6 posts from February

A mini month in review (with a photo from the Tompkins Square mini pool — and yes, Tompkins has a mini pool)... 

• The Cinnabon/Carvel combo shop is now OPEN on 14th Street (Feb. 26) 

• Mount Sinai Beth Israel will close on March 26 after judge dismisses lawsuit (Feb. 25) 

• A longtime East Village bar and restaurant owner turns 100: 'Life is beautiful' (Feb. 20)

• A bar dedicated to women's sports is opening on the Bowery (Feb. 19) 

• Bella’s passing marks another sad chapter in East Village fire tragedy (Feb. 9) 

• Now Now NoHo set to debut its micro hotel rooms in April on the Bowery (Feb. 3)

Week in Grieview

Posts from the past week included (with a pre-snow photo from St. Mark's Place last evening)...

• Neighbor steps up to care for dog injured in 2nd Avenue fire that claimed owner’s life (Monday ... Bella’s passing marks another sad chapter in East Village fire tragedy (Sunday) 

• Now Now NoHo set to debut its micro hotel rooms in April on the Bowery (Monday) 

• Terra Thai is closing this month for a revamp with a March return (Monday) 

• The return of The Chillmaster! (Friday)

• Checking in on 644 E. 14th St. (Wednesday) 

• "Caught Stealing" slides into theaters this August (Tuesday)

• Long empty 6th Street storefront finally hits the market (Wednesday)

• Did the Tompkins Square Park opossum see his or her shadow? (Tuesday) 

• Requiem for a Blue Man Group (Monday) 

• The former Brick Lane Curry House space is for rent on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Signage alert: 'The Jonathan Larson Project' at the Orpheum Theatre (Tuesday) 

• Double Zero and Bar Verde combine space on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Kobano on the Bowery (Monday)

• A full reveal at the Five Guys, opening this week on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)

Week in Grieview

Posts that past week included (with an EVG photo outside McSorley's the other evening)...

• RIP Steven Englander (Monday) 

• The wild project is fundraising to purchase its home on 3rd Street (Wednesday)

• Housing lottery is underway for 21 apartments in the East Village (Tuesday) 

• A few thoughts on SantaCon 2024 (Monday) 

• A sidewalk bridge for the fire-damaged 328 E. 9th St. (Wednesday) 

• About Night Club 101, taking over the former Baker Falls and Pyramid space on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Book-Off will bring its discounted goods to Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Sushi Counter on 12th Street (Wednesday) ... Pasta Rullo on 9th Street (Monday) 

• 50-64 3rd Ave. is going, going... (Monday) 

• Cookie Puss alert! The Cinnabon/Carvel carb-heaven combo coming to 14th Street

• 'The Jonathan Larson Project' is up next at the Orpheum Theatre (Friday) ... 'The Big Gay Jamboree' packs it in early (Tuesday)

• Signage alert: Compton's Sandwich Shop on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• The retail space — the former Sidewalk Cafe — at 94-96 Avenue A is for lease (Tuesday) 

• Danny & Coop's slinging Philly cheesesteaks from 151 Avenue A this weekend (Saturday)

• EVG turns 17 (Friday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg of the mural for "A Complete Unknown" on Ludlow and Delancey)... 

• Report of a fire at 328 E. 9th St. (Saturday) 

• City launches community engagement campaign for '100% affordable housing' on 9th Precinct parking lot (Thursday) 

• St. Marks Veterinary Hospital is closing this month (Wednesday) 

• Scrooged: 14th Street Trader Joe's employees say their hours are being cut this holiday season (Thursday) 

• Strand employees reach tentative agreement, return to work pending ratification vote (Wednesday) ... Strand Books employees go on strike in bid to increase minimum-wage salaries (Monday)

• At Day 1 of the Cookie Walk (Sunday) 

• At the 33rd annual Tompkins Square Park Holiday tree lighting (Monday) 

• The curbside dining structure is coming down at Il Posto Accanto (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Noona's Ice Cream & Bakeshop (Wednesday) 

• Lower East Side cafe puts a Pause on laptops and iPads (Tuesday) • 9 Bleecker St. is for sale — and rent (Wednesday) 

• The former Rockwood Music Hall is for rent on the Lower East Side (Monday)

• Checking in on the former 7-Eleven on Avenue A (Monday) 

• This place on 1st Avenue is going to be Bananas (Tuesday)

• Signage alert: Tipsy Shanghai on 2nd Avenue (Thursday) ... Tiki Tiki on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

 ... and a few days later — Blowin' in the Wind...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a throwback on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg)... 

