The early morning fog today in Tompkins Square Park via @samcantread ...
Friday, January 12, 2018
The nonpayment of rent notice has arrived at East Village Cheese
[Photo by Dave on 7th]
As we've been noting, East Village Cheese at 80 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue has been closed since the first week of December. (Recaps here and here.)
Yesterday, legal documents from the Civil Court of the City of New York arrived on the front door with a "Notice of Petition of Non-Payment" (aka the rent is past due).
A quick look at the paperwork on the door shows that the East Village Cheese owners owe $32,697 ...
The balance goes back to July ... with the full amount of $6,489.60 due each month for rent since August, per the paperwork, which is dated Dec. 19.
On Dec. 21, co-owner Lobsang Tsultrim was spotted at the storefront along with a Remove All My Junk truck. Before some of the perishable items had been discarded, the aroma of ripe cheese had been noticeable in the adjacent storefront. (The power at East Village Cheese has also been off since early December.)
East Village Cheese moved here from Third Avenue in September 2015. By April 2016, regulars started worrying about the shop's longterm financial health. For good reason, as it turned out.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Neighbor: East Village Cheese, closed now for 2 weeks, is starting to smell
A 2ND MULCHFEST HAS BEEN ADDED BY OVERWHELMING POPULAR DEMAND
In case you missed last weekend's Mulchapalooza in Tompkins Square Park... the Parks Department is holding another one tomorrow and Sunday...
However, please note that on-site chipping will not take place. Per the Parks Department website: "all holiday trees dropped off at MulchFest sites will still be recycled." (But how can it be a MulchFest without any actual mulching happening in the Park?)
Anyway! Goggla has photos AND video from last weekend's festivities...
#MulchFest 2018 has been extended! You can drop off your🎄 for recycling at any of our 78 MulchFest locations through Sunday, January 14! Find a location near you at https://t.co/1vLwWlRGdw. pic.twitter.com/MBvamtZuTt
— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) January 8, 2018
However, please note that on-site chipping will not take place. Per the Parks Department website: "all holiday trees dropped off at MulchFest sites will still be recycled." (But how can it be a MulchFest without any actual mulching happening in the Park?)
Anyway! Goggla has photos AND video from last weekend's festivities...
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Thursday's parting shot
A little late to be storing for winter? Photo in Tompkins Square Park today via Steven...
[Updated] Report of a stabbing on 14th Street at 1st Avenue
[Photo by William Klayer]
The NYPD is investigating a stabbing that took place this morning around 11:45 outside the Community Grocery & Candy on 14th Street just west of First Avenue.
There aren't many details at the moment. Per Patch:
The knifeman was wearing a black leather jacket and ran away after attacking the victim, an NYPD spokeswoman said. He has not been arrested.
Police said the injured man was transported to the hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.
As of now, there isn't a description of the suspect or motive in the stabbing.
Updated 1/12
Town & Village has more on the story...
The two men had gotten into an argument inside a store that turned physical, police said, spilling out onto the street. At one point, one of the men took out a sharp object and slashed the 54-year-old victim. Police said both individuals are “known to the neighborhood,” though they don’t know the name of the suspect and haven’t arrested him.
The victim was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and released.
The suspect is described as Hispanic and about 6 ft. 2 inches tall and was wearing a long, leather coat.
Ayios Greek Rotisserie has closed on St. Mark's Place
[Photo yesterday by Steven]
Word is spreading that the Greek restaurant at 2 St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue/Cooper Square has called it a day.
One of the workers in a nearby kiosk told Steven that Ayios closed at the end of 2017. The gate has been down during advertised business hours of late. There's nothing mentioning a closure on their website. There's no answer on the phone... while Yelp is reporting that they have closed...
The restaurant opened on Aug. 31, 2016 at No. 2, whose previous tenant was the St. Mark's Ale House. They closed in July 2016 after 21 years in business.
H/T EVG reader Paul!
Polish G. I. Delicatessen signage comes down on 1st Avenue
[Reader-submitted photo]
Workers yesterday removed the Polish G. I. Delicatessen awning at 109 First Ave. between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.
The space is undergoing renovations for what is believed to be an outpost of Shawarma House, which specializes in halal Turkish dishes from a quick-serve space on West 39th Street and a cart on Staten Island.
