Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from East River Park)... 

 • Two men shot, 1 fatally, at the chess tables in Tompkins Square Park, police say (Friday) ... In the aftermath of yesterday's deadly shooting in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday) 

• East Village McDonald's pays tribute to 2 victims of suspected DUI collision in Corlears Hook Park during July 4 celebration (Sunday) 

• D.A. Bragg announces indictment of a suspect in random slashing on Astor Place (Tuesday)

• What's the 311? How East Village residents can effectively file complaints (Monday)

• On 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street, an empty lot and lots of questions about what's next (Wednesday)

• A look at 14th Street and 1st Avenue — "a New York Block No One Can Fix" (Wednesday) ... From the archives: A documentary short about the intersection of 14th Street and 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Unapologetic Foods looking at the former Huertas spot on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• A new mural for a new restaurant opening at 97 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• High spirits: At WitchsFest USA on Astor Place (Sunday) 

• Report: Beth Israel closure on hold for now (Thursday) 

• Revisiting Curt Hoppe's Downtown Portraits (Thursday)

• Happy trails to the 2-story dining structure that almost was on 4th Street (Friday)

• Amara Coffee makes an artful awning debut on 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• Astor Place gets the neighborhood's first electric charging docks for e-bikes (Monday) 

• A new loading zone for the East Village (Friday) 

 

• Openings: SourAji on Avenue B (Thursday) 

• Pakistani bakery chain bringing Layers Bakeshop to 14th Street (Wednesday)

• A mystery yogurt shop for the former Liquiteria space on 4th Avenue and 13th Street (Tuesday) 

• Crazy Burger's short tenure has come to a close on Avenue C (Tuesday)

... and an urban etiquette sign for grown men or their dogs on 7th and B... please don't pee on the tree-well garden (photo by Stacie Joy)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of Gutter Beach outside Il Posto Accanto on 2nd Street)...

• RIP Anton van Dalen (Wednesday) 

• East Village McDonald's pays tribute to 2 victims from a suspected DUI collision in Corlears Hook Park during July 4 celebration (Sunday) 

• With a larger new kitchen, EVLovesNYC expands to feed more New Yorkers (Monday) 

• Mary O is bringing her scones to 7th Street (Tuesday) 

• Bands we like: Skorts (Friday) 

• Upclose with Gustaf at Berlin (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Stuytown Pharmacy on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Other plaques that are currently missing in the East Village (Wednesday) 

• A tree branch falls in the small dog run in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

• H Mart is expanding on 3rd Avenue (Tuesday)

• These 2 East Village trees are still entombed in concrete (Monday) ... Reader report: 2 more entombed trees (Saturday)

• Dua Kafe is on vacation (Wednesday) ... The SOS Chefs storefront will be closed until early September (Wednesday) 

• A visit to Cakes by Klein on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

• Juvenile red-tailed hawk getting the washing and drying down in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• Smiles everyone: New-age dental studio setting up shop in 2nd Avenue condoplex (Monday) 

• An e-bike repair shop for 7th Street (Friday) 

• 50 Avenue B is now on Housewatch (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Crepe City on Avenue A (Tuesday)

... and a word for the Colonel on Second Avenue and 14th Street ...

Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with a photo from 7th and A)... 

• Reports of multiple people stabbed on 14th Street between Avenue A and 1st Avenue; 1 fatality (Sunday) ... A look at 14th Street after the triple stabbing and homicide on Sunday (Monday) ... NYPD light tower arrives on a cleaned-up SE corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue (Thursday) ... This morning on 14th Street between Avenue A and 1st Avenue (Saturday) 

• Emma Rogue is opening an events space on Houston Street (Saturday) 

• At the Harold Hunter Skate Jam in Tompkins Square Park (Friday) 

• At an East Village benefit for Washington Square Park Mutual Aid (Wednesday) 

• East Village singer-songwriter Jesse Malin will return to the stage this Dec. 1 and 2 (Wednesday) 

• A plaque dedicated to a former longtime Parks employee is missing from Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• Now people are stealing Invader's mosaics in the East Village and elsewhere (Wednesday) 

