Week in Grieview

[Photo on 9th Street by Steven]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

City Council investigating claims of tenant retaliation at NYCHA properties (Tuesday)

Here's what the new condoplex at 118 E. 1st St. will look like (Friday)

Joe & Pat's now open on 1st Avenue (Monday)

Empty corner storefronts on Avenue A (Tuesday)

Films on the Green to play in Tompkins Square Park on 2 Friday nights in July (Friday)

Neighbors at First Street Green Art Park (Sunday)

5 big events in May that you may or may not already know about (Tuesday)

L.A.-based ramen shop opening outpost on 1st Avenue (Monday)

Meryl Meisler's Lower East Side of the 1970s and 1980s (Wednesday)

Sales office vacated as Ben Shaoul reportedly sells Liberty Toye; building to return to rentals (Thursday)

Moving day for Bareburger (Monday)


[Wisteria in bloom on 10th Street by Sarah Greenwood]

VVN’s Tea bringing art and tea to the former Neptune space on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

Plant-based chef Matthew Kenney's Arata opens today on 2nd Avenue and 4th Street (Friday)

Film Forum now closed for renovation, expansion (Thursday)

Unwrapping the future Swiss Institute on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday)

A return of the East Village Tavern? (Thursday)

Pile driving phase over (for good?) at 11 Avenue C (Wednesday)

Mochii is a new rice flour dessert shop on 7th Street (Wednesday)

Former New York Central Art Supply store serving as a temp home for the Brunch Theatre (Wednesday)

EastVille Comedy Club has left 4th Street for Brooklyn (Monday)

The boozy Taco Bell on Broadway doesn't appear to be happening (Thursday)



And Derek Berg took this photo of Debbie the gardener in Tompkins Square Park earlier this week ... as she was planting two new (cherry blossom?) trees in the section called No Elm Island...



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