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Friday, November 15, 2013

The Strand using sprinklers to evict the homeless — now in comic form



As DNAinfo first reported yesterday, the Strand installed an outdoor sprinkler system to drive away homeless people sleeping under their red awning along East 12th Street, according to employees. (Management had said the sprinklers were there to clean off the sidewalk.)

The incident prompted Strand employee Greg Farrell to draw a comic based on his firsthand experience of the situation.

The comic is posted at the blog "Strand Ask Us," a nine-part account of the labor struggle that took place between the workers and management at the bookstore in the spring of 2012. (A book on this is due next year from Microcosm publishing.)

Farrell said that the sprinklers were installed this past summer. "So, in fairness, there was no risk of anybody freezing to death at the time."

Updated 2:17
At Vanishing New York, Jeremiah Moss discusses the sprinkler situation ...:

So many of the corporations in the city do horrible, inhumane things every day, on a much larger, often global scale, than spraying water on the homeless. Boycott the businesses that rely on sweatshop and child labor. Boycott the businesses that commit horrifying daily acts of animal cruelty. Boycott the businesses that deliberately destroy the fabric of our communities--and our environment. Do not boycott the Strand. To attack the Strand and not Apple, Amazon, The Gap, and others like them, is a gross misplacement of anger and energy.

Monday, June 27, 2022

Brooklyn Roasting Company opens a cafe inside the Strand

On Saturday, the Strand Bookstore celebrated its 95th year in business ... and on this day, the Strand's flagship location near Union Square officially debuted a cafe on the ground floor with coffee drinks and pastries via Brooklyn Roasting Company. (The outpost also sells tins of a Strand blend of coffee.)

"Bringing coffee to our customers has been a long-time dream for the Strand," CCO Laura Ravo said in a press release about the opening. 

The Strand, 828 Broadway at 12th Street, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday, March 31, 2017

Updated: Manhole explosions reported near Union Square


Emergency responders have been on Broadway between Union Square and 12th Street after a series of manhole explosions just after 8 this morning.

No word yet on the cause. There weren't any reports of injuries either. Will update when more information becomes available.



Updated noon:

Some details from the Daily News:

The blasts shattered the windows of the Strand Bookstore, which had not yet opened for the day, and forced the evacuation of 826 Broadway next door after eleveated carbon monoxide levels were detected, officials said.

The second manhole exploded under an FDNY firetruck that had rolled up to respond to the first explosion, damaging the vehicle, officials said.

The blasts were likely caused by damage from salt laid down during winter snowstorms and washed into the underground system by Friday morning’s rainstorm.

Updated 1:15 p.m.

Here's more from an updated WABC 7 report:

Multiple manhole fires that led to evacuations and building damage Friday, likely were caused by salt used on roads during snowstorms.

Salt laid down during winter washed into the underground system, according to the New York City Fire Department. When snow melts and mixes with salt, it can spark fires and explosions.

As for damage..

Three buildings had broken windows: 60 East 12th St., 70 East 12th St., 77 East 12th St.

There was interior damage and high carbon monoxide readings in 826 Broadway, which led to evacuations. In the basement of 817 Broadway, there also were high carbon monoxide readings.

There weren't any injuries reported.

Thursday, July 1, 2021

A conversation with Lilly Dancyger, author of the East Village memoir 'Negative Space'

Growing up in the East Village, Lilly Dancyger had many happy memories, from sitting and reading books at the Strand to getting ice cream at Ray’s Candy Store.

At the same time, however, she learned that there was a troubling undercurrent to her childhood as her parents struggled with drug addiction.

Her father, Joe Schactman, was an artist who made sculptures and other art out of discarded objects and was part of the vibrant East Village scene in the 1980s. He died suddenly at age 43 when Dancyger was 12 years old. (A cause of death was inconclusive.)

She spent her teens often in a rage, dropping out of school, experimenting with drugs and staying out all night wandering around the city. Years later as a writer and journalist, Dancyger revisits her own past and father's legacy in “Negative Space” (SFWP), a must-read memoir released to positive notices this spring. 

Dancyger, guided by her father’s letters and journals and interviews with his friends (not to mention in-depth conversations with her mother), creates a compelling generation-spanning narrative — part memoir, part investigative journalism. 

