Week in Grieview

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

• Ben’s Deli moving on without Ben on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Time passages: Check out the interior of the long-empty Mom's Liquor Store on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Suspect arrested after firing gun on 4th Street between C and D (Thursday) 

• Reconstruction work on the Tompkins Square Park field house starts soon (Monday) 

• Report: Gregg Singer places the former P.S. 64/Charas into bankruptcy protection (Wednesday) ... At the long-vacant former P.S. 64/CHARAS, more "frivolous court actions to tie up the property" (Thursday) 

• Paying tribute to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 (Friday) 

• These East Village tenants, fearing displacement, to rally against their new landlord (Saturday) 

• Experimental Intermedia brings the films of Bradley Eros to Whitebox gallery (Thursday)

• Anthology Film Archives hosting a long-overdue retrospective of East Village artist Abigail Child (Wednesday) 

• McSorley's "bringing all the energy back inside" (Monday) 

• Corteiz x Nike Air Max 95 collab drop draws crowds, NYPD on 4th and C (Tuesday)

• The $1 cheese slice at 2 Bros. on St. Mark's Place is now $1.50 (Monday) ... A cheese slice is 99 cents again at 99 Cent Pizza on 14th Street (Thursday) 

• Highlighting "Free The Nipple Day" on Avenue A (Thursday)

 ... and a moment on Third Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo — "make your best offer" — from 14th Street by Daniel Efram) ... 

• A new home and name for Café Cortadito (Monday)

• 3rd & B'zaar's new market will feature the work of women-owned businesses (Wednesday) 

• May the farce be with you: 'The Empire Strips Back' is next up at the Orpheum Theatre (Thursday) 

• A new era for the old Bad Pussies wall on 3rd Street and Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Fire jumping returns (Saturday) 

• Revisiting a transformative Sunday on Avenue A (Friday) 

• What's happening on this block of 5th Street? (Tuesday)

• CM Rivera addresses 'operations improvements' for Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Openings: The York on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Corner spaces for lease along Houston at Elizabeth and the Bowery (Tuesday)

• Report: The Astor Place cube will be ready for a spin once more this summer (Friday) 

• Corner development battle: 360 Bowery takes commanding lead over 1 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Ghost signage on 7th Street (Wednesday) 

• On the rental market: 118 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• March madness! Key Food continues to up its St. Patrick's Day game (Monday) 

• First sign of Raising Cane's on Astor Place (Thursday) 

• Gelato 1st and 10th (Monday) 

• Report: Angel's Share has a new home (and what of its old home?) (Monday) 

... and on First Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street, the short-lived Healthily Deli is now going as Top1 Convenience (thanks to Steven for the photo)...

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Week in Grieview

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

• RIP Tim Lomas (Tuesday) 

• The owner of A&C Kitchen on Avenue C would like to reopen his business now (Friday) 

• A rally at City Hall for the former Charas/El Bohio Community Center (Thursday) 

• About Radhika & Saman, a pop-up shop featuring handmade clothing from India and Pakistan (Wednesday) 

• News flush: The Tompkins Square Park restrooms, open once more (Thursday)

• Get ready to say so long to the Stomp sign (Wednesday) 

• City and state officials continue cracking down on illegal smoke shops (Monday) 

• For sale: 171 1st Ave., home of Momofuku and the only cast-iron building in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• A corner lot awaits new development on 5th Street and Avenue D (Wednesday) 

• Avant Garden is on the move (Monday) 

• CJ Tattoo relocates from St. Mark's Place to Avenue C (Monday) 

• Openings: Burgers on B (Thursday) ... Döner Haus on 14th Street (Wednesday) 

• Stump town no more in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• Oh my: Oh K-Dog & Egg Toast the latest concept to close at 36 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Renovations underway at the former Dallas BBQ (Thursday) 

• The historic 137 2nd Ave. — the former Stuyvesant Polyclinic — is now for sale (Monday) 

• First sign of the new Ichibantei outpost on 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Shinn East expands on 7th Street (Friday)

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Week in Grieview

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

• D.A. announces indictment in assault outside Ray's Candy Store (Thursday) 

• Report of a fire at 136 Avenue C (Monday) ... After the fire at 136 Avenue C; A&C Kitchen damaged (Wednesday) 

