From the #FamiliesBelongTogether march today... spotted on First Avenue and 12th Street by Lola Sáenz...
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Saturday's parting shot
From the #FamiliesBelongTogether march today... spotted on First Avenue and 12th Street by Lola Sáenz...
Bus stop
The Abracadabra Field Trip Mobile music jam bus was back on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place late this afternoon... EVG reader Aaron Wilson shared these first two photos...
... and via Derek Berg...
Escape to Houston Street
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After nearly a week of work, Tristan Eaton is wrapping up at the Bowery Mural Wall... even spraying in the rain...
And for a closer look at the mural... at least part of it is apparently inspired by the 1968 classic "The Green Slime" ...
Updated 7/3
An addition...
From the Bake News Media
Photo outside Gem Spa this morning... and the temps may hit 120 inside Zoltar's cabinet...
Friday, June 29, 2018
Pet lizard on a lease prompts 911 call
Over on Broadway and 13th Street this afternoon, the sight of a lizard on a leash prompted a 911 call.
As the Daily News reported, the caller "reported a vicious 'alligator or lizard' to authorities."
A user of the Citizen app captured some video.
"You can pet him," says the voice, presumably of the lizard’s owner.
One brave young man saunters up to the lizard to give it a little pat on the head — then promptly rubs sanitizer on his hands from a bottle conveniently placed beside the beast.
Anyway, as history shows again and again...
Forever your 'Girl'
Chromatics recently released a new single ... a Bang Bang Bar-friendly track titled "Blue Girl." The Portland, Ore.-based quartet's new record, Dear Tommy, is due out this fall.
An extra hour to swim this weekend at city pools
[Hamilton Fish Pool pic from Sunday]
The NYC Department of Parks & Rec announced today that, due to the excessive heat expected, general swim hours for outdoor pools are extended by an hour through 8 p.m. today, tomorrow and Sunday.
So around here, that means extra time at Hamilton Fish Pool on Pitt and Houston ... and the Dry Dock Pool on Avenue D and 10th Street.
City pools opened for the season back on Wednesday.
EVG Etc.: Examining the L-train shutdown plan for 14th Street; watching '2001' at Village East
[St. Mark's is bed]
City cooling centers are open (Official site)
A look at how the East Village became the city's "hippest Chinese dining destination" (Eater)
Examinging "the Soft Underbelly" of the DOT’s L Train shutdown plan for 14th Street (Streetsblog ... previously)
A review of the first exhibition at the Swiss Institute on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place (The New York Times... ARTnews ... previously)
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, whose district includes part of the East Village, was victorious in Tuesday's primary election (The Lo-Down) Meanwhile, her challenger, Suraj Patel, reportedly handed out branded condoms before the primary (The Post)
The best seats to watch "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm at the City Cinemas Village East (Filmmaker Magazine)
A Gus Van Sant retrospective through the weekend (Metrograph)
More photos from the Drag March leaving Tompkins Square Park (Slum Goddess ... previously)
And EVG reader Brucie shared this photo earlier in the week from Avenue B near 10th Street ... sources say that it is not the first LinkNYC kiosk for Avenue B or a modified Big Belly trash can...
Rose and Basil has gone out of business
Rose and Basil, the nearly two-year-old cafe, has closed at 104 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.
There's a sign out front, noting everything must go — plates, glasses, chairs, etc.
We don't know the reason behind the closure at the moment. The Rose and Basil website and Facebook page are no longer active, and their phone has been disconnected.
The cafe, which specialized in homemade desserts, recently added dinner service offering healthy menu items. Rose and Basil was owned by Ioana Holt, who launched the business with her college friend William Wang in July 2016.
Thanks to Steven for the photos
Previously on EV Grieve:
At the grand opening of Rose and Basil
[Updated] The Continental closes this weekend
Updated June 30: Trigger, the owner, posted on Facebook that his lease was extended for three more months... and they will remain open until October.
It's the last hurrah this weekend for The Continental on Third Avenue at St. Mark's Place.
As first noted way back in January, the bar with the six-shots-of-anything-for-$12 deal was closing after service on June 30. (Their sign says July 1. Their website says Saturday, July 1.)
The Continental was a live music venue from its inception in 1991 through the fall of 2006, when they became home of the five-shots-of-anything-for-$10 promotion before that changed to five-shots-of-anything-for-$12 in the spring of 2017. (Then later six shots...)
Last November, Real Estate Equities Corporation made public its plans to demolish the existing low-rise buildings at 3 St. Mark’s Place, 23 and 25-27 Third Ave. to make way for a 7-story office building.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Continental's 5-shot deal bumped from $10 to $12
The Continental says it will close late next summer
Keeping up with the Kardashianisms
Report: NE corner of St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue will yield to a 7-story office building
Demolition permits filed for northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's Place
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Thursday's parting shot(s)
Christo (left) and Amelia posing in Tompkins Square Park today...
OK, now look to your right...
