Sunday, November 15, 2026

EV Grieve's East Village Week in Review

Posts this past week included (with a fall view from Avenue A and St. Mark's Place)...

• New City Council bill would require delivery apps to provide worker hubs (Nov. 13) 

• Barnes & Noble sets its opening date for Avenue A with author Douglas Stuart (Nov. 9) 

• Remembering longtime LES activist Nancy Rose Sparrow Bartow (Nov. 12) 

• Inside the East Village studio of artist Glenn Booth, where concrete meets memory (Nov. 10) 

• East Village tenants rally over lack of gas, building conditions and landlord complaints (Nov. 10) 

• The Ukrainian Museum temporarily closes for building upgrades on 6th Street (Nov. 9) 

• The DOT wants your feedback on 3 Lower East Side Open Streets (Nov. 13) 

• A pair of temporary closures on the East Village Thai food scene (Nov. 11) 

• Report: Former Astor Place Starbucks space heads toward foreclosure, with a possible new tenant (Nov. 11) 

• A new mural honors Chino Garcia outside the former CHARAS on 9th Street (Nov. 11) 

• A new restaurant called Tortoise is in the works for the former Foxface Natural space on Avenue A (Nov. 9)

• Openings: Shawarma Center on Houston and Orchard (Nov. 10) … French Therapy Wine & Spirits on St. Mark’s Place (Nov. 10) 

• Signage alert: Macario on Avenue B (Nov. 9) 

• Fake it till you make it: Elizabeth Holmes lookalikes take Washington Square Park (Nov. 8) 

... and the remains of a car fire from Thursday on Third Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street (photo by Derek Berg) ...

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