Week in Grieview

[Photo on St. Mark's Place by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

East Village Fruit and Vegetable is closing on Avenue B (Tuesday)

New owner in the works for Downtown Yarns (Tuesday)

Report: 14th Street busway debuts in January to prep for the upcoming L-train stoppage (Thursday)

Consider donating clothes to the Bowery Mission this summer (Friday)

At the rally outside the former P.S. 64 Friday evening (Monday)

Demolition watch: 321 E. 13th St., future home of the new Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Hospital (Wednesday)

Vegan Love arrives on 10th Street (Thursday)

A request not to leave any more bread at the Great Jones Cafe (Friday)

This week's NY See (Thursday)

It's never too early to think about Halloween this July (Monday)

Viking Waffles opens on Avenue C (Friday)

Revamped McDonald's ready to reopen on 14th Street (Thursday)

A reminder to lock your doors and windows (Tuesday)

The Moxy East Village tops out on 11th Street (Monday)

On Avenue A, Key Food deploying 12 new self-checkout machines (Tuesday)

Inkstop Tattoo has left Avenue A (Monday)

Woman crashes Porsche on East River Park bike path (Saturday)


[Urban Etiquette Sign on 3rd Street b/t A and B]

Up to 4 more retail spaces available to join Target on 14th Street (Friday)

The EVG podcast: A 'Vanishing New York' conversation with Jeremiah Moss (Friday)

This year's Summer Streets celebration includes rocks and bubbles on Astor Place (Tuesday)

Report: Madam Vo team opening Madam Vo BBQ on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)

Tatsu Ramen debuts on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

Remembering some disappearing storefronts courtesy of Karla and James Murray (Wednesday)

For rent on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

And among the tweets of the week...

And in today’s Arts section, the Times dives into a promising moody underground musical group known as Coldplay pic.twitter.com/6ERZU2EuDJ

— Zach Mack (@zmack) July 25, 2018

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On the wall: Mural of Michael Jackson, as a child and an adult, in progress on 11th Street

[Photo by Goggla]

Here's an in-progress look at the building-size mural going up on the southeast corner of 11th Street and First Avenue... Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra is creating mural showing Michael Jackson as a child and adult...


[Photo by Lola Saenz]

... and by early evening yesterday...



Kobra expects to have the mural completed by Wednesday.

His work "utilizes bright colors and bold lines while staying true to a kaleidoscope theme throughout his art. The technique of repeating squares and triangles allows him to bring to life the famous people he depicts in his images."

And a sampling of his work from around the world...

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A post shared by Eduardo Kobra (@kobrastreetart) on Mar 17, 2018 at 2:26pm PDT

#martinlutherkingday #mlk

A post shared by Eduardo Kobra (@kobrastreetart) on Jan 16, 2018 at 3:31pm PST

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A post shared by Eduardo Kobra (@kobrastreetart) on Dec 15, 2017 at 6:21am PST

Saturday's parting topless shot

The Abracadabra Field Trip Mobile music jam bus on St. Mark's Place heading to Tompkins Square Park this evening... photo by Steven...

Previously

Today in photos of climbing walls being transported on 2nd Avenue

Photo by Derek Berg...

Porsche — there is no substitute

@NY1 @patkiernan How did the driver even manage this? Blocked the fdr path this morning. #Bailedthrough thesunroof @Porsche pic.twitter.com/wBLY4yLhsx

— michael feldstein (@majy10016) July 27, 2018

ICYMI... A woman driving a Porsche Cayenne wedged the car on the bike path adjacent to the Con Ed Power Plant at 15th Street early yesterday morning.

According to the Post, the wayward driver — "a woman who appeared to be in her 20s" — fled the scene. (The car has Pennsylvania inspection tags.)

It wasn’t immediately known how the driver ended up on the bike path ... or whether the Porsche was stolen.

Headline H/T!

Black swan

Photo on First Avenue via Grant Shaffer...

Noted

[Screengrab via CBS 2]

CBS 2 filed a report last evening with the headline "Summer Brings Wave Of ‘Crust Punk’ Homeless Nomads To East Village."

Here's an excerpt:

“It’s getting worse now than it was before,” said Tania Martinez who lives in the East Village. “Me paying a lot of money being here, I shouldn’t see things like this.”

The homeless nomads – known to hop freight trains – pop in and out of cities across the country like Seattle and San Francisco, often ending up in and around Tompkins Square Park when it gets warm out.

The pilgrimage dates back to the late 1970s when many began migrating for the neighborhood’s punk rock music scene. Like most subcultures, rejecting the status quo was a conscious choice by its members.

“It’s absolutely a choice,” said Dallas, one of the movement’s adherents. “We just hate our government system, the way it affects us as a whole.”

And...

NYPD sources say there are more transient people this summer because of the city’s increasing opioid epidemic. The narcotics division has been patrolling the park to help, with police doubling arrests this year – many of them drug related.

