Pricing revealed at these 2 condoplexes

[Photo from Saturday]

Over at 32 E. First St. at Second Avenue ... Curbed has details on the 10-story, 33-unit condoplex (with ground-floor retail): "Prices here start at $1.175 million and climb as high as $8.7 million. Six of the condos are already in contract while another six, including a three-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse are currently listed on the market."

This was the former BP station site, which closed in July 2014.

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And on 10th Street and Fourth Avenue... three of the 12 units here at the 10-floor condoplex arrived on the market last week.


[Photo from Saturday]

Per Curbed: "The development, called Eighty East Tenth, is designed by NAVA Companies and will offer a mix of one- through five-bedrooms, priced from $1.85 million. There’ll be no more than two apartments on each floor and range from around 925 square feet to over 5,000 square feet."

And here is the latest rendering...

Smoke Shop & Convenience Inc. slated for 14th Street

The coming-soon signage is up at 246 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue ... announcing the ever-popular shops that sell smoking supplies, sodas, beers, etc.

I believe the previous tenant here was a discount place called Gift Mart. (Anyone?)

Week in Grieview

[Photo Friday in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Jimmy Webb will make dreams come true with new rock 'n' roll boutique I Need More (Friday)

[Video] Nighttime along Avenue A on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12, 2001 (Monday)

Primary victory for Carlina Rivera in District 2 City Council race (Wednesday)

Ramones Ramp mural damaged in Queens (Tuesday)

The fake Christmas trees are now on display at the Astor Place Kmart (Wednesday)

Bali Kitchen now open on 4th Street (Tuesday)

A letter for new NYU students: 'think good thoughts about yourself and others' (Thursday)

Amid claims of being a rent-stablilized tenant, Raphael Toledano faces eviction from his home (Friday)


[At the Hurricane Harvey bake sale Wednesday at East Village Social via Derek Berg]

Mr. Bing will sell traditional Northern Chinese street crepes on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

The latest installment of I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Thursday)

So long Cher, the willow tree of La Plaza Cultural (Friday)

About Bodega, a start-up that aspires to be the new neighborhood market (Wednesday)

3rd Street development site on the market for $12 million (Monday)

48 Clinton St. for sale as development site (Tuesday)

The Urban Vision of Elaine Norman, an exhibit opening at City Lore on 1st Street (Wednesday)

Ummburger makes it official on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

NYC's first Nutella Cafe coming to University and 13th Street (Thursday)

Post office-replacing residential building with a Trader Joe's nearing the top on 14th Street (Monday)

Dueling notes at the Miracle Garden on 3rd Street (Tuesday)

Schmaltz on full display in new-look exterior at Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse (Wednesday)

... and there's new art as of this past week outside the Second Avenue F stop... this work is by @magdaloveart and @sonni ...



... and on the four-year anniversary of his death last Thursday, AllSoulzNYC ("an interactive encounter with loss, witness & community on the streets of the city") placed this photo of the memorial for LES Jewels at the Ninth Street entrance to Tompkins Square Park...



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At the 9th Street Block Party

[Photo by Steven]

The annual block party on Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue took place yesterday ... here are a few photos from the day via Derek Berg...























The people I talked with who attended the Block Party really enjoyed the festivities, which featured a good mix of businesses on the block, such as Love Gang, Enchantments, Tacos Morales, Superiority Burger and Confectionery (pictured below) ...


[Photo by Steven]

... outside vendors such as Ford Vintage ...


[Photo via @fordvintage]

... and residents selling their stuff on the stoops or street...


[Photo by Grant Shaffer]

Village View's semi-annual tag sale is today

The action is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Village View playground — enter at Fifth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Previously

A Jurassic Tompkins Square Park

I have no idea what this was about.

Photos by Bobby Williams...













Updated

And thanks to Grant Shaffer for a snippet of the action on Avenue A...

Clean around the fountain

From 4 to 5 p.m. today, local conceptual artist Kate Conroy created this project called "Clean Drinking Water" at the Temperance Fountain in Tompkins Square Park...(she had a permit to do this)... she spent the time cleaning the fountain...

