Week in Grieview

[Photo from yesterday in Tompkins Square Park]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

After nearly 26 years, Three of Cups is closing on 1st Avenue; Emmy Squared arriving next? (Thursday)

Police searching for suspect in weekend attacks on Avenue B (Tuesday)

Report: Kushner Co. filed false paperwork with the city over number of rent-regulated tenants (Monday)

The Marshal takes possession of the Subway (sandwich shop) on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

Goodbye Sudan (Tuesday)

Cocktail specialist looking to take over Double Wide on 12th Street (Monday)

EastVille Comedy Club space for rent on 4th Street (Tuesday)

Bookstore coming to the former St. Mark's Bookshop on 3rd Street (Wednesday)

A diner for the former Empire Biscuit space on Avenue A? (Tuesday)

The Brant Foundation's 6th Street outpost looks close to completion (Thursday)

Positive vibes: Aum Shanti on the move to larger space on 14th Street (Monday)

Vintage photobooth finds a new East Village home (Friday)

A few more details about the incoming Moxy East Village on 11th Street (Thursday)

Dim Sum Palace planned for 59 2nd Ave. (Monday)

Target is hiring on 14th Street and Avenue A (Monday)

24 2nd Ave. getting its limestone exoskeleton (Tuesday)

The former Sunshine Cinema will be demolished in 2 months (Thursday)

It snowed (Wednesday ... and here ... and here ... and here)


[Photo Wednesday by Derek Berg]

... and this past week workers removed a tree outside the former I-bar space on First Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place... apparently the tree was diseased and needed to come down...



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Sticky fingers: Stolen tablets and smartphones

The 9th Precinct tweeted this yesterday... the NYPD is looking for these guys who are suspects in a burglary at Atomic Wings on First Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street...

The #NYPD is asking your assistance in identifying the persons pictured below #wanted for a burglary in the #EastVillage. On March 21 at 10:16AM one entered @AtomicWings on 1St Ave & removed 5 tablets. If you have any information we ask you to 📞 #800577TIPS pic.twitter.com/8f1wAvnnhS

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) March 24, 2018

...and more sticky fingers...

Do you recognize this person with Sticky Fingers? On March 11 at 1:50AM she removed 2 phones from a victims purse while she was wearing it inside a bar on #Bowery. If you can ID her 📞 #800577TIPS #NYPD #EastVillage pic.twitter.com/6UrT0E0XJF

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) March 23, 2018

Christo and Dora are pretty much doing it all the time now

Christo and Dora have been busy mating this past week (or so)... Steven, who shared these photos yesterday, and others saw the red-tailed hawks mate on their namesake building, the Christodora House on Avenue B... then an hour later in a tree in Tompkins Square Park.

Afterwards, they hung out together for 30 minutes...



Goggla figures that Dora is due to lay eggs very soon. Christo and Dora have to date raised 10 hawklets.

A morning scene in Tompkins Square Park

East side of the Park ... along the benches between the Seventh Street and Eighth Street entrances... a pool of blood, a blood-stained scarf and disposable gloves used by EMTs.

Via @greally

The Girls Club Comix Fest is happening NOW

Support Girls and Women Artists at our Girls Club Comix Fest Today 11am - 5pm. Workshops, panels, vendors and a special #comix #hackathon!!! Plus an exclusive #Girl made animation premiere!!! 👩🏿‍🎨💪🏾

A post shared by The Lower Eastside Girls Club (@girlsclubny) on Mar 24, 2018 at 6:11am PDT

Apologies for the very late notice... but if you are out and about today... until 5 p.m at the Girls Club, on Avenue D at Eighth Street.

This Saturday from 11AM to 5PM join us for the Third Annual Lower Eastside Girls Club Comix Fest!!! Hosted by Fly @fly_peops !!! Presentations by: Sabrina Jones @sabjones, Regine Sawyer @rslockettdown, Javier Cruz Winnik @thelearningcurv, Ray Felix @bronxheroes !!! Comix Market featuring member-created zines “The Big Storm Game” and “Our Time”. !!! Comix #Hackathon!!!Workshops!!! Premiere of our member created short animation: “The Wonders of the Lower Eastside” !!! Readings of girl-written spoken word poetry!!! 👩🏿‍🎨 All fun- All day! #comix #art #girlpower

A post shared by The Lower Eastside Girls Club (@girlsclubny) on Mar 21, 2018 at 11:29pm PDT

And how was your National Puppy Day?

