Sunday, August 24, 2025

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a cardboard Tim Gunn on Third Street via EVG reader IzF)... 

• Deliveristas confront new hurdles after 11th Street bike sweep (Wednesday, Aug. 20) 

• Push continues to landmark East Village's historic Most Holy Redeemer (Friday, Aug. 22)

• City Council approves Rivera legislation that creates new 311 category for rooftop activity (Tuesday, Aug. 19) … Carlina Rivera will be stepping down from her City Council seat 4 months early (Monday, Aug. 18) 

• C&B Café trying to make the best of a bad situation after gas shutoff on 7th Street (Thursday, Aug. 21) … C&B Café debuts new menu items as gas service remains off (Saturday, Aug. 23) 

• Pinc Louds fill LPR with joyful abandon and Tompkins Square Park tributes (Thursday, Aug. 21) 

• We talked with the owner of Corner Bistro about what to expect from the East Village outpost (Monday, Aug. 18) 

• 'Caught' celebrating: Why Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz and Darren Aronofsky were at the Double Down Saloon early Sunday morning (Sunday, Aug. 17)

• Godzilla: King of the (aluminum foil) monsters on 4th Street (Tuesday, Aug. 19) 

• HBD Joe Strummer (Thursday, Aug. 21) 

• Old-school BBQ chicken on the menu for Trinity fundraiser this Sunday (Friday, Aug. 22) 

• Openings: A Bay Area-inspired taqueria debuts on Avenue A (Monday, Aug. 18) … Bite & Sip on 1st Street (Tuesday, Aug. 19) 

• Updates on A10 Kitchen, Burgerhead, Kikoo Sushi, Café Skye (Wednesday, Aug. 20) 

• Citi Bike tags, stickers call out NYC 'transplants' (Wednesday, Aug. 20) 

• Signage reveal: Mayberry Marketplace on 1st Avenue (Friday, Aug. 22) … Himawari Café on 1st Ave. (Thursday, Aug. 21) … Conspiracy Café, City Roots Market (Tuesday, Aug. 19) 

• This is why you should not feed the pigeons (Sunday, Aug. 17)

Thanks to the Substack newsletter The New York Edit for including a Q&A with EVG. Find the interview here.

And Waymo was in the news on Friday as the company received its first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City. Robert Minder spotted this Waymo vehicle parked on 11th Street near Second Avenue...
at

1 comment:

  1. cmarrtyyAugust 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM

    I saw it at 11th and 3rd Ave... going north without a driver behind the wheel.

    ReplyDelete

Your remarks and lively debates are welcome, whether supportive or critical of the views herein. Your articulate, well-informed remarks that are relevant to an article are welcome.

However, commentary that is intended to "flame" or attack, that contains violence, racist comments and potential libel will not be published. Facts are helpful.

If you'd like to make personal attacks and libelous claims against people and businesses, then you may do so on your own social media accounts. Also, comments predicting when a new business will close ("I give it six weeks") will not be approved.