Week in Grieview

Photos this past week included ... with a porta-potty update from Tompkins Square Park via Steven (the chains are now there overnight)... 

• Remembering Frank Stella (Wednesday) 

• Paying tribute to legendary photographer Saul Leiter on 10th Street (Monday) 

• New applicants for Lucy's withdraw for this month (Tuesday) 

• Bella McFadden's iGirl storefront opens Saturday on 3rd Street (Friday) 

• A look at Christo and Amelia's 2024 offspring in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

• Family sells eight East Village buildings for $38 million after decades of ownership (Thursday) 

• A moment on Eighth Street in 1983 (Wednesday) 

• Lui & Lui takes center stage at the next incarnation of 3rd & B'zaar (Wednesday) 

• Fabano Florals returns to Avenue B, this time as a full-time shop (Tuesday) 

• Reader report: Why were our new trees canceled? (Tuesday) 

• An East Village tribute to Flaco (Tuesday)

• 'Stayin' True' with Toofly at CLLCTV NYC (Saturday)

• Joe's Wine Co. (NOT Trader Joe's) coming to 3rd Avenue (Monday) 

• On 3rd Avenue, Cutlets and the world's narrowest weed shop have closed (Tuesday) 

• A look inside the former Dallas BBQ on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

• What's next for the Roost space on Avenue B (Monday) 

• Closings: Viva Cucina on 2nd Avenue; Da Radda on 7th Street (Thursday) 

• GrowNYC's Greenmarket returns to Stuy Town on Sundays (Saturday) 

... and a moment with some of the cast and crew of C&B Cafe on Seventh Street... (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (plus the crowd watching the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street — photo by Steven)...

• When a Dodge Charger drove down the sidewalk on 2nd Street during a high-speed chase (Saturday) 

• D.A. Bragg: Landlord indicted for harassing rent-regulated tenants, including in the East Village (Thursday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: New operators for East Village classic Lucy's on Avenue A (Monday) 

• How to take part in Lower East Side History Month activities this May (Friday) 

• The Ukrainian Museum revisits the early work of East Village-based photographer Peter Hujar (Wednesday) 

• On Avenue B, a there-goes-the-neighborhood building sells for $43 million (Wednesday)

• EVG Etc.: NYPD arrests 56 in clearing NYU and New School protest encampments; Knickerbocker Village sells for $85 million (Friday) 

• What happened to the famous East Village (replacement) pear tree on 3rd Avenue? (Thursday) 

• An extension for 'Houses and Hotels' at O'Flaherty's on Avenue A (Wednesday)

• Iconic East Village gay bar Boiler Room has closed ahead of move to a new location on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• A Link5G tower for Avenue C (Monday) 

• The fellow "looking for a girlfriend" is now "looking for the perfect woman" (Thursday)

• Spin-offs: Throwback Two debuts on 9th Street (Saturday) 

• The Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks returning to the Hudson River for some reason (Thursday)

• Friday at 5: The great new track by Pretty Sick (Friday) 

• Watch a large raccoon climb down a tree on 10th Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Hidden Grounds Chai & Coffee House on 3rd Avenue (Monday) 

• Coming attractions: The Oasis Cafe on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Tea Dealers & Ceramics is leaving Avenue B (Friday) 

• A Luscious new market option on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Kōbo by Nai has not been open lately (Wednesday) 

• Today in thieving squirrels in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) ... Today in makeshift fire pits by the Hare Krishna tree in Tompkins Square Park (Monday) 

... and we had several readers spot a (presumably) pet parakeet in Tompkins Square Park... in case of an escape from your home...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included... (with the word from 10th and A)... 

