Week in Grieview

Posts from this past week included... (with a random LES street scene)

• First look inside the Astor Place Wegmans, set to open on Oct. 18 at 9 a.m. (Thursday) 

• City issues RFP for the renovation and operation of the snack bar at First Park (Tuesday) 

• Asbestos abatement ahead of demolition at the NW corner of 1st Avenue and 2nd Street (Tuesday) 

• The great New Double Dragon signage shines brightly again, now on the Lower East Side (Wednesday) 

• Happy 40th anniversary to The Sock Man! (Friday)

• A tribute to Sinéad O'Connor on Great Jones (Thursday)

• Kuppi Coffee in soft-opening mode on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Sami & Susu bring you the Pita Shop by day on Orchard Street (Wednesday) 

• Summer scheduling: Lucy's returns after Aug. 10 (Monday) 

• The arrival (Tuesday)

• RIP to the 'RIP ST MARKS' tag (Monday) 

• Proto's Pizza is closed for remodeling, and now under new management (Thursday) 

• Check out a new track/video from local band Rebounder (Friday) 

• A return to 'Alphabet City' at Metrograph (Tuesday) 

• Pizza signage update on 9th Street (Monday) 

... and thanks to Roman for stopping for a pose on 5th and A! (Photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a "Barbieheimer"-era photo from the Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue ... Or "Barbenheimer" if you prefer)...

• RIP Big Lee (Tuesday) 

 • When a young red-tailed hawk gets stuck in the airshaft outside your kitchen window (Friday) 

•  The Cube returns to Astor Place — and ready to spin again (Tuesday) ... When the Cube returned to Astor Place late Monday night (Wednesday) 

• At the last night of Ink on A (Sunday) 

• A visit to Ella Funt on 4th Street (Friday) 

• Details about some upcoming shows via the Knitting Factory at Baker Falls on Avenue A (Thursday) 

• Report: Metropolitan Playhouse is closing after 30-plus years of productions (Wednesday) 

• 'Star Wars' parody at the Orpheum is joining the dark side after Sunday (Thursday)

• The Avenue C Laundromat has a new owner (Tuesday) 

• Suki Japanese Kitchen hasn't been open lately on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Panda Express debuts on 14th Street and 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• The 1st Manhattan outpost of Ayat shapes up on 7th Street and Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: A new home for the Boiler Room; a pizzeria for Avenue B (Monday)

• So what's next for this block of 2nd Avenue? (Monday)

• Avant Garden reopens in new Avenue A home (Tuesday) 

• Target makes it signage official on Union Square (Thursday) 

• Openings: Tacombi on 12th Street (Monday) 

• PSA: The original Russ & Daughters Appetizers is closed for a few weeks for renovations (Thursday) 

• Say high to the latest retail tenant at this 2nd Avenue storefront (Tuesday) 

• Full reveals: 650 E. 6th St. (Thursday) 

... and in concert news... U.K.-based singer-songwriter Declan McKenna played a sold-out show at Webster Hall on Friday night... and the line on 11th Street started early... (photos by Stacie Joy)...

Meanwhile, on Wednesday night, local EVG faves Hello Mary played a sold-out Bowery Ballroom as the trio continues to tour in support of headliner Blondshell this summer...

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Week in Grieview

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

• Last day for Ink (Tuesday) 

• Baker Falls is set to debut on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Work set to begin on 14+C, the 24-floor building coming to 14th Street and Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• Huertas is closing next month on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Construction watch: 270 E. 2nd St. (Thursday) 

• Late night at Key Food (Friday) 

 

• On 5th Street, Tamam is closing (Tuesday)

• The steel base of 1 St. Mark's Place makes its first above-ground appearance (Monday) 

• At long last, the grand opening date is revealed for Panda Express on 14th Street and 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• That's Mr. Pizza to you (Thursday)

• Ghost signage at the former New Double Dragon (Tuesday) 

• The Great Jones Crown Affair (Thursday)

• 8-Bit Bites bringing its nostalgic vibes to 2nd Avenue (Thursday)

• Signage day for Jazba on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• First sign of Pig & Butter on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• On 13th and 3rd, the Ugly Duckling becomes blue bird (Monday)

 ... and a summertime scene on Ninth Street at First Avenue by Steven...

