Sunday, January 31, 2016

Week in Grieview


[Hat season outside Gem Spa via Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

PYT has closed on the Bowery after just three months (Monday)

Shoveling snow for a cause (Wednesday ... Thursday)

Here's the 6-story condo building for East Sixth Street (Thursday)

RIP Cowboy Jim (Friday)

Cafecito is closing for good on Avenue C (Friday)

Out and About with Leslie McEachern, owner of Angelica Kitchen (Wednesday)

DF Mavens has closed on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

Hole watch on Avenue C and East Sixth Street (Friday)

PP&J as art (Friday)

Rent increase KOs Poppy's Gourmet Corner (Saturday)

Alumni Day: Cycle 19 of the Centre-fuge Public Art Project is underway (Monday)

More David Bowie tributes (Tuesday)

Broadway Panhandler to close (Wednesday)

Virgola wants to open a location on Avenue B (Wednesday)

NYPD cruiser stuck in snow in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Teavana turning into a Starbucks on Broadway (Tuesday)

Woman has her face slashed on the 6 train at Bleecker Street (Monday)

Here's Suffolk Arms (Friday)

Landmarked East 13th Street building sells for $21.5 million (Tuesday)

Police shoot man with knife in Jacob Riis housing complex on East Sixth Street (Tuesday)

The $20k penthouses that rose from the ZP Auto Repair Shop on Lafayette (Monday)

Coming soon signage arrives at Mamoun's new St. Mark's Place home (Monday)

Reader report: Why does this block of East Fourth Street smell? (Friday)

Ben Shaoul's 100 Avenue A ready for tours (Thursday)

... and we didn't get a chance to mention that the former Sunset Cleaners on East Third Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue has been reborn as Sunsweet Cleaners...





An EVG reader and Sunrise customer reported in October 2014 that the landlord (Tomar Equities) offered Susan the Sunset owner a 5-year-lease renewal with a 66-percent rent increase.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2016 at 6:00 PM

    That first image - is that the infamous and dreaded 'Hat-a-con'??? I hear that it is worse than Santacon.

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  2. Scuba DivaJanuary 31, 2016 at 11:14 PM

    At 6:00 PM, Anonymous said...

    That first image - is that the infamous and dreaded 'Hat-a-con'??? I hear that it is worse than Santacon.

    Yeah, that fills me with foreboding too.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2016 at 11:25 AM

    Were the hats being worn because it was Gaear Grimsrudathon? http://goo.gl/O7lNF3

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