• At NYU, 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' leads to arrests of over 150 people (Tuesday)

• Police searching for suspect in unprovoked daytime stabbing on 7th Street on April 9 (Monday) 

• The untold story of Snack Dragon's attempted East Village comeback (Tuesday) 

• An early-morning fire at 131 Avenue A (Wednesday) ... assessing the fire damage (Wednesday) 

• Violet times: An Earth Day look at the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street (Monday) 

• From the Poetry Window at East Village Books (Saturday) 

• Dan & John's has closed its original East Village location after 9 years (Tuesday) 

• The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park this Aug. 25 (Wednesday) 

• Celebrating the birth of the Pyramid Club at Howl! Arts (Thursday) 

• A benefit concert for East Village musician Jesse Malin (Wednesday)

• About Stylus, a private members-only club coming to the Lower East Side (Friday) 

• Workers removed a dead elm from Tompkins (Thursday) ... and the city has been planting new trees in the neighborhood (Friday) 

• Closing notices: J-Spec Wagyu Dining and Esora Omakase on 5th Street (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Pizza Pazzo on 1st Street (Monday)

• A retail reset at 20 St. Mark's Place (Monday)

• So long to the longtime sidewalk bridge on 12th Street, and hello to SMØR Bakery (Monday) 

• Sushi Fan has not been open lately on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

• Where to see Films on the Green this summer (but not in Tompkins Square Park) (Friday)

• A smoke and vape shop for the former Gaia Italian Café on 3rd Street (Wednesday) 

• A changing of the bar at 16 1st Ave. (Monday) 

... and beware of those dubious rental listings promising various "doorman amenities" (photo on 9th Street by Steven)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a rainy Wednesday evening photo from Second Avenue)...

• D.A. Bragg announces indictment of suspect in 2 March shootings In Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• NYPD searching for hockey-stick-wielding suspect who whacked woman in the leg on 6th Street (Friday) 

• Honoring the late downtown legend Patti Astor at Astor Place (Wednesday)

• At the march to Save Beth Israel (Monday) 

• Openings: Pimbeche Vintage on 3rd Street (Wedensday) 

• Ray's Candy Store in miniature (Thursday) 

 • Openings: Gnocchi on 9th (on 9th) (Monday) 

• News to dry for: La La Laundry is back with gas on Avenue B and 11th Street (Saturday) 

• Remembering Joey Ramone on the anniversary of his death (Monday) 

• Blossom bonanza: Cherry trees paint TSP pink (Tuesday) 

• The Marshal has seized Atomic Wings on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• Cakes by Klein takes 102 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Construction watch: 280 E. Houston St. (Wednesday)

• Signage alert: The Onion Tree Pizza Co. on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• PARTIAL brick reveal at 1 St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• Reader report: Alphabet Grocery hasn't been open lately (Thursday) 

• Today in awkwardly phrased crime alerts on the Citizen app (Sunday) 

 ... and we caught up with Alex Garland's incendiary "Civil War" (still talking about Jesse Plemons!) at the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue and 12th Street...

... the film includes two perfectly placed songs by Suicide (one half of the duo, Martin Rev, still lives in the EV).

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Week In Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on 2nd Street near the Bowery)...

• RIP Debby Lee Cohen (Wednesday) and Patti Astor (Friday) 

• Today's solar eclipse with the Second Avenue Star Watchers (Monday) ... Watching the eclipse from 6th and B (Monday) ... Eclipse in progress on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• East Village tenants speak out against rollbacks to potential rent-stabilization laws (Tuesday) 

• East Village native Anna Colombia on pursuing photography and growing up in the neighborhood (Thursday) 

• The Lazy Llama Coffee Bar is opening 2 new outposts, including on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• First sign of Wonder on Stuyvesant Street (Monday) 

 

• The renovation and expansion of 188 1st Ave. (Thursday)

• Dead again: Peter Jarema Funeral Home ad replaced by the Marvel Universe on 7th and B (Wednesday) 

• Protection for a tree garden on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Demolition watch: The NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Crispy Burger on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• Pasta for the former Koko Wings on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• On 2nd Avenue, Sunday Dreamin' on such a spring day (Tuesday)

... and here's a look at that freshly paved roadway on Avenue A (so far, the work has just been between Houston and Fourth) ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of the roomy new porta-potties in Tompkins by Derek Berg)...

