Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with watercolors in the rain Thursday morning)... 

• East Village Loves NYC issues a fundraising appeal to help continue feeding New Yorkers in need (Monday) 

• Proposed plans now call for a 24-story residential building on 14th Street and Avenue C (Tuesday) 

• Essex Card Shop getting closer to reopening on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Remembering Maximiliano Contreras at the Parkside Lounge (Friday) ... Remembering Jose Fernandez (Monday) 

• 'Alien' nation: East Village duo the Acute release debut full-length record (Wednesday) 

• Office building for 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's Place moving forward after developer secures $70-million loan (Monday) 

• City once again closes the area around the chess tables in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• At the book party for Ada Calhoun's 'Also a Poet' (Friday)

• 'Summer in the City' with East Village writer Jennie Willink (Saturday) 

• Suki Japanese Kitchen expands in East Village relocation (Thursday) 

• Checking in on the Bowery Mural Wall 'on pause' (Thursday) 

• Proletariat opens in new 7th Street home (Friday) 

• The all-new 360 Bowery is in the piledriving and jackhammering phase (Monday) 

• Coming soon: Ando Patisserie on 10th Street; Unique Omakase on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Desert Rose Café has apparently closed on 9th Street (Wednesday) ... Report: Raclette has closed on 12th Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Fries Factory on 14th Street (Wednesday)

• Team behind Ichibantei eyeing 100 3rd Ave. (Monday) 

• Sales underway at the 'bespoke' La Botanica on 6th Street (Thursday) 

And several readers noted a passed-out Santa yesterday morning outside the KFC on Second Avenue and 14th Street... he was apparently OK and sleeping off something...

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