In the process, she uncovers a patchwork view of her father's life while also coming to terms with her own memories. “Negative Space” includes photos of Schactman’s paintings, prints and sculptures, sharing his art with a new audience in the process.

Today, Dancyger, a writer and editor, lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Soomin, also an East Village native. During a recent phone conversation, Dancyger talked about why she stuck with this book project, her decision to move away from the East Village and the importance of Ray’s Candy Store. 

After the book came out, you spotted copies of it at the Strand, a place you spent a lot of time with your father while growing up. How did this sighting make you feel?

Seeing my book at the Strand drove it home and made it feel real in a different way. I’ve been going to the Strand my entire life, and I always browse the front tables; over the last few years, I would check the main non-fiction table and see my friend’s books. So seeing my book there was really cool.

I had been waiting for when it would feel real. Even after the publication date … it felt as if I was pushing this boulder up a mountain for the rest of my life. So it is really, truly out there in the world, in the Strand — that has really sunk in.

My dad loved that store. And we used to go there and hang out for hours. He would hand me a book from wherever he was looking, and I would sit on the floor and read.

In the book credits, you mention that various publishers rejected the proposal more than 50 times through the years. What drove you to make this book a reality?

It was a combination of things. I wanted to give up at a few different points. However, it was my father’s story. And I was doing it not only for myself but also for him. It became this thing where I had committed to doing it, you know? I committed to getting his work out into the world, and I couldn’t give up on that. I’d already sunk six, seven, eight, nine years into this. I had to see it through — otherwise, what the hell was all that for?

Why did you decide to move away from the East Village in recent years?

I held out for as long as I could. For years I felt like I was stubbornly staying there, trying to be a holdout. And eventually, I couldn’t take it anymore — just the changes in the neighborhood. I was walking around bitter and angry, and it was just too painful and upsetting to walk down the street every day thinking about what has been lost in the neighborhood.

It was starting to get to me in a way that negatively affected my mental health and took up too much of my mental energy just getting angry. The whole city is changing. I’m on the Upper West Side now, and it’s not changing as quickly. And I don’t take it personally when something closes up here. I’ve just calmed down.

I’m trying to remember what Jeremiah Moss once wrote: If such and such place closes, he’s moving. I can't recall what place it was.

I used to say that if Ray’s Candy Store ever closes, I’m out of here. Luckily, he’s still there. I think he will outlive us all.

Speaking of Ray’s, in 2010, you and your friend Haley held a fundraiser for Ray’s — the Day of Ray — when he was struggling with a rent hike. Why did you decide to do this?

I had to. There are so many places that closed that I took personally and made me sad, but Ray as a human being and Ray’s as that place — it’s just so important to the neighborhood and so important to me personally. I went to Ray’s when I was a baby with my parents.

When we moved back when I was 14, after being on the West Coast for a few years, I went into Ray’s, and he remembered me from when I was 4 years old. And you know, it felt so great. I had intense emotions about being back. I was happy to be back, but I was angry that I had been away, and I felt like I wanted to be part of the neighborhood again, and I felt like I was coming in as an outsider even though I felt very attached to it already.

When I was a degenerate teenager wandering around by myself, I could go hang out in Ray’s and chat with him at like 4 in the morning. I care about him, and the idea that this gentrification would take that place from him and us was not acceptable.

I highlighted a passage in the book talking about being in Tompkins Square Park with your father: “the smell of water cooking off of asphalt in the sun is one of my strongest sense memories of childhood.” There are happy moments in the book like this. How did you balance these memories with the reality of drug use?

I wanted to show that complexity. I didn’t want to whitewash it and pretend that there was no downside to being raised by drug addicts. However, I also didn’t want to make it salacious and turn it into this drama porn because there was a lot of happiness and love, and my childhood memories are good ones. So, I wanted to make room for all of those different things that are true at the same time.

Was there a point when you realized that perhaps you weren’t experiencing a typical childhood?

It was a slow realization. I think that’s also part of my coming back to New York and coming back to the East Village was so emotionally healing for me — because then it was normal again.

When we were on the Central Coast of California, it was a beautiful, sunny, rich place. I saw that my mom stood out from the other moms — she was the only one with tattoos, motorcycle boots and a nose ring. I waited for her to pick me up with all these sunny California moms.

Back in the East Village, all my friends’ parents were weirdos and artists and a lot of them had drug problems and were kind of strange in one way or another. When I was back in the city, this was all normal, all fine.  