• Anyway Cafe is closing; staff hopes to open new establishment (Monday) ... At the last night of Anyway Cafe (Wednesday)

• Seasoned Vegan coming to the East Village (Thursday) 

• On 1st Avenue, New Double Dragon is closing and maybe reopening (Tuesday) ... Serenity Spa remains open on corner rumored for new development (Wednesday) 

• A community art project honors the resilience of Ukrainians; it will be on display at Veselka (Thursday) 

• The return of B-Side (Friday) 

• Potty on! Restrooms randomly back open in Tompkins Square Park after a 4-month closure (Sunday) 

• Closing the book for now at Short Stories on the Bowery (Wednesday) 

• Night market concept looks to be the life of the Partea on 14th Street (Thursday) 

• Virginia's eyes a March debut in new 3rd Street home (Tuesday) 

• Hello Dolly: Incoming dessert shop on 1st Avenue has a memorable name (Tuesday) 

• A notice to remove the sidewalk dining room at the now-closed Bait & Hook (Monday) 

• A look at 'Vital Impetus' at Azure Arts (Friday) 

• From Brix to Brick on Clinton (Monday) 

• Smoke shop! (Monday) 

... and is Saquon Barkley of the NY Giants enjoying his off-season in the neighborhood? As seen in a dry cleaners on Avenue A... 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo Tuesday on Astor Place by Derek Berg)... 

• Hold it now: No porta potties for Tompkins Square Park during the 18-month field-house renovation (Tuesday ... Saturday) 

• Let's dance: The Joyce Theater is the new tenant for the former Boys' Club on 10th and A (Thursday) 

• Site cleanup needed before development can begin on this long-empty corner on 14th and C (Monday) 

• A Visit to the East Village NYC Book Club (Thursday) 

• An appearance on GMA leads to an attack at Unregular Pizza on 4th Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Opening night at O'Flaherty's (Friday) 

• 444 E. 13th St. is on the auction block (Wednesday) 

• Coming attractions: 'Make Me Famous' (Friday) 

• A Commodities post-mortem (Sunday) 

• East Village Buyers moving from 3rd Street to Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• Ashes to go this Ash Wednesday (Wednesday) 

• Fat Tuesday! (Tuesday) 

• Renovations at Prune (Tuesday)

• More details about Balkan StrEAT, opening this spring on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Jewelry brand opening an outpost on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Downtown Bakery is closed for now (Friday) 

• Decision 2023: What screening of 'Cocaine Bear' are you attending? (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Gotham Burger Social Club on Essex Street (Thursday)

• Incoming 99-cent pizza shop now with 99-cent pizza signage (Tuesday) 

• Smoke shop (Thursday)

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Week in Grieview

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

• RIP Travis 'Grim' Durkin (Tuesday) 

• On 2nd Avenue, historic Isaac T. Hopper House hits the market for the first time in 149 years (Monday) 

• Immaculate Conception School is closing (Friday) 

• The archives of The East Village Eye now at the New York Public Library (Tuesday)

• The squash court at Hamilton Fish Park has been demolished (Tuesday) 

• East River Greenway now closed along the Con Ed power plant (Thursday) 

• Building out O'Flaherty's (Wednesday) 

• A petition and more cinder blocks for the former P.S. 64/Charas/El Bohio Community Center (Thursday) 

• Just 17 floors to go at the all-new 360 Bowery (Wednesday) 

• A new song and video from Hello Mary! (Friday) 

• Asbestos abatement for the long-abandoned 6 Avenue B (Friday) 

• Openings: Union Square Travel Agency: A Cannabis Store (Monday)

• A 2nd Avenue sidewalk now and then (Monday)

• A for-rent sign arrives at the former Café Cortadito as the curbside dining structure exits (Friday) 

• The renovations happening inside the all-new Bleecker Street Bar on Broadway (Thursday)

• Report: A roadblock for the relocation of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and sale of its land (Thursday) 

• The bus stopped here ... after striking the sidewalk bridge on 10th and C (Friday) 

• Village Happy House Convenience coming to 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Bagel Market on 14th Street (Saturday) 

• Baya Bar bringing the açai bowls to Union Square (Monday) 

• The vacant storefront on this corner of 10th and 1st will be... (Wednesday) 

 ... and just a friendly/helpful reminder if you own a car...

