Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with a photo from 2nd and B by Stacie Joy)... 

• East Village mainstay Katinka is closing after 45 years on 9th Street (Monday) 

• Scoop: After nearly 30 years, Starbucks is closing its Astor Place location (Sunday) 

• Death of developer sheds light on status of new office building on St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue; 'The project is entirely on spec' (Tuesday) 

• 'Make Me Famous,' a documentary on 1980s-era East Village-based painter Edward Brezinski, finally gets an East Village screening (Wednesday) 

• A world premiere for the documentary on pioneering LES performance artist Arleen Schloss (Tuesday)

• East Village favorite International Bar is reopening (Tuesday) 

• Here's a chance to see vintage East Village band Disturbed Furniture perform live (Saturday) 

• Who wants to live in the East Village (of Downingtown, Pa.)? (Friday) ... Meanwhile, at a Forever 21 in San Diego (Thursday) 

• Openings: Crepe City on Avenue A (Wednesday) ... G's Cheesesteaks on Houston and Avenue B (Monday) 

• Bands we like: Francie Moon (Sunday) 

• Someone wrapped this tree on 14th Street in lights — and no one knows who or why (Tuesday) 

• Amid pending litigation, Memphis Seoul closes its outpost on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) ... Boulton & Watt has closed (Monday) 

• Here's what's coming next to the Orpheum Theatre on 2nd Avenue (Friday) 

• A new taqueria for 221 2nd Ave. (Monday)

• Hottie Lash checks into 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Friday) 

• Indian restaurant up next for 202 Avenue A (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Loong Noodles on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Saperavi on 14th Street (Friday) 

• First sign of Moody Tongue on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

... in our Boulton & Watt post this week, we noted that the brand is opening an outpost in Terminal 4 at JFK... EVG reader Joe noted later that the Brindle Room (11th and C) has a spot in Terminal 7...