Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on Avenue A by Stacie Joy)

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• Giving thanks: A final word on the stranded East River Park squirrels (Wednesday, Oct. 22) 

• Great Jones Street co-named in honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Wednesday, Oct. 22) … ‘Samo Lives’ in Tompkins today (Monday, Oct. 20) 

• After 16 years, Poco is closing on Avenue B and 3rd Street (Monday, Oct. 20) 

• Photos along 14th Street from the ‘No Kings’ protest (Sunday, Oct. 19)

• At the 35th edition of the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade (Monday, Oct. 20) 

• Meow Mix returns (for a few nights) to the Lower East Side (Wednesday, Oct. 22) … Cynthia Nixon and Zohran Mamdani dropped by the Meow Mix reunion last night (Saturday, Oct. 25)

• Looking for what’s next at the former Rite Aid on 1st Avenue (Tuesday, Oct. 21) 

• About a new art show — at a laundromat on 5th Street (Sunday, Oct. 19) 

• All the vendors have left The Bowery Market; future new development in the works? (Thursday, Oct. 23) 

• Free compost giveaway in Tompkins Square Park this Sunday (Thursday, Oct. 23) 

• Housing lottery underway at 644 E. 14th St. (Tuesday, Oct. 21) 

• Marufuku Ramen closes on 2nd Avenue (Monday, Oct. 20) … Japan’s Taishoken Ramen opening 1st NYC location at 92 2nd Ave. (Tuesday, Oct 21) 

• A Brussels-based nut-butter coffee bar is opening on the Bowery (Thursday, Oct. 23) 

• Signage alert: Coffee Roastery + Workshop on 14th Street (Monday, Oct. 20) 

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an early am view along 10th Street and Tompkins)... 

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• Work stops, plans change for new building on 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday, Oct. 13) 

• Stepping into her power: East Village native Laurice Fox brings Big Foot Energy home (Thursday, Oct. 16) 

• Owner of former P.S. 64 shares first public comments on building's future (Wednesday, Oct. 15) 

• Revisiting Britain's late-night weirdness at Various/Artists on the Lower East Side (Tuesday, Oct. 14) 

• CB3 to consider street co-namings honoring Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Jack Kirby (Tuesday, Oct. 14) 

• The last of the East Village Juice Press outposts has closed (Monday, Oct. 13) 

• These East Village streets will be closed Sunday for the Halloween Dog Parade (Friday, Oct. 17)

• Openings: Shifka on the Bowery (Tuesday, Oct. 14) … Zesty Tabbouleh on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday, Oct. 14) 

• ICYMI: Time Out Market debuts on 14th Street (Sunday, Oct. 12)

• On the CB3 SLA docket in October: A country buffet from the C as in Charlie and Kisa team (Wednesday, Oct. 15) … Former Good Beer space on 9th Street may yield a cafe-bar (Monday, Oct. 13) 

• The Sabieng Thai won't be reopening; Nounou Noodle Bar on the way (Thursday, Oct. 17) 

• Cue the next track: Hi-Note bids farewell (for now) on Avenue B (Wednesday, Oct. 15) 

• The Bowery gears up for more core work (Thursday, Oct. 17) 

• Signage alert: QQ Nails & Spa on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday, Oct. 15) 

... and crews for the Baquiat biopic "Samo Lives" will try again tomorrow after last Monday's rainout (post here). Tomorrow's weather doesn't look much more promising than Oct. 13...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a 2nd Avenue sky view via Olivia Coffey)

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• Sixth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D to be co-named Jimmy Carter Way (Monday, Oct. 6) … Here’s Jimmy Carter Way (Tuesday, Oct. 7) 

• Fundraiser launched for man seriously injured in 9th Street fall (Tuesday, Oct. 7)

• Family affair: 30 Years of Exit9 on Avenue A (Thursday, Oct. 9)

• New interactive map helps tenants check for lead risks in their buildings (Wednesday, Oct. 8) 