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Week in Grieview

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

• Tuesday is the last day for East Village mainstay Ink on Avenue A (Sunday) 

• East Village staple New Double Dragon has closed (Tuesday)

• The Upright Citizens Brigade is returning to NYC — and the East Village — with a new theater (Monday) 

• The East Village Fine Wine & Champagne's sign has a new home (Wednesday)

• High Vibe looking for some help to continue spreading the love (Monday) 

 • Chrissy's Pizza announces itself on 9th Street (Thursday) 

• Angelina Jolie is creating a collaborative space for designers and artisans in Basquiat's former studio on Great Jones Street (Saturday)

• Openings: Rosemary Home on 9th Street (Friday) 

• After 20-plus years on 13th Street, Keybar is relocating to Bushwick (Thursday)

• Coming attractions: Cabin on 9th (Thursday) 

• When the lights flickered on Wednesday night (Thursday) 

• Mystery solved? Avenue A residents track down source of the incessant 'loud mechanical sound' (Wednesday) 

• Eros is still 'temporarily closed,' and now fully empty (Monday) 

• Full reveal: 699 E. 6th St. (Thursday)

 ... and the latest via Optimo at the Bowery Mural Wall... which has been on "pause" from officially sanctioned murals since May 2022...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with more air-quality alerts from the Canadian wildfires)...

• Ink on A can use some help (Monday) 

• About the fire at 204 Avenue B (Friday)

• The latest distribution for asylum seekers took place this past week (Tuesday)

• On St. Mark's Place, Funzi's Pizzeria is a throwback modeled after grandmother's house (Tuesday) 

• Farewell to the Champagne's of storefront signs in the East Village (Friday) 

• Last summer for the current configuration of the multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Weeping for this lost tree on Avenue A (Tuesday)

• Khiladi NYC is closing on Avenue B (Sunday) 

• Six Feet Under Sound with The Acute (Thursday)

• The incoming Shake Shack on the Lower East Side owes nearly $200k back rent: legal notice (Monday) 

• At 2nd and 2nd, a change in plans (Monday) 

• Is 334 Bowery now officially a doomed location for restaurants? (Thursday) 

• For those who rocked: Legendary East Village venue Fillmore East closed on this date in 1971 (Tuesday) 

• City pools open (but not the Tompkins Square Park mini pool) (Thursday) 

• Do you remember the Unicorn Frame Shop? (Wednesday)

• Retail moves: Westerlind relocates to East Houston Street (Wednesday) 

• Roasted NYC slated for this 2nd Avenue storefront (Wednesday) 

... and a surprising number of people have asked about the status of Healthy Choice, the deli-market on the SW corner of Avenue A and Sixth Street. Temp signage for My Deli 3 Corp. arrived on June 23. Same ownership and management here... an employee told EVG contributor Stacie Joy that the sign is temporary and relates to their beer license renewal...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of Ray at Ray's Candy Store on Avenue A by Roflo) 

 • Iconic gay dive bar the Boiler Room is closing later this year ahead of a move to a new East Village space (Tuesday) 

• About The Pastry Box, now open on 12th Street (Thursday)

• The Regal Union Square multiplex is not closing after all (Monday) 

• Openings: Caffe Corretto on 12th Street (Tuesday) 

• At the start of the 2023 Drag March in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday) 

• Someone placed an ad for AMC's 'The Walking Dead: Dead City' over the George Floyd mural on Houston and the Bowery (Monday)

• At MoRUS, a new exhibit explores the network of community fridges in NYC (Friday) 

