EVG Etc.: A guide to legal marijuana in New York; a replacement for the Hester Street Fair

Photo on 12th Street by Lola Saénz 

• What you need to know about legal marijuana in New York (Gothamist) 

• The Chinese Hawaiian Kenpo Academy on Second Avenue sees increased interest in self-defense classes amid spike in anti-Asian hate crimes (NY1 ... official site) 

• The New York State Court of Appeals clears way for supertalls along the East River (The Broadsheet)

• Crystal Field on the past and future of Theater for the New City (B&B) 

• Thoughts on Precious Okoyomon's living installation "Fragmented Body Perceptions as Higher Vibration Frequencies to God" on view through May 9 at Performance Space New York on First Avenue (The New Yorker) 

• The upcoming live shows at the Bowery Electric (Instagram ... official site)

• Our faves: Cherry blossoms and brooding hawks in Tompkins Square Park! (Laura Goggin Photograophy) 

• Team behind Smorgasburg/Brooklyn Flea bringing Hester Flea to the Lower East Side (The Lo-Down) 

• Details on Beverly's, a pop-up homewares and specialty market at 22 Ludlow St. (Vogue)

• One day you might see a comedy with Iggy Pop and Bob Saget (Deadline)

EVG Etc.: Raising awareness against anti-Asian hate crimes; Putting Blondie in a graphic novel

• More about Chef Eric Sze, of 886 on St. Mark's Place, and his efforts to raise awareness against anti-Asian hate crimes (NY1) 

• Chi Sum Ngai and Kaleena Teoh, who own Coffee Project on Fifth Street (and in other neighborhoods), launch a scholarship program for Black baristas (Daily Coffee News) 

• How the pandemic has gutted the city's arts and entertainment business (Gothamist) 

• The Emergency Eviction Act pause ends today — now what? (The City) 

• What's happening with the NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad moving to the Department of Transportation? (Streetsblog) 

• An interview with Leo Fitzpatrick about his gallery Public Access on St. Mark's Place (B+B ... previously on EVG) 

• A look back at Jackie Curtis — "East Village Superstar" (Off the Grid) 

• Blondie to receive the graphic novel treatment (Rolling Stone) 

• Diversions: The "Avocado Guy" of NYC (Eater) 

... and questions to ponder...

Does anyone else wonder why the ice cream truck is driving around the East village at 10:45 on a 40 degree night? @evgrieve

— theenemieslist19 (@theenemieslist1) February 26, 2021

EVG Etc. A dabba lunch service at Khiladi; an update on Amelia and Christo's 2021 nest

With a random photo on the Bowery above... 

 • Khiladi on Avenue B at 11th Street has launched a dabba lunch service (Eater) 

• The NYC Health Department is recommending that New Yorkers wear two masks — a paper one covered by a cloth one — to better stem the spread of the coronavirus (Westside Rag) 

• Reviving the performing arts with the NY PopsUp initiative. The article includes details on the Saturday afternoon pop-up entertainment taking place at Theater for the New City on 10th Street (PIX11) 

• A feature on the 32-year-old Anthony Aiden Opticians at 42 St Mark's Place (Off the Grid) 

• An interview with Julia Copeland, who opened the boutique Here nor There on Ninth Street last fall (B+B ... previously on EVG) 

• Two Boots joined forces with Slice Out Hunger on an emergency initiative that supports shelters, soup kitchens and community centers impacted by the power outages in Texas (Instagram) 

• An update on Amelia and Christo's nest construction in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography ... previously on EVG) 

• Nearly 40-year-old dim sum destination Jing Fong will close its Chinatown banquet hall and indoor dining in early March (Gothamist) 

• Diversions: In our weekly Friday at 5 video on Dec. 11, we hyped an OSEES livestream event. The full-length concert video has been posted, and the setlist includes three Black Flag covers (Brooklyn Vegan) 

 ... and false alarm on Eighth Street (previously) ...