• EARTHQUAKE (Friday) 

• Lower East Side legend Sammy's Roumanian Steak House announces its reopening dates (Tuesday) 

 

• Essex Card Shop robbed on Avenue A (Saturday) 

• Turn it up: East Village Radio returns this spring (Monday) 

• The porta-potties of Tompkins Square Park now have hours of operation (Saturday)

• Why the International Bar has been closed (Tuesday) 

• On the April CB3-SLA docket: a Rice Thief outpost for the East Village (Monday) ... The Onion Tree Pizza Co. (Wednesday) 

• Vacated 9th Street parking garage fetches $14 million for likely residential conversion (Tuesday) 

• The $24 million renovation of the Nuyorican Poets Café is officially underway (Thursday) 

• At Tabby Twitch's 'Prime' (Wednesday) 

• Weekday lunch service begins at Superiority Burger on Avenue A (Monday) 

• After 8 years in the East Village, Fortnight Institute has closed its doors (Thursday) 

• Mr. Throwback gets a spin-off on 9th Street (Wednesday) 

• The 'Kim's Video' documentary unreels at the Quad; Alamo Drafthouse next (Friday)

• On Avenue B, damaged façade shutters Gruppo (Thursday) 

• A new pizzeria for the former pizzeria at 36 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• A new awning for East Village classic Veniero's (Thursday)

• Openings: Yokox Omakase on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Let's look inside the Five Guys slated for 2nd Avenue and 12th Street (Thursday)

 

• Signage alert: Lilly's Shakes & Crepes on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

...and checking in with the St. Mark's Place Welcome Committee...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from 3rd between B and C)... 

• NYPD: Suspect arrested in connection with the 2 recent shootings in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

• Greenpoint hit Taqueria Ramírez is opening an East Village outpost (Thursday) 

• 1st sign this spring of the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street (and that townhouse is for sale!) (Tuesday) ... Walking on Stuyvesant Street in the rain (Sunday)

• Marking the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Monday) 

• This non-fiction reading series in the East Village turns 10 on Monday (Wednesday) 

• A look inside Trader Joe's Pronto, now open on 14th Street in Union Square (Wednesday) 

• A journey into the COZMOS on 10th Street (Friday) 

• Good Friday on Avenue B (Saturday) 

• Remembering Tim Lomas (Saturday) 

• Checking in on the former mucky tree well on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• 'Orson’s Shadow' at Theater for the New City (Wednesday) 

• Tribes of Morocco relocates to a larger storefront on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• Coming soon to the East Village: No More Cafe, 'a haven for alcohol-free celebration' (Monday)

• Openings: The Commodore on Avenue C (Friday) ... Yummy Hive on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Kolkata Chai Co. closed for renovations until April 1 on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• Spa treatment (Thursday)

• About a sustainable Salon No. 17 (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Utshob Restaurant on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Art Gotham is the new tenant for the landmarked 4 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

... annnnnnnnnnnnnd! (Background!)

... and a reader shares the tiniest tree that we may have ever seen discarded... on 14th Street this past week ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with an early spring shot from Stuyvesant at Ninth)...

• 2 East Village residents 'shaken and scared' after assault inside their building (Monday) 

• Same gunman suspected in shooting in Tompkins Square Park, police say (Thursday) 

• A 7-floor development in the works for the NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Monday) 

• This spring, new life for the mucky tree well that smells like dead things on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Bella McFadden bringing her iGirl brand to the East Village (Thursday) 

• These zine editors want your rat stories ('Don't call us gross') (Wednesday)

• The Lazy Llama has closed in First Park; no new vendor in the pipeline (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Bungalow on 1st Avenue (Sunday) ... Sauced on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) ... Terminal B on Avenue B (Thursday) ... Okiboru House of Udon on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) ... The Lions on 1st Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Aliens of Brooklyn leaves the East Village to harvest the Chelsea Market (Monday) 

