Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Tuesday's parting shot
About the Elizabeth Street Garden Halloween pet parade
Here are the details and link to register via the EVG inbox:
• Costumes will be rigorously judged by guest judges with special runway prizes
• Register your pet ($20 fee) by Friday here.
The garden is at 211 Elizabeth St. between Prince and Spring.
This morning in TV shoots
Photos by Derek Berg
EMTs were spotted removing a body this morning on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... as part of a shoot for "American Horror Story" ("Bandana" on the posted film notices)...
Crews for AHS were in the East Village back in the summer as filming for season 11 got underway.
And this block of Seventh Street is apparently getting popular for TV deaths: "Law & Order" investigated a young woman's murder along here in February.
El Rinconcito closer to opening on Avenue C
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
The new location of El Rinconcito is nearing its grand opening here on Avenue C between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Owner Pedro Rodriguez gave EVG contributor Stacie Joy a tour of the new space...
... he was especially proud of the ADA-compliant restroom...
This new location is ready to go, and Rodriguez is awaiting certification by the FDNY, followed by ConEd.
Once they receive the approvals, Rodriguez and his team are eager to open their doors to the community. They plan to have all the regular menu items from the old location plus a new selection of vegetarian and gluten-free meals.
El Rinconcito closed in the summer of 2021 at their home of 27 years at 408 E. 10th St. between Avenue C and Avenue D ... with plans to move. (The building on 10th Street was undergoing a gut renovation.)
You can follow the restaurant's Instagram account for updates.
Memphis Seoul coming to 1st Avenue
This will be the second location for the restaurant, which describes itself as "Southern cookin' with a Korean kick!" (You can check out the menu here.)
Founder Bart Hubbuch opened his first Memphis Seoul in Crown Heights.
In case his name sounds familiar... Per Grub Street: "Originally from Dallas, Hubbuch was a career sportswriter who’d spent 27 years in the business before getting fired from the New York Post for a tweet about Donald Trump winning the 2016 presidential election."
Grub Street also states that "Hubbuch had always been a home cook... and had long been interested in running his own business."
A Memphis Seoul Instagram post lists a 2023 opening.
This address became available after Organic Grill relocated to West Third Street this past spring.
Monday, October 24, 2022
Pruning day for the great wisteria of Stuyvesant Street
We received several messages about the activity... (thanks to Harold Appel for the top photo and an anonymous reader for the one below)...
This is how the wisteria — previously captured in puzzle form — was looking later in the afternoon... (photos via Steven)....
A couple of residents who contacted us about the pruning thought it looked pretty severe... however, as we randomly read on the internet today: "Proper pruning can help you manage a wisteria and produce a truly spectacular flower show. At a minimum, pruning should be done twice a year..."
And as we learned back in the spring, wisteria hysteria has proven to be unfounded here.
At the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Festival
Photos by Stacie Joy
The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Festival — the 32nd of the event FKA Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade — took place this past Saturday.
On a perfect fall day, crowds descended onto Tompkins Square Park for the event, co-hosted by Dan Schachner, a former NFL referee who now serves as host of the Puppy Bowl, and Jolie Dudley, co-founder of Must Love Dogs and Comedy. (They are pictured below with event organizer Joseph Borduin in the middle.)
As for the hundreds of entrants... standouts included topical costumes, such as the spotted lanternfly and the FBI/Mar-a-Lago presidential papers ... and plenty of pop-cultural outfits (the "Star Wars" franchise is always popular) ... and the Midtown Uniform tribute with Brad and Chad and the bodega kitty, complete with a moveable shop. Oh, and there was also an opossum. (You can find a list of the winners here. You can vote for the Best in Show at this link.)
And now just a few of the many contestants...
The Dog Parade/Festival occurred in East River Park in 2018, 2019 and 2021. (That venue is no longer available.) The 2020 pandemic version was mostly virtual, with a small in-person/dog event at Lucky on Avenue B.