In the book, you meet some of your father’s friends, who describe this long-lost East Village world that will likely never exist again. Did you ever think about what it would have been like growing up in a different time in the neighborhood?

I felt that a lot when I was a teenager. In the early 2000s, I felt like it was already too late — I wished it was the 80s or the 90s. But looking back at it now, I realize that I got the last little bit of it.

Postscript: 

On June 23-24, Dancyger hosted a book party and exhibit featuring her father's work at 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg ...

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Go see Richard Hell at The Strand tomorrow night

Here are details via The Strand's website:

Join us for an exclusive evening in Strand’s rare book room to honor the paperback release of Richard Hell’s acclaimed I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. The autobiography has been called “A candid, sometimes brutal tour of punk’s gritty early days" by The New York Times Magazine, and "radically self-aware…wielding prose keen as a diamond knife" by cultural critic Luc Sante.

Richard will read briefly from I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp before being interviewed by NYU professor Bryan Waterman (author of the 33 1/3 volume Marquee Moon), and will then take audience questions. At the evening’s conclusion, Richard will inscribe copies of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. No other memorabilia, please.

Buy a copy of I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event, which will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

The event is from 7-8 p.m.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Richard Hell on his East Village apartment

Thursday, January 4, 2018

RIP Fred Bass


In case you missed this news from yesterday.

Here's part of the obituary from the Times:

Mr. Bass was 13 when he began working at the Strand, founded by his father, Benjamin. At the time, it was one of nearly 50 such stores along Fourth Avenue.

Except for two years in the Army, he never left, until retiring in November 2017.

A year after taking over as manager of the store in 1956, he moved it from Fourth Avenue to its present location, on Broadway at 12th Street, where it occupied half the ground floor of what had been a clothing business. He set the Strand on a path of unstoppable expansion, taking over the entire first floor, then, in the 1970s, the top three floors, and adding an antiquarian department.

Bass bought the building on Broadway at 12th Street for $8.2 million in 1997. His daughter, Nancy Bass Wyden, now owns the business.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Stranded on Fulton

Weird not to have the Strand Annex at 95 Fulton Street in the Financial District around anymore...the store had been in this location for 12 years (in other locations downtown for another eight years)...but the double whammy of a 300 percent rent hike and the ongoing gutting of Fulton Street gave the Strand folks no other choice than to shutter the place, which happened the third week of September after some dandy sales.



And so the 15,000-square-foot space sits empty.




This box was out front the day I walked by...



At least locals can console themselves with another Dunkin' Donuts opening down the street.




[Top Strand photo taken for Downtown Express by by Jefferson Siegel]

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Remembering Fred Bass at the Strand



Fred Bass, the 89-year-old co-owner of The Strand, died yesterday. The cause was congestive heart failure, according to multiple published reports.

There's a tribute to him outside the four-level store on Broadway at 12th Street, as these photos by EVG regular Daniel show...



Several outlets have published features on his legacy, including at The New York Review of Books ... and Quartz.

His daughter, Nancy Bass Wyden, will reportedly continue on with the ownership of the Strand.

Saturday, April 1, 2017

A look at the scene from yesterday's manhole explosions on 12th Street and Broadway



Crews from Con Ed and Verizon along with some personnel from the FDNY and NYPD remain at the site of yesterday morning's manhole explosions on Broadway at 12th Street

The streets have reopened ... the sidewalk on the east side of Broadway near the Strand is closed...



A scene from yesterday morning...


Per the Daily News:

The blasts were likely caused by damage from salt laid down during winter snowstorms and washed into the underground system by Friday morning’s rainstorm.

No one was injured and a Con Ed spokesman said there was no disruption in service.

The corner businesses were open ... the Bean and Pret a Manger ...



The Strand, which was not open for the day at the time of the blasts, lost several windows. They will be back open today.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Report: The Strand used sprinklers to prevent the homeless from sleeping alongside the store

DNAinfo reports that the Strand used sprinklers to prevent the homeless from taking shelter at night alongside the bookstore on East 12th Street at Broadway.

"It was to keep people from sleeping out there," said a Strand bookseller who asked that her name not be used. "People used to sleep over there and in the morning we have to put out the book carts, so it was a little bit difficult and uncomfortable for some people."

However, a store manager denied that the sprinklers were intended to drive away the homeless, rather that they are used for cleaning the sidewalk.

