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letter from the Editor: Almost from the beginning of The Lo-Down in 2009, we have paid a lot of attention to a modest tenement at 400 Grand St. As the only residential building left on the Seward Park urban renewal site, we felt that it was important to track the fortunes of the people living there.

As demolition looms, they’ve all been relocated.

In this month’s cover story, we tell some of their stories. The Essex Crossing project on this and eight other parcels will result in a number of community benefits, including 500 new affordable apartments. But before the wrecking crews arrive, we wanted to acknowledge the history of 400 Grand and the individuals who called it home for so many years. Also in this issue, we have details of a campaign to create a historic district on the Lower East Side, Michelle Myles of Daredevil Tattoo talks about her new tattoo museum and we meet the dynamic duo behind La Petite Mort, the cutting-edge Orchard Street boutique and gallery. As usual, there will be no magazine in August. We’ll be spending much of the summer preparing to launch our yearlong reporting project on small-business survival, which will kick off with the publication of the September magazine. Enjoy your summer and remember to stay up-to-date with us every day at TheLoDownNY.com.

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Cover Story

The life of 400 Grand St.

13 Preservation Push

A new campaign for a Lower East Side historic district

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Yokkoyama Hat Market, Off the Bridge Coffee, Narifuri, Lyles & King, Andrew Edlin Gallery

18 Calendar/Feat ured Events Urban Drive-in, July 4th fireworks, Summerstage

20 Neighborhood News

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On the cover: A segment of a painting (unfinished) by Hedy Pagremanski, depicting 400 Grand St.

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400402 Grand Street

A Storied History Remembering the Occupants of 400-402 Grand Street

by Ed Litvak

More than half a century after the brilliant jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins moved to the Lower East Side, he still has vivid memories of his life at 400 Grand St. During a twoyear sabbatical beginning in 1959, he walked from his modest apartment building to the Williamsburg Bridge every day, transforming the old wooden walkway above the East River into his own personal practice studio.

The result of those open-air sessions was The Bridge, the legendary 1962 album that cemented Rollins’ place in history as an improvisational genius.

Sometime in the next month, 400-402 Grand St., the twin tenements just west of Clinton Street, will be knocked down to make room for a new 15-story apartment building that is part of Essex Crossing. The large development project in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area will eventually bring a thousand new apartments, half of them affordable, and a range of new amenities to nine sites stretching from Grand Street to Stanton Street. These two buildings are the last remaining structures on the development site.

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agreed that the tradeoff was worthwhile.

More than 200 apartments, half of them for low- and middle-income families, a 15,000-square-foot park, a large grocery store and, possibly, a new public school will rise on this single parcel, known as Essex Crossing site 5. But before the dismantling of these hundred-year-old buildings begins, we felt compelled to acknowledge the many lives lived here. Sonny Rollins was, no doubt, 400 Grand Street’s most famous resident, but certainly not the only interesting one. What follows in this article is a glimpse of some of the people who lived and worked in these tenements across the decades.

During his time in the two-bedroom Grand Street loft, Sonny Rollins was visited by the jazz world’s luminaries: Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.

He lived next door to drummer Frankie Dunlop, whose wife was pregnant. Feeling guilty about blowing the horn indoors, Rollins sought refuge on the bridge, but he also found inspiration there. “One day I was on Delancey Street,” he told The New York Times this past spring, “and I walked up the The Lo-Down | TheLoDownNY.com

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steps to the Williamsburg Bridge and came to this big expanse. Nobody was there, and it was beautiful. I went to the bridge to practice just about every day for two years. I would walk north from Grand Street, two blocks up to Delancey Street, and then from Delancey Street down to the entrance of the bridge... I could have just stayed up there forever.” Rollins would buy pastries for his wife, Lucille, at Ratner’s. She’d pick up pickles from a guy named Izzy on Suffolk Street and chickens from another shop on the same block. “I had a lot of friends there and I was welcomed by the neighborhood people,” said Rollins in his biography, noting that he and Lucille, an interracial couple, always felt welcome on the Lower East Side.

Ruby Baumgarten, or “Ruby the Fruitman,” had already been ensconced in the ground-floor retail space at 400 Grand St. for a decade or so when Rollins arrived. Until he closed up shop a few years ago at the age of 90, 8 July-August 2015

Baumgarten’s bare-bones store was a quintessential LES experience. Crates of fruits and vegetables sat on tables lining the walls of the stripped-down storefront. At checkout time, Baumgarten methodically totalled up customers’ purchases with a pencil and a slip of paper. As food writer Mimi Sheraton observed in The New York Times in 1997, “Savvy shoppers are regularly and loudly berated for squeezing produce, but [Baumgarten] takes pride in never stocking anything that is too expensive for his customers.”

