Week in Grieview

Posts from this past holiday week included (with a photo of the Most Holy Redeemer bell tower on 3rd Street — see link below for more)...

• Crowdfunding help for the residents displaced by Madison Reality Capital construction on 14th Street (Wednesday) 

• 'Everything must go' as the New Yorkers Foodmarket sets Dec. 31 closing (Thursday) ... A last look at the New Yorkers Foodmarket (Saturday) 

• Hamilton Fish Park Library closing for a 2-plus year renovation (Friday) 

• A super soft opening at Barnyard Cheese Shop, back in biz on B (Tuesday) 

• EV classic B&H Dairy is back open with a new front door and windows (Friday) 

• When it was time to light up the clocks on the bell tower at Most Holy Redeemer (Sunday) 

• A new era for EV mainstay Anna (Friday) 

• Archie's Press is on the move (across 10th Street) (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Instant Noodle Factory on 7th Street (Thursday)

• A look at the new home of 55 Express Tailor Repair on 4th Street (Thursday) 

• Petopia reopens on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Mr. Pizza ready to announce himself on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• Suds Buds is the name of the rebranded Wash 'N Clean Laundromat on 14th Street (Thursday) 

• Stocking up for MulchFest (Monday) 

• Now that it's Dec. 26... (Tuesday)

... and another Clint Mario for you... this is on Fourth Avenue near 10th Street...

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Posts this past week included (with a classic holiday window at Russo's on 11th Street)... 

 

• New Yorkers Foodmarket is closing soon on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Displaced 14th Street tenants seek support after city orders them to vacate their building (Monday) 

• EV Loves NYC looks for support and a partnership with the city to aid in feeding asylum seekers (Tuesday) 

• Home for the holidays: The East Village Community Cookbook is ready for pre-order (Thursday) 

• End of days for High Vibe on 3rd Street; 'I would like to stay open!' (Friday) 

• A new name and expanded space for Downtown Threads on Avenue A (Wednesday)

• Reports: State directs Mount Sinai to stop its closure of Beth Israel (Saturday)

• Instant Noodle Factory ready to punch the ramen clock on 7th Street (Monday) 

• Petopia close to reopening on Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• The former Gaia Italian Café is for rent on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Chick-N-Smash on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• ICYMI: Cacio e Vino has closed on 2nd Ave.; new cafe on the way (Tuesday) 

• Closings: Mi Salsa Kitchen on Houston and Allen (Monday)

• No more love for Cinnamon Girl on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• The new smoke shops of lower Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• EVG turns 16 (Thursday) 

... and on Second Street, a Bad Santa for the holidays...

Week in Grieview

Posts this week included (with a PediCab Santa photo by Derek Berg) ... 

• Up in the under-restoration belltower at Most Holy Redeemer (Thursday) 

• Paulie Gee's Slice Shop in the works for the former Huertas space on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• RIP Phil Klein (Friday) 

• A memorial for Bill Dean (Thursday) 

• Landmarks Preservation Commission approves hotel project that could potentially damage the city's oldest residential landmark (Wednesday) 

• A new CO at the 9th (Monday) 

• Sammy's Roumanian Steak House now looking at a new Lower East Side space for its return (Monday) 

• Local elected officials call out landlords renting to unlicensed cannabis shops (Wednesday) 

• A bad sign at Numero 28 Pizzeria Napoletana (Tuesday)

• On the sales market: 180 1st Ave., home of the dual Michael Jackson murals (Tuesday) 

• Construction watch: 183 Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Calamari with fries at Ray's (Wednesday) 

• Kung Fu Tea closes on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Dates released for Mulchchella 2024, where the headliners are your Christmas trees (Tuesday) 

• A Total by Verizon for Avenue A (Monday) 

... and if you won the door prize, don't worry, it's on its way... (photo by Derek Berg)...

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Posts this past week included (with a sunrise pic from Tompkins Square Park)...

