Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a message on Second Avenue) ... 

• After over 50 years, Ludlow Garage on the Lower East Side to close its doors (Thursday) 

• Lower East Side indie mainstay Rockwood Music Hall abruptly closes, musicians say (Monday) 

• When is the 2024 Cookie Walk? (Wednesday) 

• On Monday, the Ukrainian Museum will open with free entry to mark 1,000 days of resilience (Saturday)

 

• The Avenue A 7-Eleven is now closed. The reason why may not surprise you. (Tuesday) ... And then there 0 — the last of the 4 East Village 7-Elevens is closing this week (Wednesday) ... The 7-Eleven on the Bowery has closed (Saturday) 

• Boris & Horton seeks new owner to save East Village cafe despite crowdfunding success (Monday) ... Boris & Horton preparing to close East Village cafe at the end of the month (Tuesday) 

• Knock Out Café bringing coffee, art and yoga to 13th Street (Wednesday) 

• Budget Mart is OPEN on Avenue A (Friday)

• Ben's Deli is really truly ready to reopen SOON (Thursday) 

• Awning alert on the Bowery as Dark Matter Coffee's new cafe comes into view (Monday) 

• Openings: Mary O's Irish Soda Bread Shop (Saturday) 

• A Veteran's Day tribute in StuyTown (Monday) 

• Tipsy Shanghai eyes former Monsieur Vo space on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Coming attractions: Fomo Momo on 1st Ave. (Monday) 

• Licensed cannabis shop The Flowery blooms on 3rd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• On 13th and A, corner markets come and go (Monday) 

• The Union Square Holiday Market returns (gulp) tomorrow (Wednesday) 

 • Opening alert: Joe's Wine Co. on 3rd Avenue (Tuesday) 

... and if you're a Bluesky person, we set up on that platform this past week...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Louise & Danny)...

• Election Night 2024 (Wednesday) 

• Mixed messages about the future of 7-Eleven on Avenue A (Monday) 

• The return of O'Flaherty's, now on Allen Street for the next month with Matthew Barney & Alex Katz (Thursday) ... At the opening of 'The Bitch' at O'Flaherty's (Saturday) 

• On Sunday, a sneak preview of Mary O's Irish Soda Bread Shop ahead of its Nov. 16 grand opening (Friday) 

• A new East Village vintage clothing store opens, and a cat is the curator (Tuesday) 

• Halloween night with Pretty Sick at Bowery Ballroom (Monday) 

• B Cup Café is on the move on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• About the Community Boutique & Café, an inclusive gathering place on 12th Street (Thursday) 

• It's not just you — the whole area smells like smoke. Here's why. (Saturday) 

• More stabilization work at the former P.S. 64/Charas/El Bohio Community Center (Thursday) 

• 325 E. 14th St., sells and farewell to the Crocodile Lounge sidewalk awning (Monday) 

• Owner of 2 Brooklyn restaurants taking over the Lollo space on Avenue B (Thursday)

• Coming attractions: Mrs. Green on 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• Renovations underway at the former Boulton & Watt (Thursday)

• The former Houston Village Farm is for rent (Tuesday) 

• A bad sign at the Sunflower East Village on 2nd Street (Monday) 

• Stuffed closes and the owners promise 'a brand new, never seen before' ice cream concept (Monday)

Also, this past week, workers removed the sidewalk bridge from Third Street and Avenue A (part of the ongoing work at the First Houses).

Also! The Budget Mart on A between Second and Third is expected to open SOON (photo below by Stacie Joy).

Week in Grieview

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

• Where is the $1 million NYPD mobile command unit that Mayor Adams promised for the troubled 14th Street and 1st Avenue corridor? (Monday) 

• Rehabilitation of the former P.S. 64 could take 4 to 6 years, cost over $100 million (Wednesday) 

• Soups on: The East Village Community Cookbook is ready for release next month (Thursday) 

• About 'Empty Beds,' a photo memorial that honors Ukrainian children abducted during the war (Wednesday)

• Bands we like: Genre is Death (Thursday) 

• Hello Mary headlines Bowery Ballroom (Tuesday) 

• Overthrow is closing next week on Bleecker Street; the one-time countercounter HQ is for sale (Wednesday) 

• This November at 3rd & B'zaar (Saturday) 

• D.A. Bragg announces indictment in L train stabbing (Thursday) 