• First wave of artists announced for the 2026 New Colossus Festival (Thursday, Oct. 9) 

• Save these election 2025 dates (Sunday, Oct. 5) 

• Workers clear out Chris French Cleaners as demolition looms for corner of 4th Avenue and 9th Street (Monday, Oct. 6) 

• Harvey Epstein seeks feedback on the future of the large dog run in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday, Oct. 8) 

• Meet Rhaenys, the new kitty at MJay Convenience (Wednesday, Oct. 8) 

• You’ll hardly recognize the former Crocodile Lounge on 14th Street (Monday, Oct. 6)

• Picture this: A museum devoted to vintage photobooths opening in the Lower East Side (Thursday, Oct. 9) 

• Check out the first video from local Band Tough Darlings (Friday, Oct. 10) 

• A supermoon warmup (Monday, Oct. 6) 

• Signage alert: Jungle Bowls on 6th Street (Wednesday, Oct. 8) 

• Kobano has not been open lately on the Bowery (Monday, Oct. 6) 

• ICYMI: Diorama season! Miniature magic returns to the corner of 9th Street and Avenue C (Saturday, Oct. 4) 

And this week in product placement at Pillow-Cat Books on Ninth Street... pic by Eve Smith...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo yesterday from Tompkins Square Park)

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• Corner Bistro debuts on Avenue A (Monday, Sept. 29) 

• The East Village photographer behind a new David Bowie book (Tuesday, Sept. 30) 

• Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade returns for its 35th year on Oct. 19 (Friday, Oct. 3) 

• Surprise! 10-story condo planned at the former home of Chris French Cleaners (Monday, Sept. 29) 

• Pierogi Day returns to East Village Meat Market on Oct. 11 (Friday, Oct. 3) 

• City Fun expands into new 2-story space on 1st Avenue (Friday, Oct. 3) 

• Worker-stewards push back after Bluestockings’ abrupt closure (Thursday, Oct. 2) 

• The return of Hitchcocktober at the Village East by Angelika (Sunday, Sept. 28)

• Diorama season! Miniature magic returns to the corner of 9th Street and Avenue C (Saturday, Oct. 4) 

• Catching up with Bella McFadden of iGirl (Wednesday, Oct. 1) 

• The Starbucks on 1st Avenue and 13th Street has closed (Monday, Sept. 29) 

• Vendors say goodbye to The Bowery Market (Wednesday, Oct. 1) 

• Happy trails, Mayor Adams (Sunday, Sept. 28) 

• Closings: Chakra on 5th Street (Wednesday, Oct. 1) … Hubani on 1st Avenue (Monday, Sept. 29) 

• Openings: Seald Cafe on 9th Street (Wednesday, Oct. 1) 

• 6 posts from September (Tuesday, Sept. 30) 

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a shot of Friday's sunrise by Jeanne Krier) 

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• Remembering Yuji Umeki, owner of Search & Destroy and Kenka on St. Mark’s Place (Monday, Sept. 22)

• Concern for the squirrels stranded in the East River Park construction zone (Monday, Sept. 22) 

• Most Holy Redeemer parishioners bring their petition to St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Tuesday, Sept. 23) 

• After 26-plus years, Bluestockings says goodbye on the Lower East Side (Tuesday, Sept. 24) 

• A bit of preservation amid the East River Park demolition (Wednesday, Sept. 24)

• City to celebrate opening of East River Park at Corlears Hook (Saturday, Sept. 27)

• Checking out a new video from local band Skorts (Friday, Sept. 26)

• Signage alert: Shifka on the Bowery (Monday, Sept. 22)

• Law enforcement targets Green Line on Avenue B; tickets issued, shop sealed (Wednesday, Sept. 24) 

• PayOMatic checks out of Houston Street — and elsewhere (Wednesday, Sept. 24) 

• A new barber shop for Avenue A (Monday, Sept. 22) 

• Summer’s parting shots (Sunday, Sept. 21)

... and an EVG reader shared this from Friday on Avenue C... save the robot!