And a reaction from Marcus Moore of Picture the Homeless: The sprinkler tactic was "an attack on the homeless population" and "this is not what caring people do to each other."

Friday, May 2, 2008

“It’s a corporation, and it’s run like that"


Nice piece of reporting in this week's issue of New York Press. Apparently the Strand is a horrible place to work, with allegations of racial discrimination as well as insensitive treatment of pregnant workers. Not to mention the vermin.

"It’s not the East village hipster bookstore it’s presented to be,” said one current 26-year-old male employee. “It’s a corporation, and it’s run like that."

An aside, I didn't realize that corridor along Broadway was once a haven for book stores. According to the article: "In 1927, Ben Bass opened the Strand on Fourth Avenue, which was also known as Book Row, a stretch from Union Square to Astor Place filled with 48 bookstores. Today, the Strand is the only one that remains in operation."

Another aside. Thinking about something Alex wrote at Flaming Pablum: "I fear that very soon, all the record stores in Manhattan -- big and small, corporate and independent -- will be a thing of the past. And that, my friends, is going to be a sad day. And book stores will be the next to go."

I hate to say that he's going to be right...but he's going to be right.

And, uh, an aside to the asides: Sure, I'm used to advertising being on Page 1, but those American Apparel ads are really annoying.

[Via Gawker]

Friday, January 22, 2010

Former Strand Annex now a Lot Less closeout store

The Strand Annex at 95 Fulton Street in the Financial District closed in October 2008... due, in part, to a 300 percent rent hike on its 15,000-square-foor home...



...and now, I just noticed that a Lot Less closeout store has taken over the space...



One more strike against the reinvention of Fulton Street and FiDi...

Friday, October 21, 2016

EV Grieve Etc.: 4th Street Food Co-op needs a fridge fix; Bleecker St. Records announces closure


[Fall on East 12th Street]

NYPD looking for two men involved in a vicious attack on Orchard Street (Daily News)

CB3 not buying Sammy Mahfar's inclusionary housing bid for 255 Houston St. (The Lo-Down)

Reckless driver who killed Bowery Mission resident sentenced to 20 to 60 months (Gothamist)

The 4th Street Food Co-op has a broken produce fridge, and they are raising money to pay for a new compressor (YouCaring)

East Village residents Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle officially launch their new book, "All Black Cats are Not Alike," with an event Monday night at the Strand ... including "adorable and adoptable" cats via ASPCA (The Strand official site)

Bleecker Street Records is closing (Flaming Pablum ... Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Christo and Dora building a second nest in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)


[Skateboarding on 1st Avenue via Derek Berg]

Mimi Cheng’s on Second Avenue opens an outpost on Broome Street (Eater)

Instagram accounts for people who like NYC history (Curbed)

The Voice publishes its Best of NYC 2016 issue (The Village Voice)

A career-spanning retrospective of Lucio Fulci, "one of Italy’s most visionary genre directors" (Anthology Film Archives)

"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" at midnight this weekend (Sunshine Cinema)

...and as a reminder (to remember or to avoid), the 26th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is tomorrow... afterwards, there is an after-party at the Ruff Club, 34 Avenue A...



...and also on this occasion at Exit9 on Avenue A...

Friday, November 30, 2018

EVG Etc.: Catching up with Christo and Amelia; saving the Strand from landmarking


[The red-tailed hawks on the Christodora via Goggla]

Thanksgiving with Christo and Amelia (Laura Goggin Photography)

The Strand doesn't want its building landmarked (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

A feature on John Casey, owner of Casey Rubber Stamps on 11th Street (CBS 2 via YouTube)

These East Village spots are fueling "New York's Taiwanese New Wave" (The New Yorker)

The fight to make cash-free cafés illegal in NYC (Grub Street)

Citi Bike tripling the size of its fleet in the coming years (Streetsblog)

The mayor scraps plan for mega-jail down on Centre Street (Curbed)

The Lower East Side of Lillian Walk (6sqft)

EVG contributor Daniel Efram is raising funds for a one-off Curiosities book prototype (Kickstarter)

If you enjoy action-packed 1980s B-movies set in a dystopian future, then consider "2019: After the Fall of New York" (Dangerous Minds)

Meanwhile, on Twitter...