400-402 Grand St. is one of the few properties in the former Seward Park Extension Urban Renewal Area that escaped the bulldozers during the city’s slum-clearance program in 1967. According to public records, the city took control of the buildings from a company called Dixie Estates, Inc., that same year. The property has been under the management of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development ever since.

For at least the past decade, the tenants occupying about 10 apartments were at odds with the city over their future living arrangements. In the spring of 2009, we met a particularly cantankerous resident named Barry Chusid, who was determined to beat City Hall. At the time, Community Board 3 was making slow progress toward finally breaking a four-decade-long stalemate over the future of the Seward Park parcels. “I’ll pitch a tent if I have to, or they can build around me, but I’m not going anywhere,” Chusid vowed. His militancy did not come out of the blue. A year earlier, a city official had told the residents they’d been accepted into the Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) Program, a relic from New York’s urban homesteading movement that allowed residents to form co-op associations and to purchase their apartments from the city for $250

per unit. Then, as the community board’s deliberations progressed, the offer was suddenly rescinded. The buildings sat on the largest and, arguably, the most desirable parcel in the urban renewal area. As far as city planners were concerned, keeping 400

“I’ll pitch a tent if I have to, or they can build around me, but I’m not going anywhere."

— Barry Chusid Grand St. intact was not an option.

In that first meeting, we accompanied Chusid to a drugstore on Clinton Street, where he made photocopies of dozens of documents collected in his battle with city bureaucrats. “I want someone to have these,” he said, explaining that his health was failThe Lo-Down | TheLoDownNY.com

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ing and that the fight at 400 Grand was one he might not be able to finish. At around the same time, Chusid had visited attorneys at Manhattan Legal Services, a nonprofit organization that agreed to take on the tenants’ case.

Two years later, Chusid died in his apartment, losing a long battle with emphysema and suffering from other medical complications. By that time, however, other residents had begun to raise their voices, and the community board vowed to stand by the only people still living in the urban renewal area.

It was a frustrating, drawn-out ordeal.

Month after month, they returned to CB3’s land-use committee, prodding and cajoling city officials. One especially outspoken tenant, Ricky Rosario, said, “They are playing with our lives. New buildings are built around old buildings all the time. There’s no reason why they can’t build around us.”

The developers of Essex Crossing are, of course, not building around these two buildings. But after years of legal skirmishes and statements of support from the community board, the remaining six residents were finally relocated. The apartments at 400 Grand featured high ceilings and were unusually spacious. Based on a payment ledger Chusid provided six years ago, rents were very low,

ranging from $54–$250 per month. As a result, comparable housing was impossible to find. But the residents and the city ultimately made relocation arrangements. In an interview last month, Rosalind Black of Manhattan Legal Services said three out of six remaining families moved into affordable housing in the neighborhood. One family chose to move to Brooklyn, while two households retained private legal representation, eventually reaching a settlement with the city.

One former resident, longtime local artist and photographer Deryk Demmer, moved to an apartment run by the LES People’s Mutual Housing Association in December. While he’s pleased that the city approved his Section 8 housing voucher, Demmer said he lost a lot in the relocation. In the Grand Street apartment, which he occupied since 1995, there was room for an art studio.

“The new apartment is very small,” Demmer said. “The city finally stepped up but it was too little, too late. I really resent how it all happened.”

Commercial tenants, a shoe repair store run by an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and the LES Jewish Conservancy, shuttered several months ago. (The conserPage 7: Express Shoe Repair, now closed.

Page 8, left: Sonny Rollins performs at a benefit concert in 1982.

Page 8, right: Looking up at the buildings to be ­demolished.

Page 9: LES documentarian Clayton Patterson with Barry Chusid (right), 2010.

This page: Local elected officials and neighborhood leaders attend the opening of the Lower East Side ­Conservancy in 2011.

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Essex Crossing, Site 5. View from Grand Street. Rendering by Beyer Blinder Belle.

vancy continues to operate, but without a storefront.) The conservancy in 2011 moved into the space that was home to Ruby’s Fruits for so many years. The organization, which runs tours of Jewish sacred sites, opened amid much fanfare, with the Lower East Side’s political establishment in attendance. At the time, many people were unconvinced that the Seward Park development would actually go forward.

