Raclette reopens on June 29

Say cheese: Raclette lives on at 511 E. 12th St. 

Earlier this month, a closed sign appeared on the door here between Avenue A and Avenue B. Owner Edgar Villongco also confirmed the closing news with Eater.

However, a new sign now notes a temporary closure... with a reopening on Wednesday, July June 29. There isn't any further explanation about the closure at the moment. (Updated: Villongco told Eater it was insurance-related.) 

The restaurant, which serves French and Swiss Raclette, Croques and Tartine, opened in a 14-seat space on Avenue A in February 2015... before moving to these larger confines in September 2016.

Thanks to the folks at the East Village Community Coalition for the photo!

Brooklyn Roasting Company opens a cafe inside the Strand

On Saturday, the Strand Bookstore celebrated its 95th year in business ... and on this day, the Strand's flagship location near Union Square officially debuted a cafe on the ground floor with coffee drinks and pastries via Brooklyn Roasting Company. (The outpost also sells tins of a Strand blend of coffee.)

"Bringing coffee to our customers has been a long-time dream for the Strand," CCO Laura Ravo said in a press release about the opening. 

The Strand, 828 Broadway at 12th Street, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Image via @brooklynroasting

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from the start of the Drag March Friday by Derek Berg) ...

• At the rally to go 'All Out For Abortion Rights' (Saturday) 

 

• 1st Avenue old-timer Royal Bangladesh Indian Restaurant has closed (Tuesday)

• RIP Pilar Limosner (Thursday) ... Celebrating the life of longtime community garden activist Clyde Romero (Tuesday) 

• Drag March recap (Saturday and Saturday) 

• Details about an hours-long break-in at CC Cyclery & Co. on 13th Street (Tuesday) 

• Reader report: Tarallucci e Vino has closed (Tuesday) 

• The Gem Spa signage shines brightly in this Ohio farmhouse (Thursday) 

• At the Zine Fair on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Report: Concern over the potential sale of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (Monday) 

• Los Tacos NYC has apparently closed on 7th Street (Thursday) 

• A bakery called Butterdose is coming soon to 13th Street (Wednesday) 

• 50 years of 'Deep Throat' (Sunday) 

• The Green Room setting up a CBD shop on 9th Street (Thursday) ... Titan's Greenery Arts, a '420 friendly gallery,' debuts on 9th Street (Wednesday) 

• A soft opening for Xeo Cantina on the Bowery (Wednesday)

• Taco Bell grandly opens on 3rd Avenue and 13th Street (Tuesday) 

• Why is the SE corner of 2nd Avenue and 5th Street a dumping ground for artificial Christmas trees? (Monday) 

... and yesterday, the Japanese Folk Dance Institute of NY performed on Avenue B between Eighth and Ninth streets ... (photo by Stacie Joy) ... check out the Loisaida Open Streets Instagram account for upcoming events...

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At the 2022 Dyke March

Images by Stacie Joy 

On this Pride weekend, the 30th annual edition of the Dyke March took place yesterday, with thousands of participants marching down Fifth Avenue from Bryant Park to Washington Square Park. 

The official site notes that this is a protest march, not a parade: 

The March is a demonstration of our First Amendment right to protest and takes place without permits or sponsors. We recognize that we must organize among ourselves to fight for our rights, safety and visibility.

Thousands of Dykes take the streets each year in celebration of our beautiful and diverse Dyke lives, to highlight the presence of Dykes within our community, and in protest of the discrimination, harassment, and violence we face in schools, on the job, and in our communities. 

Organizer Nate Shalev talked about the march's diversity with Gothamist:

There's just simply no other space like it, where trans dykes, butch dykes, femme dykes, all dykes feel like they have a space where they can be who they are and celebrate who they are. And that means being angry, and that means being joyful, and you don't have to be anything except whatever the thing is you are."

There was a heightened feeling of fury yesterday following the seismic ruling by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Feeling outraged? Us too! Come see dyke rage for yourself tomorrow at the 30th Annual NYC Dyke March. Theme this year is D4T: Dykes for Trans Liberation. 5PM Bryant Park. See you there.

— NYC DYKE MARCH (@NYCDykeMarch) June 24, 2022

EVG contributor Stacie Joy was on lower Fifth Avenue and in Washington Square Park for the March... 

Back to Gothamist: 

Celebrations around the Washington Square Park fountain after the long, hot trek accurately reflect what march participants feel at the end of the road, Shalev confirmed: "It's always really wonderful, because it's allowing dykes to exist in whatever space they need."

Previously this weekend on EV Grieve: 

• At the rally to go 'All Out For Abortion Rights' 

• At the Drag March along 9th Street 

• At the start of the Drag March in Tompkins Square Park

Sunday's opening shots

Photos by Stacie Joy

In-progress shots of a new mural by Bianca Romero at the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union on Avenue B at Third Street ... it will be finished soon... 

Sunday's opening video clip

 

Filling the Tompkins Square Park mini pool this morning... City pools open on Tuesday.

Saturday's parting shot

As seen on Second Avenue at Fifth Street today... photo by Derek Berg...

At the rally to go 'All Out For Abortion Rights'

Images by Stacie Joy

Thousands of people gathered to "voice their fears and anger" in Washington Square Park early last evening hours after the Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly 50 years no longer exists.

Published reports put the crowd size between 10,000 and 17,000. 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos ...

The assembled protestors eventually split off into different groups, with some going up Fifth Avenue to Union Square, where many continued on to Midtown ... while others headed downtown to Foley Square before eventually crossing the Brooklyn Bridge... 

At the Drag March along 9th Street

Images by Stacie Joy 

The 28th edition of the Drag March took place last night — a kick-off to NYC Pride Weekend. 

As always, participants gathered in Tompkins Square Park ... before the group — estimated in the thousands — marched across Ninth Street to Sheridan Square and the Stonewall Inn. 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy met the annual drag protest and visibility march along Ninth Street ...