• The arrival of the smart composting bins in the East Village (Thursday) 

• The Zine Fair has been rescheduled to July 8 (Friday) 

• Salter House bringing sustainable housewares and clothing to 2nd Street (Thursday) 

• Residents eager to track down the source of this 'loud mechanical sound' in the East Village (Saturday) 

• "Make Me Famous," a documentary on 1980s-era East Village-based painter Edward Brezinski, debuts  (Monday) 

• Watch Kim Petras (or her stand-in!) walk around the East Village in medieval-style armor (Wednesday) 

• A subway ride from Union Square to Coney Island on this day in 1987 (Tuesday) 

• Chrissy's Pizza taking over the former Superiority Burger space on 9th Street for its first pizzeria (Thursday) 

• Lower East Side venue Rockwood Music Hall crowdfunding to stay alive (Saturday) 

• The East Village Panda Express is hiring (Tuesday) 

• Reaching the top of the 21-story 360 Bowery project (Tuesday) 

• More unlicensed cannabis shops busted in the East Village (Thursday) 

• 1 St. Mark's Place looking a little close to beaming up (Wednesday)

• Closings: Sauced Up! on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• About the new tenant at 37 Avenue A (Wednesday)

• A Smoke House for Avenue A (Friday) 

• A transformation for the Ugly Duckling on 3rd Avenue and 13th Street (Tuesday) 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of LaMama's iconic founder Ellen Stewart on Fourth Street yesterday by Derek Berg) ... 

• How these East Village volunteers finally made Wi-Fi a reality for asylum seekers (Monday) 

• Report: East Village musician Jesse Malin paralyzed from the waist down after spinal stroke (Wednesday) 

• 18-year-old cyclist killed in collision on 1st Avenue at 17th Street (Friday)

• Police: Woman dies after jumping from 3rd Street residential building (Sunday) 

• Sunny has retired, but her popular flower shop remains in the family (Wednesday)

• Birthday wishes for Rossy on 3rd Street (Thursday) 

• Goodbye for now to HaveAHeart Studio, the rehearsal space below New Double Dragon (Thursday)

• Cafe Mogador provides a free meal to asylum seekers staying in the East Village (Friday) 

• Signage arrives for Downtown Burritos Cocina Mexicana on 1st Avenue (Monday)

• Community group urges Mayor Adams to reacquire the former P.S. 64/CHARAS 'now' (Tuesday)

• Saturday afternoon with Tits Dick Ass (Tuesday) 

• Celebrating downtown nightlife legend Brian Butterick, aka Hattie Hathaway (Wednesday) 

• Documentary on collage artist Michael Anderson to debut at the Anthology Film Archives (Saturday) 

• Taking a look inside the incoming Target on Union Square (Wednesday)

• Signage alert: Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tart on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Tree limb down in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• Sauce returns to service on 12th Street (Thursday) 

• At 188 Allen St., a curbside dining demolition like no other (Friday) 

• Almost-opening report: Memphis Seoul on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Yet another broker for 20 St. Mark's Place (Monday)

• Plywood report: Ghost signage disappears again on Avenue A (Saturday) 

• Closings: Yifang Taiwan Fruit Tea, Wild Mirrors (Tuesday) 

• A Tacombi takeover on 12th Street (Monday)

... and those Balenciaga ads are getting more elaborate, as seen on First Street and First Avenue...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from Tompkins Square Park by Stacie Joy... yesterday was the 47th Annual Hare Krishna Parade and Festival in NYC)... 