• City officials help facilitate successful meal handout for asylum seekers in the East Village (Monday)

• RIP Ed Burns (Tuesday) 

 • The Joyce Theater Foundation completes the purchase of the former Boys' Club on 10th Street and Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Proposed hotel next to the Merchant's House Museum returns to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (Thursday) 

• Report: Police chase ends with Jeep crashing into 2nd Avenue sidewalk bridge, injuring cyclist (Monday)

• Federico of Pinc Louds is doing a residency on Wednesdays this month at 96 Tears (Tuesday) 

• Happy No. 139 to the Ottendorfer Library branch! (Friday) 

• 360 Bowery is all glassed up (Monday) 

• A 'Centennial' celebration of Saul Leiter (Wednesday)

• About the discounted tix to see Basquiat x Warhol at the Brant Foundation (Thursday) 

• Construction watch: 340 Bowery (Wednesday) 

• A sign of the Sunflower (and brunch) on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• A bad sign at Gaia Italian Café (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: La Vera Pizza on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Filipino restaurant Naks set to open on 1st Avenue via the Unapologetic Foods team (Monday)

 • Another look at the newly reconstructed Tompkins Square Park multipurpose courts (Monday) 

... and speaking of the courts... it's no running track, but these markings arrived in recent days...

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Posts this past week included (with a photo last night on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg)...

• Residents ordered to vacate after excavation next door destabilized this 14th Street building (Friday) 

• More asylum seekers are lining up for help at the former St. Brigid School in the East Village (Wednesday) ... Distro disaster: City rejects warm homemade meals for hungry asylum seekers in the East Village, opts to serve moldy rolls (Saturday)

• Save the date: The Tompkins Square Park tree lighting is Dec. 10 (Monday) 

• Tako's adventure (Sunday) 

• The multipurpose courts at Tompkins Square Park are OPEN (Friday)

• A public meeting about the pending closure of Mount Sinai Beth Israel on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• DOH temporarily closes Lucy's over paperwork snafu (Friday)

• A look at Everythings Fine (fine!) Vintage at the Market Line (Friday) 

• Don Ceviche debuts today on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• Openings: Rakka on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Moving Day (Thursday) 

• Winter Flowers on this November day (Tuesday) 

• Liftonic bringing group weight training classes to this 2nd Avenue condoplex space (Monday) 

• Blank Street is down to 1 East Village location (Tuesday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a pic of St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery from Thursday)...

• Help for the family of Ommatt Cruz, who died Nov. 17 in a construction accident in the East Village (Monday) 

• At the grand opening of El Rinconcito on Avenue C (Monday) 

• RIP Bob Contant (Saturday) 

• Rockwood Music Hall 'getting back to basics,' closing its Stage 2 space (Friday) 

• Watch the video presentation for the 'City of Yes for Economic Opportunity' text amendment (Sunday) 

• Apartment fire temporarily shutters Scarr's Pizza on the Lower East Side (Monday)

• In 2024, Bank of America will be moving on up on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• The 'Snappy' new show at O'Flaherty's (Friday) 

• Openings: Potenza Centrale on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Demolition underway on the fire-damaged Middle Church façade (Monday) ... Steeple watch (Tuesday) ... Brick by brick: Historic steeple removed from the fire-damaged Middle Collegiate Church (Friday) 

• A Thanksgiving Day message to stop throwing eggs on 9th Street (Thursday) 

• Sharaku Japanese Restaurant emerges from plywood frozen in 2020 time (Tuesday) 

• EV trees in the fall (Thursday) 

• Scaffolding and sidewalk bridges coming and going along Avenue A (Friday) 

• Incoming bagel shoppe on a roll with renovations (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Hen House on 1st Avenue (Friday)

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Posts this past week included (with a sunrise-on-Seventh-Street shot from Thursday)... 