• An East Village Halloween (Friday)

• Signage alert: Vintage Store on Houston (Thursday) 

• NYC's most Halloween-like sunset (Wednesday) 

• Trump sculpture draws attention on 2nd Street (and elsewhere) (Friday) 

• A look at 'That Paradise Place,' an erotic puppet musical about the lives of artists with disabilities (Thursday) 

• Kenny Scharf up next at the Brant Foundation (Tuesday ) 

• 2 recently opened restaurants close for renovations on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

• Coming attractions: Upperz Cafe and Bar on 14th Street (Tuesday) ... BKLYN MACS on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Hubani Restaurant on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) ... Fattoush by Salma on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• The former Sushi Dojo space is for lease on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

This past week, DOT crews painted the new bikes on the recently repaved Second Avenue (to go with the new offset bus lane).

The bike lane appears to be the same size as the previous one... with a few exceptions where it widens in a few spots... to give passing riders more space...

Week in Grieview

Posts this week included (with a fall photo from Sixth Street)... 

• Curtain falls on Connelly Theater: Archdiocese takes center stage in script scrutiny drama (Thursday) 

• Office building on the former site of B Bar & Grill will be home to Chobani House — 'a new model for urban development' (Friday) 

• Canines, crowds, cops and chaos: At the annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade (Monday) 

• Op-Ed: The back of our ballot in NYC (Thursday) 

• Openings: Gizmo on 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• RIP Gary Indiana (Thursday) 

• About Sofaclub, a licensed cannabis shop opening this fall on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• A look at Walter Salas-Humara's 'Guardians and Realms' at 14BC Gallery (Wednesday) 

• And now, your Budget Mart signage on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• Openings: DupBopBro on Houston (Wednesday) 

• A moment in Tompkins Square Park with Robert Leslie (Tuesday) 

• Closings: A-Roll Bar and Grill on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Houston Village Farm hasn't been open lately (Monday) 

• Talking baseball (Friday)

• About a new home for Baker Falls on the Lower East Side (Monday)  

... and there's a rally to save community gardens citywide at City Hall...

 

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Week in Grieview

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

• Live from 1st Avenue: East Village Radio continues to bolster its programming (Monday)

• A rally to landmark the historic New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (Tuesday) 

• After 5-month closure due to fire, a renovated TabeTomo reopens (Monday) 

• At the debut of Boycott Sleep, an artist-led collective aspiring to redefine live music spaces (Friday) 

• Can you spot the new building going up on 14th Street and Avenue C? (Tuesday) 

• The beet goes on: The acclaimed Veselka doc gets a streaming and Blu-ray release date (Friday)

• Celebrating the life of Reagan Youth's Paul 'Cripple' Bakija at Niagara (Friday) 

• Scratch that: The random songs of the 80s and 90s return to Key Food (Wednesday) 

• The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade will go on — or will it? Why no one seems to know. (Tuesday) ... Here's what you need to know about the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade (Friday) 

• Signage alert: L&L Hawaiian Barbeque and Tōka Chef Kitchen on Allen Street (Monday) 

• This week in milling and paving (Thursday) 

• The HEYTEA brand is opening an outpost on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Cuts & Slices on Houston (Thursday) 

• 1 St. Mark's Place gets lit (Friday) 

• Closings: Dora on Avenue B (Wednesday)

• Lollo Ristorante Pizzeria & Bar has not been open lately on Avenue B (Wednesday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an evening view from 2nd Avenue)...

• Checking in on the new East Village home of Gizmo, opening this month (Monday) 

• Baseball bats, fisticuffs and broken windows: A bonkers fight escalates as man drives car onto the sidewalk on 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• East Village building with Ramones history is back on the sales market (Wednesday) 

• Prop or not? Looking at Avenue A during the 'Caught Stealing' shoot (Tuesday) ... Paul's Bar no more for the movies, Double Down Saloon returns to service (Monday) 

• Café Social 68 revamps its space and is ready to debut as Viva! Cafe (Wednesday) 

• Kushner unloads more East Village apartment buildings (Thursday) 

• Taking in the Northern Lights from Avenue B (Thursday) 

• At long last, you can see the NW corner of Avenue B and Houston (Friday) 

• This storefront remains vacant 15 months after Ink on A closed (Thursday) 

• At the reopening of the Sakanaya at Wegmans (Friday) 