Police sources say because of the stepped up enforcement, many “crust punks” have started sleeping inside abandoned buildings in the outer boroughs instead.

Friday's parting Instagram post

Tompkins Square Park, as seen in the 1968 book, Miguel’s Mountain by Bill Binzen. #tompkinssquare #miguelsmountain #billbinzen #tompkinssquarelibrary #eastvillage #lowereastside

A post shared by Tompkins Square Library (@tompkins_square_library) on Jul 27, 2018 at 3:01pm PDT

'The Figurehead' on the door

Here's the Cure in an early-goth phase with "The Figurehead" circa 1981 ... when they were working as a trio. This track appeared on the band's fourth studio album, the poorly-received-at-the-time Pornography.

The EVG podcast: A 'Vanishing New York' conversation with Jeremiah Moss

[Image via Vanishing New York]

This episode of the EVG podcast features a conversation with Jeremiah Moss, the writer behind the blog Vanishing New York. The paperback edition of his book, "Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul," is out this week. (The paperback launch event is tonight at 7:30 at Books Are Magic, 225 Smith St. in Brooklyn.)

Jeremiah joined me in the East Village Radio studio on First Avenue to discuss moving to NYC 25 years ago, starting his blog and attempting to save small businesses from extinction. We also talk about how he encouraged me to start the EV Grieve blog 11 years ago.



Previously on EV Grieve:
The EVG podcast: Red-tailed hawk talk with Laura Goggin

The EVG podcast with Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, the authors of "Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City."

Consider donating clothes to the Bowery Mission this summer

In case you are doing some late-summer closet cleaning this weekend or next...

Consider donating clothes to the Mission this summer! Clean clothes provide a great deal of relief to a neighbor experiencing homelessness. After being out on the streets or in the subways, our guests feel a sense of restored dignity from a change of clothing. . Learn more about donating goods: bowery.org/donategoods . #InThisTogether #NYC #Donate #MyBowery #NewYorkNeighbors . 📷 @keri.tan

A post shared by The Bowery Mission (@bowerymission) on Jul 24, 2018 at 1:05pm PDT

This link has donation details. The Bowery Mission is at 227 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington at Prince.

Viking Waffles opens on Avenue C

[Photo by Vinny & O]

The Viking Waffles retail space is now open at 137 Avenue C near Ninth Street.

The storefront now sells the popular protein-rich waffles that were previously only available online and in several health-food stores and gyms, including Barry's Bootcamp. (Benedicte Engen, a Crossfit trainer, is the founder of Viking Waffles.) There are several tables and chairs inside, and you can order your waffles with a variety of toppings.

Here's the menu...



The space will continue to serve as the HQ for Viking's wholesale manufacturing business.

It's a new era for the address, which went under extensive renovations (it's basically a new building) in recent years. The building's ground-floor was previously home to drunk-brunch magnet Sunburnt Cow until April 2014.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Sunburnt Cow space on Avenue C is the new home of Viking Waffles

Renovations in store for 137 Avenue C, home to the Sunburnt Cow

The Sunburnt Cow closes for good at the end of this month

A request not to leave any more bread at the Great Jones Cafe

[Photo from July 14]

The Great Jones Cafe remains closed (since July 10) ... yet the bread deliveries continue. The box that arrived on July 14 sat outside for several days before someone eventually emptied it.

Yesterday, an employee in the garage next door put up a sign asking the delivery people to stop leaving the bread...



The 35-year-old restaurant near the Bowery has not opened for business since the untimely death of owner Jim Moffett on July 10.

The status of the Great Jones Cafe is unknown at the moment. One tipster said that a broker was showing the space on Wednesday.

Up to 4 more retail spaces available to join Target on 14th Street

In case you missed the hoopla, Target opened last Wednesday on 14th Street and Avenue A. (Recaps of what transpired on Saturday with the store's homage to the neighborhood's past can be found at the following outlets, among others: Racked ... Noisey ... Pitchfork ... The New York Times ... Jezebel ... Vice ... Forbes ... The Architect's Newspaper ... Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal ...)

So that takes care of just one of the retail spaces in the new EVGB residential complex at 500 and 524 E. 14th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.

There are potentially two more storefronts for rent adjacent to Target...



...and two more at No. 524 toward Avenue B...


[Confusing, because this photo is looking to the west]

Newmark Knight Frank has the listings... the storefronts are part of what's being billed as "the East Village's most dynamic block" ...







Perhaps in the future we will see a CVS No Rio (that is @danieltbrennan's joke!) or a Sam's Club 57.

Also, on the north side of Avenue A, we're still waiting to learn what's coming to the retail space in the former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office... Trader Joe's still? Doesn't seem like the best time for any business to open with the ongoing L-train entrance work ...



Anyway, in case you needed a reminder of Target's arrival... along Avenue A...





... or Sixth Street and First Avenue...



... or 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...



... or The Weather Channel app...