• 19-year-old worker killed by father in a construction accident on First Avenue (Friday) 

• Demoliton of the fire-damaged Middle Church façade starts on Monday (Thursday) 

• The unhoused residents living on 9th Street and First Avenue (Friday) 

• Community members speak out against a tactical gear pop-up shop on 9th Street (Monday) 

• Q&A with Colin Simpson, aka reggae artist Ras Redemption (Thursday) 

• CB3 committee to hear presentation on the proposed 'City of Yes for Economic Opportunity' text amendment (Tuesday) 

• Revisiting 305 E. 11th St. and 310 E. 12th St. (Thursday) 

• Five Guys coming to 12th and 2nd (Tuesday) 

• East Village resident pleads guilty to running a 'sophisticated ghost gun factory' (Friday) 

• This East Village lot is now home to this 60-foot-long photograph of a car cemetery in Ukraine (Tuesday) 

• ICYMI: Flaco is backo on the Upper East Side (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Red Onion on 10th Street (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Crêpe Master on 7th Street (Monday)

• Cookie Walk is now side-of-church-signage official (Tuesday) 

• Bench mark: A throwback to 1939 arrives on the Tompkins Square Park multipurpose courts (Monday)

• Ugh, SantaCon is on the way (Tuesday) 

• Everything's gone Green (Wednesday) 

... and for anyone keeping track, it appears the Whole Foods Market® Bowery was first to the market with (live) Christmas trees this year...

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Posts this past week included (with a photo on Union Square by Derek Berg)...

• A primer on Community Board 3's role in the permit process for legal cannabis shops (Tuesday) 

• A new era begins for Downtown Burritos Cocina Mexicana on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• The St. Nicholas Cookie Walk returns for the 1st time since 2019 (Thursday) 

• A look at the fresh asphalt on the under-renovation multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

• Stoned Gourmet Cannabis Pizza's Chris Barrett is opening a slice joint on 4th near B (Wednesday) 

• The return of Rakka! (Monday)

• No more Funzi at Funzi's Pizzeria on St. Mark's Place (Friday) 

• Kotobuki is moving to a new East Village location (Monday) 

• Report: Just 1 bid for the former P.S. 64 during its bankruptcy auction (Friday)

• Flaco continues East Village tour (Saturday) ... From Tompkins Square Park: Christo in Don't You (Forget About Me) (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Gemina Coffee Shop on 14th Street (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Pawffice on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday ... Glizzy's on St. Mark's Place (Monday) ... Matto Espresso on 3rd Avenue (Monday) 

• Hey Bay: Con Ed preps for more transformer work at the Avenue A substation (Friday) 

• A little piece of Paradise on 11th and B (Tuesday)

And here's an updated look at the space ... now with the food offerings on the storefront...

• The great photo uploading glitch of Nov. 9, 2023 (Thursday) 

... and there will be Poland Spring under the Christmas trees this year... as seen at the USA Super Store on Third Avenue and 10th Street...

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Week in Grieview

Photos this past week included (with a Halloween afternoon photo in Tompkins Square Park of Pinc Louds by Stacie Joy) ... 

• Workers prepping to remove the remains of the fire-damaged façade at Middle Collegiate Church (Friday)

• It's time for new clocks on the Most Holy Redeemer bell tower on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• A bench for Dennis Edge in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• Reports: Mount Sinai proposed July 2024 closing date for Beth Israel's 16th Street campus (Monday) 

• East Village cultural landmark Nuyorican Poets Café now closed for a 3-year renovation (Wednesday) 

• A night to 'Remember' at Baker Falls with Suzy Clue (Friday) 

• Downtown Burritos Cocina Mexicana — the former Downtown Bakery — returns to service (Tuesday) 

• 'Death' becomes her?: Rachel Bloom is up next at the Orpheum Theatre on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

• Kotobuki has closed on 3rd Avenue; new East Village location in the works (Thursday) 

• Openings: The Avenue Cafe on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) Kolachi on 1st Avenue (Thursday) Lollo Ristorante Pizzeria & Bar on Avenue B (Friday) 

• All the Kings Horses Café announces year-end closing date (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Instant Noodle Factory on 7th Street (Tuesday) 

• Scooter LaForge's T-shirt extravaganza (Wednesday) 

• East Village photographer's fascination with empty bars at dawn is the subject of a new book (Wednesday) 

 

... and Daniel Root signed copies of his new "Bars at Dawn" book Friday evening at Vazac's/7B/Horseshoe Bar (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a waiting room photo at East Village Smiles on Avenue B by Edmund John Dunn)... 

