Sunday, November 1, 2026

EV Grieve's East Village Week in Review

Posts this past week included (with a Halloween night scene via Stacie Joy)...

• On 11th Street, residents and businesses say e-bike congestion needs a lasting solution (Oct. 30) … No bikes seized, but questions remain over 11th Street enforcement (Oct. 28) 

• Tompkins Square Park recreation redesign heads back to committee after contentious CB3 meeting (Oct. 29) 

• Report: Developer in contract to buy former St. Brigid School for $35 million (Oct. 28) 

• Bigger plans for 3rd Avenue: 2 buildings, 17 stories and 184 apartments (Oct. 26) 

• Village View parking lot sale moves forward as shareholders raise financial questions (Oct. 27) 

• Barnes & Noble's build-out continues on Avenue A (Oct. 26) 

• Scenes from "Punk in the Park" with Non Resident (Oct. 29) 

• A very East Village Saturday, in photos (Oct. 27) 

• Hot dog! Crif Dogs is back open on St. Mark’s Place (Oct. 29) 

• At Drāvida, chef Aarthi Sampath explores the Indian diaspora — and finds a home in the East Village (Oct. 28) 

• Topping out at 9th Street and 4th Avenue (Oct. 26) 

• Signage alert: Matane on 1st Avenue (Oct. 29) 

• A visitor one October evening (Oct. 26) 

• It's close to midnight somewhere: A ‘Thriller’ rehearsal in Tompkins Square Park (Oct. 27) 

• 345 Cantina closes on 6th Street; landlord takes possession of space (Oct. 29)… Hunan Slurp Shop closes on 1st Avenue (Oct. 29) 

• Incoming: (More) bubble tea and froyo for this block of St. Mark's Place (Oct. 28) 

And a store window view from Broadway and 11th Street by Derek Berg...

Another chance to see 'Tabby the Great and the Highly Unfortunate Closing of Two Boots Avenue A'

The documentary about the closing of the longtime Two Boots Pizza outpost on Avenue A will screen again tomorrow (Monday) evening at Book Club Bar.

"Tabby the Great and the Highly Unfortunate Closing of Two Boots Avenue A," directed by Tabitha Haugen and Billy Waldman, starts at 7:30 p.m. at the bookstore at 197 Third St., between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Haugen, who worked at Two Boots for two years, said on Instagram that the documentary started as a joke after word came that the pizzeria would be closing. 

"The film was Billy's idea," she wrote. "Billy came in and jokingly said we should make a movie about the closing ... I took it as a joke for 3 seconds, then realized ... that could actually be really fun and challenging!" 

They shot the film over three weeks, collecting interviews and B-roll, with Two Boots customers contributing music and posters. 

The filmmakers screened the doc on the handball courts this past summer.

Two Boots closed its Avenue A and Third Street location on May 29 after nearly 40 years in business. Owner Phil Hartman has said he plans to reopen Two Boots elsewhere in the East Village.