One visitor to the conservancy’s Grand Street outpost was 85-year-old Hedy Pagremanski, an artist who has painted more than 80 doomed or endangered buildings throughout New York City. Upon learning

of the buildings’ pending demise, she went to work last year to document what will soon become a Lower East Side memory.

Sitting inside a diner across the street one Sunday last month, sipping a cup of coffee, Pagremanski explained what moved her to paint 400-402 Grand St. “My paintings are really about people,” she explained. “I’m making a statement that their lives matter.

I heard so many stories sitting on the sidewalk, talking to the people with connections to those buildings.” From Sonny Rollins to Ruby Baumgarten to Barry Chusid, the people of 400 Grand St. have had quite a story to tell. n The Lo-Down | TheLoDownNY.com

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Preservation Groups Ask Landmarks Commission to Declare Lower East Side Historic District

Orchard Street looking south from Hester Street, a stretch of the historic block preservationists hope to protect.

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Two neighborhood preservation groups last month asked the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate a Lower East Side Historic District. The plan from Friends of the Lower East Side and the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative has been months in the making. It has the backing of 18 other organizations.

The request was formerly made of the agency in a June 1 “statement of support” to Meenakshi Srinivasan, chair of the commission. It reads, in part, “Manhattan’s Lower East Side is recognized as America’s iconic immigrant neighborhood with unsurpassed architectural, historical and cultural significance to our city, state and nation... The only way to effectively preserve the historic streetscapes of this vital neighborhood is through New York City historic district designation.”

The groups are asking the Landmarks Preser-

vation Commission to consider the community below East Houston Street but to “first target” an area below Delancey Street between Forsyth and Essex streets, stretching to roughly Canal Street.

Supporters of the proposal include the Historic Districts Council, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, University Settlement, Museum at Eldridge Street, Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors.

The proposal details the neighborhood’s central role in American immigration over multiple generations as well as global culture and political thought, mentioning such trailblazers as George Gershwin, Louise Nevelson, Abraham Cahan, Eddie Cantor, Lillian D. Wald and Sen. Jacob Javits. As for the architectural merit of the Lower East Side’s historic buildings, the groups write, “Its low-scale tenement buildings reveal the changing character The Lo-Down | TheLoDownNY.com

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of urban housing for lower income New Yorkers during the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Like no other neighborhood in the city, its intact streetscapes offer a brick-and-mortar lesson in both the historical plight of the immigrant poor and society’s response to those horrid conditions.”

The Lower East Side is listed on the state and national registers of historic places, but these designations do not offer protection for endangered buildings. In 2008, the National Trust for Historic Preservation declared the LES one of the country’s “11 most endangered places.” In 2006, the Tenement Museum launched a campaign for a historic district and received the endorsement of Community Board 3, but abruptly dropped the proposal in the face of opposition from local property owners.

Notably, the Tenement Museum is not listed as a supporter of the new effort. In 2012, the commission designated the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District in an area between East 2nd Street to East 7th Street.

The plea to the Landmarks Commission notes that several individual buildings have been designated in recent years. But the groups argue that “it is only in context with their neighboring ten-

ement buildings that the district tells the full story of immigrant life on the LES.” They also state that a historic district will help preserve hundreds of units of affordable housing and save small businesses that “have long characterized the area.”

The organizations say “time is of the essence if we are to be able to preserve even the relatively small intact areas below Delancey Street.” They conclude, “We believe that the Lower East Side’s historic importance and need for landmark protection are unsurpassed.”

The groups have been collecting signatures of support to bolster their application. According to LES Preservation Initiative’s newsletter, they have about 500 signatures so far and are continuing to petition throughout the neighborhood.

In addition to the groups named above, the following organizations are supporting the campaign: Art Loisaida Foundation, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Congregation Kehila Kedosha Janina, East Village Community Coalition, Friends of Terra Cotta, Gotham Center for New York City History, LES History Project, City Lore, Angel Orensanz Center, Seward Park Conservancy, Seward Park Preservation & History Club and the Victorian Society of New York. n

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Street, narifuri.com) The small Japanese company makes stylish, sleek urban biking gear. There’s a full line of high-end jackets, shorts, pants, bags and accessories. The shop soft-opened in midJune, making it the brand’s first location in the United States.