Video from outside Third Street Music School Settlement on 11th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Happy #nationalpuppyday! This pup really wanted to imagine the possibilities at Third Street #puppy #pupday #puppyday #pitsofinstagram

A post shared by Third Street Music School (@3rdstreetnyc) on Mar 23, 2018 at 12:36pm PDT

It follows

A Place To Bury Strangers will release their new album, Dead Oceans, on April 13. The above video is for "Never Coming Back."

Memorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire victims

[Photo by Derek Berg]

Sunday marks the 107th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ... ahead of that, volunteers are out today taking part in the chalking project (organized by Street Pictures), writing the name and age of the victims in front of the buildings where they lived on the Lower East Side.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the city's history ... causing the death of 146 garment workers (mostly young women) who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths.

The Triangle Waist Company was located on the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place just east of Washington Square Park.

Find more information at The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition.

Derek Berg also spotted this today... footsteps on St. Mark's Place that lead toward Greene Street and Washington Place...

Vintage photobooth finds a new East Village home

[On the way to Avenue C]

Early last month, Trixie told me about her vintage photobooth that needed a new home.

It had resided inside HiFi these past five-plus years. She thought that the bar taking over for HiFi on Avenue A would keep it. Unfortunately, the proprietors of Coney Island Baby weren't able to accommodate the photobooth.

This morning, Trixie, a longtime East Village resident, reports that she finally found a taker for the Autophoto Model 14 photobooth, which started its career at Nunley's Carousel and Amusement Park in Baldwin, Long Island, in the 1960s.

"We talked to a lot of people, so many people, and had some very interesting leads, but in the end we were able to keep it in the East Village," she said.

The photobooth has made the blocks-long journey to Bedlam, a bar that opened in 2010 on 40 Avenue C between Third Street and Fourth Streets.

I'm only vaguely familiar with Bedlam.

"It’s a neat place with a lush Victorian feel. Lots of wonderful taxidermy and anatomical specimens. It’s beautifully appointed," Trixie said. "The photobooth is there now, set up and ready for action.

"I think that Bedlam will be a good fit and make a happy home for our dear old photobooth."

The booth was previously at the Lakeside Lounge, which closed in April 2012, on Avenue B.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Lakeside's photobooth has a new home

Report of a fire on the Bowery and 2nd Street

Several EVG readers reported a large NYPD presence on the Bowery and Second Street (aka Joey Ramone Place) just after 7 a.m. ...

FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 2 E 2 ST, MIXED OCCUPANCY FIRE ON THE 3RD FLR,

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) March 23, 2018

Witnesses on the street level said that it didn't appear to be too serious...



Will update later if there are any further fire developments here...

H/T Lola Sāenz

EV Grieve Etc.: A 'crisis point' for the NYCHA; stand-out dishes at Mama Fina on Avenue A

[Flashback Friday to Monday morning, 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's]

A "crisis point" for the NYCHA (Curbed) ... Cuomo says no state budget unless NYCHA improvements approved (ABC-7)

NYPD rejects request for records on hit-and-run killing of East Village resident Neftaly Ramirez last year (Streetsblog ... previously)

De Blasio donor testifies the mayor told him "do what you’ve got to do" with illegal contributions (Daily News)

The changing landscape of small businesses in the East Village, and what it means to the community (Thirteen/MetroFocus)

On Avenue A, Mama Fina serves Filipino food with "exquisite results" (Eater ... previously)

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire this weekend (The Lo-Down)

A visit to the KGB Bar on Fourth Street (amNewYork)

Club Cumming on Sixth Street looking to change their method of operation to allow for live music/DJs (Page Six)

NYC population reaches a record high (Curbed)

If you're interested in speaking out against Albany seeking to repeal Residential FAR Caps (The Municipal Arts Society of New York)

Eggs in Dora's future? (Laura Goggin Photography)

About the East Village subbing for Hell's Kitchen in "Jessica Jones" (Variety)