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Week In Grieview

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

• A timeline of events after the assault outside Ray's Candy Store (Tuesday) ... Cake and soup at Ray's Candy Store (Thursday)

• An appeal to help a longtime East Village resident (Wednesday) 

• City's fight against unlicensed cannabis shops now targets landlords; 4 East Village shops busted (Thursday)  

• Work on the multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park expected to start in September (Wednesday)

• Reconstruction of the Tompkins Square Park field house expected to start next month (Tuesday)

• La Mama officially unveils its refurbished new home (Thursday) 

• The former Commodities space is now for rent on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• Sunny's Florist returns after winter break (Tuesday) 

• 6 Avenue B, long-abandoned, has a new owner (Friday) 

• About the 3rd & B'zaar Valentine's Market this weekend (Friday) 

• Owner of the fire-damaged Gjelina seeking jobs for its staff (Monday) 

• A leaning bench for Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• A Korean-style pizzeria for 1st Avenue (Thursday)

• Offside Tavern shapes up on Avenue A and 6th Street (Friday)

• Retail options on the Bowery (Monday) 

... and making room for Valentine's Day (or the Super Bowl?) yesterday on Third Avenue and 12th Street... photo by Jefferson Siegel...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery from 2nd Avenue) ...

 • First on EVG: Early morning assault outside Ray's Candy Store leaves Ray with a black eye and facial wounds (Thursday) ... An update on Ray (Friday) ... Suspect who allegedly assaulted Ray has been arrested (Saturday) 

• Report: The former Charas/P.S. 64 is headed to auction this March (Tuesday) 

• Fire shutters the recently opened Gjelina on Bond Street (Tuesday) 

• Det. Jamie Hernandez honored after 34 years with the 9th Precinct (Thursday) 

• A youthful exchange of ideas with Dr. Cornel West at Performance Space New York (Monday) 

• Signage alert: O'Flaherty's on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Why this East Village writer is on an apology tour (Friday) 

• Packing up Café Cortadito (Wednesday) 

• 280 E. Houston St. prepped for new building construction (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Bobby’s Night Out on Avenue C (Wednesday) ... Gen Korean BBQ House on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Essex Squeeze has closed its 5th Street outpost (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Saint Pizza on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• The return of 99-cent pizza?! (Monday) 

• What's going on with Pop's Eat-Rite on St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• City removes curbside dining structure from outside AO Bowl on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a good-boy photo by Derek Berg) ...

 • Indictment announced against suspect who allegedly murdered James Cunningham on Avenue A last month (Friday) 

• RIP Tom Verlaine (Saturday) 

• La Mama to celebrate the reopening of its renovated home at 74A E. 4th St. (Tuesday) 

• Rent hike forcing Café Cortadito to close on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• The former Charas/P.S. 64 is nearly all sealed up as it awaits its fate (Thursday)

• Bluestockings reopens after a 2-week closure for sidewalk repairs (Tuesday) 

• Crossroads Trading opens on 2nd Avenue (Friday)

• About the 'Kim's Video' doc, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival (Wednesday) 

• At the opening of New York's second legal weed dispensary (Tuesday)

• Will it ever snow again? (Wednesday) 

• Check out these 'Creatures of the Night' at Theater for the New City (Tuesday) 

• Papered windows at 101 Avenue A, the incoming home of cafe-bar-music venue Baker Falls (Thursday) 

• Reader report: Toasted Deli has not been open lately (Thursday) 

• Openings: the Office of Mr. Moto on St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• A look at the currently closed Mermaid Inn on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• The Marshal has seized KC Gourmet Empanadas on Avenue B (Friday)

• The 21-story building that replaced B Bar & Grill begins its ascent on the Bowery (Monday) ...and since our Monday post about that new building for the Bowery and Fourth Street, the site had bulked up...

...with an added message on the plywood — "Land Back!!!" ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with a shot of the neon goodness at Block Drug Store on Second Avenue and Sixth Street)... 