• What's next for the former smoke shop next to Ray's Candy Store on Avenue A? (Wednesday) 

• Feeling fenced in at the 9th and B entrance to Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• Dreams of a smooth, freshly paved 2nd Avenue will have to wait several days (Saturday) ... Here's when 2nd Avenue is expected to be repaved this week (Tuesday) 

• Sorry, that's not actually a fishmonger going into the corner space at 5th and B (Thursday) 

• 2 normal and useful businesses opening side by side on 14th Street (Monday) 

• The members-only Flyfish Club debuts at the former site of the Sunshine Cinema (Monday)

... and in Tompkins Square Park this past week, workers removed a long-dead (pear?) tree from near the entrance at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place... (thanks to Steven for both photos)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on Fourth Street by Derek Berg) 

 

• Celebrating the life and work of longtime East Village artist Anton van Dalen (Tuesday) 

• Why Dan Perino has been plastering the East Village with his 'perfect woman' flyers (Wednesday) 

• Caravan of Dreams launches crowdfunding campaign to secure future (Monday) 

• No last rites for the Rite Aid on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• The return of Hitchcocktober at the Village East by Angelika (Wednesday) 

• Cyber Cafe joins Kim's Video and Benny's Burritos in 1990s throwback for 'Caught Stealing' (Tuesday) ... And now, Austin Butler (in character) carrying a bag of laundry (Wednesday)

• Monsieur Vo has closed on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• The silence of the lamb chops: Key Food's sound system takes another break (Saturday)

• Excavator spotted at 1st Avenue site as plans for 7-story residential building await city approval (Monday)

• At the Ukrainian Museum, conversation and connections about borders (Friday)

• Lights, camera, nostalgia: Orchard Street goes back to the 1950s for Timothée Chalamet film (Tuesday) 

• A 'Succulent Sale' to raise funds for Le Petit Versailles Community Garden on 2nd Street (Saturday)

• That's Mr. KEKE Ramen to you on Cooper Square (Monday) 

• Openings: Yawning Cobra, Potbelly, Love Mi (Monday) ... Nosh Up on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Halal Bites Pizza on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Are you Ready for a 24/7 self-service, autonomous golf simulator studio? (Wednesday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a TSP barricade workout pic by Derek Berg) ... 

• Façade exploration underway at former P.S. 64 (Monday) 

• More details emerge about the new Whole Foods Market StuyTown on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Report: Man stabbed in the back exiting the L train at 1st Avenue stop (Saturday) 

• Chicago's Dark Matter Coffee is coming to the Bowery (Monday) 

• Dressing up Avenue A for a 1990s crime thriller (Tuesday) 

• Explore neighborhood community gardens during the 13th annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival (Thursday) 

• Extra taco time: Carnitas Ramírez expands its days of service on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• At the 98th Feast of San Gennaro (Friday) 

• A place in the Sun: An installation series on St. Mark's Place celebrates the daylight (Friday) 

• Coming attractions: Noona's Ice Cream + Bakeshop on 5th Street (Wednesday) 

• Tree down on 12th Street (Friday) 

• A 3-day festival to celebrate Tompkins Square Park and the Tompkins Square Library (Tuesday) 

• The 12th annual MoRUS Film Festival coming to a community garden near you (Wednesday)

• A quick conversation about 'The Chat,' a short film by East Village resident Artie Brennan (Wednesday) 

• On the CB3 docket for September: An outpost of Bushwick pizzeria Ops; longer hours for Penny (Monday) 

• Tacombi is now closed for renovations on 12th Street and 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• The storefront at 60 2nd Ave. (the former Black Ant) is for rent (Thursday) 

• This week's partial lunar eclipse from 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a debate-night scene from Kelly's on Avenue A via Stacie Joy) ...