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(106 Forsyth St., near Broome Street, lylesandking.com) Husbandand-wife team Isaac Lyles and Alexandra King Lyles have opened up a gallery in a space formerly occupied by the restaurant Mexicue.

They made their debut this past spring at the New York fair of the New Art Dealers Association (NADA). Lyles previously served as director of the Derek Eller and Jack Tilton galleries.

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St., near Forsyth Street) This new bike repair-andcoffee shop just opened in a prime spot across from the Manhattan Bridge. The business is owned

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ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY (212 Bowery, near Rivington Street, edlingallery.com) Another well-established Chelsea gallery is making the move to the Lower East Side this coming fall.

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Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks: Now that Macy’s fireworks have returned to the East River, there are plenty of places nearby to catch the show. The annual extravaganza will include live performances, along with fireworks set off from the Brooklyn Bridge and barges along the river. With seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist Gloria Estefan, who will debut her original song "America," and featuring VH1 Save the Music's Park Place Community Middle School Choir from Brooklyn. Tune in to hear new recordings by CMA Award winner Rodney Atkins, Grammy Award winner CeCe Winans and the U.S. Air Force Band. Go early if you are heading down to the East River Park; crowds start arriving by 5 p.m.; the show starts at 9 p.m. Free, macys.com.

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Shakespeare in the Parking Lot’s As You Like It: Since the municipal parking lot on Broome Street is being turned into condos, the Drilling Company has found a new home/parking lot, behind the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. In keeping with the play's magical spirit, director Hamilton Clancy is adapting this As You Like It for the classical Victorian era. Everything becomes steampunk when the scene shifts to the Forest of Arden.

A limited number of chairs are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own. Thurs.–Sat. through July 26, 114 Norfolk St. (between Delancey and Rivington streets) 8 p.m., free, shakespeareintheparkinglot.com.

Abrons Arts Center presents outdoor movies each Thursday in July. Kicking off the series is His People (aka Proud Heart), a 1925 silent film about a young Jewish boxer growing up on the Lower

East Side. Local saxophonist and jazz composer Paul Shapiro will be accompanying the film with his original score played by a six-piece ensemble. Other screenings include The Naked City, Hester Street, and Crossing Delancey. Thursdays through July 30. 466 Grand St. in the amphitheatre at sunset. Bring a chair or a blanket. Free, abronsartscenter.org.

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American Theatre Company kicks off its 25th season with a residency at The Public with this classic Clifford Odets drama. The story of the Bergers, a lower-middle-class, three-generation Jewish family living in a Bronx apartment during the Depression, it recalls that this country was founded as a land of opportunity for immigrants.

Stephen Brown-Fried directs an all-Asian-American cast that includes Mia Katigbak re-creating her Obie Awardwinning role as the family matriarch, Bessie. Through Aug. 1, 425 Lafayette St., $45, 7 p.m., publictheater.org.

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winning writer/performer Marga Gomez returns with a sex-fueled, comedic tour de force as the centerpiece for the 24th annual HOT! Festival. Facing unwanted celibacy, Gomez scours dating sites and “fortuitously opens a portal to a cloud-based Lesbian Bermuda Triangle where famous fictional lesbian and pseudo lesbian characters become real.” Fri. and Sat. through July 25, 161A Chrystie St., $16, dixonplace.org.

SummerStage Comes to the East River Park Bandshell: It’s an eclectic week of shows lined up for SummerStage’s 30th anniversary. At the East River Park Bandshell, performances feature artists as diverse as “Tito” Nieves—the “Pavarotti of Salsa,” hip-hop crew RATKING, electronic shapeshifter and dee-jay Caribou and the incomparable actress Sarah Jones. Through Sun., Aug. 9, at the East River Park Ampitheater; shows start at 7:00 pm.There is an additional family day at 3 p.m. on Aug. 9, free, cityparksfoundation.org.

The 21st Annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Tompkins Square Park: It’s hard to beat free jazz in a park on a summer day, and this festival is particularly renowned.

This year’s tribute to the legendary saxophonist features another world-class lineup: Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano, alto saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa (named alto saxophonist of the year for three years running in Downbeat magazine’s international critics polls), pianist, composer and Guggenheim fellow Myra Melford, and jazz vocalist, bandleader and programmer at Dizzy’s, Michael Mwenso. Tompkins Square Park, 500 E. 9th St., 3 p.m.–7 p.m., free, summerstage.nyc.com.