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on St. Mark's Place by Derek Berg).

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• 'Samo' story: Real-life Al Diaz shut out of new Basquiat biopic (Tuesday, Sept.16) … About 'Samo Lives,' the Basquiat biopic now filming in the East Village (Monday, Sept. 15) 

• Magic and loss on St. Mark's Place: Invader's classic Lou Reed mosaic stolen (Tuesday, Sept. 16) … The Lou Reed Mosaic Bandit of St. Mark's returns (Friday, Sept. 19) 

• A look at the newly opened East River Park from the Corlears Hook pedestrian bridge (Monday, Sept. 15)

• Community gardens take center stage during 14th annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival (Friday, Sept. 19) 

• Bunny's Dub Club brought old-school vibes to the East Village (Thursday, Sept. 18) 

• These are the set times for the CBGB Festival on Sept. 27 (Wednesday, Sept. 17) 

• Gloves on: Pitch in during Community Stewardship days underway at East River Park (Wednesday, Sept. 17) 

• Bands we like: Puzzled Panther — plus Crazy & the Brains and Nabihah Iqbal (Sunday, Sept. 14) 

• Once a garage, now a rising condoplex on 9th Street (Wednesday, Sept 17) 

• Key Food painting gets scooped up — by a member of the Key Food family (Friday, Sept. 19)

• The Marshal takes legal possession of Casa Bond on the Bowery (Thursday, Sept. 18) 

• Openings: H Art on 3rd Avenue (Thursday, Sept. 18) 

• Signage alert: M&M Bagels on 1st Avenue (Wednesday, Sept. 17) 

• Closings: Vivi Bubble Tea on 3rd Avenue (Monday, Sept. 15)

... and a lot of readers mentioned that The Best Damn Breakfast Burrito is expected to open this coming week at 345 E. 12th St. just west of First Avenue. (Follow the brand's Insta for updates.) We had the signage alert back in March.

Week in Grieview

Posta this past week included (with the Tribute in Light as seen from University Place by Deborah Kadetsky)...

• East River Park north of Houston Street now closed until the end of 2026 (Monday, Sept. 8) … A last look at East River Park from the 6th Street Overpass (Tuesday, Sept. 9) 

• Chris French Cleaners is closing after 65 years; 1-level building slated for demolition (Wednesday, Sept. 10)

• Rhaenyra the Dragon Kitty was stolen from Avenue A shop (Tuesday, Sept. 9) … The search continues for Rhaenyra the Dragon Kitty (Thursday, Sept. 11)

• Sephora is taking the retail space at the all-new 1 St. Mark's Place building (Monday, Sept. 8) 

• Grace Bergere in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday, Sept. 11) 

• Outside the Calvin Klein NYFW show on 6th Street for a few minutes (Friday, Sept. 12)

• iGirl has moved (Tuesday, Sept. 9) 

• About the 13th annual MoRUS Film Festival, 'The Gates of Tompkins' (Wednesday, Sept. 10)

• At the opening day of the Feast of San Gennaro (Friday, Sept. 12) 

• On Sunday, 'Guided Meditation' at El Sol Brillante on 12th Street (Wednesday, Sept. 10) 

• A 'Dear New York' moment at Mary's O's Soda Bread Shop (Sunday, Sept. 7) 

• Why you'll find art in the aisles at H&W Hardware on 1st Avenue (Saturday, Sept. 13)

• Still time to catch 'Caught Stealing' (Saturday, Sept. 13) 

• An improvised view of the Blood Moon in Aquarius (Monday, Sept. 8)

More about the new comedy club in the works for 44 Avenue A (Monday, Sept. 8) 

• Cookie alert: Gooey On the Inside to open on 1st Avenue (Wednesday, Sept. 10) 

• Closings: Buffalo Wild Wings on 1st Avenue (Tuesday, Sept. 9) 

• Signage alert: Suntrust Candy on Houston (Monday, Sept. 8)

And thank you to whoever started the EVG subreddit on Reddit (find it here). To answer a question posed, the most-view EVG post these past 18 years is this one from May 2012: There is a woman who has been walking around the East Village topless. No other post has come close to the pageviews nearing half a million. 