EVG Etc.: Making it work at Theater 80; Celebrating the Lunar New Year

• Local chefs from 886, Málà Project, Fish Cheeks and Nowon have teamed up to raise awareness about the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans (Eater)

• Police say a few protestors from the Black Trans Liberation NYC rally on Thursday night vandalized Jackdaw on Second Avenue and 13th Street (Daily News) 

• Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village resident Janice Rosario, a choreographer and teacher, launched a nonprofit to help those in need in public housing (Dance Magazine) 

• Study shows that the Second Avenue F stop has some of the highest levels of air pollution in subway system (The Guardian) 

• Restaurants left vulnerable after NY's commercial eviction moratorium lapses (Eater) 

• A feature on the College Student Pantry at Trinity Lower East Side on Avenue B and Ninth Street (B+B ... previously on EVG)

• Theater 80 on surviving during the pandemic (NY1)

• Katz's made it through the 1918 pandemic. Here's how the deli managing COVID-19 (CNBC)

• Where to eat and celebrate the Lunar New Year (Gothamist) 

Photo from last night at the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street

EVG Etc.: Weathering the storm with Amelia and Christo; Prepping for International Clash Day

 

• Man slashed on the L-train platform on 14th Street and First Avenue (The Post ... ABC 7)

• Cuomo nows says restaurant workers and cab drivers are eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines (Gothamist ... the City) 

• Noreetuh on 1st Avenue launches a free weekly meal for unemployed restaurant workers (Instagram ... h/t Eater) 

• Testing out Big Stick Willy's, the delivery-only cheese stick business in the East Village (Grub Street) 

• Exploring the life and music of free jazz great William Parker (The Brooklyn Rail) 

• How did Amelia and Christo weather the storm on Monday? (Laura Goggin Photography) 

• City lags in clearing bike lanes of snow (Streetsblog) 

• International Clash Day 2021 is TOMORROW (KEXP) 

• What the Ramones played at their last-ever U.K. gig on Feb. 3, 1996 (Glide Magazine) 

Tree pic along Tompkins Square Park on 10th Street

EVG Etc.: The MTA's financial crisis; the latest essays from Luc Sante

Top photo from Tompkins Square Park this morning by Derek Berg

• MTA leaders mull a COVID-19-related financial crisis that could potentially see a 40-percent cut in weekday subway service and layoffs of more than 9,000 transit workers (Daily News) ... MTA looks to borrow $3 billion from the Feds (Streetsblog) 

• East Village restauranteurs discuss what winter dining might look like (Gothamist) 

• NYC restaurants restaurants report a drop in sales with the new 10 p.m. curfew (The Post)

• Anti-nuclear pacifists, seen on Saturdays in Tompkins Square Park protesting the war in Yemen, are headed to federal prison (The Intercept) 

• Q&A with East Village artist-musician Kembra Pfahler: "Being creative and sharing is a benevolent human trajectory that's difficult to irradiate even under the most heinous conditions. It lifts the spirits." (Whitehot Magazine) 

• Thoughts on Luc Sante's new collection of essays, which includes remembrances of the East Village music scene from his youth (The New York Times) 

• Complaints increase about the sight-seeing helicopter excursions over Manhattan (The City) 

• Singer-songwriter Jill Fiore on her fire escape performances on Essex Street (NY1) 

• Yellow Rose is a taco hit on Third Avenue (Eater ... previously on EVG)

• Introducing "The Encyclopedia of New York" (New York) 

EVG Etc.: Looking for holiday volunteers; Remembering Aldo Tambellin

• The Bowery Mission and City Harvest need volunteers this holiday season (FOX 5)

• Remembering Aldo Tambellini, the pioneering filmmaker and artist who in the 1960s opened the Gate and the Black Gate in the East Village, screening films by Kenneth Anger and Yayoi Kusama, among many others (The Guardian ... ARTnews) 