Polish G. I. Delicatessen, the Eastern European specialty foods shop, closed this past July after 21 years in business. Read more about that closure here.
Sweet Generation is 3 today
Sweet Generation, the bakery at 130 First Ave. between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place, is celebrating its third anniversary (birthday?) today... to celebrate, there are some freebies while supplies last.
Sweet Generation partners with several nonprofit organizations and local high schools to create an internship program that teaches baking, food safety, customer service, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to teens and young adults from low-income communities.
Report: LPC rejects glassy addition for landmarked 827-831 Broadway
[DXA Studio]
On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) nixed the reflective, four-story addition proposed for 827-831 Broadway between 12th Street and 13th Street.
Curbed has coverage here. A few excerpts:
The Commission’s verdict followed hours of public testimony, where most people spoke in opposition to the project describing it as “overwhelming,” “grotesque,” and “atrocious,” among other descriptors.
But not everyone hated the proposal.
There were many who came out in support of the four-story rooftop addition too, most notably a number of art gallery owners, who praised the design and the aesthetic.
“This is a great homage to the existing building,” said Arnie Zimmerman, an art gallery owner.
“This impresses me in that the scale is exciting,” said Sally Wasserman, who lives in a building that neighbors the project.
Commissioner Michael Devonshire reportedly praised architect Jordan Rogove, though thought that this particular addition "may have been more appropriate as a de Kooning museum out in a field in East Hampton."
The LPC ultimately told the design team to return with a revised proposal, as Curbed reported.
This past November, the LPC voted to landmark the circa-1866 cast-iron buildings where artists Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Paul Jenkins, among others, lived and worked.
That decision spared the address from demolition. As previously reported, Quality Capital and Caerus Group bought the parcel in 2015 for $60 million. The deal reportedly included 30,000 square feet of air rights, which would be put to use for a 14-floor office building.
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) had campaigned for more than 18 months to help preserve these buildings.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: 14-story building planned for 827 Broadway
An appeal to landmark these buildings on Broadway
There's a proposed addition for the recently landmarked 827-831 Broadway
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Morning routine
Derek Berg photographed this man in Tompkins Square Park this morning... taking part in some deep-breathing exercises that also involved rubbing snow on his head and bare chest.
Report: The Landmark Sunshine Cinema closes on Jan. 21
The owners of the the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on East Houston have made its closing date official: Jan. 21.
Deadline Hollywood broke the story last night.
Ted Mundorff, CEO of Landmark Theatres, took a pragmatic tone when reached by Deadline. “We’ve known it was coming,” he said. No special programming or commemoration is planned on the final weekend, he confirmed. “There’s nothing to celebrate.”
The Sunshine moved up "Dog Day Afternoon" one weekend, and the Al Pacino classic will play alongside "Super Fly" as the theater's last midnight movies on Jan. 19-20.
To recap, last May, the Post reported that East End Capital and K Property Group bought the building for $31.5 million with plans to convert it to a mixed-use development with retail and upstairs office space. The site includes 20,000 square feet of air rights.
In November, the new owners of the building housing the theater filed demolition permits to take down the three-level structure here between Eldridge and Forsyth, per The Lo-Down.
Landmark reportedly had the opportunity to buy the property, but decided against it after CB3 voted down a proposal for a full liquor license for a cafe in the theater in 2012 for pre- and post-movie drinks and dinner. Landmark now offers those amenities at a new theater on West 57th Street.
The Sunshine had been expected to close in early 2018. The recent arrival of some special screenings at the theater gave hope to some Sunshine regulars that, perhaps, the place would remain open for a few months longer...
... and there was a tweet from the Sunshine about the Oscars...
We'll be back live-tweeting #TheOscars on March 4 so be sure to mark your calendars, everyone!
— Sunshine Cinema (@sunshine_cinema) January 8, 2018
The Sunshine opened on Dec. 21, 2001.
[2001 photo via Facebook]
Built in 1898, the Sunshine Cinema building was formerly the Houston Hippodrome motion picture theatre and a Yiddish vaudeville house.
[Photo taken during the BombCyclone last Thursday]
Unleashed by Petco is unloading its pet supplies as store is closing on 2nd Avenue
After two-plus years at 31-33 Second Ave., the Unleashed by Petco shop is shutting its doors.
