Community Board 3 is out with its November agenda — which means we have our first look at restaurants/bars going before the SLA Committee with liquor license applications. The meeting will be held November 15th, 630pm, at the JASA/Green Residence, 200 East 5th Street.
New Applications
Iggy’s Pizza LLC, 173 1st Ave (wine/beer)
Corp to be Formed, 101 3rd Ave (full bar)
Wackywok (Panasia Kitchen Ltd), 129 Ave D (wine/bar)
West New Malaysia Restaurant Inc, 14-18 Elizabeth St (wine/beer)
Taqueria East Village (Azpeitia Barraza & Rivas Cuellar Inc), 107 1st Ave (full bar)
Rivington Parlor LLC, 155 Rivington St (full bar)
Amazing 66 Restaurant (Amazing 66 Group Inc), 66 Mott St (wine/beer)
Sushi Uo breaks away from “the clutches of diva sushi chefs” to embrace “erotic rope bondage.” This creative press release lands the one year-old restaurant on “DeathWatch.” (Eater)
Mostly cloudy today with a high of 72. Tonight Community Board 3 decides whether to finally support a developer’s bid to restart a stalled project at 183 East Broadway. Also, the Landmarks Preservation Commission looks at protecting the Henry Street Settlement’s historic theater. Coming up we’ll have this week’s Lo-down List, your guide to the best events on the LES.
L.E.S. resident Jac Zagoory sent us these photos from It’s My Park Day in Gulick Park. The event was hosted by Friends of Gulick Park and included pumpkin painting, bulb planting, face painting and a ping-pong tournament.
On Sunday the Seward Park Cooperative is throwing a big Halloween party for the whole neighborhood. Starting at 2pm, there will be a parade down East Broadway.
A carnival at the co-op begins at 3. It’ll include a pumpkin patch, face painting, goodie bags, a graveyard, a raffle and much more. The Hester Street Fair is joining in with food discounts and free treats for the kids.
Parade-participants will meet at Emigrant Savings Bank, 465 Grand Street. Tickets are $7 per person if bought in advance -$9 on Sunday. You can buy tickets at the Seward Park Co-op management office, 413 Grand Street.
News crews are on the scene at 272 East 7th Street, where a man was stabbed and killed early this morning. DNA Info talked with neighbors about what happened:
East Village neighbor Charles Smith, 41, was out getting his morning coffee around 5:30 a.m. when he saw the man stumbling out of the six-story residential building. “I thought he was drunk until I saw the blood,” said Smith. “It’s shocking to see someone die.” Smith said police arrived on the scene just minutes after the man collapsed onto the sidewalk. Third-floor resident John Bonilla, 59, said he saw a bloody trail on the stair case from the second floor and in the hallway of the first floor. “I thought it was vampire blood with Halloween coming,” said Bonilla, who has lived in the building for seven years. Police arrested a man in connection with the crime, but they have not released his name. Officials have closed Seventh Street between Avenues C and D while they investigate.
This week the Mark Miller Gallery will be celebrating two big events: the American debut of “Double Happiness,” the striking exhibition from renowned artist Kevin Berlin, and the reopening of the Orchard Street gallery after a two-year transformation. We stopped by last week to talk with Miller and Berlin, as they were rushing to prepare for a preview show for the YoungArts Presidential Scholars.
Writer Jonathan Soffer will be at the Tenement Museum tomorrow with the dynamic and divisive former mayor (and congressman), Ed Koch, as part of the Tenement Talks series. They will be discussing Soffer’s recent biography, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, which focuses on Koch’s reign during the city’s bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s. Free // 6:30p // 108 Orchard Street.
Council member Rosie Mendez has made a contribution to the viral online video project “It Gets Better.” The project was started by syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage last month as a response to a recent rash of teen suicides that are believed to have been triggered by intense bullying. The teens were all known to be gay. Savage posted the first video on September 21 and hundreds of people have responded by posting their own videos since (including President Obama this past Friday).
Is 180 Orchard, the stalled hotel/apartment complex on the market? While the following listing does not include an address, the description sounds a whole lot like the so-called “hell building”:
BLOCK THROUGH DEVELOPMENT SITE FOR SALE
PRIME DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
LOWER EAST SIDE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
This Sunday will be the last of Arts for Art’s “In Gardens” concert and poetry series for the season. Musicians will play at First Street Garden on 1st street between 1st avenue and 2nd avenue. The Concerts are free, with a suggested donation of 5$. The schedule follows:
2:15 pm : MazzMuze – Mazz Swift (violin)/Will Martina (cello)
Steve Herrick, executive director of the Cooper Square Committee, passed along info about the organization’s big gala coming up Monday night:
The Cooper Square Committee, a non-profit tenants rights and housing preservation organization, is holding our 51st Anniversary Fundraising Gala titled “Celebrating East 4th Street” on Monday, October 25th, from 6 pm – 9 pm at 59-61 East 4th Street, 4th floor loft. Continue reading Cooper Square Gala Monday Night