After nearly 30 years, Meg has left the East Village
Photos by Steven
Back in February, the shop moved its flagship location down to 262 Mott St. However, founder Megan Kinney used the original storefront at 312 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue for a Meg Archive ... where patrons could sell or trade Meg clothes ... with proceeds going to Planned Parenthood.
A letter on the door — addressed to "Meg babes" — thanks patrons and acknowledges the "amazing moments" at the store...
Kinney started her business here in 1994 ... she and her husband lived in the basement at the address for a while.
The Meg locations remain on Mott Street and in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn and Toronto.
Plywood arrives ahead of Gen Korean BBQ House on 14th Street and 3rd Avenue
The brand — known for its all-you-can-eat specials — has 18 locations in California, Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada and Texas ... with a handful more in the works.
Community Board 3 OK'd a beer-wine license for the address back in July. (The previous tenant, 5 Napkin Burger, had a full liquor license.) Alcohol is only part of table service — there won't be any bar seating, per CB3 minutes.
The restaurant is taking the former 5 Napkin Burger space as well as the storefront next door that served as the 5 Napkin Express, then Taman Falafel. Those businesses closed at the start of the year.
Mealz debuts on 14th Street
The quick-serve restaurant offers all-day dining with a variety of breakfast-lunch-dinner options... with coffee service starting at 7 a.m. There is limited seating inside, so it will likely be more of a to-go operation.
No sign of a menu online... a quick look at the one posted on the door shows standard fare like sandwiches, omelettes, burgers ... not to mention specials like bacon cheese fries and avocado buffalo ranch chicken.
Mealz takes over for the blink-and-you-missed-it Fries Factory, which was open for a week or so. (Not sure at the moment if the two have the same owners. Perhaps they decided to revamp the place and offer more than just fries.)
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Week in Grieview
• Unveiling Donald Suggs Jr. Way on 6th Street and Avenue B (Tuesday)
• About Love Not Money, a new record store on the LES (Thursday)
• Report: Man shot on St. Mark's Place on Friday night (Saturday)
• Resurrection: Halloween Adventure is open on 4th Avenue (Thursday)
• The Pyramid is closing once again (Thursday)
• Coming attractions: Beer and wine for the AMC Village 7 on 11th Street and 3rd Avenue (Monday)
• ICYMI: The new athletic fields at Pier 42 (Monday)
• The 'See You Next Tuesday' book from Sophie's will be here next Tuesday (Tuesday)
• A familiar new owner for the development site at 280 E. Houston St. (Wednesday)
• Otto's Shrunken Head celebrates 20 years on 14th Street (Monday)
• The 3rd annual Mask-Querade taking place on 7th Street this Oct. 30 (Tuesday)
• New ovens for Two Boots Pizza on Avenue A (Monday)
• Legends of the fall: Lucy (Wednesday)
• For rent: space ideal for a gallery on 6th Street (Wednesday)
• Catching up with Jimmy McMillan (Saturday)
• Reader report: A single-car crash on Clinton takes down a light pole (Wednesday)
• Another new broker for the long-vacant 20 St. Mark's Place (Monday)
• Check out this mural of Mia Farrow from "Rosemary's Baby" outside the Bean on Second Avenue (Tuesday)
• Another day, another cannabis operation arrives (Tuesday)
... and noting a new awning for the great Gena's Grill at 210 First Ave. between 12th Street and 13th Street ... (thanks to Steven for the photo)...