 • The Rite Aid on 1st Avenue doesn't look like a store that will be in business much longer (Wednesday)

• Check out an aerial view of the refurbished Tompkins Square Park basketball courts (Wednesday) 

• Opening weekend for Carnitas Ramírez (Monday) • City pools are open (Thursday)

• High winds bring down a branch in Tompkins Square Park (Monday) 

• A tribute to Patti Astor at First Street Green Art Park (Sunday)

• This smoke shop won't be reopening after an assault and robbery (Tuesday)

• Openings: Pasta de Pasta on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• 3 new bakeries-cafes have opened in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• A permanent closure for Dhom on 12th Street (Thursday) ... M & J Asian Cuisine on 14th and B (Thursday) ... and Joey Bats Café on Avenue B (Wednesday)

• The NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street awaits its new development (Monday) • The all-new Boiler Room announces itself on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Lamia’s Fish Market is 'temporarily closed for maintenance' (Wednesday) 

• From the EVG archives: Q-&-A with Susan Seidelman, director of 'Smithereens' and 'Desperately Seeking Susan' (Friday) 

• Today in parallel parking (Monday) 

... and some of the recent chairs of Avenue A...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a reader-submitted photo outside McKinley Playground on 4th Street)...

• RIP James Chance (Wednesday) 

• Rent Guidelines Board approves increases for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments (Tuesday) 

• Father Seán is leaving the East Village (Monday) 

• Rocks off: The Fillmore East memorial plaque is MIA on 2nd Avenue (Friday) 

• Early voting ends Sunday ahead of Primary Election Day on June 25 (Thursday) 

• At the 4th annual East Village Zine Fair on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• About the 'Mutual Aid Plaza' benefit show at La Plaza Cultural (Saturday) 

• Asian Taste is back open on Avenue B and 3rd Street (Tuesday) 

• Heat Dome watch now in effect (Tuesday) 

• Last weekend for A Sustainable Village on 9th Street (Saturday) 

• Summer vacations: B&H Dairy on 2nd Avenue (Friday) 

• A look at Partea 1 year in (Tuesday) 

• Bad Habit closing on Avenue A as owners will head west to start a family (Thursday) 

• Signs from an old chair: Remembering East Village standby Angelica Kitchen on 12th Street (Thursday) 

• A timeline for the reopening of the Tompkins Square basketball courts (Monday) 

• Wondering about Wonderland Bar on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Schmuck announces itself on 1st Avenue (Thursday)

• Blank Street Coffee reopens on 1st Avenue and 13th Street (Friday) 

... and we can't wait to see what LinkNYC's NYC Fact No. 1,132 will be... (Photo from 3rd Avenue near 12th Street)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a late-afternoon photo from Tompkins Square Park)... 

• Community Board 3 adds a special meeting on congestion pricing to June's agenda (Tuesday) 

• Take a look at the all-new Delancey Street Pedestrian Bridge (Wednesday) 

• Nearly 3 years later, city is finishing the Avenue C bike lanes (Tuesday) 

• The ongoing efforts to shutter unlicensed weed shops (Monday)

• A summer movie series is returning to Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• A taco test run at Carnitas Ramirez, opening June 21 in the East Village (Wednesday) 

• Reports of a passenger struck by a downtown 6 at Astor Place (Tuesday) 

• A new era for teen spirit at the Tompkins Square Library branch (Tuesday)

• That's all, folks: Tacos El Porky closes on Avenue A after 3-plus months (Monday) 

• The Marshal takes legal possession of Ace's on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Check out the new single by Hello Mary (Friday) 

• What might be next for this 2nd Avenue storefront? (Monday) 

• The juvenile red-tailed hawks are already huge and getting into staring contests with squirrels in Tompkins Square Park (Friday) 

• Openings: Cafe 2BY2 on 10th Street (Monday) 

• Extra Place may not be such a quiet place too much longer (Thursday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo along St. Mark's Place)... 

