EVG Etc.: Ukrainian places to support in NYC; Vaccine mandate to end on Monday

Waiting for spring in Tompkins Square Park... pic yesterday by Derek Berg 

• 15 Ukrainian places to support in NYC (Untapped Cities)

• There's a Support Ukraine rally today at 1 in Times Square (Instagram) 

• Talking with students at St. George Academy on Seventh Street about loved ones in Ukraine (NY1) 

• As the Russian invasion of Ukraine intensifies, Velselka serves as a space for nourishment and activism (Eater) 

• Man arrested for string of attacks on Asian women, including several locally (Gothamist)

• Reactions as the city will lift the vaccine mandate for bars and restaurants starting on Monday (Gothamist)

• An interview with Hello Mary, who just released two new tracks (KEXP ... previously on EVG) 

• NYC street vendor enforcement back at pre-pandemic levels (City Limits) 

• An interview with Abdur-Rashiyd "JK" Rivera, who is living in a tent in Tompkins Square Park (The Post) 

• About the plant-based Mexican food at Raíz Modern Mexican Kitchen on First Avenue (Grub Street) 

• Catch the films of Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jacques Demy and Alain Resnais — and more! (Metrograph) 

• A lost East Village alley from 1963 (Ephemeral New York) 

• Nick Lawrence's teens of the LES from the 1960s (Official site)