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of scaffolding work on Avenue B)... 

• Deliveristas face new enforcement in the East Village (Tuesday, Sept. 2) 

• Grassroots effort to preserve Most Holy Redeemer grows with weekly vigils (Tuesday, Sept. 2) … At what may be the final Mass at Most Holy Redeemer (Monday, Sept. 1)

• Reports: Early morning shooting injures 3 outside Lillian Wald Houses (Sunday, Aug. 31) 

• EVLovesNYC celebrates 100,000th meal served in 2025 (Tuesday, Sept. 2)

• Apologizing for "a dick move" on 7th Street (Wednesday, Sept. 3) 

• Revisiting New Yorkers, then and now: Michael Berman's '99 SNAPSHOTS at the 14th Street Y (Thursday, Sept. 4) 

• La Salle Academy celebrates return to 2nd Street campus (Thursday, Sept. 4)

• Local artist completes Key Food oil painting (and already sold) (Friday, Sept. 5)

• Here is the lineup for the free Show Brain show in Tompkins Square Park on Sept. 7 (Saturday, Sept. 6) 

• From apartment to curb: massive move-out on 9th Street (Monday, Sept. 1) 

• Comedy club eyeing former comedy club space on Avenue A (Wednesday, Sept. 3) 

• Openings: Other People's Clothes on 4th Avenue (Thursday, Sept. 4)

• Change is coming to Blink Fitness on Avenue A (and elsewhere) (Wednesday, Sept. 3) 

• The song of the summer, 46 years later (Monday, Sept. 1) 

• August Citizen crime watch (Monday, Sept. 1)

• Signage alert: Roku/Nana on Clinton Street (Wednesday, Sept. 3) 

• 6 posts from August (Sunday, Aug. 31)

• ICYMI: Our Q&A with "Caught Stealing" director Darren Aronofsky (Thursday, Aug. 28)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (and reading Steve Cannon's "Groove Bang and Jive Around" on 7th Street. Pic by Stacie Joy) ... Get the Week in Review via email every Sunday. Details.

 • EVG Q&A: Darren Aronofsky on 'Caught Stealing' and revisiting the East Village of 1998 (Thursday, Aug. 28) 

• Police looking for 3 suspects in Sunday afternoon slashing on Astor Place (Tuesday, Aug. 26)

• At the prayer vigil for Most Holy Redeemer (Monday, Aug. 25) 

• East Village musician Jesse Malin’s memoir, 'Almost Grown,' due April 2026 (Friday, Aug. 29) 

• Carlina Rivera officially steps down from her City Council seat (Monday, Aug. 25) 

• Gas service restored at C&B Café on 7th Street (Wednesday, Aug. 27) 

• How to contribute art to a memorial zine for the old East River Park (Wednesday, Aug. 27)

• IDLES pack into Night Club 101 for surprise East Village set (Saturday, Aug. 30)

• Openings: Mayberry Marketplace on 1st Avenue (Friday, Aug. 29) 

• Migrating warbler found dead outside Steiner East Village on 11th Street (Friday, Aug. 29) 

• Farewell to the East Village Rite Aid (Monday, Aug. 25)

• We like Puzzled Panther, one of the bands playing Tompkins Square Park on Sept. 7 (Friday, Aug. 29) 

• Sushi and coffee for the vacant storefronts at 106 Avenue B (Wednesday, Aug. 27) 

And it is jacket weather (photo by Stacie Joy)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a cardboard Tim Gunn on Third Street via EVG reader IzF)... 

