Eden shared the photo, noting: "Not enough business, and the rent is too high."
The pizzeria, which arrived here as F&F in late 2011, served budget-friendly 99-cent slices and other items like Jamaican beef patties.
Monday, March 29, 2021
F&M Slice Pizza has closed on Avenue C
You can bet your bottom dollar that you'll find things for $1 and more here
Signage also promises toys, pet supplies, party supplies (balloons, much like the ones at the front door, and wrapping paper, not White Claw Variety Packs)...
Longtime tenant JAM Paper & Envelope closed here in January 2018 after 25 years in business. The company closed its storefronts in a shift to e-commerce.
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Week in Grieview
• Donations for Ryo, who returned home after a months-long hospitalization to find an empty apartment with new locks (Thursday)
• A walk around inside the long-abandoned — and ghoulishly beautiful — P.S. 64 (Thursday)
• Hate crime arrest made in assault of Asian woman on Astor Place (Tuesday)
• A visit to First Avenue Laundry Center (Tuesday)
• The shirtwaist dress on the Bowery (Wednesday)
• On the runway along Avenue B (Tuesday)
• More scaffolding — and now demolition — for this troubled Avenue C corner (Friday)
• Van Da to treat NYC's 'Warrior Women' to dinner on its 1st night back (Friday)
• This week's NY See finds a lovingly cradled bottle of wine (Thursday)
• Gallery Watch heads to Canada (Wednesday)
• Report: Hate crime investigation on Allen Street as 66-year-old Asian man assaulted (Sunday)
• Bagel Boss to preside in storefronts on 14th Street, East Houston (Monday)
• There's now a sidewalk bridge outside Cafe Himalaya (Tuesday)
• The disappearing pay phones along Avenue A (Wednesday)
• 2 break-ins on 7th Street (Friday)
• This new map will immerse you in the neighborhood's Greek Revival style (Friday)
• Planet Taco now orbiting 2nd Avenue (Monday)
• With lease up, Squish Marshmallows will look for a new home (Monday)
... and someone decided to toss a rock through an Avenue A-side window at Union Market last night ...
And now, YOUR NEW RITE AID SIGNAGE ON 1ST AVENUE
As you can see, gone are the blue and red chevron color blocks (sob!) with a new blue and green (Seattle Seahawks-esque) logo that includes a graphic of a mortar and pestle with an herbal sprig.
This "integrated rebranding effort is part of Rite Aid’s RxEvolution strategy ... to transform the company into the leading whole health destination that treats mind, body and spirit," per a press release.
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Tokio7 reopens today
Tokio7, the consignment shop on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, reopens to the public today.
Since January, they had only been selling online and taking in-person appointments.
Moving forward, they'll be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily... only five people inside at a time... and cash only at the moment.
The shop closed late this past August ... several months after someone looted the place.
Tokio7, which sells second-hand designer and vintage clothing, shoes and accessories, debuted on the other side of Seventh Street in 1996 ... before moving to this location in 2010.
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And if you're on this block, you could swing by Enz's. Owner-designer Mariann Marlowe opened her rockabilly and retro clothes shop at 76 E. Seventh St. in December.
Marlowe had previously operated the shop at 125 Second Ave. between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place for 18 years after relocating from St. Mark's Place. (The store dates to the 1970s on Grove Street.)
Exploring Planet Taco
Last evening, Eater critic Robert Sietsema shared his thoughts on the place...
Excerpt!
The menu became bewildering in its length. There are 13 Mexican tacos, 3 tacos representing American cities, 4 national tacos, and 3 named after planets. As if that weren’t enough, 11 sauces are available in a rainbow of colors. Beyond that, there are soups, burritos, Mexican rice, grilled fruit, fajitas, fried calamari, avocado fries and regular fries, quesadillas, bowls, nachos, tres leches cake, and dessert tacos.Ownership plans to whittle down the menu items as soon as they see what's moving.
And?
I’m pleased to report the Mexican tacos are generally solid, and priced on par with the neighborhood at $3.75 to $6. Naturally, there’s birria. The corn tortilla has been dipped, the consomme deeply flavored, and the meat copious, though not as tender as it might be. Even with this slight defect, it’s the best birria taco in the East Village.
However, the al pastor was better in the Mexican category, with a painstaking micro dice of fresh pineapple on top. The chorizo was actually made with intact sausage rather than the usual ground sausage, and it flung off a bit of heat; while the adobo chicken, coated with a lackadaisical red sauce, was a bit dry; it was the only one we wouldn’t gladly order again.
The quick-serve shop is open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Find the menu here.
Photo on March 20 by Steven
March 26
EVG reader 8E shared the above pic from last night on Astor Place and Broadway.
In this era of disinformation, deep fakes and alternate trees, 8E did attempt to verify the date of the find, though could only secure a paper from March 25.
Friday, March 26, 2021
Friday's parting shot
Remembering the two men who died that day, March 26, 2015:
The 'Sweet' hereafter
Japanese Breakfast (aka Michelle Zauner) released a single earlier this month... ahead of a new record out on June 4... the video, an homage to "The X-Files," is for "Be Sweet" ...
Pinc Louds to play Tompkins Square Park tomorrow (Saturday!) afternoon
Lead singer Claudi played a solo set last Saturday in the Park ... where Steven took the top pic... and Stacie Joy the one below...
Previously on EV Grieve:
This new map will immerse you in the neighborhood's Greek Revival style
Village Preservation has unveiled an impressive new interactive map celebrating the many examples of Greek Revival architecture in Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo and beyond (look for guest appearances from Staten Island, Brooklyn Heights and Chelsea).
The launch coincides this week with the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, which helped inspire Greek Revival architecture in America, where the young democracy looked to the world's first democracy and its struggle for independence as a template for architectural expression.
Local entries that showcase the Greek Revival style include Colonnade Row on Lafayette Street, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery and what's now the East Village's Sixth Street Community Synagogue (originally the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew, pictured above).
"You'll find many other familiar landmarks, as well as some obscure ones and surprises, as well as great Greek Revival buildings of these neighborhoods which have been lost over the years, and some of the original Ancient Greek models that inspired them," said Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman in an email. "It's a great way to mark the anniversary of an event that took place over 5,000 miles away which nevertheless had such a profound effect right here at home and can still see today."
You can access the map and more history at this link.
More scaffolding — and now demolition — for this troubled Avenue C corner
"Activity at the corner again. At first, it sounded like they were finally taking down the sidewalk shed, but they're actually putting up additional barriers and appear to be readying for construction work of some kind."
As previously reported, residents have long complained about the drug activity on this corner. On Jan. 18, a 36-year-old man was shot and killed here. According to published reports, the man was shot multiple times around 8:40 p.m. Since then, the NYPD has parked a patrol car here.
The sidewalk bridge has helped give cover to any activity here... for the past eight-plus years.
At one point, there were plans for this corner... with the filing of permits with the city in July 2005 for a new 6-floor residential building here. The city disapproved the plans in May 2006, and nothing more happened with the project.
However, the landlord filed a permit in the fall of 2017 with the DOB to "rebuild exterior walls; replace windows and sistering of floor joists to address" the various violations on file.
And now — several years after the initial repair work? According to newly issued work permits, there are plans to "partially demolish the building." In January, there was a permit — since withdrawn — to demolish the building's "second, third and roof floors."
Public records list the landlord as Abraham Benelyahou of Fairfax Management Corp. In 2014, the Daily News referred to him as "Manhattan's worst landlord."
[Via Google in 2010]
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