Time for the Neighborhood School's Holiday Fair

The Neighborhood School's annual Holiday Fair take place tomorrow (Sunday!) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The holiday fair features an artisan market with items like soaps, jewelry and screenprinted T-shirts. There will be food, a photo booth, games and activities for kids ... as well as a book fair run by McNally Jackson.

The school is at 121 E. Third St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Holidays in the East Village (part 1)

[Exit9, Avenue A]

EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these holiday scenes from around the neighborhood... (and look for more photos tomorrow — Dec. 25!) Happy holidays from EVG...


[Elsie Flores at the Andrew Glover Youth Center, Avenue B]


[Casey Rubber Stamps, 11th Street]


[ChaShaMa popup Pawn Shop, Avenue A]


[Club Cumming, 6th Street]


[Duane Reade, 2nd and B]


[Rossy at Rossy’s Bakery, 3rd Street]


[Two Boots, Avenue A]


[Nowhere Bar queer arts holiday fair, 14th Street]


[Con Ed lobby, 14th and Irving]


[Lancelotti, Avenue A]


[Amaryllis making poinsettia at the LES Girls Club]


[The Odessa, Avenue A]


[Crimson Kitty and Lacy Stoner at Hetrick-Martin Institute's holiday party, Astor Place]


[Otto's Shrunken Head, 14th Street]


[Hamilton Fish recreation center, East Houston]


[Flower Power, 9th Street]


[Santa, 14th and 1st]

Previously on EV Grieve:
At the 28th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting

The Holiday expands its hours

After Stefan's death earlier this year, the Holiday was only open on the weekends. Now, though, as this flier on St. Mark's shows, the Holiday is expanding its hours. Which is a good thing.

The holiday lights are already up along 14th Street

You may have noticed that the holiday lights have already arrived on 14th Street at First Avenue ... all the way west to around Union Square... this is the earliet that we can recall seeing them by about three weeks... perhaps in a bid to just hurry us through the rest of 2020...

Previously on EV Grieve: • Holiday lights make you momentarily forget how horrible the intersection of 14th and 1st is

'Tis the season for keeping ConEd in business: The holiday lights are up at Rolf's

One of my favorite NYC holiday traditions. The over-the-top holiday lights -- some 70,000 light bulbs in total -- and Victorian-era tchochkes went up at Rolf's last week. For the last month, a few members of the staff at the French-Bavarian eatery at 231 Third Ave. at 22nd Street have been putting up the decorations after hours...they'll be on display until the middle of January. The restaurant opened in 1958, and the lights apparently started going up a few years after that...(at times, it still feels like 1958 in here...). Anyway! The lights!









It gets horribly crowded at Rolf's during the holidays, of course...Just grab a seat at the bar (if you can during off-peak hours)...the food is too heavy for my tastes (hmmm, suckling pig), unless I'm trying to spike the LDL level in my bloodstream. In any event, if Rolf's is mobbed, Paddy Macguire's down the street -- between 19th and 20th -- is a decent alternative for drinks during the holidays. They have some lights as well -- and a much smaller carbon footprint.

Holidays in the East Village (part 2)

[Lower East Side Coffee Shop, 14th Street]

Here's part two of Stacie Joy's holiday photos from around the neighborhood (find part 1 here).


[Double Down Ruck and Buck holiday event, Avenue A]


[At the Essex Street Market Christmas stage]


[6&B Community Garden holiday party]


[Caroling with the Third Street Music School Settlement]


[Otto's Shrunken Head, 14th Street]


[Jennifer Cafe, 4th Street]




[Veniero's, 11th Street]


[Sixth Street Specials]


[Kmart, Astor Place]




[The head witch at Enchantments creating a Yule candle, 9th Street]


[Message from the East 5th Street Tree Committee]




[Park It Parking garage, 11th Street]


[Avenue B]


[Ray's Candy Store, Avenue A]


[Tompkins Square Park]

Previously on EV Grieve:
• At the 28th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting

• Day 1 of the Cookie Walk

• Santa fires up Christmas on 2nd Street

A holiday market at Ace Bar today

Ace Bar is holding its first-ever Food Drive/Holiday Market today from 1-8 p.m. 

Via the EVG inbox: 

"We will be accepting food donations as well as pet food and pet supply donations! We will be selling at home drink kits (including @bleeckerstreetbarnyc award-winning Bloody Mary mix!). 

Shop local artists and designers SAFELY for all your holiday gift giving needs! @priscillas_petals @stmarksmasks @kellyvirginia.jewelry @foundbyfetch and @displaybydelphine are a few of the artists/vendors we have ...

Ace Bar has a curbside space on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.