Former Jennifer Way's Bakery space for rent

Jennifer's Way Bakery closed at the end of the summer here on 10th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. At the time, owner Jennifer Esposito, the Brooklyn-born actress, said she would be moving the organic, gluten-free bakery.

While there isn't any word of a new location, the old spot is now on the market as the for rent sign arrived last week.

The bakery opened in March 2013.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Jennifer Esposito's Jennifer's Way Bakery is moving from 10th Street; destination unknown

The rent is due at Dojo Noodle House

Dojo Noodle House has been closed since mid-August here on Avenue B near Third Street. At the time, a sign on the door noted a September return. That never happened.

This past week, the landlord taped some legal documents to the front door for ownership ... with the notice that the restaurant owes some recent base rent and an assortment of legal fees that add up to $18,903.32 ...

The small restaurant opened as Dojo Izakaya in November 2014 and received positive notices. This Dojo was an offshoot of chef David Bouhadana's Sushi Dojo on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street. (Bouhadana reportedly parted ways with the Dojo camp the following year.)

80 E. 10th St. tops out

Just noting that 80 E. 10th St., the 10-floor condoplex at Fourth Avenue, topped out this past week.

The flags are now flying atop the development called Eighty East Tenth ...



There will be 12 residences in total at No. 80. More background on this project here.

And how was your holiday weekend?

Photo on Avenue D between Ninth Street and 10th Street via @davidpiz ...

Art is what you can get away with

EVG regular Raquel Shapira bumped into Paris-based artist-illustrator Tomadee, who's in town for a few days... he brought three of these posters with him... he put one up in Bushwick and two in Manhattan, including here on Avenue A...

Week in Grieview

[Sky view from 6th Street]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

The International Bar closing, merging with the Coal Yard on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) ... iBar signage arrives at the Coal Yard ahead of tomorrow's merger (Wednesday)

Tompkins Square Library hosting the East Village Arts Festival on Dec. 13 (Tuesday)

Report: Participants were paid to take part in a rally in support of 9th Street dorm project (Monday) ... Claims of paid pro-dorm supporters are 'fake news' says developer Gregg Singer (Friday)

Thanksgiving at the Bowery Mission (Wednesday)

Queens-based bakery bringing Hawaiian-inspired desserts to 9th Street (Monday)

Space Mabi is open on 1st Avenue (Friday)

A look at Orchard Street's transformation into the 1970s for Martin Scorsese's Jimmy Hoffa film (Sunday)

Topping off Thirteen East + West on 13th Street (Monday)

The Strummer days of Christmas (Tuesday)

Potted palm mystery in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

The 26th annual Unsilent Night returns on Dec. 17 (Tuesday)

Swiss Institute revamp now in sidewalk bridge phase (Wednesday)

A new generation for 'Blank Generation' (Saturday)

Wax on: Avänt Candle takes long-empty Avenue B storefront (Monday)

Former Caffe Bene space under renovation on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

Boarding up the former Papaya King on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

Tompkins Square Bar opens at 110 Avenue A (Monday)

Miracle on Ninth Street now open for the holidays (Saturday)

Kellogg's Union Square cafe closer to snapping, crackling and popping (Friday)

...and via EdenB ... there's a homemade memorial for Lil Peep outside the now-closed Webster Hall on 11th Street ... the rapper played at the venue back in April...



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Dead leaves and Lime-A-Ritas in Tompkins Square Park

Scenes from this morning...

Mom jailed for leaving toddler outside Dallas BBQ speaks out 20 years later

The Post has a feature today on Anette Sørensen, the Danish woman who made front-page news 20-plus years ago after being arrested for leaving her baby in a stroller while dining at Dallas BBQ

She said that she was treated unfairly by the city and the media, and never had the chance to tell her side of the story.

Sørensen, and the baby's father, a playwright named Exavier Wardlaw, reportedly stopped for dinner at Dallas BBQ on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place in May 1997. She left her daughter Liv, 14 months old at the time, outside sleeping in her stroller.

I had lived in New York [during school], so, of course, I knew that I didn’t see prams all over the city," said Sørensen. "But ... I had been living in Copenhagen, I had given birth to my daughter in Copenhagen, I was raised myself in Denmark ... That’s just how you do it in Denmark."