Sale — Nothing held back! — signs are up in the windows, as this photo by EVG reader EJ show. An employee said that Jan. 23 is their last day here between Second Street and Third Street in the retail space of the East Luxe rental building. Not sure at the moment why this Unleashed is closing.
The specialty retailer of pet food, supplies and services opened here in August 2015.
The San Diego-based retailer operates more than 1,500 stores in the United States under the Petco and Unleashed by Petco names.
Developer Ben Shaoul bought this property for $5.6 million in 2011. He later added three floors to the existing building … then unloaded it for $29 million to real-estate investor Sunny Yung.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Ben Shaoul planning a 3-story addition at 31-33 Second Ave.
Bracing for 3 new floors at 31-33 Second Ave.
Checking in on the work in progress at 31-33 2nd Ave., where Ben Shaoul is adding 3 new floors
Ben Shaoul's bland new 2nd Avenue building is called The East Luxe
[Photo of 31-33 Second Ave. from 2009]
PS122 is now Performance Space New York, returns to 1st Avenue starting tonight
[Photo from Dec. 1 by Steven]
Performance Space 122 (PS 122) has changed its name to Performance Space New York as it returns to its its newly renovated home on First Avenue and Ninth Street for the inaugural performances in the refurbished space.
The announcement came yesterday in a series of posts on Instagram...
The New York Times has a preview of the new space in this article.
The rebranding process, as the new name indicates, involves an effort to make Performance Space more welcoming to a wider audience. In its grungier former life, which began in 1980 when a group of artists took over an abandoned schoolhouse on First Avenue, the space fostered a certain sense of community, but it didn’t quite scream “come in.”
And some thoughts from new executive artistic director Jenny Schlenzka...
"If our audience could be a representation of the city, that would be a huge success," she said, noting that downtown dance and theater audiences tend to be predominantly white. But the idea of separate audience-building initiatives doesn’t interest her. "I've been in these meetings about 'Oh, we need to diversify our audience,' and it’s always, 'Let's do a side program' or 'Let's do a community day.' But I don’t want a community day. I want the community to be the main program."
Performance Space New York hosts its first show here tonight with the start of the annual (and last) Coil festival. Find that program here.
The East Village Series runs from Feb. 17 to June 30, and "will examine the history of Performance Space and its neighborhood, reflecting on forces that have shaped them: gentrification, the AIDS epidemic, and punk and club culture."
Ms. Schlenzka likened it to “the way that in psychoanalysis, you have to know your past to free yourself to conquer the future.”
Nostalgia, she added, is off limits: “We have this amazing past that in my opinion not enough people know about. But it can drag us down, and that’s a fine line to navigate.”
Find more about the East Village Series here.
Aside from Performance Space New York, the 122 Community Center will house the Alliance for Positive Change, Mabou Mines, Painting Space 122, and a fifth tenant to be announced.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Here's the sidewalk bridge-free corner of 9th Street and 1st Avenue — and the 122 Community Center
Come along on a tour of the under-renovation 122 Community Center on 1st Avenue
Soogil brings Korean dining to 4th Street
[Photo from Jan. 1]
Soogil has opened at 108 E. Fourth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
The restaurant is from Soogil Lim, a South Korea native who previously worked as sous chef at Daniel and executive chef at Hanjan.
Here's a preview via Eater:
Combining that experience, Lim has created a menu of vegetables, meat, and seafood. Dishes in each category include sweet potato beignets with chilled white kimchi soup; spicy soft tofu flan with shrimp, squid, and manila clams in a seafood broth; and sliced pork belly with mini kimchi-radish rolls. Drinks focus on Korean spirits, wine, beer, and twists on classic French cocktails — rather than the traditional French 75 with Champagne, lemon juice, gin, and simple syrup, the French 108e has sake, Champagne, and lemon juice.
You can find the full menu at the Soogil website here.
Soogil is open Monday through Thursday from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to midnight, and Sunday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The space was previously home to Wasan East Village, which closed last summer after seven years in business.
Ben & Jerry's now hiring on St. Mark's Place
A hiring sign is now up at the incoming Ben & Jerry's at 24 St. Mark's Place (above left)... in case you are looking for a job or missed the news in late November that the brand was returning to the neighborhood with a retail outlet (or both)...