• 2 men indicted for fatal Tompkins Square Park shooting (Friday) 

• D.A. Bragg announces sentencing of assistant in brutal 2020 Lower East Side murder of tech CEO (Thursday) 

• The 24-floor building rising on 14th and C appears to be one-third of the way home (Monday)

• 50-64 3rd Ave. wrapped for demolition (Monday) 

• A stunning photo of the Tribute in Light (Wednesday) 

• Inside a historic Stuyvesant Street home for sale (Thursday)

• Upright Citizens Brigade NYC reopens this week with new 14th Street venue (Monday) 

• Showing some summer love for Show Brain (Friday) 

• Why yes, the new building at 280 E. Houston St. does look quite enormous (Tuesday) 

• Serving up Pulp art at Abraço (Saturday) 

• This stretch of 2nd Avenue is now sidewalk-bridge free (Tuesday) 

• Coming attractions: The Feast of San Gennaro (Tuesday)

• Construction watch: 156 Rivington St., home of ABC No Rio (Thursday) 

• Soft openings: Sake Bar Asoko on the Lower East Side (Friday) 

• From Jamaican patties to macarons at 440 E. 9th St. (Tuesday) 

• Holy Cow! A burger joint for 14th and B (Tuesday)

• Café Social 68 temporarily closes for renovations on Avenue A, reopening in 2 weeks (Monday) 

• Signage, signage — everywhere signage! (Friday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Steven of Jane Williams and Billy Lyles closing Katinka on 9th Street for the last time on Monday)... 

• A walk across the new Delancey Street pedestrian bridge (Tuesday) 

• Community-focused COZMOS calls it a day on 10th Street (Wednesday)

• A look at the new home of the Boiler Room on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• The multipurpose courts/TF reopen in Tompkins Square Park in living color (Friday)

• King Geronimo and his queen at Ruby/Dakota (Tuesday) 

• About the LES Ecology Center's 'Stewarding Your Neighborhood' art show (Friday) 

• An end-of-summer appreciation (Monday) 

• All the buzz about the mosquito spraying in the East Village (and other parts of Manhattan) (Thursday) 

• No Fork bringing Balkan-inspired sandwiches and pizza to Avenue A (Thursday)

• Café at Atelier Jolie on Great Jones Street seeks beer-wine license (Tuesday) 

• Closings: Kuppi Coffee Company on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) ... A corner-market closure on 3rd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• A coffee window at Café Maud on St. Mark's Place and 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Waiting on a Friend on Avenue A (Thursday) 

... and as the building-size ads turn on the SW corner of 7th Street and Avenue B (bye again for now to Peter Jarema)... photo yesterday by Stacie Joy...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an opossum pic in Tompkins by Clay Roberts)... 

• The Loisaida CommUnity Fridge on 9th and B needs a new home — here's why (Monday) 

• RIP Hettie Jones (Tuesday) 

• A happy retirement to Jane and Billy, closing Katinka after 45 years in the East Village (Wednesday)

• Printed Matter/St. Marks is leaving St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• Gov. Hochul makes a splash with funding for new in-ground swimming pool at Tompkins Square Park (Friday) 

• German supermarket powerhouse Lidl is opening an outpost on the Lower East Side (Monday) 

• The multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park are closed for painting (Monday) ... Painting it black on the TF in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• NYU buys dorm on Cooper Square that everyone already thought was an NYU dorm (Tuesday)

• Renovating 82 2nd Ave. for the arrival of Kebabwala from the Unapologetic Foods team (Tuesday) 

• At a 6th & B Garden Variety performance with Angela Di Carlo and Dirty Martini (Thursday) 

• A look inside Castellano Electric Motors on the Lower East Side (Thursday) 

• A late summer refresh for Bin 141 (Wednesday) 

• A signage setback at Ben's Deli (Wednesday) 

• A lot of hoop-la for this high-tech basketball backboard in Tompkins Square Park (Friday)

• '24 comeback for Elvis on Great Jones (Monday) 

• UWS hotspot Bánh Vietnamese Shop House opening a new restaurant in the East Village (Monday) 

• A quartet of murals for 2nd and A (Wednesday) 

• Summer ends on a positive note as the shopping soundtrack of our lives returns to Key Food (Friday) 

... and a reader shared this photo of some comfy new seats to wait for the M9 on Avenue C...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included... (with a photo of the Moon and Kendall Jenner's elbow above the Bowery)... 

