how to use the vapor pen and how often to use it (three times a day to start).
As health insurance does not cover the costs medical marijuana, I had to pay out of pocket. She told me that one capsule would be $100 and it would be around 90 puffs (4ml). At her recommendation of three puffs per day, this would be a one-month supply. This price seemed expensive to me based on previous quotes I have seen for this type of medical marijuana product in California and Colorado. However, I figured I would try it out because I got this far.
With the battery pack, the final price was $110. She brought me back into the dispensary, where I received my product in what turned out to be hard-to-open containers. The counter person gave me final instructions on how to use the product and also told me "don't freak out if the pen doesn't work or stops working — that probably just means that you need to charge the battery."
Upon returning home, I sorted through all the packaging and read over the directions. Then I charged up the battery and away I went. I must say that the medicine there is a quality product, and it did have a positive impact on the medical conditions that I am treating.
Regardless, I do feel that the price at Columbia Care is too steep based on other comparisons of similar products. Makes sense — there isn't any competition. Columbia Care is the only dispensary in Manhattan at this time, and New York State made the start-up cost prohibitively expensive with ridiculous restrictions.
In any event, I had a good experience and I hope that this opening of the door into medical marijuana will progress down the line similar to California, where recreational use is on the ballot this year.
USA today: 'Merica NYC signage arrives
[Photo by Vinny & O]
Workers hoisted the 'Merica NYC signage yesterday at 320 E. Sixth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
[V&O]
A commenter on the previous 'Merica post said that this is just for a pop-up event. It does sound temporary.
According to the 'Merica NYC Facebook page, the restaurant will serve food that "laughs in the face of caution and holds two middle fingers way up high, cause guess what? This is America and we eat what we want!"
Menu items include The Kanye: "Fried breast of chicken tossed in a creamy rich Alfredo sause served over mashed potatoes, then drizzled with a balsamic glaze. This meal will make you into a famous rapper and a narcissistic asshole. Ask the public to loan you the money for it. $18."
[Reader submitted photo]
This block of Sixth Street, previously known for plentiful Indian restaurants with inexpensive menu items and BYOB, is getting awfully gimmicky with 'Merica NYC (temporary or not) and the recently opened Beetle House with its Tim Burton theme.
Updated Oct. 1
Here's the latest description via Facebook...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Zerza has closed on 6th Street; Merica NYC coming soon?
Paws life for a moment to have your pet blessed tomorrow (Saturday!)
Via the EVG inbox...
In celebration of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the beloved patron saint of animals, The Church of the Immaculate Conception, located at 14th Street and First Avenue, will hold its annual Blessing of Pets in front of its main doors on Saturday Oct. 1, at one o’clock in the afternoon. We invite all to join us in this beautiful tradition of fur, feathers and family.
Carma East opens today on 6th Street
On Monday, we noted that Carma East was coming soon to 507 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
Well, how soon is now — the dim sum bar opens today, per the sidewalk sign.
This is an EV outpost of Carma Asian Tapas, which specializes in dim sum, on Carmine Street in the West Village.
No announced hours (the West Village outpost is open for lunch and dinner) ... and we haven't seen a menu for this location just yet. Will update when this info becomes available.
Carma East will eventually have a new East neighbor — Out East at No. 509.
The previous restaurant here, Kin Asian Bistro, which took over from Purple Ginger, had been open for less than a year.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Purple Ginger out, Kin Asian Bistro is in on East 6th Street
The former Schnitz space is for rent
Shepard Fairey is wrapping up work on his mural on East 11th Street at First Avenue... above the space that housed Schnitz.
Several people said that they weren't aware that the sandwich specialists had closed.
We noted on Sept. 2 that the quick-serve restaurant hadn't been open in several weeks ... and that the storefront was listed for rent online.
The retail space for lease sign has been up for maybe two weeks now. According to the listing (PDF) at RKF, the asking rent is roughly $9,100 a month.
No one from Schnitz has responded about the closure via social media yet.
Schnitz, which served old-fashioned schnitzel sandwiches with unconventional toppings, opened here in March 2014. This was the first permanent retail space for Schnitz after gaining a following at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg and Dumbo.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Crossing East Houston
[Click to go big]
Although the East Houston Reconstruction project, already three years behind schedule, has been delayed again, there are some spots where work has mostly wrapped up... like at the East Houston/First Avenue/Allen Street intersection.
The markings are on the roadway for the crosswalks and bike lanes, as the above photo by Vinny & O shows.
