Sunday, September 27, 2026

EV Grieve's East Village Week in Review

Posts this past week included (with a sign of fall at Tompkins via Stacie Joy)

• Remembering Daria Serkov on First Avenue and 14th Street (
Sept. 21) 

• Line tensions boil over: East Village bookseller Bonnie Slotnick arrested outside Harry Styles pop-up on 2nd Street (Sept. 20) … Checking in with Bonnie Slotnick after Friday's arrest (Sept. 21) … East Village business owners discuss life alongside the Harry Styles pop-up (Sept. 23) 

• Full power restored at the 9th Precinct (Sept. 22) 

• The Starbucks on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place closes permanently (Sept. 25)

• Another Key Food is coming to the East Village (Sept. 23) 

• Inside the inaugural Anti-Anemoia Festival at Webster Hall (Sept. 25)

• Fundraiser aims to help restore former CHARAS/El Bohio (Sept. 25) 

• 16 Handles turns up the volume on its Fillmore East roots (Sept. 25)

• Revisiting Out and About in the East Village (Sept. 24) 

• A novel approach to cocktails at Book Club Bar (Sept. 24)

• 20 years of the NYC Anarchist Book Fair on display at C-Squat (Sept. 22) 

• New murals for Avenue A (Sept. 21) … "Loisaida Walls" ready to paint the Con Ed substation (Sept. 26) 

• We shared the new Rebounder video (Sept. 25) 

• Signage alert: Shawarma Central on Houston and Orchard (Sept. 22) … Masala East Village on 1st Avenue (Sept. 23) … Kéra on 2nd Avenue (Sept. 22) 

• Holy Cow closes on 14th and B (Sept. 23) 

• Down a dollar pizza joint on Avenue A (Sept. 22) 

• Friday's sunset! (Sept. 25)

... and one more Friday sunset... from East River Park, courtesy of Kyle de Vre...

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