Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a shot along 2nd Avenue by Heather Dubin)

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• DOT launches planning process for redesign of 14th Street corridor (March 10) 

• Someone swiped the Basquiat plaque on Great Jones Street (March 12) 

• Noho Food Market relocating as another Bowery corner awaits development (March 11) 

• Ruby/Dakota gallery signs off on 2nd Street (March 12) 

• Anti-tagging defense goes up at future Sephora on St. Mark’s Place (March 13) 

• Social reaction to a line at Panna II (March 8)

Emmy Squared returns to service after months-long renovation (March 12) 

• Grand opening for Metro Acres Market on 1st Avenue and 5th Street (March 14)

• La La Laundry team opens new venture on 3rd Street (March 11) 

• LPC hearing on controversial development proposed for NoHo Historic District Extension (March 10) 

• Bellevue Shelter closing; intake shifting to East 3rd Street and the Bowery (March 9) 

• A new plan for the former Housewatch space on Avenue B (March 9) 

• On the April CB3-SLA docket: Caledonia East Village and Buena Vista Restaurant & Bar (March 9)

• Signage alert: Apna Pind on 4th Street (March 11) 

• A signage snag for Small Village Deli on Avenue B (March 11) 

• Crews prepping Avenue A for pavement milling above 4th Street (March 13) 

• The first Genre is Death video IS SO GOOD (March 13)

... and a moment at Pardon My French on Avenue B the other evening (photo by Stacie Joy)

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Posts this past week included (with a random early evening shot from 2nd Avenue)...

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• LPC OKs church-to-residential conversion on 7th Street (March 5) 

• City Council hearing on proposals to expand year-round roadway dining (March 2) 

• Paying tribute to the founder of Tokio7 on 7th Street (March 4) 

• 9th Precinct CO Pamela Jeronimo promoted to Deputy Inspector (March 2) 

• The New Colossus Festival returns this week for its biggest year yet (March 3) 

• Scenes from night 3 of the New Colossus Festival (March 6) 

• Friday night with the New Colossus Festival (March 7) 

• Here's when the East Village's newest grocery store opens (March 3) 

• The scoop on Van Leeuwen's temporary closure on 7th Street (March 2) 

• Comings and goings on this block of 1st Avenue and RIP Tropic Berry (March 5)

• Comings and goings on this block of 2nd Avenue (March 4) 

• Ralph's Famous Italian Ices officially reopens for the season tomorrow on Avenue A (March 5) 

• Flower Power turns 32 on 9th Street (March 6)

• Articles to read: The man who bet on St. Mark's (in 1959) (March 1) 

• Soft openings: Square Coffee on St. Mark's Place (March 4) 

• Signage alert: Molly's Coffee House on St. Mark's Place (March 5) 

• Menu photos hint at an Indian spot for 128 E. Fourth St. (March 2) 

• Another UPS Store for the neighborhood (March 5) 

• Baohaus 2.0 set to debut on St. Mark's Place (March 3) 

• The Guides Association of New York City, an association of independent, professional tour guides, has nominated EVG for a 2026 GANYC Apple Award. EV Grieve is among 3 finalists for "Outstanding NYC Website" (March 5). We are very honored to be in such good company!

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Posts this past blizzard week included (with a sunrise photo yesterday on Seventh Street)...

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• The owners of Cafe Mogador are opening a new bar on St. Mark's Place (Feb. 24) 

• Report: Plans for a 21-story residential building filed for the former St. Emeric lot on Avenue D (Feb. 25) 

• 1 person treated for minor injuries in East 5th Street fire (Feb. 22) 

• NYPD seeks suspect in alleged assault on Sunny and Annie's employee (Feb. 22) 

• The wisteria-adorned townhouse on Stuyvesant Street is for sale again (Feb. 26) 

• Reader-submitted snow photos from the great blizzard of February 2026 (Feb. 23) 

• Tompkins Sculpture Park (Feb. 24) 

• Meanwhile, in the adult section of Tompkins Square Park (Feb. 23) 