• Deliveristas confront new hurdles after 11th Street bike sweep (Wednesday, Aug. 20) 

• Push continues to landmark East Village's historic Most Holy Redeemer (Friday, Aug. 22)

• City Council approves Rivera legislation that creates new 311 category for rooftop activity (Tuesday, Aug. 19) … Carlina Rivera will be stepping down from her City Council seat 4 months early (Monday, Aug. 18) 

• C&B Café trying to make the best of a bad situation after gas shutoff on 7th Street (Thursday, Aug. 21) … C&B Café debuts new menu items as gas service remains off (Saturday, Aug. 23) 

• Pinc Louds fill LPR with joyful abandon and Tompkins Square Park tributes (Thursday, Aug. 21) 

• We talked with the owner of Corner Bistro about what to expect from the East Village outpost (Monday, Aug. 18) 

• 'Caught' celebrating: Why Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz and Darren Aronofsky were at the Double Down Saloon early Sunday morning (Sunday, Aug. 17)

• Godzilla: King of the (aluminum foil) monsters on 4th Street (Tuesday, Aug. 19) 

• HBD Joe Strummer (Thursday, Aug. 21) 

• Old-school BBQ chicken on the menu for Trinity fundraiser this Sunday (Friday, Aug. 22) 

• Openings: A Bay Area-inspired taqueria debuts on Avenue A (Monday, Aug. 18) … Bite & Sip on 1st Street (Tuesday, Aug. 19) 

• Updates on A10 Kitchen, Burgerhead, Kikoo Sushi, Café Skye (Wednesday, Aug. 20) 

• Citi Bike tags, stickers call out NYC 'transplants' (Wednesday, Aug. 20) 

• Signage reveal: Mayberry Marketplace on 1st Avenue (Friday, Aug. 22) … Himawari Café on 1st Ave. (Thursday, Aug. 21) … Conspiracy Café, City Roots Market (Tuesday, Aug. 19) 

• This is why you should not feed the pigeons (Sunday, Aug. 17)

Thanks to the Substack newsletter The New York Edit for including a Q&A with EVG. Find the interview here.

And Waymo was in the news on Friday as the company received its first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City. Robert Minder spotted this Waymo vehicle parked on 11th Street near Second Avenue...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg of an incredible NYC tattoo in Tompkins Square Park)... 

• The entire northern section of East River Park, including the running track, closes on Sept. 8 (Wednesday, Aug. 14) 

• Michael Lydon, a longtime East Village resident, musician, author and rock journalist, died on July 30. He was 82. (Monday, Aug. 11)

• The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park this Aug. 24 (Tuesday, Aug. 12)

• Video: Fight spills onto the tracks at 1st Avenue L stop (Monday, Aug. 11)

• Summer road trips: Genre Is Death and Lydia Lunch at TV Eye (Saturday, Aug. 16)

• A look at the coming-soon Corner Bistro (Monday, Aug. 11)

• A rare look inside the Basilio Scientific School Association on Avenue B (Thursday, Aug. 14)

• This week in Dodging film crews (Monday, Aug. 11)

• Openings: Baos & Bowls on 13th Street (Monday, Aug. 11) … Gelatin Labs on 1st Street (Wednesday, Aug. 13)

• Croc stump tree well gets a refresh on Avenue A (Tuesday, Aug. 12 … Friday, Aug. 15)

• Where gallery meets shop: A look at 'Art Bodega' on 3rd Street (Wednesday, Aug. 13) 

• Owners of C as in Charlie and Kisa ink lease at former Ferns space on 1st Avenue (Wednesday, Aug. 13) 

• This might be the First great deli name we've seen in a while (Wednesday, Aug. 13) 

 ... and we received an explanation about the tagging at the two for-lease storefronts at 106 Avenue B near Seventh Street ...

Per a reader: "This wasn't just tagging, there was a full-ass art gallery show happening the night of Aug 8th with photographs, shirts with art drawn on them, etchings, and zines all on the wall."

