Police are still looking for the man who attempted to assault a jogger in East River Park yesterday. The woman was taken to Beth Israel hospital with minor bruising.
A “stop work” order has been posted at 108 Orchard Street, planned to be the new home of Moscot, the eyewear vendor which had been based at 118 Orchard for almost eighty years.
If you have $1.6 million burning a hole in your pocket, visit Curbed’s Real Estate Deathmatch to choose between condos in that range on East 1st and East 12th Streets.
Unfortunately, the goodies on sale from this street cart, at East 14th and Broadway, are past their sell-by date. After all, the photograph dates from 1938.
If you were expecting to wake up to a belated white Christmas — well, at least be assured that the MTA was really ready for it this time.
On an acknowledged “quiet news day,” the word is out on Mighty Quinn’s, the new barbecue restaurant on Second Avenue — the word being “pretty good”.
And in the absence of anything new to report, let’s take you back thirty years to “rockers, rappers, breakers & scratchers”–and the Lower East Side Girls Choir–at East 10th Street’s Limbo Lounge.
From where we’re sitting, it looks like a quiet Christmas break in the East Village. No turkey shoots on the Bowery — since 1897, in fact.
If you can even face looking at more food and drink, here’s a tenement-shaped ginger cake from the Tenement Museum. Also, it looks like The Third Man on Avenue C is open for cocktails at last, but judging by the work continuing in the space before the holiday, it might be worth calling ahead to check.
Make we merry, yes, but maybe not too merry. Look at the calories in this stuff.
But before the party starts, Lucky’s Famous Burgers is feeling out of place on East Houston–imagine–and is looking to “Houstanize” (sic) its design.
If there was ever a reason to scamper across neighborhood boundaries: heart-throb Zac Efron is filming in Little Italy today and tomorrow.
Still making plans for the holiday week? Consider “music from the Carpathians, a Baroque Nativity folk opera and carnivalesque Goat Songs by a punk group from Toronto” brought to La Mama by Yara Arts Group.
Finally, we turn to courtesies of the season. Happy fifth birthday today to EV Grieve, and to all our readers–those who celebrate these holidays and those who do not–may your days be merry and peaceful until The Day returns again.
As David Schwimmer’s East Sixth Street mansion nears completion, residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy are getting a little more help this week. Listings geared to their needs are being posted in a special section at the no-fee rental site Urban Edge. Reports say landlords will strive to be flexible about length of lease and security deposits.
A less depressing way to get your life turned upside down will become available if plans for a flying trapeze center at Hamilton Fish Park come to fruition.
On the party side of the street, get your vintage frock out for a batch of 1950s cocktails and Christmas cartoons like “Suzy Snowflake” at the Merchant House Museum — and be sharp about it. Last Friday’s shindig sold out.
If you’re looking for sustenance, Mighty Quinn’s, which recently shed its plywood in the old Vandaag space, is strongly rumored to be unveiling its slow-smoked brisket today. But if you’re just looking to stay home and browse through pretty neighborhood pictures, consider Bowery Boogie’s selection of the year in Instagram.
In yet another reminder that the clean-up work after Sandy continues, the East Village is set to regain its R train connection with Brooklyn before the holidays. Spare a thought too for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. After long struggles to renovate the fabric of its old building, its heating system was taken out by the hurricane. It plans to hold a fund raiser at Joe’s Pub on Thursday evening.
The SantaCon backlash just gets worse. Meanwhile, EV Grieve continues to compile a list of impending business closures, including the distinctive (and large) Bargain Express on the south side of East 14th Street, and Whole Earth Bakery on St Mark’s Place.
Finally, to prompt a holiday mood, here’s the Village Voice’s veteran food critic Robert Sietsema on the history of that strange, sweet, sticky stuff, eggnog.
It’s perhaps not the best of mornings, with thoughts of yesterday’s Sandy Hook memorial service fresh in our minds. Mayor Bloomberg spoke on national television yesterday about gun control. Also on the safety front, he was accused yesterday of developing a stealth plan to ban smoking in people’s homes, a claim the city staunchly denies.
Strega, the band that’s partly based in the neighborhood, has released the above video for its Christmas ditty, “When The Stars Are Shining Bright (At Christmas Time).”