Previously on EV Grieve:
7 years later, a Ben & Jerry's is returning to the East Village
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Samoa's 'Candy Coated Evil' opens tomorrow at Howl! Happening
Via the EVG inbox...
Howl! Happening is pleased to present "Candy Coated Evil," a solo exhibition by the multifaceted Samoa, curated by artist and performer Kembra Pfahler.
The exhibition encompasses the full range of Samoa’s diverse art forms — an installation recreating his now-legendary Candy Coated Evil store, which opened in 1996 within The Pink Pony; costumes and props from his performances and music groups; and paintings that capture his deep experience of living in New York City. A major element of the artist’s show are live events — performances by Samoa and Kembra Pfahler, as well as a panel discussion, and an evening of video and film. The exhibition continues through Feb. 11.
The opening reception is tomorrow (Wednesday!) night starting at 6. Find more details on the exhibit as well as the dates and times of the special events here.
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is located at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue.
Noted
[Photo by Derek Berg]
Several EVG readers noted these canvases on the fence at Second Avenue and Seventh Street this afternoon/evening ... featuring Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley, Jesus, JFK, President Trump, former President Obama, among other people ... and places...
[Photo by Raquel Shapira]
The artist, Reyaz Nadi, apparently wasn't around...
Stranger in town
Goggla shares these photos of a young (immature!) red-tailed hawk that has been hanging around Tompkins Square Park and Avenue A the past few days...
Goggla notes that there have been several young hawks migrating through the area this winter. Since Christmas, she can confirm three different ones in/around the Park... and for whatever reasons Christo, the Park's resident red-tailed hawk, has been unusually tolerant of this one...
Bella Tile showroom closes on 1st Avenue
Multiple EVG readers have shared the news that he family-owned Bella Tile — established in 1983 — has closed its showroom on First Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street.
This sign greets potential customers...
However, as the sign notes, the Bella Tile Store Room remains open around the corner at 408 E. 11th St. ...
I reached out to a member of the Giurdanella family, who run the business and own the building on First Avenue, to see what might be happening with the space.
The renderings for the all-new 180 2nd Ave. include Leonardo DiCaprio on a Citi Bike
[No. 180 from August 2017]
During the December holiday break, I noted that gut renovations were underway at 180 Second Ave. between 11th Street and 12th Street.
According to the previously approved work permits on file with the city, workers are converting the building to residential use and adding two floors in the process. Permits show that there will be one residential unit on each floor.
A tipster shared the renderings for the building... via Ole Sondresen Architect...
And the description:
This East Village residential building is elegantly comprised of four 2 bedroom units and two 1 bedroom homes. Each unit features its own private terrace with open views down 2nd Avenue. The apartments are composed of two programmatic wooden boxes housing closets, bathrooms, and mechanicals which allows for an open loft-like feeling in the rest of the living space. The building is designed to earn LEED Platinum and Passive House certification, integrating a green roof with solar hot water panels for each residential unit. Reclaimed wood planters are incorporated into each terrace allowing lush plantings to liven the facade. The concrete structure is left with exposed joints and formwork markings, juxtaposing textured concrete surfaces against refined wood and glass. The building's order is achieved through the honesty of materials and the clarity of its design.
Meanwhile, a closer inspection of the rendering reveals a Citi Biker facing the wrong direction in the Second Avenue bike lane...
Celebrities-Who-Citi-Bike watchers will recognize that scalie...
Leo!
As for the ground-floor retail space, the Ninth Ward, the previous tenant, is expected to return.
The Chicago-based Polish National Alliance was the previous owner of No. 180. The building housed the Józef Pilsudski Institute of America, which is the largest Polish-American research institution specializing in the recent history of Poland and Central Eastern Europe. (They found a new home in Greenpoint.) An LLC bought the building for $6.75 million in June 2014, per public records.
Previously on EV Grieve:
2nd Avenue bar Ninth Ward is closing for good on Feb. 14; building rumored to be demolished
Residential conversion underway at 180 2nd Ave.; the Ninth Ward expected to return
CB3 committees to hear update from city on proposed 14th Street tech hub
[Rendering via NYCEDC]
Tomorrow (Wednesday) night, there's a joint meeting between two Community Board 3 committees to hear an update from the city on the "proposed workforce development and digital skills training center" at 124 E. 14th St.