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Sunday's opening shot
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Saturday's parting shots
EVG Etc.: Creating more accessible housing; launching a Ramones fan club
Sky views from Third Avenue
• What NYC's community aid groups need most to help migrants (Gothamist)
• Roughly 1 in 10 rent-regulated apartments were vacant in 2021, Census survey data reveals (The City)
• 4 ballot measures facing New York City this general election (NY1)
• New York City saw its unemployment rate drop from 6.6% in August to 5.6% in September (Gothamist)
• Thieves posing as art students robbed galleries on the Lower East Side (artnet)
• Residents sue to halt new towers in Two Bridges (The City)
• A book excerpt on creating a Ramones fan club from the forthcoming memoir by Kid Congo Powers (Literary Hub)
• The 95-square-foot EV studio with a shared bathroom that's asking $1,100 (CNBC ... we mentioned these units on St. Mark's Place in 2018)
• Anna Delvey, now living in the East Village, discusses post-prison life (Page Six ... her "amazing audacity" Vogue)
• The great old Milady's on Prince and Thompson "revived as a cocktail bar with appletinis and Jell-O shots" (Eater)
• Reminders: Hitchcocktober continues at Village East by Angelika (Official site)
... and save the date...
Get ready! The LES Halloween Book Crawl is back! 🎃✨️ With new shops and new treats it's going to be a spooky good time. Save the date!October 30th from 12-7pm. See you there! Image ID in thread. pic.twitter.com/eHffloqLDA
— Bluestockings Cooperative (@bluestockings) October 4, 2022
Friend of a Barber would like its bench back
Pleas for the bench's return are going viral on Instagram, as a growing number of residents and businesses are sharing the images taken from surveillance footage.
The Post is also on the story, referring to the alleged bench takers as "shameless 'pumpkin spice' thieves." (There is some thought that the two believed the bench had been discarded and was available to stoop.)
The shop opened in 2020 ... and the bench was a way "to ensure clients had a comfortable place to wait in the COVID-free fresh air."
Per co-owner Josh Livingston: "The bench has sentimental value for us. It was a labor of love. It's sturdy and long enough for people to social distance. Can I get another bench? Yes, but you can't just take things."
There is a reward for the return.
Report: Jimmy McMillan still fighting to keep his East Village apartment
Photo from February 2013 by James Maher
Jimmy McMillan, the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, made a name for himself by running for a variety of offices, including NYC mayor and New York State governor, with his slogan: "The Rent Is Too Damn High."
We haven't heard much about McMillan, who has had a St. Mark's address for more than 40 years ... a long point of contention with the landlord who has been trying to evict him.
City Limits has an update on the 75-year-old McMillan, currently staying at the Veterans Administration nursing home in Queens. "McMillan, who served in the Vietnam War, has been staying there since February when a stroke sent him to the hospital. He blames an improper dose of medication."
And what about the eviction proceedings on St. Mark's Place?
Improbably, he is still fighting to hold onto his apartment. The owners of his building at 107 St. Marks Place first moved to eject him from the then-$872/month unit in 2011, arguing that he kept another place in Flatbush as his primary residence and allowed his son to stay in the East Village apartment. McMillan countered that the Flatbush address was the headquarters of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, not his home, and secured a stay of eviction in 2015 that allowed him to remain in the unit.But McMillan then fell behind on rent a year later, court records show. He told City Limits that the owner, a limited liability company connected to developer Nader Ohebshalom, would not give him a key in an effort to drive him out of the unit. The landlord’s attorneys from the firm Borah Goldstein have not responded to emails and phone calls seeking comment.In July, McMillan made a $10,737 arrears payment to the landlord after giving them another roughly $9,000 in March and April, according to court documents. His regulated rent is now just under $900 a month—not so damn high relative to most East Village apartments—and the court appointed the Jewish Association of Services for the Aged (JASA) as McMillan’s guardian during the previous eviction case. He has challenged that guardianship and said he now appears remotely to prove his capabilities.
H/T John Penley
Report: Man shot on St. Mark's Place last night
Photos by Steven
The Post reports that the 25-year-old victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to survive.
An exact address wasn't listed. The Citizen app changed the address of the shooting several times, starting with 100 St. Mark's Place. Another resident said it was near 113 St. Mark's Place, where a police presence remains this morning.
Word-of-mouth from the scene was that three men approached the victim with one of them pulling the trigger. The Post reported that the NYPD recovered three shell casings.
This block of St. Mark's Place is closed to traffic on weekends for sidewalk/street dining.
No arrests have been made.
CBS 2 has this report...
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