• Live from 1st Avenue: East Village Radio continues to bolster its programming (Monday)

• A rally to landmark the historic New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (Tuesday) 

• After 5-month closure due to fire, a renovated TabeTomo reopens (Monday) 

• At the debut of Boycott Sleep, an artist-led collective aspiring to redefine live music spaces (Friday) 

• Can you spot the new building going up on 14th Street and Avenue C? (Tuesday) 

• The beet goes on: The acclaimed Veselka doc gets a streaming and Blu-ray release date (Friday)

• Celebrating the life of Reagan Youth's Paul 'Cripple' Bakija at Niagara (Friday) 

• Scratch that: The random songs of the 80s and 90s return to Key Food (Wednesday) 

• The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade will go on — or will it? Why no one seems to know. (Tuesday) ... Here's what you need to know about the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade (Friday) 

• Signage alert: L&L Hawaiian Barbeque and Tōka Chef Kitchen on Allen Street (Monday) 

• This week in milling and paving (Thursday) 

• The HEYTEA brand is opening an outpost on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Openings: Cuts & Slices on Houston (Thursday) 

• 1 St. Mark's Place gets lit (Friday) 

• Closings: Dora on Avenue B (Wednesday)

• Lollo Ristorante Pizzeria & Bar has not been open lately on Avenue B (Wednesday)

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included... (with a photo of the Moon and Kendall Jenner's elbow above the Bowery)... 

• Remembering Harold Meltzer (Wednesday)

• Prepping Theatre 80 for its next chapter on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• A new East Village home for Gizmo (Thursday) 

• That's all for the East Village Neighbors Community Fridge on 12th Street and 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• The new 24-story residential building on 14th and C begins its ascent (Tuesday) 

• Dedicating Raphael Sadonte Ward Jr. Way on the Lower East Side (Tuesday) 

• Why you'll be shopping at Key Food on Avenue A without hearing a random song from the 1980s (Sunday) 

• A second Rogue vintage clothing shop opens on the Lower East Side (Friday)

• Trash fire engulfs car on 4th Street (Saturday)

• On the CB3 docket this month: a new era for Lucy's, another operator for Lamia's Fish Market (Monday) 

 

• Veselka reopens front counter for dining-in customers (Monday) 

• About the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (Saturday) 

• With help from some friends, The Hard Quartet pays homage to the Stones on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) 

• 9th Precinct issues headphone-theft warning (Monday)

• At the annual Festival Calle 6 (Monday)

• Get well soon, Currant! (Tuesday) 

• Tree down on Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• This week in lines (Friday) 

• A look inside the shuttered Starbucks on Astor Place (Wednesday) 

• FYI: It's NYU's Welcome Weekend (Saturday) 

... and from our ongoing Classic Cars of Avenue C collection...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from 3rd between B and C)... 

• NYPD: Suspect arrested in connection with the 2 recent shootings in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

• Greenpoint hit Taqueria Ramírez is opening an East Village outpost (Thursday) 

• 1st sign this spring of the wisteria on Stuyvesant Street (and that townhouse is for sale!) (Tuesday) ... Walking on Stuyvesant Street in the rain (Sunday)

• Marking the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Monday) 

• This non-fiction reading series in the East Village turns 10 on Monday (Wednesday) 

• A look inside Trader Joe's Pronto, now open on 14th Street in Union Square (Wednesday) 

• A journey into the COZMOS on 10th Street (Friday) 

• Good Friday on Avenue B (Saturday) 

• Remembering Tim Lomas (Saturday) 

• Checking in on the former mucky tree well on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• 'Orson’s Shadow' at Theater for the New City (Wednesday) 

• Tribes of Morocco relocates to a larger storefront on 9th Street (Tuesday) 

• Coming soon to the East Village: No More Cafe, 'a haven for alcohol-free celebration' (Monday)

• Openings: The Commodore on Avenue C (Friday) ... Yummy Hive on 2nd Avenue (Monday) 

• Kolkata Chai Co. closed for renovations until April 1 on 3rd Street (Monday) 

• Spa treatment (Thursday)

• About a sustainable Salon No. 17 (Wednesday) 

• Signage alert: Utshob Restaurant on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Art Gotham is the new tenant for the landmarked 4 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

... annnnnnnnnnnnnd! (Background!)