... and an EVG regular shared info on this festive event tomorrow evening at 7:30 not too far away — 155 East 22nd St., between 3rd Avenue and Lexington...

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Come on in, the shopping's great!


As Urbanite reported (via Jeremiah) on Monday, the Strand Annex on Fulton Street will close after the summer. Why?

The Annex, purveyor of discounted books both new and used, has been at its current location for 12 years. But store owner Fred Bass says that recent construction in the area has decreased customer traffic and lowered profits.
“We were doing very well with that store, and then they started the construction, which really hurt our sales,” Bass said. “The lease was up, and of course the landlord wanted the normal increase. But we figured the construction will last at least another year, and we just felt that it wasn’t viable to do that.”

Another year? Good luck. I made a joke in April about 2078. That seems realistic. I see this mess on Fulton Street every weekday. It's only getting worse. This is an area you want to avoid. And I know people who do, unfortunately. If something like the Strand is giving up, what about some of the other smaller shops?  They need the business.

Been on Fulton Street lately? What a treat! 

All Fulton Street-related posts are here.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

EV Grieve Etc.: Landmark potential for 138 2nd Ave.; Richard Hell at the Strand


[2nd Avenue photo by Derek Berg]

138 Second Ave. up for landmarking (DNAinfo)

A 'super awesome Mario Kart set-up' on East 10th Street (Gothamist)

The joke Craigslist ad for a 'hip artist loft' on the LES that was actually a bar's bathroom (Jezebel)

Richard Hell launches his new essay collection, "Massive Pissed Love," tomorrow night (Strand books)

Alexander Olch discusses the incoming Metrograph cinema on Ludlow Street (The Lo-Down)

No more horse patrol on Hell Square for now (BoweryBoogie)

Because there haven't been enough Black Seed-bagel-opening stories (WWD)

Previewing the Will Ferrell-themed bar called Stay Classy on Rivington (Eater)

A review of Bruno Pizza on East 13th Steet (Grub Street)

Iggy Pop at age 19 (Dangerous Minds)

… and, randomly, a photo of Jack Black outside 770 Broadway (HuffPost/aol, etc.) on East Ninth Street yesterday afternoon…


[Photo by Derek Berg]

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

EVG Etc.: The Strand's landmark battle; Cooper Union's Chrysler Building situation


[Outside Josie's the other morning on 6th Street]

An in-depth look at NYC's post-Sandy flood protection plans along the East River (City Limits... previously)

How NYC restaurant owners and operators are reworking their budgets and operations to cover the minimum-wage increase (Eater)

Tensions over landmarking 828 Broadway, home of the Strand (Gothamist ... Curbed)

The longterm financial outlook for Cooper Union, who owns the land where the Chrysler Building sits. Per this article, "Cooper Union will make more than $50 million in rent and tax income off the Chrysler Building — its main asset." (Commercial Observer)

Mayor releases the city’s 2019 "Borough Pedestrian Safety Plans" (Streetsblog ... amNY ... ABC 7)

Primer for NYC's public advocate special election (Curbed)

Legal drama involving Rosario Dawson's family in renovated 13th Street building (New York Post ... previously)

A few more chances to see Nicky Sunshine's one-woman show "Confessions of a Massage Parlor Madam" this weekend at the Wow Cafe Theatre on East Fourth Street (Official site)

Buzzy Geduld, who started Donut Pub in 1964, discusses his new outpost, opening soon on Broadway at Astor Place (Grub Street ... previously)

"Polylogues" — described as "a theatrical investigation into nonmonogamy" created and performed by Queer|Art Fellow Xandra Clark – plays at Dixon Place tomorrow night and Friday night (Official site)

Journalist Jacob Margolies recalls growing up in the 1960s and 70s on the playground of East Third Street, with a brief postscript on memory and mythologies about the city (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

TV and movie productions find many of their vintage electronics through the Lower East Side Ecology Center (Gizmodo)

New Essex Market signage arrives (The Lo-Down)

Upcoming special screenings at the Village East on Second Avenue and 12th Street include "Poetic Justice" (tomorrow night), "Easy Rider (Monday) and "The Color Purple" (Feb. 27) (Official site)

... and the House of LaRue, the style, glam and drag boutique, moved out of its storefront on East Houston at Clinton (on to Metropolitan Avenue) at the end of January ... the space is now home to a psychic...