• Flushing-based cafe and bakery Sweet Cake is opening an East Village outpost (Monday)

• Another pink-out at 57 Great Jones St. (Wednesday)

• Peak-a-boooo: Partial reveal at 1 St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• East Village Tattoo debuts on 4th Street (Wednesday) 

• Behold 57 Great Jones St. in small scale (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Crispy Burger on 1st Avenue (Monday)

• The faceless Charlie Brown mural is now headless (Monday)

  ... and Eddie Izzard's "Hamlet" made its EV debut this past Tuesday at the Orpheum on Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place... here through April 14 (thanks to Steven for the photo)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with some hoops at Sara D. Roosevelt Park via Stacie Joy) ...

• Two bystanders shot after a nearby argument escalated to gunfire in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

• 1 year after building fire, A&C Kitchen grandly reopens on Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• Housing lottery underway for units in this new building on 10th Street (Monday)

• The NYPL's archive of the legendary East Village Eye now available to the public (Tuesday) 

• 'Americans in Paris' at the new Grey Art Museum on Cooper Square (Friday) 

• Architectural sculpture digest: A look at some unique 'Houses and Hotels' at O’Flaherty's (Thursday)

• A familiar face returns to Key Food (Wednesday) 

• Coming attractions: The 'Kim's Video' documentary debuts at the Quad on April 5 (Thursday) 

• Full reveal at 14 Avenue C, where the team behind The Commodore is opening a new outpost (Monday)

• An update from G's Cheesesteaks, opening May 1 on Avenue B and Houston (Thursday) 

• This day on the Bowery in 2007 (Thursday) 

• Your faceless Charlie Brown mural update from 12th Street (Tuesday) 

• Boris & Horton reopens on Avenue A (Tuesday)

• Openings: Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) ... Not as Bitter brings the fresh fruit lattes to 10th Street (Tuesday) 

• PLNT Burger closes its Union Square outpost (Monday) 

• Meet Belvedere, the Russian tortoise (Thursday) 

• Perk Espresso & Coffee Bar closes on 14th Street (Monday)

• Goodbye Dolly (Monday) 

• Awash in debt, Body Shop shuts down operations (Tuesday) 

... and a post we didn't get around to posting this past week... Starlight Convenience coming to 110 Third Ave. between 13th Street and 14th Street... (bring back the Variety Theater!)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of Nation of Language on Monday during their sold-out 3-night stand at the Bowery Ballroom)... 

• Planned student protest gets the DOB to take action on closed-off school playground (Monday) 

• Veselka looks to ease back into a 24/7 schedule starting with weekends first (Monday) 

• City unveils 3 refurbished East Village buildings with affording housing opportunities (Tuesday) ... Honoring Puerto Rican freedom fighter Pedro Albizu Campos with a mural on 12th and C (Friday) 

• Restaurants can now apply to participate in NYC's new outdoor dining program (Wednesday) 

• A new signage era for Best Housekeeping on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• The Veselka documentary gets a third week at Village East by Angelika (Friday) 

• This is why Most Holy Redeemer is green around the bells on 3rd Street (Saturday)

• To be: Eddie Izzard's 'Hamlet' coming to the Orpheum Theatre in the East Village (Monday) 

• Look at the former Dallas BBQ now (Friday) 

• The Joyce Theater has rehearsal space to rent to nonprofits and freelance dance artists (Tuesday) 

• Checking out just part of the ongoing New Colossus Festival (Saturday) 

• Asian Taste closing in on a reopening (Friday) 

• A now-and-then look at the former Provident Loan Society on Houston and Essex (Circa Thursday)

• Vacant parking garage gets the plywood treatment on 9th Street (Thursday) 

• Apollo Bagels now with signage on 10th Street (Tuesday) 

• Today in discarded finds of the century on 2nd Street (Friday) 

• Former Mad for Chicken spot for rent on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Closures: Wild Rabbit Coffee on 7th Street (Wednesday)

• Signage alert: Bungalow from restaurateur Jimmy Rizvi on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• EVG readers had early access to tickets to see The Damned this May in NYC (Wednesday) 

... and neither here nor there, but this Scotch Tape display has been in a different aisle every time we visit Key Food on Avenue A (which is more than we'll admit)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo above Avenue A from Sixth Street)... 

