Friday, March 28, 2025

Tainted love

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  "Liquorice" is the latest single from Freak Slug ... on the recently released deluxe LP I Blow Out Big Candles (But with a Cherr...

A moment with East Village artist Scooter LaForge

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Photo by Stacie Joy  We caught up with East Village-based artist-designer Scooter LaForge yesterday.  He is enjoying a moment in "The ...
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Welcoming back another East Village sidewalk

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Photo and reporting by Stacie Joy   The scaffolding/sidewalk bridge is coming down around PS 64/Earth School on Avenue B between Fourth Stre...
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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Thursday's parting shots

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An EVG reader shared these photos from today in Stuy Town... where the cherry blossoms are in FULL bloom...
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March 27

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Thanks to EVG reader Guillermo for a photo of this late-March discard on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

On St. Mark's Place, sidewalk emerges after lengthy construction stint

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Photo by Jacob Ford  On the NE corner of St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue, workers have pushed the barricades closer to the new 9-story...
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An impromptu goodbye party as Sabor A Mexico closes on 1st Avenue

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy   After 15 years at 160 First Ave., Sabor A Mexico has shut its doors.  The nook of a restaurant closed o...
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Last days for Current Coffee and Sunday C&C Eatery at the Bowery Market

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Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day for Current Coffee after two-plus years of operating from the front corner space at the Bowery Market.  ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Wednesday's parting shots

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Photos by Steven  Today, on the 10th anniversary of the deadly Second Avenue explosion , Nixon Figueroa visited the corner where his son Nic...
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'A reminder of the tragedy that left many physically and emotionally wounded...'

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Today marks  the 10th anniversary of the deadly Second Avenue gas explosion. First, the victims.  Nicholas Figueroa and Moises Locón died...
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RIP Janne Schaefers

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Information via the EVG inbox...  It is with profound sadness that the East Fifth Street Block Association announces the death of Janne Scha...
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Williamsburg hit Titi's bringing the empanadas to 7th Street

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Titi's , a family-owned restaurant in Williamsburg specializing in empanadas, is opening an outpost a...
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Moving on: The construction trailer has left Tompkins Square Park

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Photos and reporting yesterday by Stacie Joy  Late Monday night (10:30, a source said!), workers removed the construction trailer from Tompk...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Tuesday's parting shot

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Photo on 1st Avenue today by Steven  Today marks the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.  As in the past 20-plus year...
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At the annual fundraiser for the Sixth Street Community Center

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  The Sixth Street Community Center held its Annual Fundraiser Dinner on Sunday night. Proceeds go to supp...
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Terra Thai reopens with new grab-and-go items

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy After a month-long revamp , Terra Thai reopened earlier this month at 518 E. Sixth St., between Avenues A...
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Urbanspace Union Square has shut down to make way for Time Out Market

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Urbanspace Union Square, the food hall on the ground floor of Zero Irving (formerly the Union Square Tech Training Center, 14 @ Irving, an...
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Bánh Anh Em looking closer to opening on 3rd Avenue

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Bánh Anh Em has hosted pop-up events over the past two weekends at 99 Third Ave., showing the unique Vietnamese dishes that the restaurant...
Monday, March 24, 2025

A few more details on the condo conversion of a former tenement synagogue on 4th Street

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Photos by Stacie Joy As we first reported on Feb. 10 , workers are gutting the former Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel at 256 E. Fourth St. betwe...
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Residential rendering reveal at the former 9th Street parking garage

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Workers have now installed the scaffolding and sidewalk bridge for the residential conversion of the former Little Man Parking garage (aka...
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