• Support for the family of Salvino Luis Ceballos (Wednesday) 

• Despite the city's endless bureaucracy, East Village residents continue to aid asylum seekers at the former St. Brigid School (Thursday) ... A call for volunteers and donations for asylum seekers (Monday)

• Decades-spanning ghost signage disappears from this East Village building (Monday)

• Reports: Woman in custody after menacing rampage in and around Tompkins Square Park (Monday) 

• Sky watch: A breath of fresh air heading into the weekend (Friday) ... Holy smokes, that sky today! (Tuesday) 

• Pinks moves on from 10th Street (Tuesday) 

• The Astor Place Greenmarket returns (Tuesday) 

• Tramezzini NYC has closed on Houston (Wednesday) 

• Almost-opening report: Caffe Corretto on 12th Street (Monday) 

• A new era for pedestrians on the NE corner of 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

• The East Village New Deli returns without the deli (Thursday) 

• Little Uluh announces itself on 14th Street (Monday) 

• PSA: The Tacos Cholula cart is still on 2nd Street (Tuesday) 

• A pop-up gallery for the summer at 42 Avenue B (Friday) 

• This prime corner storefront remains tenant-free (Tuesday) 

• The Tribeca Festival takes over Village East by Angelika on 2nd Avenue (Friday) 

• And now, your signage for the Popeyes opening on 14th Street near Avenue A (Thursday) 

• City set once again to remove the curbside structure outside Pinky's Space on 1st Street (Monday)

Speaking of Pinky's Space, someone did remove the remains of the abandoned Pinky's roadbed seating space later this past week...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a new mural via Fumeroism at Avalon Chemists on Second Avenue)...

• Inside the East Village 'respite center' for asylum seekers (Tuesday) ... Missed meal deliveries and a need for basics: the developing situation at the East Village respite center for asylum seekers (Wednesday) ... At the former St. Brigid School, a generous outpouring of community support for asylum seekers (Friday) 

• Openings: Star Team on 9th Street (Friday) 

• La Plaza Cultural's new solar pavilion is enjoying its moment in the sun (Monday)

• Why 787 Coffee decided to close its 14th Street outpost (Friday) 

• Concern about the future of the 188 Allen Street Gallery (Thursday) 

• A few scenes from the annual Loisaida Festival (Monday) 

• Rebelmatic in Tompkins Square Park (Sunday) 

• On Avenue A, a golf-related shop fore people who might like golf (Thursday) 

• Avenue A deli news in review (Wednesday) 

• Bagel Market out of commission for now (Wednesday)

• Sprucing up the damaged American Elm in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• Glizzy's bringing hot dogs to this block of St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• Your Funzi's Pizzeria signage on St. Mark's Place (Friday) 

• Storefront can't decide if it wants to be Deli Convenience or Dispensary (Tuesday) 

• Coming soon to this block of 5th Street: Duo Cafe and For You Laundry (Thursday) 

• 2+ months after opening, 99¢ Pizza raises price of $1 slice to $1.50 (Friday)

• Kuppi Coffee Company setting up shop on 1st Avenue and St. Mark's Place this summer (Thursday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo outside Webster Hall on 11th Street by Sean Piccoli... RIP Tina Turner)... 

• Report of a fatal stabbing on 10th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C (Sunday) 

• Inside the new home of The Joyce, which aims to be a hub for the performing arts in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• The Wild Son will not be reopening (Monday) 

• A grassroots movement to access the main lawn in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday) 

• On 10th Street, infused bake shop Sweetooth closed for now after raid (Monday) 

• I saw Andy Warhol at the Brant Foundation (Thursday) 

• Waga is closing on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Sadly, Mister M — aka papier-mâché man — meets the end (Saturday) 

• Soft openings: Spicy Moon on the Bowery (Thursday) 

• A Make-A-Wish moment on Avenue A (Friday) 

• Power aid: Transformer work wraps up at the Con Ed substation (Monday)

• Is this the skinniest smoke shop in NYC? (Wednesday) 

• Report of a fire in an abandoned curbside dining structure on St. Mark's Place (Monday)

• "An Empire in Decline" at Village Works (Thursday) 

• On 10th and A, Deer Gallery debuts with some "Crispy Critters" (Thursday)

• Just another *******Pizza place (Wednesday) 

• To Eat Sushi on 10th Street (Thursday) 

• This East Village outpost of Blank Street coffee will be a barista training lab (Tuesday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a construction shot of 1 St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue)... 

