Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a summer morning photo from St. Mark's Place)...

• City issues RFP for affordable housing development on 5th Street (Monday) 

• The hidden charms of a soon-to-sell loft building and the former home of Sixth Street Specials (Thursday) 

• Cleanup planned for E-bike hub on 11th Street following spike in complaints (Tuesday) 

• The Astor Place Greenmarket will not be returning (Wednesday) 

• EV Rite Aid remains open for now (Wednesday) 

• A band to know: Bec Lauder & the Noise (Friday) 

• Talking Heads celebrate 50 years with 'Killer' new video (Thursday) 

• The history of 2 East Village backhouses (Tuesday) 

• Off the wall: Longtime 'Alphabet City' mural erased (Wednesday)

• New broker for Avenue A storefront that has been vacant for nearly 11 years (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Eim Khao Mun Kai on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Macy's Fireworks returning to the East Side, rightful home of all things spectacular (Thursday) 

• The hollyhocks on the former St Emeric's property (Wednesday) 

• Sweep the leg, Johnny! Take in a screening of 'The Karate Kid' at First Park (Sunday)

• 88 Coffee debuts at the Bowery Market (Monday) 

• Openings: Lil Sweet Treat on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Openings and closing on these 2 blocks of 1st Avenue (Monday) 

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