• East Village restauranteurs talk about the possibility of the state suspending indoor dining (Gothamist) 

• An analysis of the ZIP codes New Yorkers exited between March 1 and Oct. 31. Topping the list: Upper West Side, 10023 — 3,368. At No. 20: East Village, 10009 — 728 (The Post)

• East Village resident Douglas Stuart discusses his acclaimed debut novel, "Shuggie Bain" (New York) 

• The Landmarks Preservation Commission is reviewing proposals to renovate and refurbish the façade of Bathhouse Studios on 11th Street (NYY ... previously on EVG) 

•  A positive review (it "wows") for Mokyo on St. Mark's Place (Forbes)

• A preview of the new Half Japanese record (Dangerous Minds) 

• "Dash & Lily," an eight-episode holiday-themed romantic comedy series, debuted on Netflix this past week to positive notices (100% on Rotten Tomatoes!).  As you may recall, the crew filmed quite a bit around the neighborhood in late 2019 (here and here for instance). In the trailer, you can see the locations include Two Boots on Avenue A and the Strand...

EVG Etc.: The Strand says its cash reserves are depleted, issues plea for business

• An SOS from the Strand (Gothamist ... Deadline) The plea from owner Nancy Bass Wyden resurfaced recent articles (here and here, for instance) about her continued investment in Amazon... and growing rift with her staff.

• Manhattan's median asking rent fell below $3,000 — to $2,990 — for the first time since 2011 (Streeteasy)

• The East Village is well-represented in this listicle of the city's best Vietnamese restaurants (Eater)

• Catching up with the Mosaic Man (B&B)

• Video shows a male Karen — aka "Daren" — being aggressive on Astor Place after refusing to wear a mask (The Daily Dot)

• East Village teen arrested while live-streaming his climb of the Queensboro Bridge (Queens Daily Eagle ... Gothamist)

• Pinc Louds full-band show on Astor Place TONIGHT (Instagram)

• Penny Arcade stages her new mixed-media performance, "Notes from the Underground," on Friday, Oct. 30 at Pangea on Second Avenue. Find the livestream info here.

Random photo from yesterday at Second Avenue and Sixth Street

EVG Etc.: Kim Gordon's new book; Luc Sante's East Village tour

An inside look at Rosella, now serving sushi on Avenue A (Eater ... previously on EVG)

NYC restaurants OK'd to use outdoor heaters this winter (Gothamist)

An interview with  Chloë Sevigny outside B&H Dairy (The New Yorker)

Not sure why, but Fat Buddha is currently without a liquor license (Instagram) 

Syringe-wielding man robs the Marhsalls on East Houston (BB)

Kim Gordon on her visual memoir "No Icon" (The Cut)

A look at "Wojnarowicz: F*** You F****t F***er," which pays homage to David Wojnarowicz (IndieWire)

Looking back at the last show — Patti Smith! — at CBGB (Far Out)

Keep Cozy Soup N Burger in your diner plans on Broadway at Astor Place (Instagram)

Diversions: An interview with the people who bought the diner from "Twin Peaks" (Grub Street)

And the story many people have been talking about in recent days: author Luc Sante's historical tour of the East Village (The New York Times)

We appreciated Sante's use of the Death Star in the interview to describe 51 Astor Place. And look who we roused!

LUC, HE IS MY FATHER!

