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In keeping with today's There Goes the Neighborhood theme... luring in the passersby with Color TV at Sophie's, 507 E. Fifth St. ...

Today marks the 16th day that Con Ed has parked these loud, smelly oil-processing rigs on Fifth Street at Avenue A... belching a pungent ...

Day 8 of Sophie's being obscured by these oil-processing trucks on Fifth Street just east of Avenue A... part of the never-ending tran...

Photo by Kyle de Vre  From the book " See You Next Tuesday ." Republished with permission  Information via the EVG inbox... John R...

Above: A joke from Sophie's a few years back The first post arrived on this platform on Dec. 21, 2007, at 5:48 p.m., which research ...

Outside Sophie's today on Fifth Street between A and B...

East Village-based photographer Kyle de Vre is ready to release "See You Next Tuesday," a documentary portrait project turned p...

There has been activity in recent days at Sophie's, the bar that someone once started a blog about here at 507 E. Fifth St. between A...

After sitting out the past six-and-a-half months, sister bars Sophie's, Josie's and Mona's will reopen later today with a 25-p...

A look at a darkened Sophie's tonight on Fifth Street ... the bar closed last evening... along with most other city bars tonight after...

[ Montage via Kyle de Vre ] Last Tuesday I wrote about a new photo book by Kyle de Vre, an East Village resident who has worked at Sophi...

Kyle de Vre is never without a camera. So it made sense that de Vre, an East Village resident who has worked at Sophie's for the past...

[ Photo of Count Slima by Walter Wlodarczyk ] Joseph "Count Slima" Williams worked for the Two Boots family for 30-plus years,...

[ Photo via TwoHawksNYC ] Hawk watchers were happy today to see two of Christo and Dora's three offspring successfully fledge today.....

Sophie's, the bar at 507 E. Fifth St. just east of Avenue A, is closed tonight while a film crew preps the exterior for a scene for th...

On Fridays this winter, and probably spring and summer ... we'll post one of the 16,000-plus EVG, uh, posts from yesteryear, like this o...

Sophie's in the light snow... on East Fifth Street... where it all began . Photo by Dave on 7th. And is this snowfall part of Khan? A...

[ Joe's Bar last fall ] Longtime favorite Joe's Bar on East Sixth Street has remained closed since proprietor Joe Vajda died this ...

[Photo by Thomas D. Ward] The folks at Sophie's and Mona's passed along the sad news that Markand Thakar, a longtime regular at th...

You may not know Markand Thakar, though it's likely that you will recognize his work. Several of his paintings adorn the walls of Sophi...