EV Grieve Etc.: East Village restaurateurs launch collective; Merchant’s House Museum turns 80

[Photo on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Where New York is gentrifying and where it isn't (City Lab)

At Tompkins Square Park, "the outdoor barometer of homelessness in New York City" (The Awl)

East Village restaurateurs launch Eastville Restaurant Collective (Eater)

Baker's Pizza is an NYC "slice destination" on Avenue A (Gothamist)

Christo gathers a feast for the fam in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)

More about who knew what and when about the deed lifting at the former Rivington House (The Lo-Down)

The charges against Steve Croman: "lost in all this schadenfreude is the uncomfortable fact that Croman and his son are embodiments of unfortunate stereotypes about Jews" (Tablet)

On-the-lam owner of Pure Food and Wine and One Lucky Duck busted in Tennessee (Gothamist ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

Third Street Music School Settlement, "America's longest-running community music school" (NY1)

Alex on the impending loss of Other Music (Flaming Pablum)

Merchant’s House Museum on East Fourth Street turns 80 (Off the Grid)

A look inside Beetle House on East Sixth Street (Grub Street... previously)

At the car wash with Jeremiah Moss! (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Making a network of malls in Midtown — in the 1970s (Ephemeral New York)

... and there's sale tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Dias y Flores Community Garden, 520 E. 13th St. between Avenue and Avenue B...