— 51 Death Star (@51deathstar) October 15, 2020

EVG Etc.: Inside the COVID Rent Relief Program; Update on the tech CEO murder

[Photo on 7th Street by Derek Berg]

• An explainer on New York state’s COVID Rent Relief Program (Curbed)

• Aunt says accused killer Tyrese Devon Haspil "was a quiet young man, at times annoying, but incapable of the cold-blooded murder of victim Fahim Saleh" (Daily News ... previously on EVG)

• Why gets to drink outdoors in NYC? "Nobody is drinking pouches of colorful cocktails underneath the floodlights on Avenue D." (Grub Street)

• Without jobs in bars and restaurants, what will happen to the city's creative class? (The Associated Press)

• Inside Abolition Park (The Indypendent)

• A unique season package at the New York Theatre Workshop on Fourth Street — a subscription to the artists, rather than to a roster of plays (The Washington Post)

• The online screenings and events at the Anthology Film Archives (Official site)

• Empire State Building observatory reopens Monday (USA Today)

• ICYMI: A Sonic Youth album guide (Brooklyn Vegan)

• Diversions: When the Ramones appeared on the Sha Na Na television variety show in 1979 (Boing Boing)

EVG Etc.: Concerns about an increasing homeless population; realities facing live-music venues

[Morning at 9th Street Espresso via Vinny & O]

• Explaining the increase in the homeless population in the East Village and Lower East Side (B&B) LES residents complain about growing number of homeless encampments (NY1)

• Report: NYCHA residents say their living conditions have continued to worsen and many oppose the de Blasio administration’s plan for resolving the fiscal crisis confronting the city’s largest affordable-housing program (CityLimits)

• "Claims from the NYPD's top cops that an uptick in gun violence has been caused by bail reform efforts and emergency releases from Rikers Island due to COVID-19 continue to prove baseless, without any data surfacing to back them up." (Gothamist)

• Manhattan rental vacancy hits another all-time high (The Real Deal)

• East Village bar owner Jesse Malin on the crisis facing live-music facilities: "Very few venues are going to be able to survive being closed this long" (Rolling Stone)

• Delivery apps still taking a big bite out of NYC restaurant profits (The Indypendent)

• The National Community Reinvestment Coalition used data from the American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to rank the cities on gentrification during a five-year period ending in 2017. San Francisco-Oakland was No. 1, followed by Denver, Boston, Miami-Fort Lauderdale and New Orleans. NYC was No. 7 (USA Today)

• Martin Scorsese to direct David Johansen documentary (Pitchfork)

• Funhouse by the Stooges turned 50 years old this week (Flaming Pablum)

EVG Etc.: Primary results; fireworks crackdown

[On the Bowery]

• Preliminary results from the 2020 NY Primary (Gothamist)

• State's takeout cocktail law expires this weekend, causing more worry for bars-restaurants (Eater)

• Mayor turns alternate-side parking into a once-a-week affair (Streetsblog)

• City cracking down on illegal fireworks (ABC 7)

• Speaking of ...: Details on this year's Macy's July 4 Fireworks Show (NBC 4)

• NYC's rent-stabilized apartments receive one-year rent freeze (Curbed)

... and earlier this month, the Post reported that Avraham Adler, who had been accused of hosting sex parties in a townhouse rental on Seventh Street, had been charged with assaulting his girlfriend and taken into custody. (Previously on EVG.)

Over the weekend, neighbors here between Avenue B and Avenue C saw people removing furniture from the house, packed up in both a rental truck and dumpster (h/t Dave on 7th!)...

EVG Etc.: Violent-arrest victim sues city; Union Square Hospitality overhauls diversity program

[Photo on the Bowery and 1st Street by Derek Berg]

• "New York leaders faced an unanticipated crisis as the new coronavirus overwhelmed the nation’s largest city. Their response was marred by missed warning signs and policies that many health-care workers say put residents at greater risk and led to unnecessary deaths." (The Wall Street Journal, subscription may be required)

• One of the residents involved in the violent police arrest on Avenue D is suing the city (Daily News)

• The city will paint “Black Lives Matter” in bold lettering on a street in every borough (Curbed)

• Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality is overhauling its diversity program following staff complaints (Eater)

• An explainer on the city's coronavirus eviction moratorium (Curbed)

• Voters' guide for the 2020 Primary (City Limits)

• City playgrounds still on lockdown (The City)

• The East Village is home to several boutique pilates studios that offer 1-1 sessions. With that in mind, there's a petition in circulation to allow these studios to reopen in Phase 2 instead of Phase 3. Find the petition here.

