Sunday, November 7, 2021

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included... (with a reader-submitted post-Halloween pic from 13th Street) ...

• Judge issues a temporary restraining order, halting construction at East River Park (Friday) ... The first sections of East River Park set to close today as resiliency work begins; activists arrested (Monday) 

• Election results: Rivera, Marte win local City Council races (Wednesday) 

• A look at 302 E. 2nd St., where a housing lottery is underway (Wednesday) 

• Work on green space for long-vacant site on 4th Street near the Bowery is underway (Thursday) 

• Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the eviction of the Charas/El Bohio Community & Cultural Center (Friday) 

• This is what's next for the former Benny's Burritos space on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Ho, ho, no! SantaCon slated for Dec. 11 (Tuesday) 

• USA Super Stores debuts on Houston Street and Avenue D (Friday) 

• Halloween in the East Village (Saturday edition) ... Halloween in the East Village (Sunday edition) 

• Outside the Bored Ape Yacht Club pop up on 3rd Street (Tuesday) 

• New outpost of the Wild Son opens Tuesday on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• 32 Avenue C has been demolished (Tuesday) • Essex Squeeze bringing coffee, juices and smoothies to 5th Street (Monday) 

• SMØR reopens today after a brief renovation (Saturday) 

• Jiang's Kitchen signage-canopy combo arrives on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Blank Street is now open at 36 3rd Ave. (Monday)

• Oh-K Dog now officially coming soon on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• The former Central Bar being converted to office use on 9th Street (Wednesday) 

• A very quick pivot for Chichen Itzá, now going as Tompkins Village Cafe on 10th Street (Thursday) 

• Noho Food Market hangs the signage on the Bowery (Monday)

... Over at 50 Avenue B, where the Portuguese cafe Joey Bats is opening soon, there's a new mural featuring Portuguese professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo...
Paulie Nassar created the mural... (thanks to Stacie Joy for the pics!)
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