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The 19th Annual New York International Fringe Festival: Continuing its reign as the largest multi-arts event in North America, FringeNYC returns with a smorgasbord of live performance to choose from: avant-garde solo shows, nude comedies, puppets, outrageous meta-musicals and more. The lineup includes more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 theater spaces downtown. Through Aug. 30 at various Lower East Side venues, $18, fringenyc.org. n The Lo-Down | TheLoDownNY.com

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Three 16-year-old boys who escaped from a Brooklyn group home were charged as adults with sexual assault, attempted sexual assault and other crimes following a brutal attack on a woman on Eldridge Street May 31. Police say the suspects, Emanuel Burrowes, Sanat Asliev and Erik Pek, met their 33-year-old victim in an internet cafe at 75 Eldridge St. at about 4 a.m. Investigators believe they dragged the woman away to another location and brutally assaulted her in a stairwell, before stealing her apartment keys.

Security camera video released by the cops shows three young men in her apartment building. Denzel Thompson, an employee of Boys Town, the group home where the suspects had been staying, was arrested and arraigned on charges of falsifying log books. Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters told WCBS-TV, “The worker here didn’t properly supervise the children in his care, falsified the records, and the result was what are alleged to be some very tragic circumstances.” The Administration for Children’s Services closed the home while an investigation is conducted.

Earlier this year, Mayor de Blasio announced the creation of a five-borough ferry network, including service from Grand Street on the East River beginning in 2018. While the announcement was greeted enthusiastically by many, some local residents argued that the Lower East Side stop would serve a larger population farther to the south, closer to the Manhattan Bridge. At a community meeting last month, officials with the city’s Economic Development Corp. said a precise location has not yet been chosen, but the dock would very likely be placed below Grand Street, somewhere between Cherry Street and Jackson Street, in the vicinity of the East River Bandshell. The agency looked at several factors in choosing a location, including water depths along the East River shoreline and the proximity of a federal shipping route in the East River. The ferry station, including ticketing operations and passenger shelters, will be located on a floating barge with a walkway from the promenade. The ferry will first stop at Wall Street/Pier 11 before moving up to the Lower East Side location, Stuyvesant Cove, East 34th Street and Long Island City. An environmental review is now underway to assess the impact at all of the proposed locations. Public hearings will likely be scheduled in the fall. The ferry will cost $2.75 per trip, the same as the subway or bus, but you won’t be able to use your MetroCard. The service is being operated with a $55 million subsidy. chinatown

A Manhattan jury last month found Abacus Federal Savings Bank, a major player in Chinatown, not guilty of mortgage fraud. Two top bank executives were also acquitted. The financial institution is owned by the Sung family, which also has many real estate holdings on the Lower East Side, including the dormant Loew’s Canal Theater. In 2012, the New York district attorney’s office charged the bank and 19 former employees with mortgage fraud and other offenses, in connection with the falsification of Fannie Mae loan documents. Eight defendants pleaded guilty, but the bank’s CEO, Yiu Wah Wong, and Raymond Tam, another high-ranking official, proceeded to trial. Following the verdict, Thomas Sung, the bank’s founder, criticized the prosecution, saying, “This entire wrongful prosecution has exhausted a small community bank such as ours…This is a gross injustice, not only to a small bank, but is casting a shadow on our community, that this community somehow condones or conducts illegal activity. This is totally prejudicial and incorrect.” While the bank was prosecuted as a corporate entity, no member of the Sung family was personally charged.

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Rendering of Lowline Lab by RAAD Studio. parks & recreation

The Lowline, a proposal to build a large park below Delancey Street, plans to open a fullscale laboratory in a former building of the Essex Street Market this coming fall. The lab is meant to test sunlight-channelling technology and to examine what types of plants are best suited for the subterranean space, a century-old abandoned trolley station. The Lowline launched a $200,000 Kickstarter campaign last month to fund the lab. At press time, more than $90,000 had been raised from almost one-thousand backers. The organization has rented out the vacant Essex Market building between Rivington and Stanton streets, which will soon be demolished for the Essex Crossing development project. Three solar collection systems will be installed on the roof. The natural light will then be distributed to the darkened warehouse space below. The lab will be open to the public from September to February and will be free.“We feel the lab will push our research forward,” Lowline cofounder Dan Barasch said in a recent interview. “It will also give the Lower East Side community a longer taste of what the Lowline will be like and it will give public officials a new perspective on both the technology and demonstrate that the [underground park] will be an inviting place.” The organization has spent the last several years prodding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which controls the space, to sign off on the project. The campaign ends July 8. More information about the Kickstarter campaign is available at thelowline.org. real estate