• Report: The Regal Union Square multiplex to close after bankruptcy filing (Thursday) 

• Sealing up the former Charas/P.S. 64 on 9th Street (Wednesday) 

• There won't be a last-minute reprieve for Commodities (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Caleta and Bad Habit on Avenue A (Friday) 

• Let's go to the Stuyvesant Casino! (Monday) 

• Report: Incoming legal cannabis dispensary drawing opposition on 3rd Street (Tueaday) 

• Döner Haus bringing 'real German kebabs' to 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• Current Coffee debuts in The Bowery Market (Thursday) 

• Superiority Burger, now with coming-soon signage on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• On the January CB3-SLA docket: fresh bread, vinyl records and the members-only FlyFish Club (Tuesday) 

• That's all for Tony's Famous Pizza on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Greenwich Marketplace closes on 4th Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Sushi Fan on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Report: Junoon owner bringing a new Indian restaurant to the former Momofuku Ssäm Bar (Friday)

• Bait & Hook has not been open lately (Wednesday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included ... (with a photo celebrating Orthodox New Year on Seventh Street yesterday by Derek Berg) ... 

• RIP Alicia Torres (Thursday) 

• The remaining structure of the fire-damaged Middle Collegiate Church will be demolished (Friday) 

• After 29 years playing in the East Village, I finally decided to see 'Stomp' before it closed (Monday) ... Clearing out 'Stomp' (Tuesday) 

• Openings: From Lucie on 10th Street (Friday) 

• The landlord has taken legal possession of Commodities on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• The area behind the fieldhouse in Tompkins Square Park is now open for 5 hours a day (Wednesday) 

• A look back at the devastating fire that destroyed Essex Card Shop 1 year ago today (Tuesday) 

• New season of 'Feud' brings a 1970s Times Square vibe to the East Village (Thursday) ... In the 'Feud' of the night (Sunday) 

• 5C Cultural Center reopens with coffee service from the Roost (Thursday) 

• A look inside the under-renovation Poetica Coffee on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• A gut renovation at 12th and C, and the loss of the Gil Scott-Heron tribute mural (Wednesday) 

• Coffee shop slated for this retail space in NYU's Third North dorm (Tuesday) 

• 75 1st Ave. — once again without a sidewalk bridge (Saturday) 

• 2023 preview: Panda Express (Monday) 

• Foul Witch is the new restaurant from the Roberta's team on Avenue A (Thursday) 

... and do you remember Goggla's photo from the other day showing the piano tucked among some discarded Christmas trees in Tompkins Square Park? (View at this link.) Here's how that story ended — in the back of a garbage truck ... photo by Derek Berg ... (and we don't know what condition the piano was in before it was tossed)...

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Week in Grieview

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

 • 4 East Village development sites to watch in 2023 (Wednesday) 

• NYPD looking for 3 suspects in New Year's Eve stabbing on Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• Parting thoughts on being a small-business owner as Love Thy Beast departs the East Village (Thursday)

• The last days of Timbuktu (Friday) 

• A happy birthday mural for Ray on Avenue A (Monday) 

• A celebration of Three Kings Day (Saturday)

• The future of the unlicensed weed vendors (Tuesday)

• Hearth is starting its 20th anniversary year with a renovation (Wednesday) 

• Preview 2023: Target Union Square (Thursday) 

• Health scare: IG-Fit closes on 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• Bagel Market replacing Bagel Boss on 14th Street (Friday) 

• From Mikey's to Smileys on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• A report of a small fire at Dua Kafe on 14th Street (Friday) 

• What's happening at the ConEd substation? (Friday) 

• On Astor Place, a yearn to spin again (Monday) 

• Spring cleaning this winter at B-Side (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Ankara #3 (Wednesday) 

• Belse has closed on the Bowery (Thursday) ... Blue & Cream has left the Bowery for Bleecker Street (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Wild Rabbit Coffee on 7th Street (Thursday) 

• The 13th Step is now going as Downtown Social (Wednesday) 

... and a parting shot of Chesney after the Gifts of the Magi" performance Friday at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (photo by Derek Berg)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a storefront photo from Ink on A)...

