Week in Grieview

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

• Why this East Village restaurant is refusing to remove its curbside dining structure (Thursday) 

• When is the annual tree lighting in Tompkins Square Park? (Monday)

• Ben's Deli has GRANDLY reopened (Wednesday) 

• Comings and goings on 9th Street: Love Only and Salvage Cloth (Wednesday) 

• An illegal smoke shop bust on 10th Street (Monday)

• Check out 'ABC No Rio in Photos' at Umbrella House on Avenue C (Saturday)

• Read an oral history of the great East Village zine shop See Hear (Sunday) 

• Openings: Dark Matter Coffee's ¡Adios Amigos! on the Bowery (Friday) 

• At Night 1 of TV on the Radio's residency at Webster Hall (Sunday) 

• That's a wrap for now at Boris & Horton (Wednesday) 

• Hester Street Fair pops up this holiday season at the Essex Market (Friday) 

• Checking out the newish new home of Upright Citizens Brigade on 14th Street (Friday) 

• December trees (Tuesday) 

• Tompkins Square Park loses an elm tree (Thursday) 

• ICYMI: Trader Joe's sues the recently opened Joe's Wine Co. for infringing on its intellectual property rights (Thursday) 

• Signage alert: Krave It on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) ... Burgerhead on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)

• The Tide theft is still high (Wednesday) 

... and down in Essex Crossing... EVG reader Roger Bultot shared this photo of the recently opened VITAL Climbing Gym. If you want to climb something legally...