Essex Crossing has announced another big commercial tenant. The nearly two-million-squarefoot residential and retail complex on the former Seward Park redevelopment site will include a 10lane bowling alley/entertainment venue called Splitsville Lanes. Currently, Splitsville operates facilities in Florida, Virginia, Massachusetts and Texas. Now it will establish a New York presence with a 17,000-squarefoot outpost on site 1 of Essex Crossing, located at the intersections of Ludlow and Broome streets. The company signed a 10-year deal. The venue will offer all types of food, from typical bowling alley fare to sushi. Splitsville Lanes is the second major commercial tenant announced by Essex Crossing. A 14-screen Regal movie theater will also be part of the project, located on an adjacent site on Essex Street. The overall development includes a thousand apartments, a new Essex Street Market, a cultural facility to-benamed and an urban farm. Both attractions will be part of the first phase of construction, scheduled for completion in 2017. n

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LO-DINE now open Paul Kim and Ken Lo of Ice & Vice.

Ice & Vice 221 East Broadway, near Clinton St. Hours: noon–10 p.m. Sunday–Thursday; noon–midnight Saturday & Sunday iceandvice.com

A gourmet ice cream shop has opened in the former Pushcart Coffee space on East Broadway. It is owned by Paul Kim and Ken Lo, who got their start two years ago at Artists & Fleas in Williamsburg.

They went on to make the rounds at several other New York City markets (including the Hester Street Fair) and won a Vendy Award for best dessert last year. The idea behind Ice & Vice is to push the limits of what ice cream can be, experimenting with different flavor combinations and sourcing unusual ingredients from all over the world. “This is not your normal ice cream,” said Lo during an interview just before opening. “This is our perspective on what ice cream should be.” The norm will be a dozen flavors, six of them signature varieties, with the rest rotating. A few popular options include Movie Night: Buttered popcorn, toasted raisin, dark chocolate flakes; Tea Dance: Nilgiri black tea leaf, lemon charcoal caramel; Nuts of Wrath: Marcona almond, grape Koolaid jam; and 9AM: Donut truffle blended with Vietnamese coffee. A single scoop will run you $4 and change, putting it in the same price stratosphere as Morgenstern’s on Rivington Street and a bit more expensive than Il Laboratorio Del Gelato, the veteran on the Lower East Side artisanal ice cream scene. The East Broadway location is a retail shop, but it’s also a production facility. A pristine room in the back of the store is a dairy plant, certified by the state Department of Agriculture. It includes a pasteurizer, giving Ice & Vice the ability to form the base for their products.

“It allows us to control every single element that goes into our ice cream,” Lo said.

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Wildair 142 Orchard St., near Rivington St. Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 6 p.m.–closing wildair.nyc.

Just a couple of doors down from their critically acclaimed first restaurant, Contra, Jeremiah Stone and Fabian von Hauske have opened a more casual spot. While Contra is built around a seasonal prix fixe menu, Wildair is meant for snacking and enjoying a selection of natural and biodynamic wines. Food items include radishes with seaweed butter ($12), clams on toast with spinach and lard ($17), fried squid with onion and basil ($17) and a version of Contra’s famous home-baked bread ($5).Stone and von Hauske told The Village Voice they were going for a neighborhood vibe. They were partially channelling restaurants such as Ten Bells on Broome Street and Rivington Street’s dearly departed Inoteca, two wine-centric spots.

They plan to add brunch and morning coffee service in the months ahead.

Grilled Cheese Incident 155 Essex St., at Stanton St. Hours: Monday-Thursday 3 p.m.-4 a.m.; Friday & Saturday 5 p.m.-4 a.m.; Sunday 5 p.m.-3 a.m grilledcheeseincidentnyc.com

In other incident news, a pop-up called Grilled Cheese Incident has opened in Boss Tweed’s, the popular Essex Street bar. Marc Lande came up with the concept, in part, as a tribute to the Lower East Side’s colorful history. Sandwiches such as the “Lucky Luciano” and the “Bugsy Siegel” are based on stories his dad used to tell him about the mobsters who ruled Essex Street back in the day. If you mention The Lo-Down, Marc says you’ll get $3 off any sandwich.

closings & revamps Stanton Street Kitchen 178 Stanton St., near Attorney St.

