Comings and goings on Second Avenue

Something called Health Mart Pharmacy is opening at the former UPS Store near 11th Street...

... and Crembebe, a boutique specializing in kid's fashions near Fourth Street, has closed...

Here's the Gingersnap's Organic awning

Last Monday, we had details on Gingersnap's Organic, which will feature "handcrafted conscious cuisine" at 130 Seventh St. just west of Avenue A.

And now, the awning...

No opening date announced just yet...

[Updated] Street verse

Spotted on the Bowery and St. Mark's Place...

evflip came across another poem today... this one on Second Avenue and Fourth Street...

[Weekend recap] NYPD cites two bars for 'illegal sale of alcoholic beverages'

We first posted this on Saturday morning... kind of got lost with all the dog costume photos...

Multiple readers sent along word that the Undercover/Underage Patrol was out in full force last night...

There's a "closed by court order" sign at Bar 81 on Seventh Street... "restraining order" says for "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."

...and a "restraining order" and a whole bunch of legalese papers on U2 (or 2U) Karaoke on St. Mark's Place... for "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."

Know of any other bars that the NYPD cited last night...?

Today in photos of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots handing our flyers in front of Ricky's on First Avenue

Photo by Bobby Williams.

At the Rally to Stop Police Brutality

Yesterday marked the 16th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality ... the peaceful rally/protest started at Union Square ... Bobby Williams picked up the route in Tompkins Square Park... then down East Eighth Street ... Avenue C and Avenue D... We don't have an exact number of people who were marching ... almost seemed as if there were equal numbers of the NYPD ...

EV Grieve reader Kirk sends along a few more shots from the 16th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality yesterday... from Avenue D....

... and two photos showing the police presence on the rooftops of the Lillian Wald Houses...

Mobile crane crew arrives to delab the BMW Guggenheim Lab

A crew arrived around 9 this morning to begin delabbing the BMW Guggenheim Lab... They're just getting started... so you have plenty of time to swing by and watch....

As of 9:25 or so, the delabbing didn't have any noticeable effect on the Prune brunch line... Prune opens at 10.

Halloween dog parade afternoon

Here are more photos from the the 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Parade yesterday in Tompkins Square Park ...thanks to East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy for sharing these...

Want more?

Check out Melanie's photos at East Village Corner ... BoweryBoogie ... and NY Through the Lens ...

And now, the main event...

Part of FreakFest yesterday in Tompkins Square Park... GLOB — Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling! (Sports-satire warriors wrestling in fake blood to punk rock...)

Photos by Bobby Williams...