Reader report: Police tackle bicycle-riding suspect on Second Avenue

From a reader:

Yesterday around 3:30, on 2nd Ave between 2nd & 3rd, a police car & unmarked both went the wrong way up 2nd ... A police officer made a long horizontal dive to knock a young man off his bike. He got up & tried again to ride but a detective knocked him down. [The cyclist] was quickly handcuffed ... a total of EIGHT police cars pulled up, lights flashing. They pushed him into one car, & I believe took the bike in another car. Any idea what that was all about? Anyone else see this?

The reader didn't have a camera... so no photos...

Breaking: fake laundry hanging on actual tenements; plus, old cars on East 4th Street

And the props are arriving this afternoon for the "Boardwalk Empire" shoot here along East Fourth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... EVG reader David sends along the latest from the block...

May need to do a little FX to blot out those ACs...

Boardwalk Empire's beachy looking set off East Fourth Street

Several readers have pointed out that "Boardwalk Empire" will be filming around parts of the neighborhood today...

Always an interesting production to watch ... with the old-timey cars and sets and mobsters ...

EVG reader David sent along these photos from this morning on East Fourth Street between Avenue A and B... where crews are creating some kind of beachy-looking set in the lot adjacent to to the Cornelia Connelly Center ...

David and I are agreement that this is for a scene in which Nucky starts betting on beach volleyball games.

[Updated] And how was your commute? Confusion on First Avenue as Select Bus service moves to different stop

Readers and patrons of the M15 Select Bus service on First Avenue are noting a lot of confusion this morning... on Saturday, the MTA removed the M15 Select Bus ticket machines from the stop at First Avenue between Second and Third streets ...

...and moved them to First Avenue at First Street... where the new bus bulb thingy is...

[A more tranquil yesterday]

All fine. Except that the MTA apparently didn't tell anyone that this was happening.

Per a reader, waiting for a bus:

"People who usually catch the select bus on 3rd and first are all confused this morning. machines are gone other commuters informed us they were moved here to first and first. lots of people dressed for work and running down first ave."

Welcome to the newly placed machines...

Any other Select Bus stories to share today? (Or any other day...)

Updated 9:27 a.m. — @Newyorkist said that the M15 drivers had continually announced the coming changes ...

Previously on EV Grieve:
On First Avenue, the machines are taking over!

Juice Press opening another East Village location

Earlier this year, the American Copy Center changed names and moved down the block here on East 10th Street... opening up this prime space adjacent to Nicoletta's to-go operation ...

... and the work permit in the window reveals the new tenant... "Juice Press Store"...

[Photo by Blue Glass]

The Juice Press has proven to be quite popular since opening on East First Street in April 2010... the raw juice/raw food retail spot has expanded to include several locations, including on East 10th Street near Avenue A... as well as one on Mott between Houston and Prince...

Expect a jokey coming soon sign here one of these days, such as a Robot Daycare/Missing Sock/Mime Academy ... as we've seen at the other under-renovation Juice Press locations...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Another day, another wacky new store sign on First Street

Someone is selling this supply cabinet at the former Cabrini Center

Spotted over at the former Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Avenue B and East Fifth Street ... where renovations are under way to convert the building into residential use...

Workers have been clearing out the building... perhaps instead of trashing the items, someone thought he or she could make a few dollars... curious who is selling this behind the fence... no one was around to ask at the time... the plastic storage bins on top of the supply cabinet are also for sale for $5.

Slice shockers: 2 Bros. blows up the $1 pizza model

Unveiled on St. Mark's Place — the $1.50 "supreme slice" ... at the 2 Bros. Plus location at No. 36 ... not available at No. 32, which just sells the regular old $1 slices.

Side-by-side taste test coming soon.

Oh, and in other 2 Bros. news, they are opening a location in the Bronx this October, according to their Facebook page ...

[Updated] BaoBQ has apparently closed on First Avenue

Last Monday, we pointed out that there was a store for rent sign above BaoBQ here on First Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street... however, at the time, the latest from Michael "Bao" Huynh, which opened in December, was still open for business...

However, it appears BaoBQ has closed... the storefront is in some disarray... and the phone number has been temporarily disconnected...

The Croman 9300 listing says the space is available starting Sept. 1. The asking rent is $13,995.

Updated 8/14:

Huynh confirmed to Eater that he has closed BaoBQ.

The Baoster says that the space had bad plumbing problems (see the picture at right), and an upstairs tenant complained about the smoke coming from the restaurant. He also notes that "rent is too expensive, anyway."