Photos by Steven
I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant
East Village resident Susan Schiffman documents the apartments of rent-stabilized tenants living in the East Village for her Instagram account, I Am a Rent Stabilized Tenant. She will share some of the photos here for this ongoing EVG feature.
Photos and text by Susan Schiffman
Tenant: Judy, since 1978
Why did you move to the East Village?
To be near to my dad. I was finishing college and I needed a place to live in 1978. My dad lived on Fifth Street and First Avenue. I wanted to live near to him. This was the first apartment that I ever looked at. We came into this apartment. I walked to the front and I walked to the back. It was May and the trees were in bloom out back. It was like a country apartment. There were things still left in the apartment. It was $150.
I got the apartment cleaned up. I wanted two things before I moved in. I wanted a dog and I wanted a telephone. The telephone was put in and I was supposed to move in the next day. I walked down the block. I was leaving to go to where I was staying and there was somebody at Theater 80 who said “does anybody want this dog?” And there was Johnny. I brought him back into the house and left planning to move in the next day.
My father was a parole officer at the time. He came in to look at the apartment. He said “oh my g-d? What is this dog?” He pulled out his gun. He almost shot the dog. He was not a very big animal lover. My father got his wits back about him.
How did you find your apartment?
We went to a broker. He was over on Sixth Street. They were Ukrainian brokers. The owner of this building was a Ukrainian man. He just passed away at 95 years old or so, this past September. He had the same birthday as I do. He has three daughters who took over ownership of the building.
What do you love about your apartment?
One of the things I love about my apartment is the cross ventilation, especially at this time of year. For many years I didn't have an air conditioning. The comfort of this apartment and the elegance and the old fashioned-ness and modern-ness at the same time. And the amount of ease that it allows me to work with it. I can have as many things as I need to have in it. It offers me enough space.
I really love the moldings and the fact that the bathroom is now in the apartment. The bathroom actually doesn’t belong to the apartment. The molding that is around the bathroom gives a very strong suggestion that the bathroom initially was accessed from the hallway and at a later time a doorway was opened up into the apartment so that it could be used in the apartment. Which changes a lot about the apartment.
My neighbor next door needs to use her bathroom outside her apartment and she lives differently than I do, it creates a different kind of set up. I like the fact that I have a built-in hutch. I would have liked to have a closet — that was taken out.
[The apartment] has served me well. In the 20 apartments, there are about five tenants who have been here as long as I have. A number have been here a fair amount of time like 10 or 15 years. The building just next door to the west has people turning over all the time. It gives a very different character to the building. Ours is very neighborhoody.
If you're interested in inviting Susan in to photograph your apartment for an upcoming post, then you may contact her via this email.
Photos and text by Susan Schiffman
Tenant: Judy, since 1978
Why did you move to the East Village?
To be near to my dad. I was finishing college and I needed a place to live in 1978. My dad lived on Fifth Street and First Avenue. I wanted to live near to him. This was the first apartment that I ever looked at. We came into this apartment. I walked to the front and I walked to the back. It was May and the trees were in bloom out back. It was like a country apartment. There were things still left in the apartment. It was $150.
I got the apartment cleaned up. I wanted two things before I moved in. I wanted a dog and I wanted a telephone. The telephone was put in and I was supposed to move in the next day. I walked down the block. I was leaving to go to where I was staying and there was somebody at Theater 80 who said “does anybody want this dog?” And there was Johnny. I brought him back into the house and left planning to move in the next day.
My father was a parole officer at the time. He came in to look at the apartment. He said “oh my g-d? What is this dog?” He pulled out his gun. He almost shot the dog. He was not a very big animal lover. My father got his wits back about him.
How did you find your apartment?
We went to a broker. He was over on Sixth Street. They were Ukrainian brokers. The owner of this building was a Ukrainian man. He just passed away at 95 years old or so, this past September. He had the same birthday as I do. He has three daughters who took over ownership of the building.
What do you love about your apartment?
One of the things I love about my apartment is the cross ventilation, especially at this time of year. For many years I didn't have an air conditioning. The comfort of this apartment and the elegance and the old fashioned-ness and modern-ness at the same time. And the amount of ease that it allows me to work with it. I can have as many things as I need to have in it. It offers me enough space.
I really love the moldings and the fact that the bathroom is now in the apartment. The bathroom actually doesn’t belong to the apartment. The molding that is around the bathroom gives a very strong suggestion that the bathroom initially was accessed from the hallway and at a later time a doorway was opened up into the apartment so that it could be used in the apartment. Which changes a lot about the apartment.
My neighbor next door needs to use her bathroom outside her apartment and she lives differently than I do, it creates a different kind of set up. I like the fact that I have a built-in hutch. I would have liked to have a closet — that was taken out.
[The apartment] has served me well. In the 20 apartments, there are about five tenants who have been here as long as I have. A number have been here a fair amount of time like 10 or 15 years. The building just next door to the west has people turning over all the time. It gives a very different character to the building. Ours is very neighborhoody.
If you're interested in inviting Susan in to photograph your apartment for an upcoming post, then you may contact her via this email.
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