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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!

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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

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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?

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an Ozzy tribute photo from Fourth Street by Derek Berg)...

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• Petition seeks to landmark Most Holy Redeemer ahead of possible closure (Tuesday, July 22) 

• Buddies Coffee, forced out of Williamsburg with a rent hike, still on track to open East Village location (Monday, July 21) 

• What's next for the Minca space on 5th Street? (Thursday, July 24) 

• The Rainbow is a new play and community space for kids, complete with a mini Ray's Candy Store (Monday, July 21) 

• Celebrating the life of Jason Goodrow (Saturday, July 27)

• East Village openings: Wait a Second on 11th Street (Thursday, July 24) 

• Checking in on Irving Green (Wednesday, July 23)

• Parks Department prunes drooping elm in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday, July 23) … Post-mortem on the freshly cut-back American elm in Tompkins Square Park (Friday, July 25) 

• When Black Sabbath played in the East Village (Tuesday, July 22)

• ICYMI: East Village Rite Aid sets closing dates (Monday, July 21) 

• An encore presentation for the cumgirl8 clothing and merch sale on 2nd Street (Friday, July 25) 

• Some more decade-spanning looks at 5th Street and Avenue B (Wednesday, July 23) 

• Beer & wine in the works for Danny & Coop's (Thursday, July 24)

• A pharmacy for 6th Street and Avenue C (Tuesday, July 22) 

• From a Food Market to a Swap Shop on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday, July 23)

• Signage alert: Village Bites on Avenue A (Monday, July 21) 

• Love, American 1990s style (Saturday, July 27)

... and keeping tabs on outdoor dining trends along Avenue B (photos by Stacie Joy)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of the Slocum Memorial Fountain in Tompkins Square Park)... Want to receive this weekly recap in your inbox? Sign up here. 

 • Most Holy Redeemer to halt regular masses this fall amid uncertainty about its future (Wednesday, July 16) 

• Complaint filed with NY AG over firing of Sixth Street Community Center executive director (Thursday, July 17) 

• After 20-plus years, Minca on 5th Street will close its doors for good after service tonight (Monday, July 14) ... At the last night of Minca (Wednesday, July 16) 

• Mini thrift empire Other People's Clothes is opening in the former Salvation Army space on 4th Avenue (Monday, July 14) 

• More legal troubles for convicted felon Steve Croman (Tuesday, July 15) 

• The East Village Rite Aid really wants you to know it is closing (Friday, July 18) 

• 11 Avenue A poised to become yet another generic-looking residential building (Monday, July 14) 

• Tuna melts on hold: B&H Dairy on vacation with an Aug. 12 return (Tuesday, July 15) 

• Fish & Sushi ghost signage on 1st Avenue (Thursday, July 17) 

• HBD to the new East Village Radio (Thursday, July 17) 

• Bands we like: Dead Tooth (Friday, July 18)

• A spellbinding scene on Astor Place: At the 13th annual WitchsFest USA (Wednesday, July 16) 

• After sunflower sabotage, 2nd Street residents vow to grow one again (Tuesday, July 14) 

• Signage alert: Salumeria Rosi on Avenue B (Monday, July 14) ... Kalsang Pottery on 10th Street

• The long short history of the Smurfs in the East Village (Friday, July 18 ) 

• Comings and goings on Astor Place: Sweetgreen closes; NYU expands (Tuesday, July 15)

Week in Grieview

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

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• Home cook heads to PBS to share her family's recipes — and her love of the East Village (Wednesday, July 9) ... East Village home cook Anika Chowdhury serves up Episode 1's best dish on PBS's 'The Great American Recipe' (Saturday, July 12)

• Cleanup proposed for contaminated Avenue D site, future home of affordable housing (Tuesday, July 8) 

• DOT proposes Avenue B makeover, looks to residents for guidance (Monday, July 7) 

• FDNY firefighter brings artistic touch to Engine 28, Ladder 11 on 2nd Street (Thursday, July 10) 

• Suburban Speed at Baker Falls (Tuesday, July 8) 

• Andy Boay's new record inspired by and crafted in the East Village (Thursday, July 10) 

• At the big cumgirl8 sale on 2nd Street (Sunday, July 13)

• Farewell to the old East 10th Street pedestrian bridge (Friday, July 11) 

• The Lower East Side Lidl opens on Aug. 1 (Tuesday, July 8) 

• The Art of Unease: ABC No Rio’s 'PEST' continues on at The Clemente (Wednesday, July 9) 