• There's also a petition to reopen NYC dog runs in Phase 2. Find the petition here.

• City's indie movie houses prepping to reopen later next month (Gothamist)

• And indie bookstores are trying with curbside service (B&B)

• Honoring New York City Pharmacy on First Avenue, whose founder, Ali Yasin, passed away in early May (Off the Grid)

• NYC offers COVID-19 sex advice (Boing Boing)

• More about Terra Thai, which recently opened on Sixth Street (Eater ... previously on EVG)

• A pee-pun-filled expose on the alleged uptick in public urination in the city, including the East Village (The Post)

... and a cottage industry arises in the plywood era of recent weeks...

EVG Etc. Defunding the NYPD; feeding the hungry on the LES

[Photo on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

• Police reform advocates want Mayor de Blasio to cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget. Per local City Council member Carlina Rivera: "It’s absolutely shameful, that in the wake of all of these protests, our mayor still clings to the notion that the NYPD’s massive budget doesn’t play a huge role in the inequities and racism that we see in this city." (NY1)

• What could NYC do with its $6 billion police budget? (Curbed)

• Details on the 10th day of protests in the city (Gothamist)

• More arrests, more calls to end the curfew (B&B)

• Supporting black-owned restaurants in NYC (Eater)

• Efforts to provide meals to the growing numbers of homeless and in-need residents on the Lower East Side (The Nation)

• Online Pride Month activities (Stonewall50)

• 1 Union Square South fetches $200 million (The Real Deal)

• The plan for expanded outdoor dining in NYC (Grub Street)

• Diversions: Punk covers of AC/DC songs (Dangerous Minds)

EVG Etc.: NYC's pink buildings; Fiona Silver's 'Hot Tears'

[Valentine's eve on 3rd and A]

• Study finds that the rate of poverty in NYC remained eight points above the national average (Gothamist ... Fast Company)

• Opposition to the proposed Hotel Special Permit Requirement for the area south of Union Square (CityLand ... Village Preservation)

• Behind the scenes at Veselka (6sqft)

• A feature on residents who live in pink buildings, including at 218 E. Fifth St. (The Post)

• Looking at the architectural cherubs in the East Village (Off the Grid)

• Local singer-songwriter Fiona Silver has a new EP out today (Official site) Watch her new video for "Hot Tears" here.

• Amelia and Christo work on filling the nest (Laura Goggin Photography)

• The ongoing Director's Cup series at the Village East includes "The Big Lebowski," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Do the Right Thing" (Official site)

• And depending on your mood, the Quad is offering up "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" and "Sid and Nancy" tonight for Valentine's (Official site)

• The newish Wegmans in Brooklyn now offering delivery to parts of Manhattan (NBC New York)

• Remembering Punk magazine’s “Patti Smith Graffiti Contest” from 1976 (Dangerous Minds)

... and the newest attraction in Tompkins Square Park — a (at-the-time steaming) compost pile that arrived yesterday...


[Photo by Derek Berg]


[Photo by Steven]

EVG Etc.: Appreciating East Village street art; ranking City Council members

[Gnome side table spotting on Astor Place via Derek Berg]

Supporters trying to get activist Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement with roots in this neighborhood, canonized as a saint (The Washington Post)

Jeremiah Moss meets his new EV neighbors: "Young and funded, they belong to a certain type: utterly unblemished, physically fit, exceptionally well dressed, as bland as skim milk and unsalted saltine crackers." (N+1)

A look at some East Village street art (Off the Grid)

Ranking the City Council members — Carlina Rivera listed at No. 18 out of 50 (City & State)

Chinatown residents are stocking up on masks in the wake of coronavirus fears (Gothamist)

