Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with some buds on Ninth Street at Stuyvesant)
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• What it's like living among 2 fraternities in 1 East Village building (March 18) 

• Dana Beal, longtime marijuana activist, serving months-long prison sentence in Idaho (March 16) 

• The empty lot on 2nd Avenue between 2nd and 3rd streets is for sale (March 19) 

• Report: Tenants displaced by deadly 2015 2nd Avenue blast sue over unpaid stipends (March 18) 

• The Patricia Field ARTFashion Gallery has quietly closed on the Lower East Side (March 16) 

• ICYMI: 7 Bleecker St., longtime home of Robert Frank and June Leaf, is on the market (March 21) 

• Works by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh on view at Ki Smith Gallery on the LES (March 19) 

• Former Sixth Street Specials building wrapped for gut renovation (March 16) 

• Opening day scenes at Metro Acres Market on 1st Avenue and 5th Street (March 16) 

• Victory Tattoo NYC leaves storefront in former Hells Angels clubhouse on 3rd Street (March 17) 

• Pre-St. Patrick's Day scenes at Mary's O's on Avenue A (March 15) 

• Signage alert: Tang Sushi on 2nd Avenue (March 18) … The Hungry Bean on 1st Avenue (March 17) 

• Reader report: Pinnacle Cleaners closing on 11th Street (March 18) 

• Milling the night away on Avenue A (March 17) 

• A Tonight to remember: Julia Cumming's solo debut on Fallon (March 21) 

This past week, longtime East Village resident Felton Davis presented the new Metro Acres Market with a large print of the mural, created by the Royal Kingbee UW, a Bronx-born graffiti artist, that once graced the space... the mural had been nicked up through the years to the point where it couldn't be restored...