Photos by Steven...

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day at Zaragoza tonight

[Image via Facebook]

Thanks to EVG reader Charles Hutchinson for this info on Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery, the small food shop at 215 Avenue A between 13th Street and 14th Street.

Five years ago, Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery, run by the ever-hospitable Martinez Family (Pompeyo, Maria and son Ruben), lost their license to sell beer.

This week, against all odds, they got it back. Please join them tonight when they celebrate Mexican Independence Day from 6 to 9 PM, with music by Mariachi Infante and singer Selene Muñoz, plus refreshments galore.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Making the case for Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery to serve beer

1st LinkNYC kiosk arrives on St. Mark's Place

This blessed event happened yesterday just west of Second Avenue near the former 7-Eleven.

Previously

Major design flaw of the early Macintosh finally revealed

They do not fit into city trash cans...



Fifth Street at the Bowery this morning.

Also, can someone please ID this model?

Updated 10:20 am

Thank you Richard! (See comments.)

This is an Apple Multiple Scan 15AV CRT monitor from 1996.

Gorillas in the mist (on the Bowery)

... and making music at Second Street... photo by Lola Saenz...

The power of 'One'

Hüsker Dü from 1987 with "Could You Be the One?"

RIP Grant Hart.

So long Cher, the willow tree of La Plaza Cultural

Workers arrived this morning at La Plaza Cultural to remove the willow tree in the southwest corner of the community garden here on Avenue C and Ninth Street.

The tree, nicknamed Cher, was in bad shape, as this shot of the rotting trunk shows...



EVG correspondent Steven shared these photos...











... and later via Bobby Williams...



Previously on EV Grieve:
A wake for the last willow trees at La Plaza Cultural

At the Weeping Willow Wake

Jimmy Webb will make dreams come true with new rock 'n' roll boutique I Need More

[Photo of Jimmy Webb for EVG by Walter Wlodarczyk]

Jimmy Webb, a familiar figure in the East Village during his long tenure as the manager and buyer at Trash & Vaudeville, is opening a rock 'n'roll boutique next month on the Lower East Side at 75A Orchard St. between Broome and Grand. Webb gave me a quick overview about the shop, called I Need More, which opens on Oct. 13.

Why did you decide to return to the retail business?
What else would I do? In my heart I never really left.

I’ve never really looked as myself as a seller of anything or even as someone in the retail business. What I do is I make dreams come true and I love doing it! I simply find what’s inside people, I help bring it out, and then I help them dress it up! I guess that’s the retail business, but the word "business" sounds so disconnected from "dream maker," and I’d rather make "dreams come true!"

Why did you pick the Lower East Side for the shop?
I didn’t pick the Lower East Side, or any special place for I Need More. I was very open to where the rock 'n' roll angels were leading me when I finally decided to open a store. A certain group of friends, I call them angels, guided me to the clarity that I needed to open a brick-and-mortar store. Loving all of New York City I was very open to anywhere in Manhattan. My heart and spirit is in ALL of New York City.

Of course the Lower East Side is a HUGE part of my life since I ran away and arrived in the city in 1975. So I wasn’t the least bit surprised when that second batch of angels ended up leading me right to 75 Orchard Street — 75A in fact! How cool is that? I take that leap of faith and run away to New York City in 1975 as a 16-year-old boy. Decades later another leap of faith leaving everything I know and ending up at 75A Orchard Street.

What can people expect from I Need More?
It’s about the spirit of New York City — past, present and future, And also the spirit of what art, music, and everything else that colors the world! It will be about everything that is real, raw, energetic, welcoming, passionate, dirty, beautiful and most of all — honest!

I’m a firm believer in "we are the future.” That "no future” pessimism doesn’t cut it with me. Like Joey Ramone singing “What a Wonderful World” or Iggy singing every song that Iggy sings. I Need More aims to please with every heartbeat within it. It’s here to make dreams come true.

Thanks to Walter Wlodarczyk for the photo. Find more of his work here.