Nabe News: November 23
Rosario’s Pizza profiled, 99X closing, and Spidey rickshaw drama, all in today’s LES neighborhood news!
Iconic shoe store 99X is closing. They’ve been around since 1978 [EV Grieve]
Today’s NY Post profiles Rosario’s Pizza and its proprietor, Sal Bartolomeo. “The people of the Lower East Side are the best of all New York,” he proclaims. “Here you can find people who love you. It doesn’t matter who you are. They speak to people of all classes on the same level. There are no walls up between people. That’s the beauty of this place.” [NY Post]
2 U Karaoke Lounge is one step closer to fruition with new signage at the old Mondo Kim’s on St. Mark’s Place. And as Grieve aptly notes, “looks like some rejected concepts from U2’s PopLife tour.” [EV Grieve]
Alex keeps cranking out the Then & Now posts! Here is the Ludlow/Cortlandt edition [Flaming Pablum]
Chelsea Guitars booted from the Chelsea Hotel, but moving to a smaller space 52 1/2 feet away [Vanishing NY]
The first real subway opened in 1870, but far different from the tube of today. Invented by Alfred Ely Beach, this pneumatic subway ran a distance of 300 feet; it ran from Warren Street across Broadway to Murray Street [Ephemeral NY]
Spidey’s rickshaw was stolen over the weekend, but he was able to retrieve it, abandoned at Eleventh Street and Avenue A [Neither More Nor Less]
Recent Stories
‘Caribea’ Grill Readies Space Left Vacant by Domino’s on Allen Street
Ever since Domino’s ditched its decades-old Allen Street location three years ago, the commercial space has been a vacancy consistently peddled on the market. Now, a new concept is a-knockin. Caribea is as it sounds – a fast casual pan-Caribbean grill. The restaurant at 203 Allen will seat fourteen tables and a stand-up bar, for […]
The Projects Jockeying for the $20M Chinatown Revitalization Funds
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Displaced Chinatown Business Returns Months After Devastating Fire
Four months after a deadly fire knocked out 78 Mulberry Street, one of its businesses returned to the scene. Ewa Trading Company reopened in its former Chinatown home earlier this week. The store had spent some of the interim displacement period selling from a shuttered Vietnamese restaurant a few paces north. The two-alarm fire broke […]
EDC Sues Essex Restaurant for Back Rent over Former Essex Market Lease
Three years removed from its relocation across Rivington Street, the city filed suit against the Essex restaurant for alleged unpaid rent. The Economic Development Corporation (EDC) sued Essex for nearly $60,000 in unpaid back rent on the former Essex Market building it previously occupied, according to the lawsuit filed Monday. The city entity claims that […]
Exile on Orchard Street: Tenement Museum Recreates Exhibits During Renovations
The Tenement Museum is amidst a preservation project at 97 Orchard Street, but will continue its programming with replicas not too far away. The 1863-era tenement this past Sunday embarked on “vital” restoration work to preserve its walls, floors, roof, as well as the installation of a new HVAC system that will provide improved climate […]
