Your definitive guide to what people were buying at Key Food and Fine Fare leading up to Hurricane Irene

EV Grieve reader Steven sends along the following report...

The line at Key Food extended back to the meat...and beer...

Items being bought up were cereal ...

candles and paper towels...

cookies...

soup...

...spaghetti sauce...

At Fine Fair on Avenue C and 4th Street, it was the beef..

...cookies, on the other hand, were plentiful...

Serious precautions on Seventh Street

Between A and B. Via Dave on 7th.

Why aren't these people in line buying water somewhere?

Avenue B and Third Street. 12:45 or so.

By any means possible

Avenue C and Seventh Street.

Breaking: East Village now cut off from Greenpoint

The MTA was on time and shut down the system, like the L stop here on 14th Street and First Avenue. We're on our own!

Photo by @redfabbri

Associated primed to set single-day sales record

Avenue C at Eighth Street now. Via Dave on 7th.

Irene scams: Cabs are ready to rip you off

Via @twitney

Actually, she says that it's $10 PER PERSON.

Riding out Hurricane Irene along the East River Park Promenade

Photos by Crazy Eddie.

The Blarney Cove is open!

Here on 14th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. So what other bars are open?

Shot of Irene from Dave on 7th's roof

Thank you! We'll be here all weekend. Try the veal!

Places where we won't be standing during Hurricane Irene

I'm sure it's fine and safe under here at the Coper Square Hotel. Just looks scary.

Free bread frenzy on Avenue A

We don't have every detail here... but apparently a man from a local bakery stopped here on Avenue A near Fourth Street to hand out a few boxes of free bread. Per Dave: "At first they were attacking him insanely. It was like watching the Chicago Board of Trade, except in Mandarin."

"But then he got them in line."

WATER! WE FOUND WATER!

Seriously, is there something wrong with the tap water right now? Dave on 7th notes that Key Food on Avenue A is restocking its water supply... No word on Fruity Pebbles.

Foodies are fucked: Momofuko, DBGB, Peels — CLOSED

Oh, Prune appears to be open for brunch.

BREAKING: Second Avenue Starbucks — CLOSED

Scenes in the East Village of the impending Hurricane Irene

Ridin' the storm out

Seventh Street and Avenue A ... by Dave on 7th. (Actually, this bike has been locked here for awhile, but...)

BREAKING: Momofuku prepped for Hurricane Irene

[Updated] Hurricane, schmurricane: Ray's will be open all day — and night

Ray said he's be there all day and night. Unfortunately, the day shift couldn't make it in. So Ray is on his own.

Melanie has more photos of Ray ... and his makeshift quarters for the storm.

Apparently Irene has already passed through Key Food on Avenue A

Just a few minutes ago ...