• Reports: In a hit-and-run, man struck and killed on 10th and D by an MTA bus (Saturday) 

• A visit to Veselka, as the East Village institution celebrates 70 years and another week for its documentary at the Village East (Friday) 

• That's all for now for Gizmo (Friday) ... Longtime East Village sewing business Gizmo needs a new home (Monday)

• Playground reminders in Tompkins Square Park; city to update Community Board 3 on asylum seekers (Tuesday) ... You can watch the Community Board 3 meeting right here (Wednesday)

• Revel vehicle wipes out Frank's curbside dining structure after hours on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• This 'Job' has been extended for 3 weeks at the East Village's Connelly Theater (Thursday) 

• Signage alert: Ben's Deli gains a Grill on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• The city's first public e-bike charging site for delivery workers was unveiled on Cooper Square (Friday) 

• A visit to the Unprofessional Variety Show (Thursday) 

• On 5th Street, Etérea announces a March 30 closing date (Monday)

• Construction watch: 280 E. Houston St. (Wednesday) 

• A campaign to commemorate Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl that captivated NYC the past year (Saturday) 

• Boris & Horton fans work like a dog to save cafe (Wednesday) 

• About the Every Woman Biennial 2024 at La MaMa Galleria (Saturday)

• Deli marks the end of the revolving door of bars on the corner of 4th Street and 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Koko Wings has apparently closed on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• The Chippery has not been open lately (Tuesday)

• Signage alert: Sugar Mouse on 3rd Avenue (Monday) 

• An e-bike shop for 1st Street (Monday) 

• Openings: YGF Malatang on 3rd Avenue; Conor's Goat on Avenue A (Monday) ... Apollo Bagels too (Friday) 

... and starting off March with some early spring cleaning ... on Houston and Suffolk (thanks Newman!)

... and on Seventh Street near Tompkins (thanks N&Lon7th!) ...

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Week in Grieview

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

• Façade repairs next door have prevented kids at this East Village school from using the playgound (Tuesday) 

• Addressing the asylum seeker crisis; city to update Community Board 3 next week (Thursday) 

• A visit to the new home of Archie's Press on 10th Street (Wednesday) 

• Boris & Horton hopes to raise money through subscription boxes and crowdfunding to stay open (Friday) ... 'Something big is happening' at Boris & Horton, the dog cafe set to close next week (Thursday)

• Flashbacks: A wedding at McSorley's Old Ale House! (Monday) 

• RIP Flaco (Saturday)

• The East Village outpost of Chinatown favorite Dim Sum Go Go has closed (Tuesday) 

• Sidney's Five is calling it a day (Tuesday) 

• Catch some emerging bands at the New Colossus Festival this March 6-10 (Monday) 

• Village East by Angelika is serving up the Veselka documentary (Friday) 

• For sale: the all-new 180 2nd Ave., where a restaurant is in the works (Wednesday) 

• Renovation watch: 175 E. Houston St., soon to be home to a retro space via team MáLà Project (Wednesday) 

• HBD Physical Graffiti (Saturday) 

• A moment with mighty Christo, 1 of the resident red-tailed hawks of Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Tacos El Porky on Avenue A (Friday)

... and a moment Stella, Ray and Maria at Ray's Candy Store yesterday (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a sunrise photo from 4th and A)...