• Man slashed in an unprovoked attack on Astor Place (Friday... Saturday) 

• After 25 Years on Avenue A, Juicy Lucy will move following vandal attack (Thursday) 

• The former St. Emeric property could yield a 570-unit affordable housing complex on Avenue D (Wednesday)

• Carnitas Ramirez sets its opening date for new East Village taqueria (Wednesday) 

• From parked cars to luxury condos on 9th Street (Monday) 

• Mapping the public restrooms in the East Village (Thursday) 

• Asian Taste looks to be reopening this month (Tuesday)

• Plywood free, you can now walk along the all-new 360 Bowery and its 22-floor office building (Thursday)

• Opening up Jennifer's Cafe on the NW corner of 4th Street and 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• After 36 years in business, Ise Restaurant is closing its doors this month (Tuesday) 

• Greenmarket season begins on Astor Place (Tuesday)

• 40 years gone! Revisiting a classic New York magazine cover story from 1984 (Monday)

• Garage Sale Vintage bringing its nostalgic vibes to the Bowery (Monday) 

• Looking at two recent storefront reveals on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Storefront renovations commence on the SW corner of the Bowery and Houston (Monday) 

• At the reopening of longtime East Village staple Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen (Friday)

• Openings: Kyuubi Omakase on St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• Friday night with The Damned at Hammerstein Ballroom (Sunday) 

... and this past week, we spotted workers inoculating trees in Tompkins Square Park to help protect them from Dutch Elm Disease (photo by Steven)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week include (with a photo from St. Mark's Place on Friday evening) ...

• St. George Church reopens a refurbished Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen on 7th Street (Friday) 

• Mount Sinai submits updated plan to close Beth Israel on July 12 (Wednesday) 

• Block Association asking for removal of the 32-foot tall 5G tower at 129 Avenue C (Thursday) 

• At the annual Loisaida Festival (Monday) 

• 37 1st Ave., once home to some East Village music history, is now rubble (Monday) • The East Village, full of bars, gets an anti bar (Thursday)

• Hit play 'Job' heads from the East Village's Connelly Theater to Broadway (Wednesday)

• Openings: Sunday Dreamin on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Soft openings: Sip + Co. on 9th Street (Tuesday)

• IHOP lops off its sidewalk dining shed (Thursday) 

• Dear Rufino has apparently moved on from 2nd Avenue (Thursday)

• Closings: Yakiniku West on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• Reaching the top at the all-new 12-story building at 280 E. Houston St. (Tuesday) 

• A Williamsburg view of Manhattanhenge (Wednesday) ... and from Union Square (Tuesday) 

• Café Maud is the name of the new establishment in the former Dallas BBQ space (Wednesday) 

• Times Square-friendly business is now up and running on Union Square (Wednesday) 

• Budding Ninth Street sinkhole is now Citizen app famous (Tuesday)

Speaking of the Ninth Street sinkhole, it is showing some sedimentary layers. (This will be a great class field trip!) Thanks to Steven for the photo.    

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from 3rd Street and Avenue A)...

• Hopes for a new East Village home for Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen (Friday) ... East Village staple Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen has closed on 7th Street; operators hope to find a new space (Thursday) 

• These East Village residents are still cooking up a unique book of recipes (Monday)

• A neighbor buys the landmarked Isaac T. Hopper Home on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• The Damned's Captain Sensible on the return of drummer Rat Scabies, the importance of the Ramones and the legend of CBGB (Thursday)

• Someone painted over this brand-new mural on 12th Street and Avenue C (Friday) 

• At the annual Dance Parade and DanceFest (Tuesday) 

• A look at Yoshiko Chuma's 'Extreme Classics' at La Mama (Saturday) 

• Check out the hand-painted punk posters of Masato Okano (Saturday) 

• The present and future of the NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday) 

• A Sustainable Village will be on the move this summer (Wednesday) 

• Cello’s Pizzeria now in soft-open mode on St. Mark's Place (Friday) 