• City using the former St. Brigid School to help asylum seekers with transportation (Tuesday) 

• Honest Chops Butchery has left 9th Street (Friday) 

• A round-up of the old-school Chinese restaurants in the East Village (Wedensday) 

• Checking in on Superiority Burger 6+ months in; weekend breakfast & lunch and Chrissy's Pizza coming soon (Thursday) 

• A "boutique micro hotel" is in the works for this former Bowery flophouse (Monday)

• Openings: Ayat on Avenue C (Tuesday) 

• Report: LLC pays $44 million for the loan to the former P.S. 64 (Wednesday) 

• You will be able to hone your comedy skills at a former 7-Eleven with the Upright Citizens Brigade (Monday) 

• 1 week in on the reconstruction of the Tompkins Square Park multipurpose courts (Monday) 

• At the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade (Sunday) 

• 14th Street wishes you an early happy holiday season (Saturday) 

• A bust at LA Convenience on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• Montauk's Memory Motel is popping up on 3rd Avenue and 13th Street (Thursday) 

• This East Village building is now Untitled (Monday) 

• A quick look at Manhattan Pawffice, opening next week at 20 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Momofuku Ko is closing in Extra Place (Wednesday) 

... and St. Mark's Place lives thanks to the ongoing events at Village Works at 12 St. Mark's Place... Eden shared this clip from Friday night...

 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included ... (with a photo outside Cabin on 9th by Chris Rowland)... 

• An overhead view of Tompkins Square Park when the lights are off (Wednesday) 

• RIP Maryanne Byington (Tuesday) 

• The milling of the multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park is underway (Tuesday) 

• This nearly block-long parcel on 2nd Avenue is now for sale (Monday) 

• A last look inside Wegmans before its grand opening on Astor Place (Monday) 

• The DOT wants your feedback on the future of East River Park waterfront access (Friday) 

• Capturing Monday's rainbow action (Monday)

• On Union Square, Target debuts ahead of its announced opening day (Thursday) 

• Speaking out against the ongoing sweeps on 9th Street and 1st Avenue (Friday)

• On the CB3-SLA docket: A new home for Han Dynasty on 3rd Avenue; a Sunflower for 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• The Dash Snow tribute has been painted over on the Lower East Side (Thursday) 

• How to tote around the Essex Card Shop with you (Saturday) 

• What's happening at the former Trader Joe's Wine Shop on 14th Street? (Thursday)

• About the Earth School's Fall Fair on Nov. 4 (Thursday)

• Storefront signage alert: Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tart on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on Ninth Street-Stuyvesant Street by Derek Berg) ...

• RIP Richard 'Pete' Peterson (Wednesday) 

• Dedicating Frances Goldin Way (Monday) 

• Skate ramps depart the multipurpose courts in Tompkins ahead of renovations (Thursday) 

• Here's a look at the renovated interior of the long-vacant 6 Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Local band Q&A: A Penny for your punk thoughts (Friday) 

• Openings: Downtown Threads on Avenue A (Tuesday) ... Babs Home and Pantry on Avenue A (Tuesday) ... Hello, Yam! on 9th Street and Avenue A (Wednesday)

• What's going on at Connelly Theater Upstairs, the former home of the Metropolitan Playhouse (Tuesday) 

• Taking a 'Deep Dive' at Baker Falls (Sunday) 

• A cannabis dispensary is the first tenant for this newly created retail space on 7th Street (Monday) 

• Key Food would like you to use a basket or cart (Monday) 

• The Con Ed City Dancers! (Wednesday) 

• The laundromat on 5th and C will remain a laundromat (Thursday) 

• A New signage era for Big Arc Chicken (Wednesday)

• The former Bong World is for rent on 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• The Dolly Llama remains closed for renovations (Thursday) 

• F45 Training next for this 13th Street retail space (Tuesday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from the Loisaida Fall Festival on 3rd Street yesterday by Stacie Joy)...

