East Village media mentions

Word is coming in that a swarm of killer bees has invaded the Bowery the NYPD found a large beehive colony of bees in a tree on the Bowery near East First Street.

It has been two-plus years since we're seen the front of the under-renovation St. Brigid's on Avenue B at East Eighth Street...

The ones that Gawker reported on...?

When/Where: Tuesday, May 22 through Thursday, May 24. Tues—Weds noon—8pm, Thurs noon—6pm. 330 Bowery at Bond St (646-827-7567)

Amor Y Amargo 443 E 6th Street, New York, NY

The Standard East Village 25 Cooper Square, New York, NY

...became angry at a group of people, went home, got the gun, and returned to East 10th Street and Third Avenue to menace his rivals. Officers assigned to the nightlife beat apprehended the man without incident...

[Photo by Dave on 7th]

...as a hardcore punk band in 1982, was at CBGB. A memorial sprouted up at 169 Avenue A, where they recorded their “Polly Wog Stew” EP. A couple murals popped up in the...

241 E 10th St

Just east of Second Avenue... Photo and tip via EVG reader Kristen, who notes, as of 7:32, emergency responders were on the scene...

East Village-based photographer Gudrun Georges caught a glimpse of the now-shuttered Life Cafe the other evening... capturing the 30-year-old restaurant in a sad state of interior-demolition limbo on East 10th Street and Avenue B.

Through the months we've been looking at the under-renovation Key Food on Avenue A and East Fourth Street... (We wrote about it here ... and here...)

And one of the things that we always look forward to around here...

[Photo last week by EVG reader Nathan Archambault]

A reader is looking to move apartments later this year, and is starting to do some research for an ideal block. Despite being in a so-called Resolution Zone, the Community Board continues to OK liquor licenses, and the block the resident lives on has "disintegrated into a chaotic nightly mess."

[Photo via Serious Eats]

Odessa Cafe on Avenue A is the site of an interior shoot for "Blood Ties," the 1970s-era family crime drama starring Clive Owen and Mila Kunis ... The crew seems to be locking down the sidewalk more so than usual, a few passersby have noted...

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...a freestanding building, though it is actually the last remaining rowhouse on the block of East Fourth Street near Bowery. “We’re a rowhouse without a row,” he said. “Because our neighbors on either side...

4) Zaragoza Mexican Deli, 215 Avenue A: Finally, Alphabet City bodega and taqueria Zaragoza asked the board for a renewal of its...

5) The Standard East Village, 25 Cooper Square: And as noted earlier, Andre Balazs showed up in person last night to defend significant...

...into indoor space with the addition of an 18-stool service bar. Two residents of 27 Cooper Square, the building enclosed by the hotel, voiced concerns about possible congestion and noise, but the...

...the project will add 1,000 square feet to the hotel, which is located at 25 Cooper Square near 5th Street...

The commission also granted landmark status to a Beaux-Arts former horse-auction house in the East Village, the Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart on East 13th Street near Third Avenue. The building is now home to a dance center. (See related post on The Local East Village.)

Various residents and and preservationists came out last night at a CB2 meeting to oppose plans for a nine-story hotel next door to the landmarked Merchant's House on East Fourth Street. Plans call for demolishing the one-level garage/repair shop adjacent to the circa 1832 Merchant's House.

Last week, Paper reported that Max Fish was opening an outpost on the Asbury Park boardwalk for the summer...

The commission also granted landmark status to a Beaux-Arts former horse-auction house in the East Village, the Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart on East 13th Street near Third Avenue. The building is now home to a dance center. (See related post on The Local East Village.)

Last Tuesday, Roger Friedman at Forbes noted that the CBBG movie by husband and wife filmmakers Jody Savin and Randall Miller was a go.

...the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will present a plaque commemorating the history of 50 East First Street, between First and Second Avenues. As The Local has reported, the ground-floor space – which...

Chase continues to film a commercial or something around the neighborhood... seen here on East 11th Street at First Avenue right now ...

[Sunday at the the pit. Photo by Bobby Williams]

5 am — St Marks to 20th Street - w4m (East Village)

The Standard East Village 25 Cooper Square, New York, NY

...space for hotel guests is part of Mr. Balazs’s reorientation of the hotel from East Fifth Street towards Bowery — a major overhaul that he says is necessary for it to be profitable...

...voted to recommend the business get a new license, noting that it had been at 215 Avenue A since 2001, and that it shared the block with other nightlife destinations that had been...

Spotted on East Seventh Street.

Over on East Fourth Street and Second Avenue, Belcourt has closed...

[Bobby Williams]

"Blood Ties," a 1970s-era family crime drama, will be filming around parts of Avenue A and Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place today, most likely. (Unless the rain KOs filming for the day... It is supposed to rain, right?) Clive Owen and Mila Kunis star in the English-language debut of director (and actor!) Guillaume Canet ... it's actually a remake of the 2008 French thriller "Les Liens Du Sang" ... the cast includes Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, James Caan, Lili Taylor and Domenick Lombardozzi...

From the EV Grieve inbox...

The intersection of Third Avenue and East 14th Street tied for the fifth most dangerous intersection in Manhattan with 66 crashes involving pedestrians from 1995 to 2005.

...the appointment of Andito Lloyd as East Village and special projects director. With battles over 35 Cooper Square ongoing, Ms. Lloyd will have plenty to sink her teeth into in her new role...

The Tribeca Film Festival also opens today, and with films showing at Loews on Third Avenue and East 11th Street, the East Village can stake a claim to a bit of the action.

But for many regulars of Moishe’s on Second Avenue near East Seventh Street, the shop’s temporary transformation is nothing new, and certainly no cause for alarm. The...

Previously.

Details are still coming in regarding an apparent suicide on East 11th Street at Second Avenue this evening around 5:30. Witnesses put the incident occurring at 300 E. 11th St. According to the Post, EMS rushed the woman to Bellevue where she died.

The Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America’s production of The Chalk Circle plays through May 20 at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave.); 212-868-4444

A statement released by the museum on East Fourth Street near Bowery indicates that at a meeting tonight, staffers along with Councilwoman Mendez will ask Community Board...

The Standard East Village 25 Cooper Square, New York, NY