• With Community Board approval, Sammy's Roumanian Steak House takes another step to returning to the Lower East Side (Tuesday) 

• This East Village resident is bringing a classic 82-year-old radio back to broadcasting life (Thursday) 

• Mayor Adams visits Tompkins Square Park (Monday) 

• RIP Andy Rourke (Friday) 

 • Report: 8 months after fire, residents want their landlord to repair their Avenue D building (Monday)

• Workers demolish the south ramp to East River Park at Houston Street (Wednesday)

• Parkgoer escapes injury after a branch falls in the Tompkins Square Park dog run (Wednesday)

• The Cube will return to Astor Place this summer — but not before a spin to the Hamptons (Thursday) 

• A winning bid for Theatre 80; a vow to keep fighting for the building (Friday) 

• Openings: Saint Pizza on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Checking in at Jazba, a new Indian restaurant opening this summer on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• A necessary 'eVil' (Tuesday) 

• Packing up the Urban Umbrella scaffolding around Cooper Union (Tuesday) 

• 8 new trees on a truck in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

• Out and about with Rhett the Rhino (Friday)

• The all-new Bleecker Street Bar debuts (Monday) 

• City issues curbside dining structure removal to the shuttered Compilation Coffee (Thursday)

• Scenes from a rain-soaked Dance Parade (Sunday) 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a new line era underway at the Orpheum on 2nd Avenue via Steven)...

• A new record and lineup for Bush Tetras (Wednesday)

• A new name and (familiar) owners for the currently closed Downtown Bakery (Thursday) 

• Pour one out for the champagne of East Village storefront signs (Monday)

• Porta potties arrive in Tompkins Square Park for use during field house renovations (Tuesday)

 

• On Astor Place, the cube will BRB to spin again (Tuesday) 

• A visit to a Ketamine-assisted therapy practitioner (Friday) 

• Inside Don Ceviche, opening soon on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• More details about the new home for Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse on the Lower East Side (Monday) 

• At Ray's Candy Store, you can now pay for those beignets and deep-fried Oreos via Venmo (Monday) 

• Stand back, here are photos from Night of 1000 Stevies at Irving Plaza (Thursday) 

• Signage alert: Village Works on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• &Beer is a new pop-up concept on 7th Street (Wednesday) 

• The fruit vendor returns to Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• Someone artfully wrapped this drinking fountain in Tompkins Square Park with aluminum foil (Thursday) 

• East Village Pizza and Beron Beron remove its curbside dining structures (Monday)

• Gorin Ramen has closed on 14th Street (Monday) ... Beloved Cafe has closed on the Lower East Side (Thursday)

• Openings: Offside Tavern on Avenue A (Monday) 

• The Laurels takes over for Bait & Hook on 2nd Avenue and 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• The former Mighty Quinn's space is for rent (Tuesday) 

• Gotham — NYC's 'first cannabis concept store' — debuts today on Third Street (Thursday) 

• 'The Legend of Zelda,' bus edition (Wednesday) 

• A J Crew for NoHo (Thursday)

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Week in Grieview

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

• The homicide of Jordan Neely (Thursday) 

• Heady psychedelia: A conversation with East Village musician Franzi Szymkowiak of Lukka (Thursday) 

• After deadly collapse, city issues vacate order at the Little Man Parking garage on 9th Street (Tuesday)

• Coming attractions: Prep work underway for the renovation of the Tompkins Square Park field house (Friday)

• RIP Bill Brady (Friday)

• The Pinky's Space storefront is for rent on 1st Street (Monday)

• Grass acts: Main lawn in Tompkins Square Park has been reseeded (Thursday) 

• Basics Plus has closed on 3rd Avenue (Monday)