The Department of Design and Construction has been replacing sewers, water mains, catch basins, fire hydrants, sidewalks, etc., etc., along East Houston Street, from the Bowery to the FDR Drive. This work phase started in June 2010. Spring 2017 is the new completion date. Do I hear summer 2017?
[Updated] On today's grill menu: First deputy mayor Tony Shorris
As Politico New York noted, this "will mark the highest-profile public airing of the controversy surrounding the sale of Rivington House"
Back in July, Shorris answered questions during an often contentious 2.5-hour interview with an investigator working on behalf of City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
Through a Freedom of Information Law request, Politico obtained the 114-page transcript of that session.
Here's an excerpt from Politico's coverage:
It also seems clear, although Shorris never says so directly, that he did not have a particularly robust or effective mode of communicating with Stacey Cumberbatch, who was commissioner of DCAS until January of this year.
Cumberbatch informed Shorris through a routine memo about the potential sale of Rivington House, which had been a city-owned building before being sold to a nonprofit running an AIDS residence in the 1990s.
Shorris explained that he did not read the memo and that some time during the latter portion of his first year on the job, he stopped reading these memos in their entirety because they were too time-consuming.
Instead, he expected commissioners to use their judgment and inform him in person or over the phone of priorities and problems. But that evolution in communication strategy was never made clear to Cumberbatch, Shorris acknowledged during questioning.
And here's how the Post covered the July 27 Shorris meeting with investigators:
First Deputy Mayor Tony Shorris suffered numerous memory lapses about the Rivington Street nursing-home fiasco, telling investigators more than two dozen times that he couldn’t recall incidents, emails or details, records show.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s right-hand man claimed he couldn’t remember a meeting with Stacey Cumberbatch, a city commissioner, or the content of any conversations they had about Rivington in 2014.
When investigators tried to press Shorris over the memory lapse, his lawyer, G. Michael Bellinger, repeatedly intervened, the Post notes.
In February 2015, the Allure Group paid $28 million for the property, promising that 45 Rivington — the former Rivington Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation — would remain a health facility. In November, a city agency lifted the the deed in exchange for the Allure Group's $16 million payment to the city.
Earlier this year, Allure then reportedly sold the property for $116 million to the the Slate Property Group, a condo developer who plans to create 100 luxury residences in the building that overlooks Sara S. Roosevelt Park.
Updated 9/30
Read more about what transpired during the six-hour hearing at DNAinfo... Daily News ... The New York Times...Politico... the Post...Village Voice ...
Meanwhile! As The Lo-Down reported, the de Blasio administration plans to create affordable senior housing on the Lower East Side to make up for the loss of Rivington House. The facility will be on Pike Street.
Clearing out the Edge
Workers quickly took down the Edge signage and cleared out the former bar space on Third Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
As this photo via an EVG reader shows, bar stools and other items were up for grabs on the curb.
After 29 years, The Edge closed for good after service on Saturday. "We'll just say [the landlord, Thermald Realty Associates] found an opportunity to sue us for a bunch of money that we can't pay," a bar rep told us last month.
We haven't heard just yet if there is anyone lined up for the storefront... or if the space will be put on the rental market.
Verdigreen vintage furnishings boutique leaves the East Village
The storefront that sold paint and DIY supplies at 122 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue is now empty.
The owners of Verdigreen — described on their website as "a vintage redesigned furnishings boutique and handmade haven" — decided to move back to their flagship store in Montclair, N.J.
Per their website:
[W]e have learned that our customers in the city prefer to order paint remotely and have it delivered, that most of NYC is unaware of the magic of Chalk Paint®, and that a storefront isn’t required to service those who are. We are offering next business day delivery for phone/online orders in order to continue to service our NYC customers.
We will miss the sense of community in the East Village and appreciate all of you who came to visit and patronize our small shop!
The shop opened here in the spring of 2015. This space was previously home to La Belle Crepe.
Tonkatsuya has apparently closed on 6th Street
Zerza isn't the only recent closure to note on East Sixth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
Tonkatsuya has been dark all month at No. 328. The Japanese restaurant's webite has been taken down and the phone number isn't in service.
The restaurant just opened in March... taking over the space from Sri Lankan specialists Banana Leaf, which also only lasted a few months.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Shepard Fairey creating a mural on 11th Street at 1st Avenue
[Photo by EVG reader Annabelle]
Shepard Fairey started work today on a mural above the former Schnitz space on 11th Street at First Avenue...
[Photo by Lola Sáenz]
The mural is his second collaboration with the L.I.S.A Project.
Back in the spring/summer of 2010, Fairey's May Day piece on the Bowery Mural wall was bombed and eventually destroyed.
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