... and a reader shares the tiniest tree that we may have ever seen discarded... on 14th Street this past week ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with some hoops at Sara D. Roosevelt Park via Stacie Joy) ...

• Two bystanders shot after a nearby argument escalated to gunfire in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

• 1 year after building fire, A&C Kitchen grandly reopens on Avenue C (Wednesday) 

• Housing lottery underway for units in this new building on 10th Street (Monday)

• The NYPL's archive of the legendary East Village Eye now available to the public (Tuesday) 

• 'Americans in Paris' at the new Grey Art Museum on Cooper Square (Friday) 

• Architectural sculpture digest: A look at some unique 'Houses and Hotels' at O’Flaherty's (Thursday)

• A familiar face returns to Key Food (Wednesday) 

• Coming attractions: The 'Kim's Video' documentary debuts at the Quad on April 5 (Thursday) 

• Full reveal at 14 Avenue C, where the team behind The Commodore is opening a new outpost (Monday)

• An update from G's Cheesesteaks, opening May 1 on Avenue B and Houston (Thursday) 

• This day on the Bowery in 2007 (Thursday) 

• Your faceless Charlie Brown mural update from 12th Street (Tuesday) 

• Boris & Horton reopens on Avenue A (Tuesday)

• Openings: Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday) ... Not as Bitter brings the fresh fruit lattes to 10th Street (Tuesday) 

• PLNT Burger closes its Union Square outpost (Monday) 

• Meet Belvedere, the Russian tortoise (Thursday) 

• Perk Espresso & Coffee Bar closes on 14th Street (Monday)

• Goodbye Dolly (Monday) 

• Awash in debt, Body Shop shuts down operations (Tuesday) 

... and a post we didn't get around to posting this past week... Starlight Convenience coming to 110 Third Ave. between 13th Street and 14th Street... (bring back the Variety Theater!)

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A round-up of the old-school Chinese restaurants in the East Village

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

The neighborhood has temporarily lost two reasonably priced quick-serve Chinese restaurants this year — A&C Kitchen on Avenue C after a fire in the courtyard and Asian Taste on Third and B due to a gas shutoff in the building. 

In addition, New Double Dragon closed on First Avenue with the pending demolition of a three-building parcel. 

Previously, we saw the closure of New Chinatown Restaurant on Avenue D and China Town Restaurant on Houston. 

So it seems like there aren’t as many options for pork fried rice, sesame chicken and beef with broccoli these days. So, we decided to take inventory. I recruited local Chinese food enthusiast Josh Davis (an EVG contributor under the name jdx) to help me visit the remaining old-school East Village options. 

Here's our list. (Have we left any out? And note: We stayed between Houston and 16th Street, Avenue D to Third Avenue.) 

• Chen's Express Kitchen: 223 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue 

(Menu here)

• Baji Baji: 145 First Ave. between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street

(Instagram account here)

• China Wok: 63 Avenue D between Fifth Street and Sixth Street

(Menu here)

• Fei Ma: 79 Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street 

(Menu here)

• M&J Asian: 600 E. 14th St. at Avenue B 

(Website here)

• Mee Noodle: 223 First Ave, between 13th Street and 14th Street

(Yelp info here)

• No 1 Kitchen: 265 First Ave. between 15th Street and 16th Street 

(Website here)

• Red House: 203 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue 

(Website here)

• Yang’s Happy Wok: 175 Avenue C between 10th Street and 11th Street 

(Website here)

While we miss some mid-2000s casualties like Bamboo House and Jade Mountain, a decent variety of restaurants remain. 

Let us know in the comments if you have a favorite from this list...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg from outside an NYFW show — Wiederhoeft — at LaMama on Fourth Street) ... 

• The former P.S. 64/Charas is now headed to a bankruptcy sale (Wednesday)

• Here's the first look at the new building slated for 50-64 Third Ave. (Friday) 

• The owner of Max restaurant is returning to Avenue B with a new pizzeria (Thursday)

• Report: Early morning stabbing on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

• Welcoming Beastie Boys Square to the Lower East Side (Monday) 

• At Fucking Awesome with Chloë Sevigny (Wednesday) 

• Kyp Malone's 'Dream Articulations' at Snow Gallery (Saturday)

• Openings: Cantina Cubana on Avenue B (Friday) ... Motel No Tell on Avenue A (Thursday) ... EVC Caffé on 5th Street (Wednesday) 

