Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg)... 

• Where is the $1 million NYPD mobile command unit that Mayor Adams promised for the troubled 14th Street and 1st Avenue corridor? (Monday) 

• Rehabilitation of the former P.S. 64 could take 4 to 6 years, cost over $100 million (Wednesday) 

• Soups on: The East Village Community Cookbook is ready for release next month (Thursday) 

• About 'Empty Beds,' a photo memorial that honors Ukrainian children abducted during the war (Wednesday)

• Bands we like: Genre is Death (Thursday) 

• Hello Mary headlines Bowery Ballroom (Tuesday) 

• Overthrow is closing next week on Bleecker Street; the one-time countercounter HQ is for sale (Wednesday) 

• This November at 3rd & B'zaar (Saturday) 

• D.A. Bragg announces indictment in L train stabbing (Thursday) 

• An East Village Halloween (Friday)

• Signage alert: Vintage Store on Houston (Thursday) 

• NYC's most Halloween-like sunset (Wednesday) 

• Trump sculpture draws attention on 2nd Street (and elsewhere) (Friday) 

• A look at 'That Paradise Place,' an erotic puppet musical about the lives of artists with disabilities (Thursday) 

• Kenny Scharf up next at the Brant Foundation (Tuesday ) 

• 2 recently opened restaurants close for renovations on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

• Coming attractions: Upperz Cafe and Bar on 14th Street (Tuesday) ... BKLYN MACS on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Hubani Restaurant on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) ... Fattoush by Salma on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• The former Sushi Dojo space is for lease on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

This past week, DOT crews painted the new bikes on the recently repaved Second Avenue (to go with the new offset bus lane).

The bike lane appears to be the same size as the previous one... with a few exceptions where it widens in a few spots... to give passing riders more space...