Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a random skyline pic). Never miss a post with the weekly EVG newsletter. Free right here. 

• Remembering Chino Garcia (July 26)

• After 31 years, White Trash is closing on 5th Street (July 21) 

• How an East Village resident turns sour cherries into sweet summer jam (July 23) 

• At the last day of REI's flagship NYC store (July 24)

• Barryville General expanding next door on Avenue A with a cafe (July 20) 

• Volunteers honor founders of Backpacks for the Street on the Lower East Side (July 21) 

• Freedom Village gets a colorful new mural from Scooter LaForge (July 20) 

• Plywood arrives at long-vacant lot on 1st Avenue as work begins on new 7-floor building (July 22) 

• An L7 moment at Irving Plaza (July 19) 

• Ladybird announces year-end closing on 7th Street (July 20) 

• Watching the World Cup final (July 19) 

• Scenes from "Smell the Flowers," a 1-night-only East Village art show (July 25) 

• Reader reports: Stickett Inn closes ahead of a move to a new space (July 23) 

• On the rental market: 235 E. 4th St. (July 22) 

• Openings: Two Cookies on 1st Avenue (July 23) … Rollcraft on 10th Street (July 22) … Dim Sum Bloom on 1st Avenue (July 20) 

• A penny for your thoughts? (July 22) 

And seen hanging from the crosswalk on First Avenue and St. Mark's Place (photo by William Klayer)...