• Friday night with Crackhead Barney and Friends at Grace Exhibition Space on Avenue C (Thursday)

• Dim Sum Go Go's East Village outpost set for a soft opening (Thursday) 

• Report of a fire at 91 E. 3rd St. (Wednesday)

• Doja Cat's "Scarlet" alter ego spotted in Tompkins (Tuesday)

• Double rainbows on 9/11 (Monday) 

• Signage time for Seasoned Vegan (Monday) 

• The case of the missing East Village Mini Market signage (Thursday) 

• A look inside the incoming Popeyes on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Mr. Kim arrives on St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• About Schmuck on 1st Avenue (Monday) 

• 5 weeks (or so) until the Wegmans at Astor Place opens (Tuesday) 

... speaking of Wegmans, reps were handing out freebies in Tompkins Square Park yesterday ahead of the grand opening on Oct. 18 (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Steven of the LUNGS Spring Awakening Parade in Tompkins Square Park yesterday)... 

• Report: East Village gallery a no-show on opening night, leaving artists without their work (Wednesday) ... After group-show ghosting, the EVAC space is for lease on 1st Avenue (Thursday) 

• Help for A&C Kitchen, which remains closed after a late-February fire (Thursday) 

• A look at Poetica Coffee, opening soon on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• The farce awakens at the Orpheum Theatre (Saturday) 

• Downtown Bakery preparing to reopen after being sidelined with an expired license (Friday) 

• A visit to East Village Buyers, now in soft-open mode in new Avenue A home (Friday) 

• A new home on an avenue for East Village gallery-bookstore Ed. Varie (Tuesday) 

• A great new song and video from cumgirl8 (Friday) 

• Collapsed portion of sidewalk whole again on 7th Street (Monday) 

• Openings: Honey Crepes on 13th Street (Tuesday) 

• Aura Bar & Kitchen is back on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Sushi on Jones departs The Bowery Market, where several new concepts are on the way (Thursday) 

• Signage alert: Deli Convenience on 1st Avenue; Partea on 14th Street (Monday) 

• On the April CB3-SLA docket: A Pig & Butter sibling on Avenue B (Monday)

• Happy trails to the Shake Shack curbside dining structure on 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

... and Bob's Bar has reopened for the season on 12th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (photo by Stacie Joy) ...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on First Avenue by Derek Berg) ... 

• Ben’s Deli moving on without Ben on Avenue B (Wednesday) 

• Time passages: Check out the interior of the long-empty Mom's Liquor Store on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Suspect arrested after firing gun on 4th Street between C and D (Thursday) 

• Reconstruction work on the Tompkins Square Park field house starts soon (Monday) 

• Report: Gregg Singer places the former P.S. 64/Charas into bankruptcy protection (Wednesday) ... At the long-vacant former P.S. 64/CHARAS, more "frivolous court actions to tie up the property" (Thursday) 

• Paying tribute to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 (Friday) 

• These East Village tenants, fearing displacement, to rally against their new landlord (Saturday) 

• Experimental Intermedia brings the films of Bradley Eros to Whitebox gallery (Thursday)

• Anthology Film Archives hosting a long-overdue retrospective of East Village artist Abigail Child (Wednesday) 

• McSorley's "bringing all the energy back inside" (Monday) 

• Corteiz x Nike Air Max 95 collab drop draws crowds, NYPD on 4th and C (Tuesday)

• The $1 cheese slice at 2 Bros. on St. Mark's Place is now $1.50 (Monday) ... A cheese slice is 99 cents again at 99 Cent Pizza on 14th Street (Thursday) 

• Highlighting "Free The Nipple Day" on Avenue A (Thursday)

 ... and a moment on Third Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo — "make your best offer" — from 14th Street by Daniel Efram) ... 

• A new home and name for Café Cortadito (Monday)

• 3rd & B'zaar's new market will feature the work of women-owned businesses (Wednesday) 

• May the farce be with you: 'The Empire Strips Back' is next up at the Orpheum Theatre (Thursday) 

• A new era for the old Bad Pussies wall on 3rd Street and Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Fire jumping returns (Saturday) 

• Revisiting a transformative Sunday on Avenue A (Friday) 

• What's happening on this block of 5th Street? (Tuesday)

• CM Rivera addresses 'operations improvements' for Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday) 

• Openings: The York on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• Corner spaces for lease along Houston at Elizabeth and the Bowery (Tuesday)

• Report: The Astor Place cube will be ready for a spin once more this summer (Friday) 

• Corner development battle: 360 Bowery takes commanding lead over 1 St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• Ghost signage on 7th Street (Wednesday) 

• On the rental market: 118 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• March madness! Key Food continues to up its St. Patrick's Day game (Monday) 

• First sign of Raising Cane's on Astor Place (Thursday) 

• Gelato 1st and 10th (Monday) 

• Report: Angel's Share has a new home (and what of its old home?) (Monday) 

... and on First Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street, the short-lived Healthily Deli is now going as Top1 Convenience (thanks to Steven for the photo)...