Madonna pics from the early 1980s (Dazed ... previously)

U.S. theatrical premiere of "12 Days," a well-regarded documentary filmed inside a psychiatric ward in France (Anthology Film Archives)

Priced at $16 and sold 3,044 times, the Outlaw Country drink at Death and co. generated $53,218 in gross revenue, or $48,024 before taxes and comps, in 180 days last year (Forbes)

A walk from the East Village to the West Village in 1986 with Nelson Sullivan (Flaming Pablum)

A Live Skull reunion (Dangerous Minds)

History of the Allen Street baths (Ephemeral New York)

Shakespeare & Co. is opening two new bookstores in NYC (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York ... previously)

And Trinity Grace Church on 11th Street is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt in Tompkins Square Park on March 31 at 10:30 a.m. ...



Details here.

Noted

Some good news today at least... one of the missing snowman heads was discovered in Tompkins Square Park...

@evgrieve snowman head FTW! pic.twitter.com/EJxyAO0ZW3

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) March 22, 2018

The art of decorating Ukrainian Easter eggs on Saturday

Via the EVG inbox...

On Saturday afternoon, the Ukrainian Youth Association is hosting a class on learning the art of decorating pysanky – Ukrainian Easter eggs. Dyes, beeswax and a stylus are used to decorate the eggs with traditional Ukrainian designs. You can take what you make home with you. The class is at the Ukrainian National Home, 140 Second Ave. between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street.

After nearly 26 years, Three of Cups is closing on 1st Avenue; Emmy Squared arriving next?

Anthony Barile, an owner of Three of Cups, which opened on First Avenue at Fifth Street in December 1992, announced on Facebook last night that the pizzeria and Italian restaurant — along with the Three of Cups Lounge — will close after service on April 1.

The day has come where I must share the sad news that Three of Cups will be closing. I’ve thought often about what I might say when this day came and each time I pushed the thought from my head, but here we are.

The reasons are many that we are at this moment, with all of them meaning that I can’t sustain it any longer. It’s the end of the longest thing I’ve continuously been involved with, almost 1/2 my life, nearly 26 years.

My wife worked here before we were married, my children grew up playing here and my son has worked here with me for the last two years. Three of Cups is a big part of our home and lives.

I am thankful to all the fine people that have worked with us to make it happen everyday, without them it never would have. There are too many to list here, but if you know Three of Cups, you know them too. I wish them the best of what life has to offer.

Our customers are the best, so many loyal souls over so many years. Without you we’re obviously not here all these years. Our staff and customers made Three of Cups what it was.

Three of Cups has always been a home for the unique souls of the East Village.

I’ve learned so much from all these people; staff and customers alike, and I’m grateful I had that opportunity.

So many fun, heartwarming and crazy times shared with friends, family, customers and staff! It’s the end of an era and it will all be greatly missed.

I want to acknowledge my long time partner and dear friend, Santo Fazio who all those years ago brought me along for this crazy trip, I love him for that.

Please come by before we close the doors for good, we’ll share a drink and toast to the good times. Our last day will be Sunday, April 1.

Last June, Three of Cups posted news that they had secured a new lease.

Meanwhile, on Monday, the owners of Emmy Squared were on the CB3-SLA docket for a new liquor license for the Three of Cups space. (A PDF of their questionnaire is here.) A CB3 flyer had been posted in the window...



Eater reported in December that Emmy Squared, the Williamsburg-based restaurant serving burgers and Detroit-style pizza, was taking over the GG's space on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. It's not clear if the Emmy team will still be taking this space, which remains dormant since GG's closed on Dec. 23.

Back on First Avenue, the retail condominium space at No. 83-85 had been on the market for $5.4 million.

Updated 1:30 p.m.

A rep for the Emmy Squared rep told Eater... that they are "considering the First Avenue space for a new Emmy Squared and the former GG’s space for a new restaurant concept."

The Brant Foundation's 6th Street outpost looks close to completion (at least on the outside)

The gut renovations started back in April 2016 at the former Con Edison substation and Walter de Maria studio that Peter Brant is converting into an exhibition space.

The renovated circa-1920 building, which will reportedly serve as an extension of the Greenwich, Conn.-based Brant Foundation Art Study Center, is looking closer to being ready for art.