Utrecht is moving away from Fourth Avenue

As you may have noticed, Utrecht opened a new store on East 13th Street between University and Fifth Avenue earlier in the summer...

Now, it appears that the longtime arts supply store will be leaving its Fourth Avenue home... store for rent lease have gone up...

Not much info, such as price, on the listing... though it does note that "venting is possible" ...

Meanwhile, this will make the second large storefront available for rent along Fourth Avenue ... Dryden Gallery recently moved to a new location on East 12th Street...

Back to School

On Saturday, crews painted the crosswalks and what not on the sorta recently paved Avenue B... We looked to see if they spelled everything correctly...

Check!

And why did we check?

Flashback to January, where The Lo-Down first reported this error on Stanton Street...

[Via The Lo-Down]

Empanada Mama coming to East Houston

Empanada Mama is the latest eatery to give 189 E. Houston at Orchard a go... this address has been a carousel of concepts in recent years, most recently the short-lived Masala Twist and Kung Fu Bing ... Anyway, this one sounds pretty promising... and this will be the second Empanada Mama location — the other is on Ninth Avenue in the 50s... it's co-owned by the founder of Mama’s Empanadas in Queens ...

You can find their menu here.

Man OD's in Tompkins Square Park

From East Village photographer Steven Hirsch... A man OD'd in the Park and was revived by EMTs a little after 9 p.m. ...

[Updated] Breaking: Glowing objects spotted over East Village; no one has ruled out UFOs

Via EVG reader MP just after 9 p.m. ... "Series of at least a dozen glowing objects coming from downtown over east village toward Williamsburg... Get higher and higher and eventually fade away. Like large glowing embers. Spooky."

Yes!

Updated 11 p.m.

East Village photographer Steven Hirsch shared unretouched photos of the UFO sighting objects in the sky as seen from Tompkins Square Park ...

Holiday tree on East 13th Street; angels we have heard on high?

EVG reader Kim sent this along earlier today from East 13th Street... We are usually old-fashioned and ask for a newspaper for authentication purposes (at least an iPad edition). But! In the absence of a newspaper... a Peridance schedule will do...

Izzy is missing

Readers spotted these flyers go up in and around Tompkins Square Park this afternoon...

Blackbird opens tonight at 9

Construction delays KO'd Blackbird's opening last Thursday evening... However, the bar taking over the former Lakeside Lounge space on Avenue B at East 10th Street will now open tonight at 9, per the EVG inbox (and the sign outside the bar) ... Blackbird is owned and operated by Lakeside principal Laura McCarthy, as BoweryBoogie first reported.

[Image from last week by Bobby Williams]

Week in Grieview

[Thursday night in Tompkins Square Park by jdx]

Who said, "The East Village is ripe for picking right now"? (Thursday)

The East Fifth St. Tree Committee returns to work (Monday)

Please turn off the light on the Juliet balcony (Wednesday)

17 East Village construction projects happening right now (Wednesday)

Is an NYPD officer listing his apartment on Airbnb? (Tuesday)

New building for East Seventh Street (Monday)

New building for East Ninth Street (Friday)

Watch a video titled 'Nazi chased out of Tompkins Square Park' (Monday)

Damaged Elm OK for now in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

That Help Wanted sign at Lanza's (Tuesday)

Big City Records is closing (Monday)

After filing for Chapter 11 protection, South Brooklyn Pizza opens its dining room on First Avenue (Friday)

IL bagatto closed after tonight for summer break

In case you're an IL bagatto fan over on East Second Street near Avenue B... closing for their usual summer break after tonight...

The story behind the arrest of the purple-gloved burglar of East 11th Street

The other day, we posted the video the NYPD circulated showing a purple-gloved man breaking into an apartment at 516. E. 11th St. ... Anyway, a piece in The New York Times today has the whole story... A quickie recap. A new tenant moved into this apartment in April. The superintendent had put in a new lock. Two months later, someone entered the apartment — no forced entry — and took some electronics. The tenant, "a college professor of technology," set up the surveillance camera.

Police have now charged a 24-year-old man who lives in Greenpoint with the burglaries. (The man has spent time in prison for home-invasion burglaries upstate.) It was not clear why the man had a key to the 11th Street apartment. He had never lived there, as far as anyone knew.

Anyway, interesting story. Right the whole thing here.

There's no place like home

Spotted on First Avenue...