Sunday, April 16, 2023

EVG Etc.: More concerns at the Jacob Riis Houses; tributes for East Village Eye founder Leonard Abrams

Recent headlines in other media outlets include (with a spring in Tompkins photo by Stacie Joy)...

• Jacob Riis Houses residents concerned about soil contamination after arsenic scare (PIX 11

• Bob Perl, president of East Village-based Tower Brokerage, started the Ukrainian Habitat Fund to help war refugees find apartments in NYC at reduced rents (NPR)

• Remembering Leonard Abrams, founder of the East Village Eye (The New York Times... THE CITY ... previously on EVG

• Marking the one-year anniversary of the Sunset Park subway shooting (NY1) ... suspect Frank James was later arrested on First Avenue

• Superbueno, a new Mexican-American bar from Ignacio Jimenez and Greg Boehm, opens on Friday in the former Boilermaker space on First Avenue and First Street (The New York Times

• Brooklyn's Thief Bar opening an outpost on Ludlow Street this Thursday (Thrillist

• A series of documentaries that involve their subjects in the filmmaking process (Anthology Film Archives

• Take a virtual tour of the Fillmore East on Second Avenue circa 1970 (Far Out Magazine

• The bands of Dimes Square (Nylon

• The return of the "Miss Subways" contest (6sqft

• People are apparently hating food influencers more these days (NY Post)

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