Saturday, June 28, 2025

City pools are now OPEN

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Photos by Stacie Joy  City pools opened for the summer yesterday.  I stopped by the three local pools ... starting with Hamilton Fish at Ho...
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Today (Saturday!) on Avenue B

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Loisaida Open Streets (@loisaida_oscc) Also: The DOT is proposing a stre...

Saturday's opening shot

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At the 7th and A entrance to Tompkins Square Park.  And cutting and pasting this Saturday forecast from The Weather Channel : "A show...
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Friday, June 27, 2025

Friday's parting shot

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Photo by Stacie Joy  We'll have more photos from the start of the Drag March in Tompkins Square Park later this weekend...

'Tell' it like it is

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  Brooklyn's Big Girl is one of the bands on the bill this Sunday afternoon (June 29, 2-6 p.m.) in another free  Show Brain-sponsored s...

Pride Weekend 2025

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Photo from 2024 by Stacie Joy  The 31st edition of the Drag March will get Pride Weekend underway this evening, starting in Tompkins Square ...

Demoliton awaits the longtime sidewalk vendor space on St. Mark’s Place

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Workers yesterday erected plywood around the building extension on the southwest corner of St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue, ahead o...
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The war on the roses

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As seen on Sixth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue:  There will be no roses  The Rose Murderer is nipping them in the bud
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Friday's opening shot

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From 6th and B... school is out for the summmmer.
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Hawkward teen phase: Young red-tailed hawks settle into Tompkins Square Park

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Photos by Steven  The three juvenile red-tailed hawks continue to explore their new home in Tompkins Square Park, seemingly unbothered by t...

Gnocco celebrates 25 years on 10th Street

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Gnocco is celebrating 25 years in business at 337 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.  Owner Gian...

Taqueria Diana has apparently closed on 2nd Avenue

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Taqueria Diana has been closed for the last 10 or so days at 129 Second Ave., between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.  Tipsters rep...
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Openings: Empire Gourmet Deli on Avenue C

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Empire Gourmet Deli debuted yesterday at 27 Avenue C between Second Street and Third Street... (and oddly...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Too hot to handle: Fire truck sinks into this Lower East Side street

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Photos by John Huntington   From today on Eldridge at Grand on the Lower East Side... in the stifling heat, the front tire of a truck from E...

Primary Election Night 2025

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Photos by Daniel Efram   Last evening, d.b.a. on First Avenue hosted a watch party for Zohran Mamdani. And it turned out to be a night to re...
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RIP Marcia Resnick

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Marcia Resnick with Andy Warhol and William Burroughs in 1980  Photo by Victor Bockris via @marcia.resnick   Marcia Resnick, a photographer ...
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1st look at the parking-garage-replacing condoplex on 9th Street

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Last week , we noted that workers have completed the demolition of the former Little Man Parking garage (aka LaSalle Parking) at 220 E. Nint...
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Gametime for the former Superiority Burger space on 9th Street

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  Gametime is set to open in early August at 430 E. Ninth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue, in the fo...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Tuesday's parting shot

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Photo by Stacie Joy Per AccuWeather :  In New York City, the temperature fell just shy of hitting triple digits, but the high of 99 degrees ...
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Elizabeth Street Garden lives on

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by @marcellus_hall ICYMI: NYC officials yesterday abandoned a hotly contest...
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