EVG Etc.: ATM robbery on Houston and Lafayette; L-train-shutdown meeting recap

[Photo on 9th Street by Derek Berg]

NYPD looking for this suspect in violent afternoon robbery at the Bank of America ATM on Lafayette and Houston (CBS 2)

At Wednesday night's L-Train-Shutdown Town Hall (Gothamist)

The 2018 Le Petit Versailles garden season has begun. Check out the list of events at the garden on East Houston between Avenue B and Avenue C here.

Tonight: A Chino Garcia Oral History and screening of "CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth" as part of Lower East Side History Month (Loisaida Center)

Q&A with Jeremiah Moss titled "The Aesthetics of Gentrification, and New York’s Top-Down Approach to Change" (Hyperallergic)

More about Slurp Shop opening on First Avenue (Eater ... previously)

Solid reviews for Sara Driver's documentary "Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat," opening today at the IFC Center (Official site... Rotten Tomatoes)

"In My Room" is an exhibit featuring the work of photographer Saul Leiter, who lived and worked in the East Village — now showing at the Howard Greenberg Gallery (The Eye of Photography)

Mother's Day at the Metrograph includes screenings of "Mermaids" and "Mildred Pierce" (Official site)

More on the Ramones book by Danny Fields (The Village Voice)

And happening tomorrow at First Street Green Art Park...

MAY 12, 2018 Join us for a full day of events including community workshops, murals, music, and art.  33 East 1st Street, at Houston St & 2nd Ave. 1:00 – 4:00 pm: Community Mural School, Learn about the environment by making collaborative art with painters Alex Evans & Anna Souvorov. @alex_andrae @asouvs 1:00 – 4:00 pm: SVA flower & plant collage workshop by Suzanne Anker, Chair of School of Visual Art’s BFA Fine Arts Department. Ms. Anker weaves traditional and experimental media in SVA's Bio Art Lab. @svanyc @svabioart 5:00 - 7:00 pm: Opening Reception for “Neighbors” by John Raymond Mireles, Restoring America’s shattered national unity one photograph at a time, Mr. Mireles exhibits portraits of Americans from all 50 States from his “Neighbors” Project on the perimeter fence from May 1-July 4, 2018. @johnmireles 7:00 - 9:00 pm: Benefit reception co-hosted by Turn Gallery, 37 E First Street (suggested donation $25). All day - Live painting by "Wasteland" Open Call muralists and Centrefuge. @centrefugepublicartproject New Media artists Carlos Rosas and Leanna Rosas debut "MAMA II: Above Board” – a Media Art Mobile Attack unit on wheels with FSG's greatest hits projected on the sail. Music by DJ Jake Lama www.jakelama.com @jakelama #murals #photographynyc #muralart #muralsnyc #streetart #publicart #blockparty #park #artpark #nycpark #nycart #nycartist #local #localartist #supportlocal #supportart #community #neighbors #nonprofitart #streetphotography #streetstyle #urban #urbanphotography #lowereastside #schoolofvisualarts #communitymural

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