EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

Last hope for Astor Place newsstand? (The Villager)

Historic Pen and Brush Club becoming a single-family mansion with pool on East 10th Street (New York Post, 2nd item)

New York magazine on punk in 1979 (Flaming Pablum)

Sending good wishes to Steve Ben-Israel (BoweryBoogie)

Someone put bubbles in the fountain at Union Square (Gothamist)

Chelsea Gallery Diner has closed, one more loss for the non-trendy crowd (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Olek beach yarn-bombing in the UK (BBC)

DayLife on Orchard Street Sunday (The Lo-Down)

"Artisanal, Reluctant Branding Pioneer, Dies at Age 474" (The Atlantic Wire)