There's a Q&A with "JoJo Rabbit" writer-director (and Hitler star) Taika Waititi after the 7 p.m. screening Friday at the Village East on Second Avenue and 12th Street (Official site)

Peter Brant preps for a major Warhol exhibition in 2021 at his foundation's East Village HQ on Sixth Street (Architectural Digest ... previously on EVG)

Several swastikas were found scribbled inside the Hillman Houses on Grand Street (The Lo-Down)

Passersby lift SUV off woman after collision on Delancey and Norfolk; victim speaks (CBS 2)

A Manhattan judge awarded a Brooklyn-based artist more than $250,000 after a now-closed Lower East Side gallery failed to pay her for the pieces she sold there, and refused to return her unsold work (Daily News)

Recovery efforts underway to salvage the archives of the Museum of Chinese in America after last week's fire on Mulberry Street (Gothamist)

East Village, an overlooked UK band (1987-1991), gets the re-release treatment on Slumberland Records (Official site)

... and via the 9th Precinct... Enrique Jones was last yesterday afternoon leaving 420 E. 12th St. ...

He’s about 5'11" tall, 180 lbs., wearing eyeglasses, a black jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers. Anyone with information, please ☎️ @NYPDTips at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or DM 📲 @NYPDTips.

— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) January 29, 2020

EVG Etc.: Frank Prisinzano in the kitchen; Hal Hartley at the Metrograph

[Avenue A street scene]

• Enjoy this feature on chef Frank Prisinzano, whose EV restaurants include Frank, Lil’ Frankies, and Supper (Grub Street)

• A few more previews pieces on the new International Center of Photography that opens tomorrow down in Essex Crossing (The Art Newspaper ... The Wall Street Journal)

• MTA head Andy Byford resigns — for real this time (Politico) Reaction: (Gothamist ... amNY)

• About the mabo tofu ramen at the just-opened Sanpoutei on Second Avenue (Grub Street ... previously on EVG)

• A federal appeals court this week overturned part of Sheldon Silver’s conviction on public corruption charges (The Lo-Down)

• Rallying to save this lower Fifth Avenue building from demolition (Town & Village)

• Jonas Mekas’s debut film, "Guns of the Trees," has been restored and is getting a week-long theatrical premiere a year after his death (Anthology Film Archives)

• Metrograph giving the retrospective treatment to Hal Hartley (an EVG favorite from the early 1990s) with screenings of "The Unbelievable Truth," "Trust" and "Simple Men," among many others (Official site)

• Coverage of the five-alarm fire in Chinatown on Mulberry and Bayard last night (CBS New York ... NBC New York ... BoweryBoogie)

• Fairway going Chapter 11 after all (Bloomberg)

... and this Big Belly on Seventh and A has a future as a lending library...


[Photo yesterday by Derek Berg]

EVG Etc.: A new era for Bon Yagi's East Village restaurants; $40 billion needed for NYCHA repairs

[At Houston & Eldridge]

• How Sakura Yagi is helping modernize her father's East Village restaurant empire, which includes Curry-Ya, Hi-Collar and Rai Rai Ken (Eater)

• NYCHA CEO says agency now needs $40 billion for repairs (The Real Deal) ... NYCHA residents filed nearly 60,000 bedbug and roach work orders in 9 months (Gothamist)

• Another expose on the sudden closing of Eleven Consignment Boutique on First Avenue (CBS2 ... earlier on EVG)

• Victim discusses how she was attacked by a homeless man inside the CVS on East Houston at Orchard (PIX11)

• AG Letitia James investigates whether racial bias plays a role in the NYPD's fare evasion arrests (The New York Times)

• Target in the East Village was robbed of $1,200 worth of calculators (amNY)

• Developers plan to demolish 14-16 Fifth Ave. to build a 13-story luxury residential building; preservationist and local elected officials are holding a press conference Friday (Details via this PDF)

• Continuing at Howl! Happening through Feb. 23 on First Street: Jane Dickson’s series of "rarely seen and moody" paintings of Times Square peep shows from the 1980s (Official site)

• At the Anthology Film Archives Saturday: "Booyah! It's the 1990's Marathon!" What to expect? "if you like Hong Kong movies...just buy a ticket and prepare to get hella crunk." (Official site)

... and on Thursday evening, several formerly incarcerated writers are reading at MoRUS, 155 Avenue C... details below...

