Sunday, October 13, 2024

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an evening view from 2nd Avenue)...

• Checking in on the new East Village home of Gizmo, opening this month (Monday) 

• Baseball bats, fisticuffs and broken windows: A bonkers fight escalates as man drives car onto the sidewalk on 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• East Village building with Ramones history is back on the sales market (Wednesday) 

• Prop or not? Looking at Avenue A during the 'Caught Stealing' shoot (Tuesday) ... Paul's Bar no more for the movies, Double Down Saloon returns to service (Monday) 

• Café Social 68 revamps its space and is ready to debut as Viva! Cafe (Wednesday) 

• Kushner unloads more East Village apartment buildings (Thursday) 

• Taking in the Northern Lights from Avenue B (Thursday) 

• At long last, you can see the NW corner of Avenue B and Houston (Friday) 

• This storefront remains vacant 15 months after Ink on A closed (Thursday) 

• At the reopening of the Sakanaya at Wegmans (Friday) 

• What's next for the former smoke shop next to Ray's Candy Store on Avenue A? (Wednesday) 

• Feeling fenced in at the 9th and B entrance to Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• Dreams of a smooth, freshly paved 2nd Avenue will have to wait several days (Saturday) ... Here's when 2nd Avenue is expected to be repaved this week (Tuesday) 

• Sorry, that's not actually a fishmonger going into the corner space at 5th and B (Thursday) 

• 2 normal and useful businesses opening side by side on 14th Street (Monday) 

• The members-only Flyfish Club debuts at the former site of the Sunshine Cinema (Monday)

... and in Tompkins Square Park this past week, workers removed a long-dead (pear?) tree from near the entrance at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place... (thanks to Steven for both photos)...
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM

    Hey people stop using that area as a dog run.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 14, 2024 at 1:38 PM

    The entitled dog owners are ruining the park. Dogs running on the open fields dig up the grass and their owners trapple the plantings chasing after them. So the park ends up looking like a vacant lot - dirt fields and dead plants. .

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