The craft-beer and small-plates restaurant closed several weeks ago for renovations. After a lengthy buildout in the former “Moldy Fig” jazz club space, former “21 Club” chef Erik Blauberg opened this ambitious spot last year with partner Jamie Keyte. Reached last month, Keyte said he could not discuss the restaurant’s revamp plans just yet.

Spaghetti Incident 231 Eldridge St., near Stanton St. Hours: 5:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m. Monday–Sunday spaghettiincidentnyc.com.

The owners of Malatesta Trattoria, the popular West Village restaurant, have opened up a new place—named for a Guns N’ Roses album—in the old “Family Recipe” space. The inviting spot offers a range of affordable dishes, including pasta with kale pesto, chicken ragu, and salmon and asparagus. Most entrees are in the $12 range. Cash only.

Sixth Ward 191 Orchard St., near East Houston St.

Jin Sushi 252 Broome St. near Orchard St.

After nine years, the sushi restaurant with one of the best happy hour deals on the Lower East Side plans to shut its doors in the weeks ahead.

The lease expired and the owners decided it was time for a break from the day-to-day drudgery of running a restaurant. In the past year, another sushi spot, Zest, opened right across the street from Jin at 249 Broome St. No exact closing date was announced. The restaurant will remain open until the building owner locates a new tenant.

After running afoul of local residents, the community board and the State Liquor Authority, the Orchard Street bar closed its doors after nine years. The state pulled the establishment’s liquor license after determining that its “method of operation” violated the terms of the original permit. Inspectors found that the bar had shifted from serving a vegetarian menu to pub food, allowed dancing and was illegally using an enclosed backyard area. The local block association, the Lower East Side Dwellers, spent many months gathering evidence and advocating against the business. Neighbors complained about noise and unruly crowds emanating from the Sixth Ward. n The Lo-Down | TheLoDownNY.com

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Daredevil Tattoo co-owners Brad Fink and Michelle Myles recently came to the realiza­ tion that their collection of tattoo memorabilia was world-class. Fink had begun collecting artifacts for decades, even before he and his partner opened their first shop on Ludlow Street in 1997. When a 50 percent rent increase forced them to relocate their beloved shop last year, they moved south to Division Street and found the store a permanent home—with more room and more space to show off their collection.

They also ended up closer to the birthplace of modern tattooing in America. The Chatham Square section of the Bowery is considered to be the world’s most historically significant area for tattooing. It’s where, over 150 years ago, a sailor named Martin Hildebrandt opened the first tattoo parlor in the United States. Hildebrandt's "atelier" was a few blocks southeast of the Bowery and Chatham Square, where early tattoo artist Samuel O'Reilly later patented the first electric tattoo machine, and other Bowery legends worked until tattooing was banned in NYC in 1961.

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It’s needed.”

The collection includes photos of Millie Hull, who advertised as "New York's only lady tattooer," as well as the infamous inker Charlie Wagner, tattooing on the Bowery while wearing his top hat. In fact, a whole collection of artifacts from Wagner’s shop, including some of his handwritten notes, is one of the jewels in the pair’s collection. “He tattooed on the Bowery for 50 years,” Myles explained. “He was known as ‘25 Cent Charlie Wagner.’ He undercut all the competition and did tattoos for a quarter, but the tradeoff was, if he was doing eagles that day, that’s what you got. You didn’t get to pick what you wanted.” Back then sailors came in from the harbor and headed to the Bowery to stir up trouble.

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Photo: Alex M. Smith For our regular feature spotlighting the people who live and work on the Lower East Side, we talked with LES residents and La Petit Mort shop owners Kara Mullins and Osvaldo Jimenez (aka SLUTLUST).

How long have you lived on the LES? OJ: I’ve lived here since 1988. My mom came here from the Dominican Republic with me in her stomach, so my joke is that I was made in the D.R. but I was born here. We lived in Harlem for a few years before my family moved down to the LES for my “formative” years.

KM: I’ve been back and forth since 2003.

Why did you move here or (if you were born here) why did you stay?

This is the best place in the world to create and be inspired at the same time!

What do you do?

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a few years. We opened LPM just over a year ago.

We love being able to work with so many talented people to make the shop come together. We hold gallery openings every two months, as well as music events throughout the summer. Collaborating with so many artists, musicians and designers makes the shop what it is, and hopefully you can sense the neighborhood energy coming together within it.