• The morning after (and day of) the blizzard of Feb. 22-23 (Feb. 23) 

• Back to the Gap (Feb. 28)

• February in review (Feb. 28)

• A band playing New Colossus Festival: Drook (Feb. 27)

• Sliders up next at 34 St. Mark's Place (Feb. 26) 

• Signage alert: New Mott Cleaners on 1st Avenue (Feb. 26) 

• The former Housewatch space is for lease on Avenue B (Feb. 25) 

.... and during the blizzard, six NYPD officers helped a motorist get unstuck on Second Avenue... thanks to the reader for the pic...

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Posts this past week included (with a random "Rear Window"-esque photo)...

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• Indictment announced in January rape in Stuyvesant Town (Feb. 19) 

• The Bowery Palace debuts with Jesse Malin's "Silver Manhattan" (Feb. 18) 

• More Pride at the Stonewall National Monument (Feb. 15) 

• A visit to The Shrimp (Feb. 19) 

• Good news: Chomp Chomp is open again (Feb. 15) 

• Your Richard Hell reader (Feb. 20)

• ICYMI: Underground Railroad safe house found at the Merchant's House Museum (Feb. 16) 

• This East Village "Bunny" is now streaming on Netflix (Feb. 15) 

• Watching the East Village in "Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette" (Feb. 16)

• Thanks to "John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette," Panna II is reportedly busy again (Feb. 21) 

• Lucky Cafe brewing up a mid-March opening on Avenue A (Feb. 17) 

• Village East honors Catherine O'Hara with "Beetlejuice" and "Best in Show" screenings (Feb. 18) 

• The Onion Tree Pizza Co. is closing on 1st Avenue (Feb. 20) 

• Rep. Goldman announces $250K for East Village nonprofit Avenues for Justice (Feb. 20) 

• A band playing New Colossus Festival: Lucid Express (Feb. 20) 

• Chef Tan is closed for now on St. Mark's Place (Feb. 17) 

• Signage alert: Sweetie's adds candy to the First Avenue mix (Feb. 17) … Fujisan Japanese Mart on 2nd Avenue (Feb. 17) 

• Avenue B market reopens as Miami Convenience (Feb. 16) 

• What's happening at 166 First Ave.? Think Southern buffet. (Feb. 18) 

• It's a Small Village Deli after all (Feb. 16) 

... and Richie is getting Key Food on Avenue A prepped for March 17 with Klassic Key signage... (photo by Stacie Joy)... 

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week include (with a photo along 1st Avenue last night, where the snow banks persist)

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• An immigration detention, a waiting room, a family in limbo (Feb. 9) 

• End of an Avenue B era for Gruppo as it will relocate to the Bowery in March (Feb. 10) 

• New 9-story development proposal raises alarms next to Merchant's House (Feb. 10) 

• 25-story residential building in the works for the NW corner of the Bowery and Great Jones (Feb. 11) 
• Financing secured for major upgrades at Campos Plaza II (Feb. 12) 

• RIP Fred Smith (Feb. 8) 

• Earth School community march calls for protection of immigrant families (Feb. 10) 

• Soft openings: Much Obliged on Avenue B (Feb. 12) 

• New signs up as Metro Acres Market nears opening on 1st Avenue and 5th Street (Feb. 9) 

• Sephora announces itself on the gateway to the East Village (Feb. 14) 

• Former Chris French Cleaners space wrapped for demolition (Feb. 11) 

• What's going on with Chomp Chomp? (Feb. 13) 

• A band playing New Colossus Festival: Loveletter (Feb. 13)

 

• Closures: Village Cafe & Grill on 4th Street (Feb. 10) 

• Signage alert: Stackie Doughnuts on Avenue A (Feb. 9) 

• A new era for Baohaus on St. Mark's Place (Feb. 9) 

• Brooklyn Dumpling Shop closes flagship East Village location (Feb. 12) 

... and something we hadn't noticed atop the First Park kiosk — a Christmas rat. God Bless Us, everyone! (Thanks to EVG reader Taz Urnov for the photo!)       