• Remembering longtime East Village resident Merle Ratner, killed by a tow truck on 10th Street and Avenue C on Monday evening (Tuesday) 

• DA: Man who attacked Ray outside Ray's Candy Store sentenced to 10 years in prison (Wednesday)

• Exclusive: Lucy discusses the future of her iconic East Village bar (Thursday) ... New landlord serves Lucy's with a termination notice on Avenue A (Monday) 

• City unveils the final rules for the permanent outdoor dining program (Monday) 

• "Goodbye to the Brick and Mortar" at the Tompkins Square Library (Wednesday) 

• These East Village tenants held a dance party to call out their landlord's sewage treatment (Sunday) 

• The long-empty 6 Avenue B set to begin a new residential era as The B (Tuesday) 

• Report: East Village home with the Cape Cod-style cottage on its rooftop is in contract, dammit (Tuesday) 

• Jolene set to close on Great Jones (Tuesday) 

• Lions for Lula at 132 St. 1st Ave. (Friday)

• A smash & grab at the Grab & Go on Avenue B (Saturday) 

• Tree rescued from concrete on Houston (Friday)

• Yuca Bar returns to service after renovations (Wednesday) 

• Today in notes for traffic enforcement (Friday) 

• A pop-up no more, Apollo Bagels opening first outpost in the East Village on 10th Street (Tuesday) 

• Untitled building now with more Untitled (Monday) 

 ...  and from late Friday night, the crowd arriving for DJTM.8's Dark '80s night event at Gama Lounge on Avenue B (photo by Stacie Joy) ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo yesterday from Tompkins Square Park by Stacie Joy)...

• East Village Loves NYC seeks a new commercial kitchen to help feed NYC’s food insecure (Tuesday) 

• Amid an influx of asylum seekers in the East Village, elected officials urge the city to open more reticketing centers (Monday) 

• Report explores the impact of Mount Sinai Beth Israel's potential closure on the local community (Wednesday) 

• On the Job: Talking with playwright Max Wolf Friedlich at the Connelly Theater (Thursday) 

• Ongoing building issues force Caffe Corretto to close after only 2 months in service on 12th Street (Tuesday)

• Happy 25th anniversary to Lavagna! (Thursday) 

• Everytable has closed its Avenue B outpost (and every other NYC location) (Wednesday) 

• Music venue wanted for former Rockwood Music Hall 2 space on the Lower East Side (Friday) 

• That penthouse with a cottage atop 1st Street and 1st Avenue is ... back... on... the... market! (Wednesday) 

• The piebald squirrel of Tompkins Square Park (Sunday) 

• Report: Kushner Cos. continues East Village exit plan (Friday) 

• More about the new taqueria opening in the former Chicken & the Egg space (Monday) 

• Today in vibrating severed hands (Sunday) 

• Dunkin' shutters on Cooper Square (Monday) 

• Looking at the Astor Place CVS renovation plans (Friday) 

• Yuca Bar remains closed for renovations (Monday)

... and keep your eyes open...    

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a Tuesday sunrise shot by Jeanne Krier)... 

• Reports: Man slashed after asking man to stop urinating on car along 14th Street at 1st Avenue (Tuesday) ... Police seek information in 'attempted murder' after Sunday's slashing on 14th Street (Saturday) 

• Why we may have seen the last of longtime East Village bar Lucy's (Monday) ... Fan signage for Lucy's (Tuesday) 

• Tompkins Square Park remains without restrooms for public use (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Today in urban etiquette notes on 7th Street about dogs shitting in tree planters (Thursday)

• At last, a sidewalk bridge along 280 E. Houston St., site of a new 12-story building (Tuesday) 

• Apple Bank is branching out — and away — from 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Photos: Tetchy headlines the Knitting Factory at Baker Falls on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• A look inside Iglesia Pentecostal El Divino Maestro on 3rd Street (Friday)

• Fans of El Primo Red Tacos can soon pig out at Tacos El Porky (Wednesday) 

• Today in discarded deer taxidermy mounts on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Chicken & the Egg closes; taqueria in the works for the space (Wednesday) 

• Kestrel-eye view of Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from Tompkins Square Park — snow! — by Christopher Pelham)... 