• Tenants crowdfund to aid East Village super critically injured in high-speed car collision (Tuesday) 

• Why the benches were removed from across the street from the 9th Precinct (Monday) 

• The reconstruction of the multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park begins on Oct. 16 (Saturday) 

• So the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade will take place this year after all (Wednesday) 

• Thinking about Dennis Edge (Thursday) 

• Tenants and businesses are now without gas at 199 E. 3rd St. (Monday) 

• Here are J. Kathleen White's 2023 dioramas at the 9th Street Community Garden & Park (Friday) 

• Here's the next business for the former Grassroots Tavern space on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• The Hard Swallow is now closed (Thursday) 

• Posse officially in Effect now with the Beastie Boys on 14th Street and Avenue A (Thursday) 

• Behold this amazing miniature of Mars Bar (Tuesday) 

• Spellbound! It's the return of Hitchcocktober (Tuesday) 

• A Bank of America is checking into the corner of 2nd Avenue and 7th Street (Wednesday) 

• Retail spaces at the historic 4 St. Mark's Place are now for rent (Monday)

• In case you felt like seeing this exhibit featuring a classic Lower East Side bagel shop (Tuesday)

• Look at 6 Avenue B now! (Wednesday) 

• The Avenue Cafe bringing pastries and coffee to St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• Must be the season of the pop-up Halloween shop on Avenue A (Friday)

• 231 1st Ave. up to its 4th business in the past year (Wednesday) 

• 2 bad signs at Luzzo's on Avenue B (Thursday) 

• House of Munchies debuts on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

...and thank you to everyone for keeping tabs on the tire clamp story... the contraption is now outside the construction office in Tompkins... (photo by Steven)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an Avenue A building view)... 

• The 12th annual Harvest Arts Festival is underway (Thursday) 

• A farewell to Big Lee and the Hard Swallow (Thursday) 

• Cheers to The Whiskey Ward (Tuesday) 

• 2 men arrested for allegedly dealing drugs outside an NYPD block meeting (Friday)

• Police seeking help ID-ing 12 suspects in late-night robbery on Avenue C (Tuesday) 

• Scenes of standing water in Tompkins Square Park (Friday) 

• Lenny Kaye at the Tompkins Square Library branch (Saturday)

• Openings: Spice Brothers on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) ... Bar Miller on 6th Street (Wednesday)

• Trek cycles off the Bowery (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Kolachi at 130 1st Ave. (Monday) ... Conor's Goat on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Buffing out the Basquiat plaque on Great Jones (Wednesday)

• The Wegmans signage has arrived on Astor Place (Tuesday)

• Casa Bond next for 334 Bowery (Monday) 

• The fullest of full reveals at 699 E. 6th St. (Wednesday)

• Construction watch: 180 2nd Ave. (Tuesday) 

• A psychic for this block of 5th Street (Monday)

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Posts this past week included (with a moment during a Pan Arcadia set Thursday afternoon in Tompkins via Derek Berg)... 

• About Cure Thrift's community-driven new space coming to 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Reports: Mount Sinai will phase out Beth Israel on 1st Avenue and 16th Street (Sunday) 

• ICYMI: The former P.S. 64/Charas is headed to a bankruptcy sale (Thursday) 

• A last look at vintage video game retailer 8 Bit and Up (Friday) 

• FTC Skateboarding pops up on Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• Target sets opening-day bullseye on Oct. 22 (Monday)

• East Village restaurant Cho-Ko comes back into view on 1st Avenue (Saturday) 

• Ben's Deli is temporarily closed for renovations (Tuesday) 

• The owners of Unregular Pizza unveil the Unregular Bakery on 4th Avenue (Monday) 

• Happy No. 129 to Veniero’s! (Saturday) 

• Reaching the top at 1 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• That's a wrap! Counting coins to benefit Social Tees at Mary O's (Tuesday) 

• Check out the former Salvation Army Family Store on 4th Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Brix Wine Shop is now open in its new space right next door on Avenue B (Monday) 

• B-Side will not reopen at 204 Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Hello Lollo: Pizzeria signage alert at 27 Avenue B (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Curry Flavor on 6th Street (Wednesday)

• Buka has closed on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• East Village Mini Market debuts on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• On Houston, a bank branch replaces a nail salon, and it feels like 2010 (Monday)

• On 2nd Avenue, Moko temporarily relocates during renovation (Wednesday) 

• Today in grand opening alerts: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on 14th Street (Wednesday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg from outside an NYFW show — Wiederhoeft — at LaMama on Fourth Street) ... 