This is the so-called tech hub at the city-owned site that P.C. Richard currently leases on 14th Street at Irving Place.
Last February, the de Blasio administration unveiled the renderings for Civic Hall featuring "a tech-focused work and event space" that will anchor the 20-plus story building.
Per the city's news release on Civic Hall:
“This new hub will be the front-door for tech in New York City. People searching for jobs, training or the resources to start a company will have a place to come to connect and get support. No other city in the nation has anything like it. It represents this City’s commitment to a strong and inclusive tech ecosystem,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio.
As you may recall, this announcement prompted another push by local residents who fear that the fabric of the neighborhood will be destroyed by a host of new developments south of Union Square along Broadway, University Place and Fourth Avenue. (And not to mention the Moxy hotel coming to 11th Street.)
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) has been leading the efforts behind a rezoning of the area to enforce some height restrictions and affordable housing requirements. The GVSHP lays out their case here.
The tech-hub project needs Planning Commission and City Council approval.
Tomorrow's meeting of the Land Use, Zoning, Public & Private Housing Committee and Economic Development Committee starts at 6:30 p.m. This is listed as the first item to be discussed. The meeting takes place at the University Settlement, Speyer Hall, 184 Eldridge St. between Rivington and Delancey.
For more background, NY1 covered the story on Saturday here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Behold Civic Hall, the high-tech future of Union Square — and NYC
Speaking out against a 'Silicon Alley' in this neighborhood
Monday, January 8, 2018
JAM Paper & Envelope is closing on 3rd Avenue
[Photo via EVG reader Gwen]
A "store is closing" sign is now up in the window at JAM Paper & Envelope on Third Avenue between 14th Street and 15th Street.
The home-office stationery and supply shop will close at the end of the month, an employee confirmed. The online business will continue in operation. I reached out to the JAM main office to find out more about the closure.
For now, everything in the store is 50-percent off, per the sign.
Here's a little history via the JAM website:
The story of JAM Paper & Envelope begins in New York City in 1954, when Henry Berger opened Hudson Envelope as a paper and envelope wholesaler and printing service. In 1983, Henry's son-in-law, Michael Jacobs, would open Hudson Envelope's first retail store in New Jersey called JAM Paper & Envelope.
Hudson's first Manhattan location arrived in 1978 ... and in 1983 the first JAM store debuted.
JAM represents the first letters of the owners' first names — Janet, Andrew and Michael Jacobs, the family members who run the company.
The website notes that JAM has had over 10 different Manhattan locations. This JAM, their lone retail outlet in the city now, has been at 135 Third Ave. since 2004.
The standalone JAM addendum next door was demolished in 2008, as Jeremiah Moss noted.
[Photo from 2008 by Jeremiah Moss]
That lot is now the long-stalled 16-floor condoplex.
Gabay's Outlet has closed on Avenue A
After 77 years of doing business in this neighborhood, Gabay's Outlet has closed on Avenue A between 12th Street and 13th Street.
The designer discount store closed for good at the end of the year.
Third-generation owner Joseph Gabay shared this announcement via Facebook on Dec. 29:
It is with lots of emotion that I am announcing the closing of Gabay's Outlet. We are a third-generation business that has been operating in the east village for well over 50 yrs. I would like to pay tribute to my grandfather who started selling out of a pushcart on the street, my father and myself for lasting through the test of time. It's plain and simple, we are closing because our business model does not work in today's society. Amazon has had a huge impact and made it impossible to compete. THE GOOD NEWS is we have be blessed with some good fortune that will allow me many new opportunities. The future has never been brighter for myself and my family. We had a great run! So far!
The Gabay family owns the assemblage of buildings on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place that will reportedly yield to a 7-story office building. The 99-year leasehold for the properties was reported to be a little more than $150 million.
Gabay's grandfather Sam, a Turkish immigrant, began selling extras from garment factory floors in a pushcart on the Lower East Side in the 1920s. He eventually opened his own shop at 1 St. Mark's Place in 1940, one of several locations the store would call home in a 10-block radius before settling in at 225 First Ave. in 1970. A rent increase forced Gabay's to move from First Avenue to Avenue A in 2014.