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo on St. Mark's Place by Derek Berg) ... 

• D.A. announces indictment in assault outside Ray's Candy Store (Thursday) 

• Report of a fire at 136 Avenue C (Monday) ... After the fire at 136 Avenue C; A&C Kitchen damaged (Wednesday) 

• Anyway Cafe is closing; staff hopes to open new establishment (Monday) ... At the last night of Anyway Cafe (Wednesday)

• Seasoned Vegan coming to the East Village (Thursday) 

• On 1st Avenue, New Double Dragon is closing and maybe reopening (Tuesday) ... Serenity Spa remains open on corner rumored for new development (Wednesday) 

• A community art project honors the resilience of Ukrainians; it will be on display at Veselka (Thursday) 

• The return of B-Side (Friday) 

• Potty on! Restrooms randomly back open in Tompkins Square Park after a 4-month closure (Sunday) 

• Closing the book for now at Short Stories on the Bowery (Wednesday) 

• Night market concept looks to be the life of the Partea on 14th Street (Thursday) 

• Virginia's eyes a March debut in new 3rd Street home (Tuesday) 

• Hello Dolly: Incoming dessert shop on 1st Avenue has a memorable name (Tuesday) 

• A notice to remove the sidewalk dining room at the now-closed Bait & Hook (Monday) 

• A look at 'Vital Impetus' at Azure Arts (Friday) 

• From Brix to Brick on Clinton (Monday) 

• Smoke shop! (Monday) 

... and is Saquon Barkley of the NY Giants enjoying his off-season in the neighborhood? As seen in a dry cleaners on Avenue A... 

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery from 2nd Avenue) ...

 • First on EVG: Early morning assault outside Ray's Candy Store leaves Ray with a black eye and facial wounds (Thursday) ... An update on Ray (Friday) ... Suspect who allegedly assaulted Ray has been arrested (Saturday) 

• Report: The former Charas/P.S. 64 is headed to auction this March (Tuesday) 

• Fire shutters the recently opened Gjelina on Bond Street (Tuesday) 

• Det. Jamie Hernandez honored after 34 years with the 9th Precinct (Thursday) 

• A youthful exchange of ideas with Dr. Cornel West at Performance Space New York (Monday) 

• Signage alert: O'Flaherty's on Avenue A (Monday) 

• Why this East Village writer is on an apology tour (Friday) 

• Packing up Café Cortadito (Wednesday) 

• 280 E. Houston St. prepped for new building construction (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Bobby’s Night Out on Avenue C (Wednesday) ... Gen Korean BBQ House on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Essex Squeeze has closed its 5th Street outpost (Monday) 

• Signage alert: Saint Pizza on Avenue B (Tuesday) 

• The return of 99-cent pizza?! (Monday) 

• What's going on with Pop's Eat-Rite on St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• City removes curbside dining structure from outside AO Bowl on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

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Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a Second Avenue mannequin photo by Derek Berg) ... 

 • 4 East Village development sites to watch in 2023 (Wednesday) 

• NYPD looking for 3 suspects in New Year's Eve stabbing on Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• Parting thoughts on being a small-business owner as Love Thy Beast departs the East Village (Thursday)

• The last days of Timbuktu (Friday) 

• A happy birthday mural for Ray on Avenue A (Monday) 

• A celebration of Three Kings Day (Saturday)

• The future of the unlicensed weed vendors (Tuesday)

• Hearth is starting its 20th anniversary year with a renovation (Wednesday) 

• Preview 2023: Target Union Square (Thursday) 

• Health scare: IG-Fit closes on 14th Street (Tuesday) 

• Bagel Market replacing Bagel Boss on 14th Street (Friday) 

• From Mikey's to Smileys on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• A report of a small fire at Dua Kafe on 14th Street (Friday) 

• What's happening at the ConEd substation? (Friday) 