• Remembering Harold Meltzer (Wednesday)

• Prepping Theatre 80 for its next chapter on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• A new East Village home for Gizmo (Thursday) 

• That's all for the East Village Neighbors Community Fridge on 12th Street and 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• The new 24-story residential building on 14th and C begins its ascent (Tuesday) 

• Dedicating Raphael Sadonte Ward Jr. Way on the Lower East Side (Tuesday) 

• Why you'll be shopping at Key Food on Avenue A without hearing a random song from the 1980s (Sunday) 

• A second Rogue vintage clothing shop opens on the Lower East Side (Friday)

• Trash fire engulfs car on 4th Street (Saturday)

• On the CB3 docket this month: a new era for Lucy's, another operator for Lamia's Fish Market (Monday) 

 

• Veselka reopens front counter for dining-in customers (Monday) 

• About the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (Saturday) 

• With help from some friends, The Hard Quartet pays homage to the Stones on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• 9th Precinct issues headphone-theft warning (Monday)

• At the annual Festival Calle 6 (Monday)

• Get well soon, Currant! (Tuesday) 

• Tree down on Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• This week in lines (Friday) 

• A look inside the shuttered Starbucks on Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• FYI: It's NYU's Welcome Weekend (Saturday) 

... and from our ongoing Classic Cars of Avenue C collection...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a tense moment 😾 outside Casey Rubber Stamps on 11th Street)

• The 4-year-old East Village Neighbors Community Fridge will no longer be in service on 12th Street and 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• Report of a DOA in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Former research scientist tells all in solo comedy show at Under St Marks Theater (Thursday) 

• East Village musician Jesse Malin provides an update on his spinal stroke and thanks everyone for their ongoing support (Saturday) 

• 'Make Me Famous' receives an encore presentation at the Village East by Angelika (Tuesday)

• 50 years of the Ramones (Friday) 

• Waiting on the Hard Quartet video on St. Mark's Place and 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• A Bronx Brewery cheer for miniatures artist Danny Cortes on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• 'Street Leather,' the rat zine of your dreams, is now available (Tuesday) 

• Demolition watch: 50-64 Third Ave. (Monday) 

• Despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the local Blink Fitness outposts will remain open (Thursday) 

• A look at the ongoing renovations at First Houses (Wednesday) 

• Reader report: the sloppy Joe from the Slopey Joe truck on 14th Street (Monday) 

• 'The Big Gay Jamboree' announces itself on the classic Orpheum marquee on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)

• Building the ramp to the new Delancey Street pedestrian bridge (Thursday) 

• Tree down on 14th Street (Saturday) 

• Hoarding in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• More unlicensed weed shops shuttered, and one return (Monday)

• First sign of Ishq, a new Indian restaurant on Avenue A (Monday)

• (Pink) Signage alert: Loong Noodles on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• The long-ass line this morning in the East Village for those viral chocolate muffins from the Olympic Village (Saturday) 

... and an X post about viral chocolate muffins goes viral...

There is a bonkers looooong line on 2nd Avenue in the East Village this morning for a pop-up (138 2nd Ave.) featuring the viral chocolate muffins from the Olympics Village in Paris. pic.twitter.com/AOO1xl6DC9

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) August 17, 2024

Sunday has seen us enter the mock Americans phase...

Ce peuple d’idiots. https://t.co/iRN8Ixspff

— Lily P. (@LilyPthx) August 18, 2024

Week In Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a ride-share photo on 9th Street by Derek Berg)... 

• Mayor Adams unveils the 14th Street Community Improvement Coalition for long-problematic East Village corridor (Friday) 

• A visit to Groove Garden, a community music studio on Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• Ruby/Dakota opens on 2nd Street: Gallery is a tribute to family legacy and personal healing (Friday)

• The end and beginning of curbside dining (Monday) 

• Little Poland appreciation post (Thursday) 

• TLK by Tigerlily Kitchen closing as demolition looms on 3rd Avenue (Saturday) 

• 2 members of Team USA are featured in this local band's new music video (Tuesday)

• About the Show Brain Festival 2024 in Tompkins Square Park (Friday) 

• Have you been to the new location of Sammy's Roumanian Steak House? (Thursday) 

• Elisa's Love Bites closes its 9th Street storefront (Wednesday)

• The summer of stolen plaques continues with thefts at New York Marble Cemetery, the former Club 57 (Tuesday) ... The plague of plaque thefts (Thursday) 

• Manhattan's first medicinal marijuana dispensary is now for lease on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Coming attractions: Korean rice bowls for 309 E. Houston St. (Tuesday) 

• Grand openings: G's Cheesesteaks on Avenue B at Houston (Monday)

• 14th Street's twinkling lights tree returns to its roots (Tuesday) 

• Sidewalk bridge removal reveals a business closure on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• The Black Ant has closed on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

... and the National Night Out Against Crime took place this past Tuesday. Here are a few scenes from the annual community-building campaign at the 9th Precinct on Fifth Street (photos by Stacie Joy).

Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with a Friday evening photo from 4th and A)... 

• Details on the arrests for the deadly shooting in Tompkins Square Park on July 12 (Friday) 

• Former St. Emeric property will yield to housing for seniors and formerly homeless individuals (Friday) 

• A few more details on the future of East Village classic bar Lucy's (Thursday) 

• Scoop: After nearly 30 years, Starbucks is closing its Astor Place location (Sunday) ... Farewell to the Astor Place Starbucks, now officially closed (Monday) ... Before (and after) Starbucks on Astor Place (Tuesday) 

• Report: Whole Foods leasing the former Associated space on 14th Street in Stuy Town (Monday) 

• ICYMI: Mount Sinai receives conditional approval from the state to close Beth Israel (Monday) 

• Report: RYCO Capital buys 6 East Village rentals in $103-million deal (Wednesday) 

• Reopening day at International Bar (Thursday) 

• Oh no! O'Flaherty's has departed its gallery-performance space on Avenue A (Friday)

• A broken window at Two Boots (Tuesday) 

• Cuts & Slices bringing its acclaimed oxtail pizza to the Lower East Side (Wednesday) 

• A new restaurant for the former Mighty Quinn's space on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Aoi Kitchen closes on 6th Street; owners announce new concept for the space (Monday) 

• EV restaurant roundup: Four Four South Village, Don Chicken, De La Soul donuts and more (Wednesday) 

• Sammy's Halal reopens on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• The J. Crew-Jack's Coffee combo has opened in NoHo (Monday) 

• Buy Me Flowers pushes up daisies on 7th Street (Thursday)

• These are the opossum days of summer in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

• Curbside advice about discarded couches (and other large items) (Tuesday) 

... and on the heels of recent posts about East Village NYC T-shirts for sale at a Forever 21 in San Diego and a neighborhood named for the East Village in Downington, Pa., ... a reader shares this signage from Barcelona, home to a well-reviewed vintage shop called Loisaida...

Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with a photo from 2nd and B by Stacie Joy)... 

• East Village mainstay Katinka is closing after 45 years on 9th Street (Monday) 

• Scoop: After nearly 30 years, Starbucks is closing its Astor Place location (Sunday) 

• Death of developer sheds light on status of new office building on St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue; 'The project is entirely on spec' (Tuesday) 

• 'Make Me Famous,' a documentary on 1980s-era East Village-based painter Edward Brezinski, finally gets an East Village screening (Wednesday) 

• A world premiere for the documentary on pioneering LES performance artist Arleen Schloss (Tuesday)

• East Village favorite International Bar is reopening (Tuesday) 

• Here's a chance to see vintage East Village band Disturbed Furniture perform live (Saturday) 

• Who wants to live in the East Village (of Downingtown, Pa.)? (Friday) ... Meanwhile, at a Forever 21 in San Diego (Thursday) 

• Openings: Crepe City on Avenue A (Wednesday) ... G's Cheesesteaks on Houston and Avenue B (Monday) 

• Bands we like: Francie Moon (Sunday) 

• Someone wrapped this tree on 14th Street in lights — and no one knows who or why (Tuesday) 

• Amid pending litigation, Memphis Seoul closes its outpost on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) ... Boulton & Watt has closed (Monday) 

• Here's what's coming next to the Orpheum Theatre on 2nd Avenue (Friday) 

• A new taqueria for 221 2nd Ave. (Monday)

• Hottie Lash checks into 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Friday) 

• Indian restaurant up next for 202 Avenue A (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Loong Noodles on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Saperavi on 14th Street (Friday) 

• First sign of Moody Tongue on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

... in our Boulton & Watt post this week, we noted that the brand is opening an outpost in Terminal 4 at JFK... EVG reader Joe noted later that the Brindle Room (11th and C) has a spot in Terminal 7...

Week in Grieview

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Revisiting Curt Hoppe's Downtown Portraits (Thursday)

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

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

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

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

 

• Openings: SourAji on Avenue B (Thursday) 

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

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

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

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

Week in Grieview

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

• RIP Anton van Dalen (Wednesday) 

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

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

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

• Bands we like: Skorts (Friday) 

• Upclose with Gustaf at Berlin (Friday) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 50 Avenue B is now on Housewatch (Friday) 

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

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