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Posts this past week included (with a photo of the Griswold Family Truckster snowed-in on Houston).

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• NYPD arrests suspect in reported rape of teen in Stuy Town (Feb. 3) 

• Immigration-related memorial vandalized outside St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery (Feb. 2) … and again (Feb. 5)

• Remembering East Village artist Philip Van Aver (Feb. 4) 

• Your turn to weigh in on Tompkins Square Park's next round of upgrades (Feb. 3) 

• Openings: Salumeria Rosi on Avenue B (Feb. 2) 

• TDA ushers in a new era at Night Club 101 (Feb. 5)

• Progress report: Metro Acres Market build-out continues (Feb. 2) … and a signage update (Feb. 7)

• A band playing the New Colossus Festival: Dallas Love Field (Feb. 6) 

• Signs of Valentine's Day (pizza) in the East Village (Feb. 4) 

• Signage alert: Much Obliged on Avenue B (Feb. 5) 

• Deli in the works for 5th and B (Feb. 3) 

• Flooding forces temporary closure of Avenue B Duane Reade (Feb. 1) 

• On St. Mark's Place, Moody Tongue will house Tokyo-based Pizza Studio Tamaki (Feb. 2) 

And a moment with Sarah Silverman on the Bowery the other day... photo by Derek Berg...

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Post this past week included (with a photo from St. Mark's Place — Physical Snowffiti? (sorry) — from Friday night).

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• Remembering longtime East Village resident Mary Buchen (Jan. 28) … and Mac McGill (Jan. 30) 

• Redesign in the works for the Tompkins Square Park mini pool (Jan. 27) 

• Crowdfunding effort moves to guard a tree around Tompkins Square Park (Jan. 28) 

• Where to find an official Warming Center close to the East Village (Jan. 29) 

• Local scenes from a day of "no work, no school, no shopping" (Jan. 30) 

• Something from nothing: A new coffee shop, Gnihton, opens on 11th Street (Jan. 29)

• It snowed! (Jan. 25) 

• Construction watch: 231 Bowery (Jan. 28) 

• Signage alert: Buena Vista on the NE corner of 2nd Avenue and 5th Street (Jan. 30) 

• Did you know? There's a Pizza Hut on the Lower East Side now (Jan. 28) 

• The East River shows off a rare winter look (Jan. 27) 

• New igloo to market? This deal won't last! (Jan 27) 

And thanks to all the EVG readers who shared snow pics this past week... here's one from EV resident Heather Dubin from Washington Square Park... dog sledding!

Week in Grieview

Posts this week included (with a photo from St. Mark's and 3rd Avenue) 

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• D.A. Bragg announces guilty plea in fatal East Village stabbing spree on 14th Street (Jan. 23) 

• Most Holy Redeemer hit with DOB ‘failure to maintain’ violation (Jan. 19) … Most Holy Redeemer briefly reopens for Mass honoring longtime parishioner (Jan. 18) 

• A visit to Afterword Bookshop on 6th Street (Jan. 21) 

• Paulie Gee tells us more about his slice shop opening on 1st Avenue in the East Village (Jan. 20) 

• Report of a fire at 325 E. 12th St. (Jan. 24)

• The 2nd Avenue/2nd Street lot saga may have a new chapter (Jan. 20) 

• ‘The Big Johnson’ brings an East Village legend to the Quad Cinema (Jan. 22) 

• Today in gushers on 1st Avenue at 14th Street (Jan. 23) 

• The Village East marquee goes full Oscar mode (plus some $5 seats) (Jan. 23) 

• Reaching the top of the parking-garage-replacing condoplex on 9th Street (Jan. 20) 

• New construction remains paused at 88 E. 2nd St. (Jan. 22) 

• Passengers now have leaning rails at these East Village bus stops (Jan. 18) 

• We’re still wondering about the brief, mysterious reopening of Burgers on B (Jan. 21) 

• ICYMI: Wayne & Sons has left the East Village for Williamsburg (Jan. 22) 

• Kissaki has closed on the Bowery (Jan. 22) 

• Signage alert: NYC Convenience on Avenue A (Jan. 22) … Baba Doner on Avenue A (Jan. 21) … SKWR on 1st Avenue (Jan. 20) 

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with neon nights on St. Mark's Place) ...