• The former P.S. 64/Charas is now headed to a bankruptcy sale (Wednesday)

• Here's the first look at the new building slated for 50-64 Third Ave. (Friday) 

• The owner of Max restaurant is returning to Avenue B with a new pizzeria (Thursday)

• Report: Early morning stabbing on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

• Welcoming Beastie Boys Square to the Lower East Side (Monday) 

• At Fucking Awesome with Chloë Sevigny (Wednesday) 

• Kyp Malone's 'Dream Articulations' at Snow Gallery (Saturday)

• Openings: Cantina Cubana on Avenue B (Friday) ... Motel No Tell on Avenue A (Thursday) ... EVC Caffé on 5th Street (Wednesday) 

• Friday night with Crackhead Barney and Friends at Grace Exhibition Space on Avenue C (Thursday)

• Dim Sum Go Go's East Village outpost set for a soft opening (Thursday) 

• Report of a fire at 91 E. 3rd St. (Wednesday)

• Doja Cat's "Scarlet" alter ego spotted in Tompkins (Tuesday)

• Double rainbows on 9/11 (Monday) 

• Signage time for Seasoned Vegan (Monday) 

• The case of the missing East Village Mini Market signage (Thursday) 

• A look inside the incoming Popeyes on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Mr. Kim arrives on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• About Schmuck on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• 5 weeks (or so) until the Wegmans at Astor Place opens (Tuesday) 

... speaking of Wegmans, reps were handing out freebies in Tompkins Square Park yesterday ahead of the grand opening on Oct. 18 (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Posts this past week included (with a photo on Second Avenue by Derek Berg) ... 

• A memorial for Dennis Edge in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• Hold it now, hit it: Beastie Boys Square is finally becoming a reality on the Lower East Side (Thursday) 

• Report of a stabbing Friday night in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday) 

• Vintage video shop 8 Bit and Up is closing in the East Village (Wednesday) 

• Flashback to 2011, when the Big Gay Ice Cream shop opened on 7th Street; and today's current legal battle (Monday) 

• Indian hit masters Unapologetic Foods opening Filipino restaurant Naks on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

• About Tunji Dada's 'Phon(e)y Selections' (Friday) 

• Reader report: This tree could use some help on 4th Street (Thursday) 

• Openings: Cafe La Fe on 1st Street (Wednesday) ... Joey Bats on Avenue B (Thursday)

• Reports of smashed car windows on East Village side streets (Monday) 

• Concerns about some basic playground amenities in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

• Total 'Recall' — new exhibit explores unsettled memories (Friday)

• Storefront shuffle on Avenue A (Wednesday) ... Whim Golf has closed on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• ICYMI: Petopia is temporarily closed on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Raising Cane's is on the clock for opening day (Thursday) 

• Hello to Hello, Yam! on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• The J Crew on the Bowery is back open (Tuesday)

... and Saifee's on First Avenue at Seventh Street is ready for fall even if we're not feeling it just yet (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

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

• Asylum seekers are no longer staying at the former St. Brigid School in the East Village (Monday) 

• The Tompkins Square Library branch reopens; a conversation with Lenny Kaye on deck (Monday) 

• The long-neglected 6 Avenue B is for sale (Thursday) 

• A Fresh new look for CTown on Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• Ayat signage alert on 7th and C (Monday) 

• After 2 bagel shops, Cuban cuisine is next for 238 E. 14th St. (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Salter House on 2nd Street (Thursday) 

• A new Indian restaurant for the former Little India on 6th Street (Friday)

• Someone Barbified Basquiat's former space on Great Jones (Monday)

• Dim sum joint looking closer to being a go (go) on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

• 7 floors of steel for 1 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• The New Up & Up Laundromat has closed on Avenue A (Friday) 

• Plywood report: The Commodore at 14 Avenue C (Thursday) ... El Pulpo at 51 Avenue B (Thursday) 

• About the VIP portable toilet in Tompkins Square Park (Friday) 

• Tompkins Finest Deli & Grill is now the East Village Mini Market (Saturday) 

• Smoke shop comings and goings (Wednesday) 

• Bong World is officially cashed on 14th Street (Saturday)

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