EVG Etc.: the plentiful tea at Physical Graffitea; the Smoking Fox at Foxface

[Stencil art on St. Mark's Place]

• Police searching for woman who sucker punched 72-year-old woman in face near Russ & Daughters on Houston (1010 WINS)

• A feature on Physical Graffitea, Ilana Malka's shop on St. Mark's Place (Fortune)

• Upscale CBD shop coming to Orchard near Houston (Commercial Observer)

• Sietsema praises the Smoking Fox at Foxface on St. Mark's Place (Eater)

• Shocker: Real estate industry and Mayor de Blasio oppose commercial rent control proposal (Gothamist)

• How the Green New Deal For Public Housing Act might impact the NYCHA (Curbed)

• About the war memorial on 7th Street (Ephemeral New York)

• Breaking down what the Times had to say about Essex Crossing (The Lo-Down)

• The David Lynch exhibit of new work, "Squeaky Flies in the Mud," continues through Dec. 21 at Sperone Westwater on the Bowery (Official site)

• A revival run of "Equation to an Unknown" — "long-lost masterpiece of hardcore gay erotic cinema" — now playing at the Anthology Film Archives on Second Street (Official site)

• Coming Nov. 21 for one-night only — the documentary "Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest" in the big auditorium at City Cinemas Village East (Official site)

• Thoughts on the new Konk retrospective (Resident Advisor)

• And Alex's thoughts on "New Rock City" (Flaming Pablum)

• A new music video via Nick Zedd (Dangerous Minds)

• Mapping where Alexander Calder spent his time in NYC, including several neighborhood addresses (Hyperallergic)

... and the Double Down Saloon's monthly rummage sale is today from 2-7 p.m. at 14 Avenue A between Houston and Second Street...

EVG Etc.: Co-op accusations on 7th Street; Noah Baumbach at the Metrograph

[Sky scene from 4th and A]

• A profile of Shuho Yagi, who has been running a number of Japanese restaurants in the East Village since 1984 (City Limits)

• On Seventh Street, a co-op owner "is being accused by neighbors of having guests who shoot heroin between their toes in the lobby, have sex in the corridors — and occasionally jump out the windows." (The Post)

• Man stabbed following dispute near the 7th and A entrance to Tompkins Square Park (PIX 11)

• Citi Biker, the victim of road rage, is nearly run down on the LES; cops blame the cyclist (Streetsblog)

• Apartment dwellers, know your heat and hot water rights (Curbed)

• Five weeks til SantaCon! (Gothamist)

• As The Lo-Down noted, architecture critic Michael Kimmelman praises Essex Crossing "in a piece that makes some good points, but is also loaded with factual errors and mischaracterizations of the Lower East Side mega-project" (The New York Times)

• Builders respond to the vote that gives community boards more time to review ULURP applications (The Real Deal)

• An end to the food hall craze? (Commercial Observer)

• A Noah Baumbach residency (Metrograph)

• A retrospective surveys the career of Holly Fisher (Anthology Film Archives)

• Cornell prof finds rough versions of 12 previously unreleased songs by Lou Reed (Variety)

• A look at some early 1990s NYC music venues, including Mission on Fifth between A and B (Ephemeral New York)

... and over at the Black Emperor, 197 Second Ave. between 12th Street and 13th Street, The Truffleist is now working the kitchen, taking over for Jae Lee's six-month burger residency. (Lee is prepping to open his first restaurant, Nowon on Sixth Street) ...

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