Sunday, May 4, 2025

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of the lush wilds of Tompkins Square Park by Stacie Joy)... 

• NYC institution Corner Bistro eyeing an East Village expansion (Friday)

• About the Lower East Side Film Festival: 15 years of keeping it reel (Monday) ... At the opening night of the Lower East Side Film Festival (Friday)

• East Village mainstay Cafe Mogador celebrates its 42nd anniversary (Wednesday) 

• In Tompkins Square Park, a creative pushback against tech's reach (Sunday) 

• Last splash? Getting the Tompkins Square Park mini pool prepped for 1 more summer (Tuesday) 

• Key Food moved things around. We took notes. (Friday) 

• 14th & C development watch: The beast of 'The East' (Monday) 

• Happy Lower East Side History Month! (Thursday) 

• Celebrating the new ownership at the Phoenix (Thursday) 

• Remembering Jill Sobule (Saturday) 

• Los Tacos No. 1 coming to Union Square (Monday) 

• Openings: Irving Green on 9th Street (Tuesday)

• Closings on 14th Street: Amara Coffee, Dua Kafe (Thursday) ... Karma Bookshop has closed for now (Sunday) 

• The Alchemist’s Kitchen is opening an outpost on the Bowery (Thursday) 

• Reopneings: Fancy Juice on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Pop’s Pizza prepping for soft opening on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Seasoned Vegan Real Quick has closed on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Luckin Coffee, China-based powerhouse and Starbucks challenger, opening an outpost on Broadway and 8th Street (Monday) 

• Why Mimi Cheng's is temporarily closed (Monday) 

• Adda Indian Canteen is set to debut on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

... and if you noticed a 2014 Prius V dressed up as a Cybertruck outside LaMaMa on Fourth Street in recent days (photo by Derek Berg)...
This was part of LaMaMa's Emerging Choreographers Program from Thursday through yesterday. Synopsis! "'fame hOle' is a mobile dance opera created by Alex Romania and Stacy Lynn Smith set inside their 2014 Prius V; a conceptual roadshow on the impossible nature of the touring act of life in general in a collapsing colonial empire." 

Find info on other LaMaMa programs here.
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