• Openings: The Onion Tree Pizza Co. on 1st Avenue (Thursday) ... Sunflower Cafe on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• A curbside structure demolition party at Lucky on Avenue B (Friday) 

• Busted & shuttered at the Grab & Go on Avenue B (Wednesday)

• A quick visit to Gnocchi on 9th (Tuesday) • From the Heads Up Dept.: In case you are thinking of trespassing at 325 E. Houston St. (Saturday) 

• Today in free, weird circus-y things (Tuesday)

• A man and his duck (Sunday) 

• A look around at the "perfect woman" flyer knock-off industry (Wednesday) 

Speaking of which, more people are now seeking "perfect" things...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from Tompkins Square Park by Stacie Joy)... 

• After a fire upstairs, a gutted TabeTomo hopes to reopen on Avenue A in August (Friday) 

• Don Juan's Barber Shop closing after 25 Years following rent hike (Monday)

 

• A look at Carnitas Ramirez, opening soon on 3rd Street in the East Village (Thursday) 

• Angels Boutique gets its wings on Avenue A (Tuesday)

• Coming together in Tompkins Square Park to remember Al 'Hammerbrain' Landess (Sunday) 

• At the first Show Brain show of 2024 in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Xi’an Famous Foods opens an outpost on 4th Avenue (Monday) 

• Planet Taco exits East Village orbit (Tuesday) 

• After 17 years of not being open on Mondays, Abraço is now open on Mondays (Monday) 

• Former Walgreens space on Union Square to be home to a Times Square-friendly business (Monday)

• 'Stayin' True' with Toofly at CLLCTV NYC (Saturday) 

• After a short break, Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery is back open on Avenue A (Friday) 

• Some Cool pizza street art (Monday) 

• Citi Bike dock swap along Avenue A (Tuesday)

• Wonder debuts its new kind of food hall on Stuyvesant Street (Thursday) 

• At the annual Ukrainian Festival (Sunday) 

... and another moment from the Ukrainian Festival yesterday afternoon via Adriana Leshko ...

Week in Grieview

Photos this past week included ... with a porta-potty update from Tompkins Square Park via Steven (the chains are now there overnight)... 

• Remembering Frank Stella (Wednesday) 

• Paying tribute to legendary photographer Saul Leiter on 10th Street (Monday) 

• New applicants for Lucy's withdraw for this month (Tuesday) 

• Bella McFadden's iGirl storefront opens Saturday on 3rd Street (Friday) 

• A look at Christo and Amelia's 2024 offspring in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

• Family sells eight East Village buildings for $38 million after decades of ownership (Thursday) 

• A moment on Eighth Street in 1983 (Wednesday) 

• Lui & Lui takes center stage at the next incarnation of 3rd & B'zaar (Wednesday) 

• Fabano Florals returns to Avenue B, this time as a full-time shop (Tuesday) 

• Reader report: Why were our new trees canceled? (Tuesday) 

• An East Village tribute to Flaco (Tuesday)

• 'Stayin' True' with Toofly at CLLCTV NYC (Saturday)

• Joe's Wine Co. (NOT Trader Joe's) coming to 3rd Avenue (Monday) 

• On 3rd Avenue, Cutlets and the world's narrowest weed shop have closed (Tuesday) 

• A look inside the former Dallas BBQ on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

• What's next for the Roost space on Avenue B (Monday) 

• Closings: Viva Cucina on 2nd Avenue; Da Radda on 7th Street (Thursday) 

• GrowNYC's Greenmarket returns to Stuy Town on Sundays (Saturday) 

... and a moment with some of the cast and crew of C&B Cafe on Seventh Street... (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (plus the crowd watching the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street — photo by Steven)...