Previously on EV Grieve:
After 45 years on 1st Avenue, Gabay's Outlet is on the move
Report: NE corner of St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue will yield to a 7-story office building
Dan & John's Wings looking to expand on 1st Avenue
[Photo from Dec. 23]
The owners of Dan & John's Wings, which opened two-plus years ago in the small storefront at 135 First Ave., are looking to expand into the larger (and currently vacant) space next door.
The owners of the Buffalo-style wings operation are on the CB3-SLA docket tonight for a new liquor license. The proposed hours, according to the paperwork (PDF here) posted on the CB3 website, are noon to midnight daily. The expanded space would allow for 10 tables seating 35 patrons and 1 6-seat bar. (The current Dan & John's just has a few stools as well as a beer-wine license.)
The space has been empty since last March when Rustico, the cafe that specialized in crêpes and Italian coffee here between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street, closed.
Dan & John's opened their first restaurant here in October 2015. They are also regulars on the Smorgasburg circuit and last year started selling their wings at Citi Field for Mets game.
CB3's SLA committee will hear this and other applications tonight at 6:30 at the Public Hotel, 17th Floor, Sophia Room, 215 Chrystie St. between Houston and Stanton.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Dan and John's Wings opening a storefront on 1st Avenue
M&G Foodstuff arrives on Avenue B
We've (OK, Salim and I anyway) have been watching the retail space at 26 Avenue B between Second Street and Third Street ... there's now signage for M&G Foodstuff ...
M&G is a catering and events company (you can read about them here). There aren't any plans for a retail component here at the moment.
This storefront is on the ground floor of the new(ish) condoplex called Poppy Lofts.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] 6-story apartment building ready to rise from the former Croxley Ales beer garden
[Updated] Report: 28 Avenue B has been evacuated
Full-stop work order served at construction site adjacent to evacuated Avenue B building
Resident wants stuff back that workers took from not abandoned apartment
Is 26 Avenue B ready for its new building now?
Avenue B condos near former heroin hot spot named Poppy Lofts
Another applicant looking to open in the former East Village Tavern space on Avenue C
There's another interested party looking to open a bar-restaurant in the former East Village Tavern space on Avenue C at 10th Street.
The applicants will appear before CB3's SLA committee tonight for a new liquor license.
There's not a lot of information on the questionnaire (PDF here) posted on the CB3 website. The configuration shows 10 tables serving 40 people and one bar with 15 seats. The proposed hours are 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday; until 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
According to the paperwork, the space will serve "Classic and New American cuisine," including a variety of sandwiches... as the sample menu with the questionnaire shows...
This is the third applicant to kick the tires on the space since East Village Tavern closed here in November 2016 after eight years in business. Last spring, the operators of a Miami-based restaurant called the Irish Times Pub and Eatery looked at opening an outpost here. Those plans never materialized. In December, CB3 didn't approve a license for the Snow Leopard, a jazz club whose applicants didn't have any ownership experience.
This item will be heard during CB3's SLA committee meeting tonight (6:30) at the Public Hotel, 17th Floor, Sophia Room, 215 Chrystie St. between Houston and Stanton.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Week in Grieview
[Photo on 2nd Avenue yesterday by Derek Berg]
Strand co-owner Fred Bass dies (Thursday)
Building that housed Lucky Cheng's on 1st Avenue now on the auction block (Tuesday)
It's no longer always Friday: TGI Friday's has closed on Union Square (Thursday)
The latest I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Friday)
Caviarteria Beluga Bar looking to bring fine fish eggs and champagne to 9th Street (Wednesday)
Last call at the Grassroots Tavern (Tuesday)
It bomb cycloned (Thursday)
[Avenue A on Thursday]
Are Kmart's days numbered on Astor Place? (Friday)
The state of national retailers in NYC; Dunkin’ Donuts tops the list again (Tuesday)
Pinky's Space now open on 1st Street (Wednesday)
Frisson Espresso opens on 3rd Avenue (Tuesday)
Yerba Buena closes on Avenue A; relocates this summer to Thompson Street (Friday)
Former Pourt space for lease on Cooper Square (Tuesday)
New Year's Ray (Monday)
Here's your Vape N Smoke signage on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)
Boarding up Mamani Pizza on Avenue A (Tuesday)
Second Avenue cab crash (Monday)
Haque Convenience Store is now the Beer & Smoke Shop on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)
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