• Police arrest suspect connected to the Dec. 19 murder on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Gregg Singer's reign as owner of the former of P.S. 64 is said to be over (Thursday)

• Remembering longtime East Village resident Dr. Kamala Joie Mottl (Friday) 

• O'Flaherty's opening an art gallery at the former UCBeast space on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• Long-vacant 8th Street building where worker died is being offered as a development site (Tuesday) 

• That's all for East Village mainstay Dallas BBQ (Wednesday)

• The city's first legal, regulated adult-use cannabis shop opens on Astor Place (Wednesday ... Thursday) 

• Yo La Tengo celebrates Sun Ra Arkestra at its annual Hanukkah show finale (Tuesday) 

• Pure Wine debuts on 10th Street (Friday) 

• Icicle works: Frozen pipes cause damage to several East Village businesses (Tuesday) 

• 133 Avenue D, co-owned by A-Rod, is on the sales market (Thursday) 

• Sunny's Florist will be closed all of January (Friday) 

• HAGS is reopening on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• MulchFest begins (Monday)

• Signage alert: Red Onion on 10th Street (Friday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from the Theater for the New City yesterday by Lola Sáenz) 

• Man found dead with a slash wound to his neck on Avenue A (Monday) ... NYPD release wanted poster in connection with Avenue A homicide (Thursday) 

• Moroccan specialty shop Timbuktu being forced out after 20 years on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Hamilton Fish Park Library reopens for limited service starting (Monday) 

• A Punk Magazine-Iggy Pop holiday 'Loser' extravaganza at Metropolis (Thursday) 

• Storefront renovations and reveals on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• When Santa Claus came to the Lower East Side — with an assist from the FDNY (Thursday) 

• Season's Supermarket Greetings (Friday) 

• No new trees for these 2 East Village spots (Thursday) • Dunkin' debuts on East Houston (Thursday) 

• An EVG 15-year anniversary (Wednesday) 

• The East Village Sauce outpost shutters for now on 12th Street (Monday)

• Jell & Chill peacing out on 7th Street (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Caleta on Avenue A, with a Jan. 7 debut (Tuesday)

• FULL reveal at 14 2nd Ave. (Monday) 

... and a scene from the New York School of Burlesque student showcase last weekend at Drom on Avenue A (photo by Stacie Joy)  ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a reader-submitted photo from the Ninth Street Community Garden & Park) ...

• Here's the new, larger residential building planned for 280 E. Houston St. (Monday) 

• The 'Daze' of our lives: Adam Zhu's new photo book chronicles today's downtown youth culture (Wednesday) 

• Renovations underway at the former Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Tuesday) 

• At the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting (Monday) ... Seeing the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree in a whole new light (Saturday) 

• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Harvey L. Silver's 'Changin' Times' (Friday) 

• Bad Brains on the Bowery with Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman (Thursday) 

• The New Museum is collecting coats for the Bowery Mission (Tuesday) 

• Cautionary tales: A song inspired by an East Village move (Friday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: The Commodore aims for Avenue C; an all-day Italian cafe for 12th Street (Monday) 

• The Zero Irving food hall is now OPEN (Thursday) 

• Memphis Seoul announces itself on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Before Dallas BBQ (Tuesday ... Wednesday ... Thursday) 

• Crab Du Jour sleeps with the fishes on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Gen Korean BBQ House drops the plywood for a full reveal on 14th Street and 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Pizza for the former Subway (sandwich shop) on Avenue B (Thursday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a random skyline shot from the EV)...

• Dec. 31 is the last day for East Village mainstay Dallas BBQ (Monday) 

• DA-hosted East Village gun buyback nets 16 firearms (Tuesday) 

• Part-time New School faculty reach a tentative contract agreement with the university (Sunday) 

• Howl! Happening explores the history of street art and graffiti with 'City of Kings' (Wednesday) 

• Bang a gone: Stomp's long run on 2nd Avenue concludes in January (Wednesday) 

• It's 'Time for Christmas' with the book man of Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• Bye Bye Blondie; hello Bad Brains? (Sunday) 

• Kim's Video, storied film and music retailer in the East Village, gets the documentary treatment (Thursday) 

• Checkpoint Santa (Saturday) 

• Jay Joe's Classic Cuts now open on 3rd Street (Thursday) 

• 1st Avenue old-timer Royal Bangladesh Indian Restaurant is being replaced by — obviously — a smoke shop (Monday) 

• First Avenue Laundry Center is closed for now (Monday) 

• A walk among the trees on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street (Friday) 

• Hello again: Sidewalk on the NW corner of 2nd Avenue and 9th Street returns to view (Monday) 

• A Panera To-Go is opening on University Place (Tuesday) 