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• A look inside the sidewalk stations that test the East Village's drinking water (Jan. 14) 

• D.A.'s office announces indictment in fatal hit-and-run last month on Clinton and Stanton (Jan. 14) 

• Community gathers at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery for a "Vigil of Lament and Hope" (Jan. 13) 

• Inside the film 'Irregular,' a love letter to Sophie's (Jan. 13) 

• A ‘cleanup only’ operation on 11th Street and 1st Avenue (Jan. 17) 

• Petition seeks to rename Tompkins Square Park skate area for Harold Hunter (Jan. 14)

• Paulie Gee’s appears headed for former Dunkin’ space on 1st Avenue (Jan. 13) 

• Most Holy Redeemer briefly reopens for Mass honoring longtime parishioner (Jan. 18) 

• From Katinka to a back entrance on 9th Street (Jan. 12) 

• ICYMI: Tom Verlaine's Downtown legacy enters the New York Public Library (Jan 15) 

• Signage alert: Drāvida Indian Diaspora by Chef Aarthi Sampath (Jan. 15) … Mag New York City on Avenue A (Jan. 15) … Visit Sicily NYC on 7th Street (Jan. 12) 

• Emmy Squared is now temporarily closed for a construction "glow-up" (Jan. 13) 

• Taverna East Village has been closed now for 13 months (Jan. 12) 

• Original 16 Handles outpost closes ahead of move to new 2nd Avenue home (Jan. 12) 

• Saba Candy & Groceries comes and goes on Avenue B (Jan. 15) 

• $1 slice Pizza Hub up next at 59 First Ave. (Jan. 12) 

• At Mulchapalooza 2026 (Jan. 10) 

... and a few things... this is not actually a warning about tagging the gate at 2 St. Mark's Place, but rather an ad for the new A$AP Rocky record, Don't Be Dumg, that was released on Friday (H/T Justin) ...

... and workers removed the plywood from the former Rite Aid on First Avenue and Fifth Street — soon to be home to a Metro Acres Market, as we reported here. (Photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Posts this past week included (with a photo last night outside Sophie's, 507 E. Fifth St.)

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• An update on Evelyn, the East Village restaurant worker arrested by ICE agents on Christmas Eve (Jan. 5)

• Vigil planned for Renee Nicole Good at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (Jan. 9) 

• Punjabi Grocery and Deli is back, serving on 1st Street (Jan. 8) … Punjabi Grocery and Deli hasn't been open in weeks, and people are starting to worry (Jan. 5) 

• Bowery Electric space to reopen as the Bowery Palace; Jesse Malin up first in new theater (Jan. 8) 

• Veselka looks to add full liquor license at longtime East Village home (Jan. 6) 

• The classic Japanese restaurant Beron Beron has closed on 1st Avenue (Jan. 5) 

• Sole focus: At the opening night of 'Feet Pics' at Ruby/Dakota on 2nd Street (Jan. 10) 

• Activity at a historic 2nd Avenue address (Jan. 7) 

• Ahead of its opening, Lazy Bulldog brings Turkish coffee to this 6th Street stoop (Jan. 7) 

• '50 Years of PUNK' this January (Jan. 6)

• CBGB audio doc gets another spin on WBAI (Jan. 4) 

• Reading the signs: An art show opens at Psychic Readings on 5th Street (Jan. 4) 

• The Parks Department will be mulch obliged if you bring your Christmas tree to Tompkins this weekend (Jan. 9) ... At Mulchapalooza 2026 (Jan. 10) 

• What will be the 12th establishment in 12 years for 334 Bowery? (Jan 6) 

• First signs of retail (Sephora) life at 1 St. Mark's Place (Jan. 6) 

• After raids, fines and silence, is Green Line finally done on Avenue B? (Jan. 8) 

• The retail space at 95 2nd Ave. is for rent (Jan. 5) 

 .... and the liquor store on the NE corner of Avenue A and Fourth Street went under new ownership earlier last year... the temp signage for Avenue A Liquor & Wine arrived on Friday (thanks, William Klayer, for the photo). It's no Fine Wines & Champagne's!