• Officials: Developer had permission to remove trees from new building site at 1 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)

• This 2nd-level retail space is for rent on St. Mark's Place and 2nd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Local elected officials speak out to landmark Theatre 80 ahead of auction (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Don Ceviche on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

• Sunday C&C Eatery announces itself at The Bowery Market (Monday) 

• The stand-up MRI place closes on Avenue A (Monday)

• The Mermaid Inn won't be returning to its original East Village home (Wednesday) 

• Nest Ball: Amelia and Christo's 2023 chicks make first appearance (Thursday)

• Ichibantei Japanese Soul Food and Steak debuts on 3rd Avenue; closes on 13th Street (Wednesday) 

... and keeping with the dog theme in Tompkins Square Park... a dog vs. car moment (photos by Steven) ...

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Week in Grieview

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

• NYC institution Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse attempting a Lower East Side comeback (Thursday) 

• No new grocery now for the former Associated space on 14th Street in Stuy Town (Thursday) 

• A familiar face is leaving Key Food (Wednesday)

• Here are the official local Open Streets for 2023 (Tuesday)

• Sign of Summertime: the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival set for Aug. 27 in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• A look at Wicked Heathens, now open on 9th Street (Friday) 

• Here's what's coming to the former Zum Schneider space on 7th Street and Avenue C (Monday) 

• Reminders: Tompkins Square Library branch now closed for renovations (Tuesday) 

• Poetica Coffee debuts on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• The skyward-bound 21-story office building at 360 Bowery reaches the halfway mark (Monday) 

• A career-spanning exhibition of Andy Warhol's work at the Brant Foundation (Wednesday) 

• The Braised Shop closes in the East Village (Monday)

• On St. Mark's Place, office building 1, tree 0 (Friday) 

• Asbestos abatement for the vacant storefronts along Stuyvesant Street (Tuesday)

• One of the neighborhood's more unique apartments is now a storefront (Friday) 

• Signage alert: The restaurant-bar in the works at 309 E. Fifth St. (Tuesday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Steven of the LUNGS Spring Awakening Parade in Tompkins Square Park yesterday)... 

• Report: East Village gallery a no-show on opening night, leaving artists without their work (Wednesday) ... After group-show ghosting, the EVAC space is for lease on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Help for A&C Kitchen, which remains closed after a late-February fire (Thursday) 

• A look at Poetica Coffee, opening soon on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• The farce awakens at the Orpheum Theatre (Saturday) 

• Downtown Bakery preparing to reopen after being sidelined with an expired license (Friday) 

• A visit to East Village Buyers, now in soft-open mode in new Avenue A home (Friday) 

• A new home on an avenue for East Village gallery-bookstore Ed. Varie (Tuesday) 

• A great new song and video from cumgirl8 (Friday) 

• Collapsed portion of sidewalk whole again on 7th Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Honey Crepes on 13th Street (Tuesday) 

• Aura Bar & Kitchen is back on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Sushi on Jones departs The Bowery Market, where several new concepts are on the way (Thursday) 

• Signage alert: Deli Convenience on 1st Avenue; Partea on 14th Street (Monday) 

• On the April CB3-SLA docket: A Pig & Butter sibling on Avenue B (Monday)

• Happy trails to the Shake Shack curbside dining structure on 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

... and Bob's Bar has reopened for the season on 12th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (photo by Stacie Joy) ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (and enjoying the summery spring outside 3rd & B'zaar by Stacie Joy)... 

