The plywood at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery,

It's never acceptable to make jokey observations about beloved neighborhood institutions, like if you saw plywood outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery and said something like, "Shake Shack opening here?" But it would be perfectly reasonable to think such things.

Anyway, as you've noticed of late...

Per the work permits:

RESTORATION OF EXISTING BRICK ARCH AND ASSOCIATED IRON GATE LOCATED IN WEST YARD
OF CHURCH PROPERTY. NO CHANGE IN USE, EGRESS OR OCCUPANCY.

Previously on EV Grieve:
New commercial turns historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery into a bank branch