Week in Grieview

From a holiday week with fewer posts than usual … with an NYE  photo on 1st Avenue by Derek Berg

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• Stella of Ray's Candy Store, remembered by the neighborhood (Dec. 29) 

• Metro Acres Market confirmed for former East Village Rite Aid (Dec. 30) 

• Bands we like: Homade (Jan. 2) 

• Reading the signs: An art show opens at Psychic Readings on 5th Street (Jan. 4) 

• Openings: Justin’s Salt Bread on 2nd Avenue (Jan. 2) … Moon Coffee Lab on 1st Street (Dec. 29) 

• A hazy shade of winter in Tompkins Square Park (Dec. 29) 

• A December EVG recap (Dec. 30) 

• The most-viewed EVG stories of 2025 (Dec. 31) 

... and an NYE photo on St. Mark's Place via EVG reader Jason D. Newton...

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Posts this past week included (with a photo yesterday on Second Avenue by Cynthia Reynolds)... 

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• Stella Soltowska, a fixture at Ray's Candy Store since 1977, has died (Dec. 26) 

• On Christmas Eve morning, ICE agents take East Village restaurant worker into custody on 7th Street (Dec. 24) 

• RIP Stanislawa "Anna" Sulkowska (Dec. 23) 

• NYC retrospective for the late No Wave filmmaker Amos Poe opens Jan. 3 at Metrograph (Dec. 23) 

• NYPD makes an arrest in the hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian on Clinton and Stanton (Dec. 22) 

• Openings: Barryville General on Avenue A (Dec. 22) ... Burgerhead on 2nd Avenue (Dec. 22)

• A ghostly parade for long-lost local music venues (Dec. 26) 

• ICYMI: Fire disrupts operations at Norwich Meadows Farm, a Tompkins Greenmarket regular (Dec. 26)

• The former Rite Aid is looking more like a grocery store every day (Dec. 22) 

• Signage alert: Matcha and coffee for 68 Avenue A (Dec. 22) 

• About the next MulchFest in Tompkins Square Park (Dec. 21) 

• Scenes of the season, lately (Dec. 25) 

• Waiting the whole year to toss your 2024 Christmas tree (Dec. 24)

And thanks to the excellent editorial team at The City for the EVG anniversary shout-out this past week...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a post-Sunday-snowfall pic in Tompkins by Stacie Joy)

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• Timeline for reopening northern section of East River Park pushed to end of 2027 (Dec. 16) 

• SantaCon 2025 recap: A quieter crawl through the East Village? (Dec. 15) 

• Mark Bittman’s Community Kitchen wraps up Lower East Side pilot (Dec. 17) 

• Scenes from the 34th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting (Dec. 14) 

• Marky Ramone visits ¡Adios Amigos! for Bowery Beat coffee launch (Dec. 15) 

• Afterword Bookshop debuts on 6th Street (Dec. 13) 

• Art where you can find it (Dec. 19) 

• The final Saturdays of Bluestockings (Dec. 19) 

• The secret life of Key Food’s holiday decorations (Dec. 17) 

• PureGym officially takes over Blink Fitness (Dec. 15) 

• Signage alert: Justin’s Salt Bread on 2nd Avenue (Dec. 16) 

• A coffee shop percolating for 22 St. Mark’s Place (Dec. 17) 

• UZ Grill House, in grand-opening mode, has not been opening lately (Dec. 17) 

• The former Spice Brothers space is for rent on St. Mark’s Place (Dec. 19) 

• EVG turns 18 (Dec. 21)