• Renovations will close the Tompkins Square Library branch for 3 months (Wednesday) 

• What you need to know about the 17th edition of the Dance Parade, happening on May 20 (Tuesday) 

• Hemingway, the sleepy window kitty of 3rd Street, has been priced out of the East Village (Monday)

• RIP Vivian Trimble of Luscious Jackson (Friday) 

• Mighty Quinn's has closed its East Village outpost (Monday) 

• The historic 64 E. 7th St. is for sale (Tuesday) 

• Basics Plus said to be closing on 3rd Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Spicy Moon preps new Bowery space with some hot pink (Monday) 

• The Village Works Yard Sale continues on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Love for Theatre 80 as auction looms next month (Thursday) ... City issues curbside dining structure removal to Theatre 80 2 days after its owners were forced from the property (Monday) 

• Radio daze: This 1941 Zenith — featuring microstatic FM reception — needs a home (Friday) 

• Cafe Mogador turns 40 (Saturday) 

• A "rat czar" for NYC; the East Village still in the rat pack (Thursday) 

• Flag days: Ray's Candy Store repping the East Village with egg creams at Rockefeller Center (Thursday) 

 

• Black and white film classics at Village East by Angelika (Sunday)

• 2023 wisteria watch (Saturday) 

• A new pizzeria coming to the former Solo Pizza space on Avenue B (Thursday) 

• FULL storefront reveal of the future Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on 14th and A (Friday)

• Hospitality vet Curt Huegel appears to be taking the former Dallas BBQ space on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Dim Sum Go Go signage arrives on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

 ... and on Thursday, @dirtcobain and @outersource returned to freshen up their 5-year-old mural on 69 St. Mark's Place between First Avenue and Second Avenue ...

... and added this ...

Thanks Lola Sáenz for the tip! 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from Tompkins Square Park at 7th and A...) 

• RIP Leonard Abrams (Tuesday) 

• A look at Theatre 80 last night before marshals seize the historic East Village venue (Wednesday) ... Theatre 80 is closed up for now (Thursday) 

• A visit with Chris Santana, the bookseller of Astor Place (Friday) 

• 'Around the Corner' with Bill Rice at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects (Thursday) 

• Food City coming to Avenue D (Tuesday) 

• This is the new projected opening date for Panda Express (Wednesday) 

• A sidewalk bridge for the vacant storefronts along Stuyvesant Street (Thursday) 

• Paper trail: Yaeji at Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• A new corner of the 'Star Wars' galaxy (Tuesday) 

• Funzi's Pizzeria next for 36 St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• ICYMI: Superiority Burger debuts in new East Village home (Monday) 

• Memphis Seoul unveils signage, storefront (Wednesday) 

• Report: Jimmy McMillan is back in his East Village apartment (Friday) 

• Captain Cookie takes a break on Astor Place (Tuesday) 

• About 325 E. 14th St., now on the sales market (Thursday)

• On Avenue A, Two Hands turns over to Korean Street Foods (Monday) 

... and a Holy Week discard on 13th Street at Second Avenue (thanks, Uncle Pete!) ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from 3rd and B by Stacie Joy) 

• First look at the all-new Superiority Burger, now open on Avenue A (Sunday) 

• RIP Joseph Bellaflores (Wednesday) 

• The 2nd Avenue gas explosion — 8 years later (Monday) 

• More about the return of Bereket to the Lower East Side (Tuesday)

• At the rally to save Theatre 80 (Saturday) 

• You can vote on what neighborhood projects receive capital funding from City Council (Monday) 

• The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black headlines celebration for the East Village Eye (Monday) 

• There she goes again: Tammy Faye Starlite returns as Nico at Joe's Pub (Thursday)

• Thanks to Rihanna, this East Village deli has become a go-to spot for streetwear events (Thursday) 

• Village Works is moving to St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Tompkins Square Bagels debuts on Union Square (Thursday) 

• Kinka bringing art, food and plants to 7th Street (Wednesday)

• Green days: About the GetLocalEV small business sustainability campaign this April (Friday) 

• Board report: Former Dallas BBQ prepped for renovations (Wednesday) 

• Thursday's parting movie recommendation (Thursday) 

• What's up with Two Hands? (Tuesday) 

• The cheese slice is $1 at the just-opened 99¢ Pizza (Monday)

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