• When a Dodge Charger drove down the sidewalk on 2nd Street during a high-speed chase (Saturday) 

• D.A. Bragg: Landlord indicted for harassing rent-regulated tenants, including in the East Village (Thursday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: New operators for East Village classic Lucy's on Avenue A (Monday) 

• How to take part in Lower East Side History Month activities this May (Friday) 

• The Ukrainian Museum revisits the early work of East Village-based photographer Peter Hujar (Wednesday) 

• On Avenue B, a there-goes-the-neighborhood building sells for $43 million (Wednesday)

• EVG Etc.: NYPD arrests 56 in clearing NYU and New School protest encampments; Knickerbocker Village sells for $85 million (Friday) 

• What happened to the famous East Village (replacement) pear tree on 3rd Avenue? (Thursday) 

• An extension for 'Houses and Hotels' at O'Flaherty's on Avenue A (Wednesday)

• Iconic East Village gay bar Boiler Room has closed ahead of move to a new location on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• A Link5G tower for Avenue C (Monday) 

• The fellow "looking for a girlfriend" is now "looking for the perfect woman" (Thursday)

• Spin-offs: Throwback Two debuts on 9th Street (Saturday) 

• The Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks returning to the Hudson River for some reason (Thursday)

• Friday at 5: The great new track by Pretty Sick (Friday) 

• Watch a large raccoon climb down a tree on 10th Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Hidden Grounds Chai & Coffee House on 3rd Avenue (Monday) 

• Coming attractions: The Oasis Cafe on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Tea Dealers & Ceramics is leaving Avenue B (Friday) 

• A Luscious new market option on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Kōbo by Nai has not been open lately (Wednesday) 

• Today in thieving squirrels in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) ... Today in makeshift fire pits by the Hare Krishna tree in Tompkins Square Park (Monday) 

... and we had several readers spot a (presumably) pet parakeet in Tompkins Square Park... in case of an escape from your home...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included... (with the word from 10th and A)... 

• At NYU, 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' leads to arrests of over 150 people (Tuesday)

• Police searching for suspect in unprovoked daytime stabbing on 7th Street on April 9 (Monday) 

• The untold story of Snack Dragon's attempted East Village comeback (Tuesday) 

• An early-morning fire at 131 Avenue A (Wednesday) ... assessing the fire damage (Wednesday) 

• Violet times: An Earth Day look at the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street (Monday) 

• From the Poetry Window at East Village Books (Saturday) 

• Dan & John's has closed its original East Village location after 9 years (Tuesday) 

• The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park this Aug. 25 (Wednesday) 

• Celebrating the birth of the Pyramid Club at Howl! Arts (Thursday) 

• A benefit concert for East Village musician Jesse Malin (Wednesday)

• About Stylus, a private members-only club coming to the Lower East Side (Friday) 

• Workers removed a dead elm from Tompkins (Thursday) ... and the city has been planting new trees in the neighborhood (Friday) 

• Closing notices: J-Spec Wagyu Dining and Esora Omakase on 5th Street (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Pizza Pazzo on 1st Street (Monday)

• A retail reset at 20 St. Mark's Place (Monday)

• So long to the longtime sidewalk bridge on 12th Street, and hello to SMØR Bakery (Monday) 

• Sushi Fan has not been open lately on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

• Where to see Films on the Green this summer (but not in Tompkins Square Park) (Friday)

• A smoke and vape shop for the former Gaia Italian Café on 3rd Street (Wednesday) 

• A changing of the bar at 16 1st Ave. (Monday) 

... and beware of those dubious rental listings promising various "doorman amenities" (photo on 9th Street by Steven)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a rainy Wednesday evening photo from Second Avenue)...

• D.A. Bragg announces indictment of suspect in 2 March shootings In Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• NYPD searching for hockey-stick-wielding suspect who whacked woman in the leg on 6th Street (Friday) 

• Honoring the late downtown legend Patti Astor at Astor Place (Wednesday)

• At the march to Save Beth Israel (Monday) 

• Openings: Pimbeche Vintage on 3rd Street (Wedensday) 

• Ray's Candy Store in miniature (Thursday) 

 • Openings: Gnocchi on 9th (on 9th) (Monday) 

• News to dry for: La La Laundry is back with gas on Avenue B and 11th Street (Saturday) 

• Remembering Joey Ramone on the anniversary of his death (Monday) 

• Blossom bonanza: Cherry trees paint TSP pink (Tuesday) 

• The Marshal has seized Atomic Wings on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• Cakes by Klein takes 102 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Construction watch: 280 E. Houston St. (Wednesday)

• Signage alert: The Onion Tree Pizza Co. on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• PARTIAL brick reveal at 1 St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• Reader report: Alphabet Grocery hasn't been open lately (Thursday) 

• Today in awkwardly phrased crime alerts on the Citizen app (Sunday) 

 ... and we caught up with Alex Garland's incendiary "Civil War" (still talking about Jesse Plemons!) at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street...