H/T CS on B

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an early morning look at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery).

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• Remembering Oswald "Ozzie" Rodriguez Jr. at LaMama (Tuesday, Aug. 5)

• At the opening of Lidl on the Lower East Side (Monday, Aug. 4)

• Report: 1 of the young hawks from Tompkins Square Park has died (Thursday, Aug. 7)

• Historic 9 Bleecker St. has a new owner (Wednesday, Aug. 6) 

• See some free live music this weekend in Tompkins Square Park at the Show Brain Festival (Thursday, Aug. 7) … More portraits of bands playing the Show Brain stage in Tompkins Square Park (Friday, Aug. 8)

• Photos from the Tompkins Square Park riot reunion (here and here)

• Openings: KEBABISHQ on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday, July 6) … The Re:Shop on 12th Street (Wednesday, Aug. 6) … Stashed Goods on Houston (Thursday, Aug. 7)

• A tree grows on 1st Avenue (Thursday, Aug. 7)

• Quitter tosses Christmas tree (Tuesday, Aug. 5)

• Signage alert: Boongs Grab & Go on 3rd Avenue (Monday, Aug. 4) … Godunk on the Bowery (Wednesday, Aug. 6)

• Tonight's fiery sunset (Tuesday, Aug. 5)

• At the National Night Out Against Crime event on 5th Street (Wednesday, Aug. 6)

• La Fleur Café has moved on from 9th Street (Monday, Aug. 4)

 

• Tiki Tiki closes East Village space (Monday, Aug. 4)

And from the EVG inbox, the owners of G's Cheesesteaks, which has an outpost on Avenue B and Houston, are featured competitors on the 18th season of "The Great Food Truck Race," which premiered last Sunday night on The Food Network...

Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images via The Food Network

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of Zee and Kyle at C&B Cafe on 7th Street by Stacie Joy)

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• Mass e-bike seizure sparks tensions and debate on 11th Street (Thursday, July 31)

• Community Board 3 joins call for urgent safety measures at Manhattan Bridge-Canal Street intersection (Monday, July 28) 

• Lucinda Williams opens a honky-tonk bar on Avenue A (Tuesday, July 29) 

• Say cheese: S'MAC celebrates 19 years in business (Tuesday, July 29) 

• Homecomings: La Salle Academy prepares to return to original East Village campus (Monday, July 28) 

• Remembering Jason Goodrow (Monday, July 28) 

• This weekend: the 37th annual Tompkins Square Park riot reunion (Friday, Aug. 1)

• True East Village crime reports (Friday, Aug. 1) 

• Details about the 9th annual East Village Queer Film Festival next month at the wild project (Wednesday, July 30) 

• About the East Village Kirchen pop-ups (Friday, Aug. 1) 

• About the large film shoot now in the East Village (Thursday, July 31) 

• These are the movies screening in Tompkins Square Park this summer (Wednesday, July 30) 

• Signage alert: Spirals bringing the cinnamon rolls to 1st Avenue (Tuesday, July 29) 

• Scenes of a Summer Celebration on 12th Street (Tuesday, July 29) 

• A look at Monday afternoon's rooftop fire on 2nd Street (Wednesday, July 30) 

• Please don't pick the flowers (Wednesday, July 30) 

• About the mini East Village food tour with 2 members of Everton FC (Sunday, July 27) 

• Krave It has not been open lately on 2nd Avenue (Monday, July 28) 

• 6 posts from July (Thursday, July 31) 

...and a reader asked why there was a large truck marked Breast Milk ice cream parked outside 250 E. Houston St. this past week...

As far as we know, this is for the Frida-OddFellows breast milk ice cream collaboration ... with ice cream giveaways this coming week at the OddFellows Dumbo location. (Also, August is National Breastfeeding Month.) Still not sure why the truck is here. Maybe the driver stopped off for breakfast at the Remedy Diner?