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March comes in like a lion, goes out April on the corner of First Avenue and Ninth Street...

A mini month in review... (with a photo from Avenue A by Stacie Joy) • In Tompkins Square Park, a creative pushback against tech's rea...

As National Poetry Month concludes ...from the Poetry Window at East Village Books (99 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First A...

Photos by Stacie Joy  A bove left:  Jacob Ahiyon, Rivka Orlin and Danny Orlin April 2025 marked the 42nd anniversary of the East Village ins...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  A new pizza joint is getting ready to fire up its ovens on Avenue B.  Pop's Pizza, led by chef and o...

Photo and reporting by Stacie Joy  Signage for Adda Indian Canteen went up on Monday evening as the Unapologetic Foods team is set for a so...

The Daniel D. Tompkins monument as seen in the west churchyard at St. Mark's in-the-Bowery.  Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825)...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy After an extended closure, the Tompkins Square Park mini pool ( yes , Tompkins has a mini pool ) is final...

Photo by Stacie Joy  Fancy Juice is now in a grand-opening mode in its new storefront at 160 First Ave. between Ninth Street and 10th Street...

Image via @IrvingGreenNYC   Irving Green debuted on Saturday at 321 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.  Per the Irving Gr...

The Sunflower East Village, located on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Fifth Street, announced a closure for a "restructure...

Info via the EVG inbox ... Eric Drooker , a native of Manhattan's East Side, will give a slide lecture about the neighborhood's ch...

EVG reader Jackflashnyc shares this...  This beautiful fiberglass canoe in good working condition appeared overnight on 14th Street in fro...

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy  Billed as "five days of cinema, culture and chaos in the Lower East Side," this year marks the...

Here's our first look in several months at 644 14th St., the imposing ("The Beast," according to an EVG reader) 24-story res...

Fans of Los Tacos No. 1 will have another nearby outpost to visit. EVG reader Seth Treiman noted that the Los Tacos website now features a ...

Luckin Coffee , a Beijing-based coffee brand with 22,000 locations worldwide, is opening an outpost on Eighth Street and Broadway. ( Thank...

A story we didn't get to mention this past week... Mimi Cheng's is temporarily closed here at 179 Second Ave. between 11th Street a...

Photos by Stacie Joy  Yesterday afternoon, a coalition of NYC-based groups gathered in Tompkins Square Park to question the growing influenc...

Posts this past week included (with a photo from the Seventh Street side of Tompkins Square Park)... • Flood gate demo offers a glimpse of...