... the film includes two perfectly placed songs by Suicide (one half of the duo, Martin Rev, still lives in the EV).

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Week In Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on 2nd Street near the Bowery)...

• RIP Debby Lee Cohen (Wednesday) and Patti Astor (Friday) 

• Today's solar eclipse with the Second Avenue Star Watchers (Monday) ... Watching the eclipse from 6th and B (Monday) ... Eclipse in progress on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• East Village tenants speak out against rollbacks to potential rent-stabilization laws (Tuesday) 

• East Village native Anna Colombia on pursuing photography and growing up in the neighborhood (Thursday) 

• The Lazy Llama Coffee Bar is opening 2 new outposts, including on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• First sign of Wonder on Stuyvesant Street (Monday) 

 

• The renovation and expansion of 188 1st Ave. (Thursday)

• Dead again: Peter Jarema Funeral Home ad replaced by the Marvel Universe on 7th and B (Wednesday) 

• Protection for a tree garden on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Demolition watch: The NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Crispy Burger on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• Pasta for the former Koko Wings on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• On 2nd Avenue, Sunday Dreamin' on such a spring day (Tuesday)

... and here's a look at that freshly paved roadway on Avenue A (so far, the work has just been between Houston and Fourth) ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of the roomy new porta-potties in Tompkins by Derek Berg)...

• EARTHQUAKE (Friday) 

• Lower East Side legend Sammy's Roumanian Steak House announces its reopening dates (Tuesday) 

 

• Essex Card Shop robbed on Avenue A (Saturday) 

• Turn it up: East Village Radio returns this spring (Monday) 

• The porta-potties of Tompkins Square Park now have hours of operation (Saturday)

• Why the International Bar has been closed (Tuesday) 

• On the April CB3-SLA docket: a Rice Thief outpost for the East Village (Monday) ... The Onion Tree Pizza Co. (Wednesday) 

• Vacated 9th Street parking garage fetches $14 million for likely residential conversion (Tuesday) 

• The $24 million renovation of the Nuyorican Poets Café is officially underway (Thursday) 

• At Tabby Twitch's 'Prime' (Wednesday) 

• Weekday lunch service begins at Superiority Burger on Avenue A (Monday) 

• After 8 years in the East Village, Fortnight Institute has closed its doors (Thursday) 

• Mr. Throwback gets a spin-off on 9th Street (Wednesday) 

• The 'Kim's Video' documentary unreels at the Quad; Alamo Drafthouse next (Friday)

• On Avenue B, damaged façade shutters Gruppo (Thursday) 

• A new pizzeria for the former pizzeria at 36 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• A new awning for East Village classic Veniero's (Thursday)

• Openings: Yokox Omakase on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Let's look inside the Five Guys slated for 2nd Avenue and 12th Street (Thursday)

 

• Signage alert: Lilly's Shakes & Crepes on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

...and checking in with the St. Mark's Place Welcome Committee...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from 3rd between B and C)... 

