{"id":354791,"date":"2021-10-19T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/manhattans-east-village-is-back-after-being-hit-hard-by-covid-lockdowns\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:06:14","slug":"manhattans-east-village-is-back-after-being-hit-hard-by-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/manhattans-east-village-is-back-after-being-hit-hard-by-covid-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"#Manhattan\u2019s East Village is back after being hit hard by Covid lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Manhattan\u2019s East Village is back after being hit hard by Covid lockdowns<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Jennifer Gould\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The East Village is back: Just look at the hundreds of 20-somethings spilling out of the area\u2019s bars and restaurants on any weekend night.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a far cry from the ghost town the neighborhood had become during the height of the coronavirus: East Village dining and drinking spots were harder-hit by the pandemic than any other \u2018hood in the city, according to one count of closures.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s mounting a resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>One example: Coyote Ugly, the dancing-on-the-table, body shots bar made famous in the 2000 film of the same name. It shut down in March 2020 as the virus raged \u2014 after a 27-year run. But it\u2019s reopened now \u2014 in the same East Village neighborhood \u2014 around the corner at 233 E. 14th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And a new rock-and-roll bar is set to open in Coyote\u2019s old space at 153 First Ave., Side Dish can report.<\/p>\n<p>The openings are a big change from 2020, which one neighborhood bartender called \u201cscary\u201d \u2014 not just because of Covid shutdowns and the constant sound of helicopters overhead, but also because of the George Floyd-related protests and riots.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-061521Coyote10TB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Exterior of Coyote Ugly Saloon\" class=\"wp-image-19843898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-061521Coyote10TB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-061521Coyote10TB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-061521Coyote10TB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Coronavirus casualty Coyote Ugly is open for business again.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was crazy. Like a war zone,\u201d said Erin Shaiko, 40, who\u2019s been bartending at Pink\u2019s, at 242 E. 10th St., for the past three-and-a-half years. \u201cThe trash cans were on fire. We had to board up all the windows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, by May of last year, Pink\u2019s started serving customers to-go cups out of the bar\u2019s window. \u201cI just sat in the window with a frozen margarita machine,\u201d Shaiko said. \u201cPeople came up and were so h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y to see us \u2014 they\u2019d give me five bucks without even wanting a drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those days seem far away now. \u201cIt\u2019s back to normal \u2014 sort of,\u201d she said. Or at least as close to normal as things can be with vaccination cards still in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Restauranter Stratis Morfogen is ready to take advantage of the move back to normal. His new rock club, which will be called E.VIL Rock Club, trades on the neighborhood\u2019s \u201cgreat energy and history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-Stratis-Morfogen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stratis Morfogen appears at food festival \" class=\"wp-image-19843935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-Stratis-Morfogen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-Stratis-Morfogen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/sized-Stratis-Morfogen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stratis Morfogen, seen here at a food festival last week, will be debuting the E.VIL Rock Club.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for NYCWFF<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs the crowds are coming back, so will small businesses,\u201d he said. Indeed, in May he opened another spot, too: an outpost of his Brooklyn Dumpling Shop \u2014 East Village branch, at 131 First Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Palitz, who heads the city\u2019s nightlife office and also lives in the neighborhood said it\u2019s \u201cback \u2014 and is great to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there are more restaurateurs looking for East Village space than there are spaces to fill them, said East Village commercial broker Greg Goldberg, a director at Meridian Capital Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have enough spaces for all the people who want to come back,\u201d Goldberg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe East Village got hit the hardest during the pandemic, but it is coming back the fastest,\u201d he said. He estimated about 30 to 40 percent of the area\u2019s bars and restaurants had shut down at height of lockdown and haven\u2019t reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the history of the East Village that can\u2019t be replicated, though \u2014 and it\u2019s part of what\u2019s drawing restaurateurs and bar owners back to the area, with venues like the former CBGB having had such a profound effect on the city\u2019s cultural history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Temple_Bar_Owner_005.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683\" alt=\"David Rabin outside his East Village restaurant\" class=\"wp-image-19843946\" width=\"374\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Temple_Bar_Owner_005.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=743 748w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Temple_Bar_Owner_005.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=557 561w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Temple_Bar_Owner_005.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=371 374w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Temple_Bar_Owner_005.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=186 187w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Temple_Bar_Owner_005.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\"\/><figcaption>David Rabin says the East Village restaurant scene is \u2018starting to feel normal again.\u2019<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Mecea<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s part of what brought Temple Bar back to the neighborhood, even though it left in 2017 after 28 years in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, under new ownership, it reopened to packed crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bar, marked since 1989 by the skeleton of a lizard on the outside of an otherwise unmarked space at 338 Lafayette, is on the border between Noho and the East Village.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four veteran restaurateurs, David Rabin and Maneesh K. Goyal \u2014 who recently opened Sona during the pandemic, with Priyanka Chopra Jones \u2014 and Sam Ross and Michael McIlroy, of Attaboy, are running the space, which they are leasing, along with rights to use the name, from executors of the estate of the bar\u2019s late founder, George Schwartz, a doctor who also owned the beloved and now shuttered NoHo Star.<\/p>\n<p>The area\u2019s bar scene \u201cis starting to feel normal again,\u201d said Rabin, who announced Temple Bar\u2019s reopening on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 1,500 square foot space, with emerald green velvet drapes, green leather banquettes, a zigzag bar and a disco ball, holds up to 74 people, and stays open until 3 am on weekends. The policy is to show proof of vaccination to get in, but no need to mask up once inside. So far, Rabin says, it is almost as if COVID never happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is asking for outdoor seating. They understand this is an indoor bar, and that hasn\u2019t been a problem,\u201d Rabin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only slight post-pandemic difference is that there is no longer shared foods at the bar. But people are ordering appetizers like the famed popcorn and steak cubes along with oysters, sliders and lobster rolls. They are served alongside $21 cocktails, like a Blue Negroni; a martini menu with $18 \u201ccaviar bumps;\u201d or $4 champagne toppers on other cocktails as well as a $200 caviar tasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has been so excited to be back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurateur Lamia Funti, of Lamia\u2019s Fish Market, is also opening a new bar and restaurant next door to where she is right now at 47 Avenue B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her current 8,000 square foot space seats 160 people inside and 50 people outside. While it was dead during lockdown, Funti says she believes in the neighborhood and snapped up a 3,000 square foot space next door, where she is launching a new, Spanish cuisine-themed bar and restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe East Village was completely deserted during lockdown. Basically there was nothing. Everything was shut down\u00a0 \u2014 restaurants and bars were really hit hard,\u201d she said. \u201cBut people are back and happy to go out. it\u2019s pretty lively again.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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