• On Astor Place, a yearn to spin again (Monday) 

• Spring cleaning this winter at B-Side (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Ankara #3 (Wednesday) 

• Belse has closed on the Bowery (Thursday) ... Blue & Cream has left the Bowery for Bleecker Street (Tuesday) 

• Signage alert: Wild Rabbit Coffee on 7th Street (Thursday) 

• The 13th Step is now going as Downtown Social (Wednesday) 

... and a parting shot of Chesney after the Gifts of the Magi" performance Friday at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (photo by Derek Berg)

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A report of a small fire at Dua Kafe on 14th Street

Updated the location of the fire. And an update via Dua: "We should be opening up again very soon (the plan is tomorrow!) since the damage was relatively minimal outside of the bathroom space."

On Wednesday night around 10:30, there was a report of a fire in the bathroom at Dua Kafe, 520 E. 14th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. (Thanks to EVG reader Russell K. for the top photo.) 

The FDNY reported an "under control" from the scene in less than 15 minutes. (Dua has a posted closing time of 10 p.m.)

EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by yesterday... fortunately there was little evidence of any fire, including smoke or water damage. 

Workers at a neighboring business said that there was a small electrical fire in the back and "everything should be fine again soon." 

In the meantime, there are there is a "closed for renovation" sign up at the restaurant specializing in Albanian cuisine (read a Times review of the space here) ...

City removes charred and tagged Acura from Houston Street

This morning, the city removed the remains of the charred and tagged Acura from Houston Street at Allen... EVG regular Salim caught the transport in action as the car (and one in a similar state) headed north on First Avenue just past 14th Street.

The driver of the Acura crashed it into a pole early Sunday (4:50 a.m.) at Houston and Allen. After the collision, the car caught fire. We're told no one was injured.

Beat happening: A plaque unveiling at the former residence of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs

Tomorrow evening, Village Preservation is unveiling a plaque outside the former residence of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs on Seventh Street. 

The event takes place outside 204-206 E. Seventh St. between Avenue B and Avenue C, where the two lived in a third-floor apartment in the early 1950s. According to NYU's Grey Art Gallery, "Ginsberg took some of his best-known photographs of the Beats in this apartment, on the building's roof, and on the fire escape."

Per the Village Preservation invite: 

We will install a plaque to commemorate the Beat Generation at a building where Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs lived early in their careers. The two and occasional visitor Jack Kerouac formed the nucleus of this influential post-war countercultural movement. We will hear excerpts from their work and a discussion of the importance of the Beat Generation and of these authors' early work. 

The festivities begin at 5:30. Village Preservation asks attendees to register here in advance. 

Ginsberg lived in multiple apartments in the neighborhood from the 1950s to his death in 1997, including 170 E. Second St., 704 E. Fifth St., 408 E. 10th St., 437 E. 12th St. and 404 E. 14th St.

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo of Ruckus Interruptus playing the excellent Ninth Street block party yesterday... photo by Derek Berg)...

• Report of a 2-alarm fire at 11-13 Avenue D (Tuesday) 

• Remembering East Village artist M. Henry Jones (Wednesday)

• Astor Wines & Spirits has new owners — its employees (Tuesday) 

• City unveils Adela Fargas Way in honor of Casa Adela's legendary founder (Friday ... Saturday)

• Green days: 6&B Garden program teaching East Village kids how to garden and cook (Thursday) 

• Good Beer is closing (Monday) 

• What is the city planning for the multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park? (Wednesday)

• Compilation Coffee debuts on St. Mark's Place (Thursday) 

• Jo's Tacos coming to 14th Street (Monday) 

• The state of this Stuyvesant Street retail space (Thursday) 

• A full reveal at Zero Irving on 14th Street (Monday) 

• These cats need a home (Thursday) 

• The pre-dawn Moon in Taurus (Thursday) 

• A new broker for 44 Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• J. Crew signage official a day before its grand opening on the Bowery (Monday) 

• Signs of fall: the Feast of San Gennaro is underway (Thursday) 

• Thursday's parting SERVE (Thursday) 

• Full reveal at 15 Avenue A (Wednesday) 

• City removes the outdoor dining structure from Pardon My French on Avenue B (Friday) 

...  and after nearly seven weeks of rent-free business while parked on Sixth Street at Avenue A, the Mo' Eats truck disappeared on Wednesday...

... though it was spotted again Saturday morning not too far away...

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