Monday, April 7, 2025

Asphalt bungle: Rough walkway still a hazard near Tompkins Square Park field House

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Photos Saturday by Steven  It appears workers have finished repaving the area around the renovated (and still closed) Tompkins Square Park ...
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Fancy Juice moving up 1st Avenue

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Today is the last day for Fancy Juice at 69 First Ave.  But don't worry if you're a fan.  The purveyors of açaí bowls, smoothies a...

Signage alert: Bánh Mì Café on 10th Street

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Bánh Mì Café, offering Vietnamese coffee and sandwiches, is coming soon to 241 E. 10th St. just west of First Avenue.  It is primarily a t...
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Signage alert: The Burger Guy on Avenue A

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Signage is up for The Burger Guy (or "The Burger Guy"), arriving this summer at 147 Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Stree...
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Sunday, April 6, 2025

Weekend's parting shot

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Photo by Stacie Joy  From Friday evening, a stoop get-together at Sixth Street Specials.  Read about the shop's future here .

Would Chelsea and Rick from season 3 of 'The White Lotus' live in the East Village?

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Photo courtesy of HBO  Season 3 of "The White Lotus" concludes tonight.  In an attempt to get in on the news cycle (like that post...
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Week in Grieview

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Posts this past week included (with a ballerina on Union Square by Derek Berg )...  • Man sentenced for 2 March 2024 shootings in Tompkins...

Star's Revenge (and friends)

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Photo and reporting by Stacie Joy  From left on 2nd Street: Olive Faber and  Emily Green  This past Thursday night, Star's Revenge — Oli...

1 night only: An art show at FTC on A

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Unfortunately, we missed the  one-night-only art show  on Friday, adjacent to the  FTC skate shop  at 216 Avenue A between 13th Street and 1...

Sunday's opening shot

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Photo by Stacie Joy  Inside the All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church on 11th Street east of Third Avenue...
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Saturday, April 5, 2025

Saturday's parting shot

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Photo by Stacie Joy  Unable to attend today's Hands Off! rally starting in Bryant Park, these residents — (from left ) Lois Weaver, Peg...
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You can check out the the 6th and B Garden this weekend

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Garden prep photo last week by Stacie Joy  The 6th & B Garden on the SW corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B is holding its first open ho...

EVG Etc.: New mixed-income housing for the LES; an expanded car-free Earth Day

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Photo by Stacie Joy  Resources for immigrants at the Tompkins Square Library branch (and at other NYPL branches)  Local stories of interest...

Saturday's opening shot

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Rear building sky view from the Lower East Side... drizzle to rain off and on all weekend long, per the weather people .
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Friday, April 4, 2025

'Rent' control

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  The London-based Snapped Ankles recently released its fourth record, the appropriately titled Hard Times Furious Dancing. The video here ...
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St. Mark’s Place branching out with 3 new trees

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Photos by Jacob Ford  Workers today are planting three new trees on St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue, adjacent to the new 9-story office...
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The East Village is now home to Manhattan's first 2D restaurant

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Shirokuro has debuted at 103 Second Ave. at Sixth Street.  The omakase spot also marks the neighborhood's (and Manhattan's!) first...
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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Night and day

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A springtime look inside the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
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Letter perfect

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Photos by Stacie Joy  We spotted Kash updating the film titles at Village East by Angelika yesterday on Second Avenue at 12th Street ... th...

Openings: Pavlo Mochi on Avenue B

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  Pavlo Mochi debuted at 199 Avenue B between 12th Street and 13th Street this week.  I met owner Pavlo Se...
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