The developer Avalon Bay has had a tricky time developing the retail properties in its massive East Village developments. While the Bowery Whole Foods has been an unmitigated success and DBGB's keeps pulling expense accounts in, the company has not been as lucky with its food tenants. A restaurant space on First Street and Second Avenue still remains unfilled thanks to community opposition to bars potential operators want to include, the Veselka outpost planned for First Street remains unfinished, the Bruce Willis-backed Bowery Wine Co. appears to be about ready to kick the bucket and now Bespoke Chocolates the tiny chocolate shop that was meant to harken a new "slice of the Left Bank" on Extra Place, has announced it will permanently close its doors on Thursday.
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East Village Alley Is No Left Bank: Bespoke Chocolates Closes Thursday
Bespoke Chocolates Opens on Extra Place
A compact chocolate shop called Bespoke Chocolate opened yesterday on Extra Place, the historic, 30' by 120' alley tucked away north of 1st Street between the Bowery and 2nd Avenue. The shop itself, owned and operated by chocolate maker Rachel Zoe Insler and her fiancé, is a tiny 280 square feet, open production space included.
Extra Place's Past and Future
Extra Place is a small East Village street, spanning only 30 feet wide and about 120 feet long, and The NY Times is taking a closer look at the mostly unknown nook of New York that remains invisible to many passerby, and has no street sign to distinguish it. The small street "runs north from First Street — without making it to Second Street — between the Bowery and Second Avenue" (map).
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