Scott LynchGood morning, East Village.
The Lo-Down reports that Ben Shaoul purchased three adjacent properties on Ludlow Street near Stanton Street. The site notes that the controversial developer and landlord tends to focus on the East Village — could this mean that he is expanding south of Houston?
Curbed scored renderings of 327 East Ninth Street, which will soon become a six-story, two-unit residential building. The space is currently a parking lot.
Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York spots some angry graffiti at the site of a closed bodega at Mott and Houston Streets. “We want our bodega. No more yuppies in Nolita.”
Jeremiah isn’t the only one sick of yuppies. Richard “Handsome Dick” Manitoba flipped out at Bar Veloce after a bartender hesitated to let his son use the bathroom. “I need connections for my son to take a piss!” he wrote in an obscenity-filled post on his Tumblr. “Two blocks down, the lovely and wonderful Veselka, a real East Village joint with class, let us in.
EV Grieve notes that 32 Avenue C was slapped with a full vacate order. Tenants, the East Village Deli, the Perfection Barber Shop and Maria’s food stand were all given the boot.
The Post’s Steve Cuozzo shows Calliope some love, calling it a “refreshing palate-cleanser after a summer bilge of $35 swordfish and farm-to-table, nose-to-tail overkill.”
And The Standard East Village had a chat with the musician Rodriguez in the hotel penthouse.
