Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a random skyline shot from the EV)...

• Dec. 31 is the last day for East Village mainstay Dallas BBQ (Monday) 

• DA-hosted East Village gun buyback nets 16 firearms (Tuesday) 

• Part-time New School faculty reach a tentative contract agreement with the university (Sunday) 

• Howl! Happening explores the history of street art and graffiti with 'City of Kings' (Wednesday) 

• Bang a gone: Stomp's long run on 2nd Avenue concludes in January (Wednesday) 

• It's 'Time for Christmas' with the book man of Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• Bye Bye Blondie; hello Bad Brains? (Sunday) 

• Kim's Video, storied film and music retailer in the East Village, gets the documentary treatment (Thursday) 

• Checkpoint Santa (Saturday) 

• Jay Joe's Classic Cuts now open on 3rd Street (Thursday) 

• 1st Avenue old-timer Royal Bangladesh Indian Restaurant is being replaced by — obviously — a smoke shop (Monday) 

• First Avenue Laundry Center is closed for now (Monday) 

• A walk among the trees on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street (Friday) 

• Hello again: Sidewalk on the NW corner of 2nd Avenue and 9th Street returns to view (Monday) 

• A Panera To-Go is opening on University Place (Tuesday) 

• The city serves notice to more abandoned East Village curbside dining structures (Tuesday) ... Workers remove Somtum Der's curbside dining structure (Saturday) 

• Sacco has apparently gone out of business on 11th Street (Tuesday)

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