Someone called 911 about the child. Sørensen said at the time that she and Wardlaw were keeping an eye on the child.

Officers charged both parents with child endangerment and Wardlaw with disorderly conduct.

Sørensen spent 36 hours in prison, where she said she didn’t get much sympathy from the other inmates. Liv was put in foster care by the city’s Administration for Children’s Services. The case made the front page of the Post.

“I didn’t know where my child was,” said Sørensen. “I don’t think there’s any greater punishment than to have your child taken away from you.”

Mother and daughter were reunited four days later.

In 1998, Sørensen, who nows lives in Germany, sued the city for $20 million.

Per the Daily Mail:

She was awarded $66,400 by a civil jury, which found only that she should not have been strip-searched and that the city commonly failed to advise arrested foreigners of their right to notify their consulates.

In 2012, she used the experience as a basis for a novel published in Denmark. Now she has launched a crowdfunding campaign to get it translated into English. Liv, the 14 month old at the center of this story, created the graphic design for the book's cover. She's 21 now.

Miracle on Ninth Street now open for the holidays

[Photo yesterday by Bobby Williams]

For the fourth consecutive year, Miracle on Ninth Street — a Christmas inspired pop-up bar — is open for the season (as of yesterday) inside Mace, the cocktail bar at 649 E. Ninth St. at Avenue C.

Per Facebook:

Escape the cold and soak in the festive atmosphere while enjoying a glass of Jingle Ball Nog or a Christmapolitan.

Miracle on Ninth is open 11/24 through 12/24. The pop-up ... will be open Mon-Fri 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. & Sat-Sun 2 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Previously

La Palapa turns 17

[Image via Facebook]

La Palapa, the Mexican restaurant at 77 St. Mark's Place between First Avenue and Second Avenue, is celebrating its 17th birthday... Per their Facebook page: "Love our fabulous team, guests and the whole La Palapa family! Special people make a special place."

Seems like a good time to revisit our January 2014 interview with owner Barbara Sibley (right here).

A new generation for 'Blank Generation'

In honor of the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day, Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ "Blank Generation" received the reissue treatment on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.

The Village Voice has a piece on the reissue, and Hell's initial reluctance to take part:

He’d already mined his memories and exorcised his demons from the period in his colorful autobiography, "I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp," and he wasn’t exactly eager to resurface those emotions.

On top of that, as Hell admits, he’s scrupulous and a control freak. “I knew it was going to be really demanding, because whether or not I thought that it was meaningful or justifiable — as opposed to being a marketing idea — it was going to take a lot of attention from me,” he says. “And it did. I oversaw every aspect of it, but as it went along, I got more engaged and now I’m feeling really satisfied and fulfilled.”

Hell, a longtime East Village resident, signed copies yesterday at Generation Records on Thompson Street. He'll do the same this afternoon (starting at 2) out at Rough Trade in Williamsburg.

Back to the Voice:

Working on the reissue of "Blank Generation" certainly evoked the time and place, mainly the essence of the Lower East Side in 1976, but it was as if he was observing moments rather than reliving them. For Hell, it’s another world entirely.

“It’s really like you’re looking at another person, but you know at the same time that it’s actually you,” Hell says. “You can feel a kind of affection or horror at this person that you once were, but it’s only personal in a very uncanny, eerie way. It’s not like a direct nostalgia because you were somebody else at that time. There is this sense of fondness — it’s almost a pattern for some previous self.”

Friday's parting shot

The view downtown tonight via Bobby Williams...

'Gone' too soon

Singer-songwriter Tommy Keene died in his sleep Wednesday. He was 59.

The video here is for his 1984 song "Places That Are Gone," which shows him at his power-pop best.

Tall tall trees are here

The trees are arriving today outside the St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue at 10th Street... these 50 footers extra tall ones are out first... this stand is run by Tree Riders NYC, who also offer cargo-bike delivery service...

Updated 5:15 p.m.

EVG regular Lola Sāenz shared these photos... more trees on the scene...



...some smaller ones too...