• Signage alert: Kebabishq on 2nd Avenue (Monday, June 8) 

• The killjoy of 2nd Street (Friday, July 11) 

• 'Caught Stealing' catches eyes with new poster (Wednesday, July 9) 

• Openings: Ops on 2nd Avenue (Thursday, July 10) ... Andrea's Pizza on 2nd Avenue (Monday, July 8) 

• 76 Avenue B is for rent (Monday, July 8) 

• Cabin on 9th under new ownership (Wednesday, July 9)

... and now on duty (when not napping) at the smoke shop at 42 Avenue A and Third Street: Rhaenyra, the Dragon Queen Kitty (photo by Stacie Joy)...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of tango lessons Thursday evening in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg). You can also receive this recap via email every week. Sign up here. 

• City shutters reticketing center for asylum seekers at former St. Brigid School on 7th and B (Tuesday, July 1) 

• Construction firm owner pleads guilty to wage theft over emergency repairs at 642 E. 14th St. (Wednesday, July 2) 

• Residents baffled by new CityBench outside their door on 3rd Street (Monday, June 30) 

• Board of Elections makes it official: Harvey Epstein wins City Council District 2 (Tuesday, July 1) 

• The newly opened section of East River Park was closed for the fireworks (Friday, July 4)  

• Longtime employee takes the wheel at the Ludlow Garage Auto Body Repair (Thursday, July 3) 

• Historic honors for East Village institution B&H Dairy (Wednesday, July 2) 

• Pride Weekend parting shots (Sunday, June 29)

• Openings: Monkey Sushi on 1st Avenue (Thursday, July 3) 

• Tetchy in Tompkins (Wednesday, July 2) 

• Trash talk: A can that just can't on 4th Street (Wednesday, July 2) 

• Looking at where the Crocodile Lounge once roamed on 14th Street (Tuesday, July 1) 

• Overthrow Hospitality set to debut Al-Andalus on 5th Street (Wednesday, July 2) 

• 'Manhattan' in 'Materialists' (Friday, July 4) 

• 6 posts from June (Monday, June 30) 

• The all-new 88 E. 2nd St. is rising (Monday, June 30)

• Signage alert: The Oven's Slice on 1st Avenue (Wednesday, July 2) ... 5s on Avenue B (Tuesday, July 1) ... Nishaan on 1st Avenue (Monday, June 30) 

And thanks to everyone who shared photos (and videos!) of the very active juvenile red-tailed hawks in Tompkins Square Park this past week... EVG reader Jennifer Bakry took this photo...

... and from Mark Hado...

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Posts this past week included (with a photo by Stacie Joy of a newish mural titled "Copperhead" on 6th and C by steel wool run161 ren162)...

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• The heat dome is upon us (Monday, June 23) 

• RIP Marcia Resnick (Wednesday, June 25) 

• Pride Weekend 2025 (Friday, June 27) 

• Scenes from Primary Election Night 2025 (Wednesday, June 25) 

• New shop from Scarr’s and L’Industrie alum to bring old-school NYC slices to the East Village (Tuesday, June 24) 

• Activity returns to vacant lot on 3rd Avenue after 6 months (Monday, June 23) 

• Hawkward teen phase: Young red-tailed hawks settle into Tompkins Square Park (Thursday, June 26) 

• Gnocco celebrates 25 years on 10th Street (Thursday, June 26) 

• Wet hot East Village summer (Sunday, June 29)

• The rose murderer of 6th Street (Friday, June 27) 

• Demoliton awaits the longtime sidewalk vendor space on St. Mark’s Place (Friday, June 27)

• Elizabeth Street Garden lives on (Tuesday, June 24) 

• 1st look at the parking-garage-replacing condoplex on 9th Street (Wednesday, June 25) 

• Taqueria Diana has apparently closed on 2nd Avenue (Thursday, June 26) 

• Too hot to handle: Fire truck sinks into this Lower East Side street (Wednesday, June 25) 

• Gametime for the former Superiority Burger space on 9th Street (Wednesday, June 25) 

• Signage alert: Time Out Market on 14th Street (Tuesday, June 24) 

• Openings: Empire Gourmet Deli on Avenue C (Thursday, June 26) ... Maza on 7th Street (Monday, June 23)

• Bad vibrations: Former Babeland space for lease on the Lower East Side (Monday, June 23)

... and on Ninth Street, this outdoor dining spot is for the birds (or squirrels?) ... photo by William Klayer...