• Observations on the growing humanitarian crisis with asylum seekers in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• A bench in honor of the 'Birdman' of Tompkins Square Park (Thursday) 

• Celebrating the life and spirit of John Crellin, aka 'Architect John' (Friday)

• ICYMI: After 26 years, Gregg Singer sells the former P.S. 64 for $57.1 million (Tuesday) 

• The Veselka documentary, narrated by David Duchovny, opens at the Village East on Feb. 23 (Friday)

• A look at the under-renovation Ben's Deli on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Peter Hujar will get his 'Day' in upcoming film (Sunday) 

• Openings: Tina's Cuban Cuisine on 14th Street (Wednesday) 

• On Astor Place, Raising Cane's is raising funds for Harvey Milk High School (Thursday) 

• St. Marks Pizzeria (the former Funzi's) has not been open lately (Thursday) 

• Another conversation on music and music writing at the Tompkins Square Library branch (Saturday)

• Up early with a giant statue of Kid Cudi on the East River (Monday)

• What's coming to the former Mochinut space on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Kaliiva, a cannabis dispensary for Avenue B (Wednesday) 

 ... and we may have found the just-right location for the first-ever EVG ad ... here on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place...

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Week in Grieview

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

• In Memoriam: Charlie Carroll (Tuesday) ... Vinie Burrows (Wednesday) 

• Documenting the demolition of Middle Collegiate Church (Monday) 

• From the EVG archives: Asylum seekers at the former St. Brigid School (Sunday) 

• East Houston Street Wine & Liquor is headed to a new larger space across East Houston (Wednesday) 

• Wonder bringing its 'fast fine' delivery and food-hall concept to Stuyvesant Street (Thursday) 

• Classic East Village lunch counter B&H Dairy looking good with new awning, storefront and neon signage (Friday) 

• The J. Crew men's concept store on the Bowery has closed (Monday) 

• ICP teams up with the Nuyorican Poets Café for open mic series (Thursday) 

• G's Cheesesteaks will be the first retail tenant in 15 years at 6 Avenue B (Monday) 

• Sadie's Ward officially takes over from the Whiskey Ward (Tuesday) 

• High-end East Village sushi favorite Cagen has closed on 9th Street (Monday) 

• A look at Area 140 First on 1st Avenue (Thursday)

• Openings: Crazy Burger on Avenue C (Thursday) 

• The porta potties are MIA in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) ... New mats for the outdoor fitness area at Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Reports: Kushner sells 6-building East Village portfolio for $57 million (Tuesday) 

• Trek officially closes on the Bowery (Monday)

• Mr. Kim quickly leaves St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

... and now turning to sports, Lazio secured a Coppa Italia semi-final place with a 1-0 victory over AS Roma on Wednesday... and the reaction outside by Giovanni and Co. outside Via Della Pace on Fourth Street (photo by Derek Berg)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from 7th Street at 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg) ...

• Longtime East Village sewing shop Gizmo will be relocating in early 2024 (Wednesday) 

• 2024 marks the 50th year in business for Ray's Candy Store (Monday) 

 • The remains of the fire-damaged Middle Church structure have been removed (Friday)

• 2 NYPD officers sustain minor injuries after line cutters cause skirmish at reticketing outpost for asylum seekers on 7th Street (Saturday) 

• 2024 development watch: 33-37 1st Ave. (Tuesday) ... 42-46 2nd Ave. (Wednesday) ... 50-64 3rd Ave. (Thursday)... 280 E. Houston St. (Friday) ... 

• Jen the bookseller closes the book on her Avenue A vending days (Thursday) 

• Le Dive owners looking to take over the Boiler Room space on 4th Street (Thursday)

• About those New Year's Eve fireworks (Monday) 

• Glizzy's has left St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Closings: Milk Burger on Houston (Tuesday) 

• Patis Bakery bringing the bread to Broadway (Tuesday) 

• Yuca Bar closed for renovations on 7th and A (Thursday) 

... and an EVG reader shared this photo from the dog run in Tompkins Square Park yesterday... titled Dogs Frolicking In 1st Snowfall of 2024...

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