Tell us about your apartment—the good, the bad and the ugly.

We’re in the best neighborhood in the city. It has high ceilings and a bar (169 Bar) in our “lobby” on the ground level—haha.

What’s your favorite spot on the LES and why?

KM: The East River waterfront is beautiful at night.

We go down there as often as possible to either jog or just hang out for a cheap date. Also, Orchard Street between Hester and Canal—it’s where

our store is located, but also where a ton of other great spots are. Get to know the owners of the stores/galleries on this block—they have some great stories to tell.

OJ: That little triangle that’s Canal Street and East Broadway, Division and Rutgers. There’s something about it because it’s like the poor man’s Port Authority. You have all these people from the entire East Coast, all over the country, that travel here, and tourists that learn about the busses from Lonely Planet, and every day it’s this whole new energy.

These people get off the bus with their eyes wide open and find themselves in Chinatown. Plus you have all these new art galleries and all these new restaurants and all this old history, colliding right there. So it kind of reminds me of what the old LES was, but with a little bit of Soho and Tribeca money mixed up in it. And everyone’s still kind of cool and not obnoxious down here. I feel like this is the last little bit of undiscovered New York.

Favorite cheap eats?

Yummy Kitchen Chinese for $4 wonton noodle soup! And Forgtmenot for sit-down service and amazing tacos.

Favorite place for a special night?

Gallery hop after we close up the shop, dinner at Café Katja, and then drink and dance it off at either Jerome’s, Beverly’s or Clockwork Bar. Kara also used to love going to the Vector Gallery (RIP) when it was still here…

How have you seen the neighborhood change?

OJ: Besides Tompkins Square Park going from a shanty town to a glorified yuppie puppy run? I’d say the Meat Packing-ification of the Lower East Side (which I don’t mind as most of the people that work in bars are just creatives trying to keep their apartments) and the art gallery-ification of Chinatown. The grittiness reminds me of the old East Village but mixed with Soho/Chelsea money.

What do you miss from the old LES? OJ: Not much! For everything that people glorified about the old New York, I remember the violent and very frightening underbelly. If this was 10 years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to open up my shop in Chinatown. I was from LES and those Chinatown boys didn’t like us one bit. I love and miss the frenetic energy and intensity of the ’80s when it comes to music and art, but you also have

to remember these people were afraid for their lives most of the time, so whatever they did, it had to be good because it could have been their last.

Is there a new arrival you love?

We love Kiki’s on Division Street and Jerome’s on Essex (between Suffolk and Clinton), though it’s not super new.

What drives you crazy about the neighborhood?

Realtors… those guys…

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen on the LES? The girl that does Michael Jackson dances weaving in and out of traffic outside of all the LES clubs and bars.

Who’s the best neighborhood character you’ve met and why?

KM: I really love Marilyn Sokol. She stops by the store every so often and on top of having amazing stories to tell, she is always dressed to the nines.

She always stocks up on crazy tights from us and pairs them with a vintage piano skirt or a massive fur. She’s been featured in advanced style and has an extensive acting career—still a fireball at almost 80 years young!

Tell us your best LES memory.

KM: We “met” on an MTA bus years ago. OJ saw me on the bus and said, “That’s someone I could spend my life with.” We both got off the bus without speaking to each other, but then ran into each other that night at a bar and the rest is history. It really holds true that, for as big as the city is, it’s also very small. OJ proposed on the same bus this year in the middle of a snowstorm. n

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(continued from page 24) a map of famous tattooers who worked on the Bowery. They hope to create a catalog of archival articles with a timeline that corresponds to the collection.

If they reach their goal, Daredevil will be able to showcase its antique machines in proper storage cases. The collection includes a Thomas Edison engraving pen, considered to be the first electric tattoo machine, and the first mechanical device that Edison ever patented.

The team notes on its Kickstarter page, “We've managed to secure a forever home for our shop and the collection but we need help to finish a few more things. Getting to where we are now was the hardest thing we've ever accomplished but we feel we have something important... to contribute to the heritage of the Lower East Side.

We’re really hoping to be a global destination for the tattoo community and anybody else who is interested in the history of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the Bowery,” Myles said.

You can contribute to the Daredevil Tattoo Museum Kickstarter campaign through July 10, and you can check out this quirky and historic collection (141 Division St., just at the triangle between Canal and Ludlow) during regular business hours from noon–8:00 p.m. daily. n

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