• The city serves notice to more abandoned East Village curbside dining structures (Tuesday) ... Workers remove Somtum Der's curbside dining structure (Saturday) 

• Sacco has apparently gone out of business on 11th Street (Tuesday)

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Week in Grieview

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

• Brooke Smith revisits the neighborhood's 1980s hardcore scene with 'Sunday Matinee' (Tuesday) 

• Employee from Ray's Pizza & Bagel Cafe killed after an early morning hit and run on Third Avenue (Sunday) 

• Part-time faculty at the New School reject university's latest contract offer (Friday) 

• Lower East Side mainstay El Sombrero has closed (Wedensday) 

• 'Tis the season for the 3rd & B'zaar Holiday Market (Thursday) 

• Why the area behind the fieldhouse in Tompkins Square Park has been locked (Monday) ... The area behind the Tompkins Square Park fieldhouse is back open to the public (Friday) 

• Waffles & Dinges and Bobwhite Counter among the vendors at the incoming Zero Irving food hall (Wednesday) 

• Baker Falls will bring together a cafe, bar and the Knitting Factory at the former Pyramid Club on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Construction watch: 699 E. 6th St. (Thursday) 

• On the topic of long-vacant lots (Thursday) 

• A new Aura for 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

• About the ongoing removal of the former Kindred curbside dining structure (Monday) 

• The new recreation space at Pier 42 gets its official welcome (Friday) 

• Today in tight, dangerous turns (Monday) 

• Tree down on 3rd Street (Wednesday) 

• Holy smokes! 2 more unlicensed weed shops pop up in the East Village (Friday)

... and as seen at the entrance to Anna Delvey's East Village building (the location is not a secret — it has been featured in multiple interviews) ... photo by Steven...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on 1st Avenue by Grant Shaffer) ... 

• A visit with Moxie, a nearly 8-year-old East Village photographer with an eye for nature (Wednesday)

• A visit to Azaleas, celebrating 20 years in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• EV Loves NYC preparing for its 3rd annual Thanksgiving event for New Yorkers in need (Friday)

• The tree lighting ceremony in Tompkins Square Park takes place on Dec. 11 (Monday) 

• This morning's community meeting in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) ... Why is this area of Tompkins Square Park now closed to the public? (Thursday) 

• About 'Bomb Pop 2,' an 'ongoing conversation' at Bullet Space (Friday) 

• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Sneha S. on 'Portraits of the Revolution' (Saturday) 

• Bowery building once owned by Andy Warhol is up for auction (Tuesday) 

• City removes curbside dining structure at Amor Y Amargo on 6th and A (Saturday) 

• While we're waiting for the full reveal at 14 2nd Ave. (Monday) 

• Let there be sidewalk here on Avenue C! (Wednesday) 

• Gratin, a new gallery, debuts on 5th Street and Avenue B (Thursday) 

• That's all for the short-lived Luna Cafe Lounge on 2nd Avenue (Thursday)

• The Union Square Holiday Market is now open on Union Square this holiday season (Friday) 

• Heathily Deli has not been open lately (Monday) 

• Noted, good-God-not-another-one edition (Wednesday) ... Hey, what might be opening in this empty 1st Avenue storefront? (Monday) 

... and an attempt at humor for fans of the Citizen app...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a Midtown view the other day) ... 

• Report: Police arrest suspect in the murder of Jaden Stokes at Campos Plaza (Monday) 

• Basquiat's former loft space on Great Jones is available for lease (Monday) 

• A GoFundMe campaign launched ahead of Ray's 90th birthday at Ray's Candy Store (Wednesday) 

• Olde Good Things is closing its Bowery outpost (Tuesday) 

• A march to 'give us back our community center' (Thursday)

• Wegmans watch on Astor Place (Monday) 

• Sidewalk bridge removal on 3rd Avenue and 9th Street reveals some EV archaeological history (Tuesday)

• Motorino closed for renovations; return set for Nov. 18 (Monday)

• Pinky's Space is closed for now 2 weeks after the city removes its curbside structure on 1st Street (Wednesday) 

• Down & Out NYC looking closer to opening on 6th Street (Thursday)

• Compilation Coffee has closed for now on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

• Reader report: No motor vehicles in the bike lane (Friday)

• Openings: Wild Mirrors on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Eros remains closed on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Bagels for Broadway (Thursday)

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