280 apartments managed by the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association are going coop. “Tenants are buying shares in the M.H.A. for the jaw-dropping amount of just $250 each,” says Val Orselli, the M.H.A.’s executive director. “We’ve averaged about 60 closings per day so far.” [East Villager]
“Police have arrested a man in connection with a series of elevator robberies over the last week and a half,” including a gunpoint robbery in the East Village. [NBC NY]
More changes on the Bowery: ““Bitsy Bardot is opening a restaurant at 341 Broome, right on Bowery,” says the chairman of the retail group at Douglas Elliman. “SRO restaurant at 245 Bowery may open soon.” [Commercial Observer]
“Professors at New York University’s largest school are planning to meet Thursday to contemplate a bold undertaking: holding a no-confidence vote about the university’s president, John Sexton.” [NY Times] Read more…
More on the settlement between Bikram and Yoga to the People: the St. Marks studio “is working on a new sequence that will also be offered in a super-heated room and incorporate some poses from the sequence popularized by Bikram’s founder, Bikram Choudhury, but will also include other poses.” [City Room]
“A body was found on the tracks at the First Avenue subway station early Monday, officials said.” The man or cause of death has not been identified. [DNA Info]
A restaurant supply store that has been on the Bowery for 40 years has left for Brooklyn because the Bowery “was changing into high-end apartments, restaurants, bars and galleries,” according to a broker on the transaction. [Commercial Observer] Read more…
“Greg Gumucio, founder of the popular, budget-priced Yoga to the People chain, agreed to end his studio’s $8 “hot yoga” classes in a settlement of a $1 million lawsuit by his ex-mentor, Bikram Choudhury.” [NY Post]
“An examination by The New York Times has found that while the [New York City Housing Authority] moved aggressively before the storm to encourage residents to leave, particularly those who were disabled and the needy, both it and the city government at large were woefully unprepared to help its residents deal with Hurricane Sandy’s lingering aftermath.” [NY Times]
“Dozens of students, alumni, and supporters of design school Cooper Union’s free degree programs marched from Washington Square Park to the college’s Astor Place campus to protest the school’s plans to adopt a tuition-based model.” [DNA Info] Read more…
The folks at Michigan’s Ghostly International record label have converted Odin’s East Village store into a pop-up shop selling “art, design, t-shirts curated by Ghostly alongside a slew of vinyl releases from the label, including the new Matthew Dear (recommended).” [Selectism]
Mr. Throwback will celebrate its grand opening with music, 10 percent discounts, and giveaways Saturday night. [Mr. Throwback] Read more…
Spain Rodriguez, the legendary cartoonist who got his start at the East Village Other, has died of cancer at the age of 72, according to The Times. “It’s close to impossible for me to find the words to express how important Crumb, Wilson, Rodriquez and Bill Griffith were in helping to alter the ways in which teenyboppers like myself viewed the world,” says Dangerous Minds.
“An East Village 11-year-old was handcuffed and taken into custody last month after strolling into MS 345 on the Lower East Side with a play pistol — a black plastic prop given to him by an after-school theater company.” [NY Post]
A new exhibit of Tenement Museum replicates Schneider’s Lager Beer Saloon, a saloon that “provided everything a patron needed: a glass of their favorite German lager, free home cooking, and a connection to the community.” [Epoch Times] Read more…
After a five-year battle, “Tenants and the company that controls Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the largest apartment complexes in Manhattan, reached a tentative $68.7 million settlement on Thursday, settling claims of rent overcharges since 2003.” [NY Times]
On the “grimy street” outside of Daniel Craig’s East Village apartment and at the next-door tattoo parlor, “the locals are positively falling over themselves to talk about their famous neighbor.” [The Daily Mail]
The owner of a Mobil on East Houston Street and Avenue C seemed a little nonplussed when a flash mob showed up to watch a movie about climate change get projected by the Illuminator, but everything went well. [City Room] Read more…
“A pill-popping dirty cop was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for stealing guns from his East Village station house and selling them to his drug dealer.” [NY Post]
“The Exxon Mobil station on 2nd Street and Avenue C became an impromptu movie theater last night, as a coalition of climate-change activists projected a short film about Hurricane Sandy recovery onto the wall above it.” [Runnin Scared]
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation gives us a head’s up about a special event involving “a film screening of ‘Get Crazy’ (1983), a panel discussion moderated by Jesse Kornbluth about the Fillmore East and East Village 1960s-70s music scene with Joshua White (creator of the Joshua Light Show) among others, and an after party at Velseka Bowery.” [GVSHP] Read more…
The Lower Eastside Girls Club sent us a flier indicating that its ovens were damaged by Sandy. DNA Info has more about how the Astor Center donated its kitchen for holiday baking. [DNA Info]
In the current issue of The Real Deal, brokers and market analysts discuss “the boon in residential development in the neighborhood and about the changes in the makeup of buyers and renters calling the area home. (Think fewer recent college grads and more young families.)” [TRD]
An off-duty police officer was arrested on the Lower East Side after punching a man in the face. [DNA Info, NY Post] Read more…
According to the executive director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, the damage that Sandy caused to East River Park could’ve been less extensive. “This storm is an opportunity to think about waterfront parks and what ecological function they provide,” says Christine Datz-Romero. [NY Press]
EyeLevel, a “highly specific and evolving step-by-step learning program crafted around the needs and goals of individual students,” will open at 437 East 12th Street. [NearSay]
A new iPhone app lets users hear the stories of former worshippers at the Eldridge Street Synagogue. [DNA Info] Read more…
Mayor Bloomberg has announced a $5.5 million grant for small businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy. [NY Post]
Two teens are wanted in a strong of local robberies: “The suspects, believed to be 14 years old, have been going into local businesses under the guise of raising money for a youth basketball team and then swiping phones and computers, police said.” [NY Post]
Stogo has closed after four years in business. The vegan ice cream shop was having trouble paying the rent and then lost $6,000 in sales and $6,000 in inventory during Sandy. [NY Times] Read more…
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Kim DavisAvenue B at East Fifth Street.