Friday, February 27, 2015

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition


[Coffee at Porto Rico Wednesday via Derek Berg]

NYC rents are outpacing inflation (The New York Times)

Man on tracks killed by L train at the East 14th Street and First Avenue station (Town & Village Blog)

Winnie's is closing on Bayard Street (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

A visit to Cafecito on Avenue C (Gothamist)

Mapping NYC's gentrification by neighborhood (Curbed)

Looking at Rosie's, opening this spring in the former Boukiés space (Grub Street)

Essex Crossing demolition watch (BoweryBoogie)

Recalling the hardcore scene of Altercation (Noisey/Vice)

The last matzah batch at Streit's on the LES (Jewish Journal)

Here's Kim Gordon's conversation from Wednesday night at the Strand (The Strand via YouTube H/T to Bedford + Bowery, who has a recap here)

Another look at Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, now open on East Second Street (DNAinfo)

"Young Bodies Heal Quickly" makes it NY theatrical premiere tonight (Anthology Film Archives)

Another Bleecker Street live music venue is going under (The Villager)

Rev. Billy headed to trial (Runnin' Scared)

Neighbors complain of excessive construction noise at the former Pathmark site on Cherry Street (The Lo-Down)

Coffee time in NYC ... in the 1790s (Ephemeral New York)

... and the RadioShack on Broadway between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street is closing ... one of the nearly 2,000 nationwide set to close as a result of the company's bankruptcy...

Saturday, June 10, 2017

EV Grieve Etc.: Couple forced to smoke crack; the Strand at 90


[14th Street and 4th Avenue via Derek Berg]

In District 1, which includes parts of the Lower East Side and the East Village, "families choose where their children will go to elementary school, and in 2016, 84 percent of families got one of their top three choices for kindergarten. But their choices still added up to segregation." (The New York Times)

93,000 people applied for 104 subsidized apartments at Essex Crossing (DNAinfo)

Here are the new CB3 members (The Lo-Down)

"How the New Bowery Wall Commission Puts Rape Culture on Display" (Hyperallergic)

Pearl Theater, with roots in the East Village, files for bankruptcy (The New York Times)

Tenants Association asks Blackstone to keep Associated in Stuy Town (Town & Village)

Cross-Dressing and Drag on Screen (Anthology Film Archives)

Feds: A Brooklyn man lured two drunken patrons from the Wren on the Bowery to an apartment and forced them to smoke crack — and then used their credit cards while the victims were incapacitated (Daily News)

A river-to-river bus on 14th Street during the L train shutdown? (Streetsblog)

The Strand is turning 90 (Gothamist)

Frank O’Hara’s East Village (Off the Grid)

The Lower East Side Film Festival continues through June 15 (Official site)

Frank Lloyd Wright’s unbuilt East Village Towers coming to MoMA (B+B)

"Leave Home" gets the 40th anniversary deluxe treatment for the Ramones (Diffuser)

City wins court battle to reduce adult businesses (The Real Deal)

A look at some New York City miniatures (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

... and workers this morning were installing a new awning at the always-reliable Banh Mi Zon on Sixth Street just west of Avenue A...



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Friday, February 7, 2020

EVG etc.: Mokyo debuts on St. Mark's Place; The Strand expands to the UWS


[Seeing double on 7th via Derek Berg]

• Concerns mount over the hotel special permit plan below Union Square (amNewYork)

• Some of Steve Croman's tenants still have chronic issues with their apartments (Gothamist)

• Details on chef Kyungmin Kay Hyun’s new restaurant Mokyo on St. Mark's Place (Eater and Grub Street ... previously on EVG)

• The Strand is opening an outpost on the UWS (Westside Rag)

• Affordable housing lottery underway for this Essex Crossing building (The Lo-Down)

• More cities and states are saying no to cashless shops (NPR ... previously on EVG)

• NYCHA's 'RAD' plan (The City)

• Look ‘n Lick, a site-specific collaborative installation, continues at mh Project NYC, 140-142 Second Ave. — open Saturday and Sunday 2-6 p.m. (Official site)

• See "Casablanca" on Valentine's Day in the big auditorium at City Cinemas on Second Avenue and 12th Street Street (Official site)

• RIP Ivan Kral (Dangerous Minds) ... and Andy Gill (NPR)

• Patti Smith helps vandalized Portland, Ore. book shop (The Oregonian — h/t Daniel!)