Here's a (pre-snow) look around the building's exterior, starting with the Sixth Street side here between Avenue A and First Avenue...









... and here's a rear view of the building from Seventh Street...





Peter Brant's daughter Allison Brant oversees her father's contemporary art collection. This feature on her in the April 2017 issue of Town & Country reported that the Brant Foundation's EV outpost will open this spring.

Per the article:

Allison will also run this second space, which is in the East Village and will primarily be used to showcase the foundation's permanent collection. "So many artists my father collects have a connection to that neighborhood," she says.

Brant bought the building for $27 million in August 2014.

Previously on EV Grieve:
About that "giant-robot laboratory" on East Sixth Street

RIP Walter De Maria

What is your East Village dream home?

Walter De Maria's 'giant-robot laboratory' going for $25 million; inside is amazing as you'd expect

Here's what Peter Brant wants to do with his new exhibition space on East 6th Street

When the world's top collectors of Dom Pérignon rosé came to the East Village for dinner

Reader report: 421 E. 6th St. will house Peter M. Brant's personal art collection

Peter Brant's East 6th Street Outreach Tour 2015 continues

Peter Brant meets the neighbors

A few more details about the incoming Moxy East Village on 11th Street

[Photo from March 10]

We received a news release yesterday from the Lightstone Group about Moxy East Village, their 285-key hotel going up at 112-120 E. 11th St. in partnership with Marriott.

The news was primarily about "the close of $91 million in financing with Bank of the Ozarks for the company's third Moxy hotel in New York City."

There were other details about the hotel between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue that may (or may not!) be of interest.

To the release, via the EVG inbox:

Moxy East Village will be located south of Union Square in the East Village, across from Webster Hall. In a nod to Moxy's vibrant, ever-transforming neighborhood, the hotel's design concept is based on urban archeology that references the city's past, present and future. Conceived as a vertical timeline, each floor reveals a different layer in Lower Manhattan's history, creating a sense of discovery for guests.

The micro-room, macro-amenity hotel will feature smartly designed bedrooms, technology savvy amenities, community based social programming, rooftop fitness, co-working spaces, and six new eating and drinking establishments for guests and locals.

So, to recap: each floor will be designed after "a different layer in Lower Manhattan's history" and there will be "six new eating and drinking establishments for guests and locals."

Previously on EV Grieve:
An updated look at that Moxy hotel for 11th Street

The former Sunshine Cinema will be demolished in 2 months

[Photo from last month via @michaelkbusch]

The Commercial Observer has a Q&A with Gregory Kraut, a managing partner at K Property Group, the newish owners of 143 E. Houston St. — the former Sunshine Cinema.

Kraut offers a few details on why the property was of interest ... and when they plan on tearing down the structure built in 1898.

Here's part of the interview with a passage on the Sunshine:

Why did you want the Sunshine Cinema building?

Because we saw where retail is going. We saw what was happening on Orchard Street where they have Equinox, CVS and T.J. Maxx, and Whole Foods was on the other side so we’re right there. We’re like, Are you kidding? This is a great location. We’re putting up a spec 63,000-square-foot office building that’s going to be nine stories. Roger Ferris is our architect. He is awesome.

So no theater there.

No theater. Zero. We’re demolishing it in two months.

You don’t feel bad?

No, not at all. First of all they were trying for years to make money and they couldn’t. The area has changed, and quite frankly, the business model didn’t, and so we gave them options to renew. They had several opportunities to buy the building.

East End Capital and K Property Group bought the building for $31.5 million last spring. They filed demolition permits to take down the three-level structure here between Eldridge and Forsyth back in November.

The new building permits — a 9-story boutique office complex with a retail component — haven't been posted just yet at the DOB.

The five-screen Sunshine Cinema closed on Jan. 21 after a 17-year run.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Discarded theater seats and goodbyes at the Sunshine Cinema

The 9-story boutique office building coming to the former Sunshine Cinema space

A celebratory ad on the purchase of 139 E. Houston St., current home of the Sunshine Cinema

Wednesday's parting shot

One last Tompkins Square Park snow pic from today... via Derek Berg.