• NYPD: Suspect arrested in connection with the 2 recent shootings in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

• Greenpoint hit Taqueria Ramírez is opening an East Village outpost (Thursday) 

• 1st sign this spring of the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street (and that townhouse is for sale!) (Tuesday) ... Walking on Stuyvesant Street in the rain (Sunday)

• Marking the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Monday) 

• This non-fiction reading series in the East Village turns 10 on Monday (Wednesday) 

• A look inside Trader Joe's Pronto, now open on 14th Street in Union Square (Wednesday) 

• A journey into the COZMOS on 10th Street (Friday) 

• Good Friday on Avenue B (Saturday) 

• Remembering Tim Lomas (Saturday) 

• Checking in on the former mucky tree well on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• 'Orson’s Shadow' at Theater for the New City (Wednesday) 

• Tribes of Morocco relocates to a larger storefront on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• Coming soon to the East Village: No More Cafe, 'a haven for alcohol-free celebration' (Monday)

• Openings: The Commodore on Avenue C (Friday) ... Yummy Hive on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Kolkata Chai Co. closed for renovations until April 1 on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• Spa treatment (Thursday)

• About a sustainable Salon No. 17 (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Utshob Restaurant on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Art Gotham is the new tenant for the landmarked 4 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

... annnnnnnnnnnnnd! (Background!)

... and a reader shares the tiniest tree that we may have ever seen discarded... on 14th Street this past week ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an early spring shot from Stuyvesant at Ninth)...

• 2 East Village residents 'shaken and scared' after assault inside their building (Monday) 

• Same gunman suspected in shooting in Tompkins Square Park, police say (Thursday) 

• A 7-floor development in the works for the NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday) 

• This spring, new life for the mucky tree well that smells like dead things on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Bella McFadden bringing her iGirl brand to the East Village (Thursday) 

• These zine editors want your rat stories ('Don't call us gross') (Wednesday)

• The Lazy Llama has closed in First Park; no new vendor in the pipeline (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Bungalow on 1st Avenue (Sunday) ... Sauced on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) ... Terminal B on Avenue B (Thursday) ... Okiboru House of Udon on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) ... The Lions on 1st Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Aliens of Brooklyn leaves the East Village to harvest the Chelsea Market (Monday) 

• Flushing-based cafe and bakery Sweet Cake is opening an East Village outpost (Monday)

• Another pink-out at 57 Great Jones St. (Wednesday)

• Peak-a-boooo: Partial reveal at 1 St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• East Village Tattoo debuts on 4th Street (Wednesday) 

• Behold 57 Great Jones St. in small scale (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Crispy Burger on 1st Avenue (Monday)

• The faceless Charlie Brown mural is now headless (Monday)

  ... and Eddie Izzard's "Hamlet" made its EV debut this past Tuesday at the Orpheum on Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place... here through April 14 (thanks to Steven for the photo)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with some hoops at Sara D. Roosevelt Park via Stacie Joy) ...

• Two bystanders shot after a nearby argument escalated to gunfire in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

• 1 year after building fire, A&C Kitchen grandly reopens on Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• Housing lottery underway for units in this new building on 10th Street (Monday)

• The NYPL's archive of the legendary East Village Eye now available to the public (Tuesday) 

• 'Americans in Paris' at the new Grey Art Museum on Cooper Square (Friday) 

• Architectural sculpture digest: A look at some unique 'Houses and Hotels' at O’Flaherty's (Thursday)

• A familiar face returns to Key Food (Wednesday) 

• Coming attractions: The 'Kim's Video' documentary debuts at the Quad on April 5 (Thursday) 

• Full reveal at 14 Avenue C, where the team behind The Commodore is opening a new outpost (Monday)

• An update from G's Cheesesteaks, opening May 1 on Avenue B and Houston (Thursday) 

• This day on the Bowery in 2007 (Thursday) 

• Your faceless Charlie Brown mural update from 12th Street (Tuesday) 

• Boris & Horton reopens on Avenue A (Tuesday)

• Openings: Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) ... Not as Bitter brings the fresh fruit lattes to 10th Street (Tuesday) 

• PLNT Burger closes its Union Square outpost (Monday) 

• Meet Belvedere, the Russian tortoise (Thursday) 

• Perk Espresso & Coffee Bar closes on 14th Street (Monday)

• Goodbye Dolly (Monday) 

• Awash in debt, Body Shop shuts down operations (Tuesday) 

... and a post we didn't get around to posting this past week... Starlight Convenience coming to 110 Third Ave. between 13th Street and 14th Street... (bring back the Variety Theater!)

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