Sunday, January 31, 2021
Week in Grieview
NYC Restaurant Week To Go is now a full month through February
NYC Restaurant Week To Go, set to end today, has been extended now through Feb. 28.
What: A takeout- and delivery-only version of NYC Restaurant Week, offering lunch or dinner for a set price of $20.21. The offer includes a prix-fixe entrée and at least one side. Plus, if you purchase your meal with your registered Mastercard®, you’ll get $10 back.
MF BERN
Report: The first major snowstorm of Feb. 1, 2021, on its way
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST TUESDAY...* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 14 to 18 inches. Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.* WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York.* WHEN...From 7 PM this evening to 6 AM EST Tuesday.* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The hazardous conditions could impact the morning and evening commute. Gusty winds could bring down tree branches.* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Blizzard like conditions possible Monday and Monday evening.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Your Book Swap Sunday reminder for Sunday
Let's share our used books to help us get through this pandemic together. Leave some and take others... Thanks for making these such a wonderful success! And you don't have to donate. Taking is sharing also.
EVG Etc.: Real-time maps of construction sites for cyclists; Permanent Open Streets for all
Friday, January 29, 2021
8 is enough
Gov. Cuomo to allow indoor dining — at 25% — again starting on Valentine's Day
Perhaps some of the East Village restaurants who went on hiatus back in December will decide to return to service — indoors and out — starting on Feb. 14.Update on indoor dining in NYC:
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 29, 2021
If positivity rates hold we will reopen indoor dining at 25% capacity on Valentine's Day - February 14.
In addition to reduced capacity, mandatory safety guidelines will be in place.
[R]estaurant owners and industry advocates have argued that indoor dining should resume in the name of regional fairness. In Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey, restaurants have been allowed to operate indoors at up to 50-percent capacity, despite those areas sometimes having higher COVID-19 infection rates than the five boroughs.
Gallery Watch: First Draft at Ki Smith Gallery
Text and photos by Clare Gemima
I had the pleasure of being taken around the work of install_1, the first of three parts in First Draft by its curator Sei Smith (pictured in the middle above, and brother of Ki Smith). Speaking to the works of art and about the show as an art form in and of itself, Sei’s confidence and strong sense of adaptability between both artist and curator presented me with a wealth of knowledge and, naturally, a long list of questions.
“The synchronicity lies not in the aesthetics of the art objects, but in the artists’ treatment of material as subject to create subversive “paintings” that embody the inescapable harmony of minimalism.” (Read the press release here.)
Harmonizing Ki Smith Gallery until Valentine’s Day, three young artists who were supposed to show at Art Toronto found themselves in conversation about how their practices ebb and flow, fit with and depart from each other’s.
The artists and revolving group of curators include Bevington, who works with resin, concrete, acetate and polyurethane. Her work bridges between hypothetical and physical through the use of paint, pixels, words and fabric. My favorite of hers was the acrylic on panel Photograph of Orange Rose, 2020.
Another stand out work for me was Rills, 2020. Made from handmade paper by Reitz who has a background in stock animation film. He is currently studying Integrated Digital Media and has seamlessly married an organic analogue material with a mechanically digital format.
And of course, the curator of the first installation of First Draft, Smith studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown his work both locally and internationally. I personally felt an instant draw to Sei’s work because of its reflective surfaces, fluorescent, iridescent and transient in their formal finish.
You can find all work from First Draft and many other works from Caslon Bevington, Sei Smith and Dylan Reitz on the Ki Smith Gallery website.
And a special thanks to Sei Smith for showing me around the space.
Flashback Friday: The EVG 'A visit to...' archives
• Paradise Alley at Duane Park
• ANNA
• Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
• Metropolis Vintage
• The TF in Tompkins Square Park
• East River Park
• Desi Galli
• St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
• City Fun
• The Bhakti Center
• Peter Jarema Funeral Home
• Sixth Street Specials
• Dumpling Man
• CAVAglass
• Il Posto Accanto
• Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen
[The staff at Lancelotti]
• Lancelotti Housewares
Phony Express debuts a birthday tribute to Ray at Ray's Candy Store
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Curbside dining space removed outside Lucy's on Avenue A
Grant Shaffer's NY See
Here's the latest NY See panel, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around the neighborhood and NYC ...
Holidays on ice
A visit to Good Time Pilates
ICYMI: Enz's is back in the East Village
We're long overdue with this welcome back post!
Tokio7 returns (online)
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Curbside eviction notice outside Lucy's
Another look at conditions in and around the Mariana Bracetti Plaza public housing complex
We heard from another resident who lives in the complex.
"I grew up here, and when I say this building has become more dangerous than it was in the 1970s and 1980s, I am not kidding," said the resident, who shared a few photos to illustrate the squalid conditions ... such as in the blood-stained elevators and atop the trash-strewn sidewalk bridge, which lines the property and provides cover for some of the illegal acts that residents have reported without much success...