Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

At about 10:30 last night, hours after Spain defeated the Netherlands in the World Cup final, one drunken reveler was stumbling up Bowery sounding his ear-piercing vuvuzela.  The noise elicited responses from many of the drivers stopped in traffic just north of Delancey.

At last month’s community meeting with owners of the forthcoming tapas joint at 245 Bowery, representatives from BLVD were deployed to secure the S.R.O. namesake for their own re-branding effort. Well, the issue is now a moot point, as the nightclub apparently settled for a different name.  Meanwhile, the BLVD flags remains in place.

Ladies and gentlemen, the gavel has fallen, and the verdict is now in regarding the proposed restaurant-slash-bar at 168 Elizabeth Street.  A reader wrote to inform us that Community Board 2 voted unanimously against Matthew Oliver Maddy at its full board meeting on June 17.

Denizens of Spring Street, get ready for a waxing! The so-called Ministry of Waxing is slated to move into the recently-renovated 56 Spring Street sometime this summer under the moniker Strip.

We received a disturbing email from a concerned reader yesterday about the fate of the Federal-style house at 206 Bowery, opposite Rivington Street.  It seems demolition might be in the cards for this slice of city history.  An eviction notice is currently pasted to its security gate.