Hanging out, doing stuff

Photos in Tompkins Square Park today by Derek Berg....





It was a tough day for snowmen heads.

Noted

@evgrieve little kid just stole all the heads from the snowmen. pic.twitter.com/Zj8v6WfxDp

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) March 21, 2018

And where was the @NYPDTWEETTOWER during all this?????

In like a lion, out like a lion

Photo outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery by Lola Sāenz.

Up in arms over this loss of limbs

When Goggla arrived in Tompkins Square Park today, this under-construction snow person/creature/thing had arms but not a face...



... an hour later, it had lost its arms but gained a face...



To be continued?

And no sign of any of these yet. But it's early.

March 21

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

A few photos from today's — pick your hashtag! — #WinterStormToby #SnowDay #4Easter #Noreaster4 etc. ...


[Photo by Peter Brownscombe]


[Photo by PB]


[Reader-submitted photo of the New York Marble Cemetery]


[Reader-submitted photo of 7th and A]


[Photo in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg]

The Marshal takes possession of the Subway (sandwich shop) on 1st Avenue

[Subway photos by Steven]

The Subway (sandwich shop) on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street remains closed... this after the Marshal came calling late last week, putting the storefront in the legal possession of the landlord...



If this shutter remains permanent, then this marks the seventh Subway sandwich shop to close in the immediate area in the past five-plus years, joining the one on the Bowery … East 14th Street … First Avenue … Second Avenue… Third Avenue ... and Fourth Avenue.

Subway fans still have the locations at 250 E. Houston St. and 223 Avenue B to choose from, among several others close by.

The Subway at 108 First Ave. opened in February 2012, taking over the space that previously housed Intervideo Electronics, that kinda weird and cool computer repair shop-plasma TV installers-DVD rental place...


[Photo from 2011]

Previously on EV Grieve:
The 75-cent coffee at Subway

13 months later, Grand Opening officially ends at the First Avenue Subway

Eighth Subway sandwich shop opens in the East Village

Kinda weird and cool computer repair shop-plasma TV installers-DVD rental place closing on First Avenue

Bookstore coming to the former St. Mark's Bookshop on 3rd Street

Work continues at 136 E. Third St. between Avenue A and First Avenue... an EVG reader who lives nearby reports that workers removed the paper covering the front windows on Monday... revealing the makings of a bookstore...



A worker at the scene confirmed this. So the next item of business will be to find out who the new tenant is, and what kind of books the shop will carry.

After 38 years at four locations, St. Mark's Bookshop closed here on Third Street in February 2016. Among other things, the long-struggling store reportedly owned some $70,000 in back rent to the NYCHA.

This incoming shop will be the second bookstore to open in the neighborhood since the New Year, joining Codex on the Bowery and Bleecker.

Updated 7 a.m.

The first commenter included a link to a DOB document ... showing that the tenant is Karma, the gallery-bookseller that currently has space on Second Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. This space will likely be for their art book/publishing arm.

H/T Katie Mac!

EV Grieve Etc.

A few items to note from recent days/weeks...


Photo Thursday by Steven

The Quick Repair and Electronics shop — specializing in cracked smartphone screens — is now open (as of March 16) at 151 Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street... in the former TakeMeHome Rotisserie Chicken space.

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The former Community 54 space on Avenue B between 11th Street and 12th Street is for rent. The listing at Steve Croman's 9300 Realty isn't online just yet.

Not sure exactly when the boutique closed. (It looked shuttered a few times late last summer, then the place was back open.) Community 54 opened in July 2014.

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The incoming Hunan Slurp Shop on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street is hiring...



The restaurant's menu is now online here.

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Bring it Back has opened its first shop (this happened in late February) ... on Avenue C near 10th Street...



You can read more about the brand here.

The address was briefly Michelle Alteration & Boutique, which just opened late last summer.

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[Photo last Thursday by Steven]

Still House, which sells jewelry and home goods, is now open in their new storefront at 307 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... they relocated from 117 Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.

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An EVG reader said that Resobox, a gallery, workshop (with a variety of classes) that celebrates Japanese culture, also has a cafe in the space here on Third Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. They serve a variety of coffee and teas.

This spot was previously the Edge, the bar that closed in September 2016 after 29 years in business.