Friday, December 19, 2025

Final day of Howliday shop at Howl! Arts

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Howl! Arts (@_howlarts) We stopped by here last weekend, and they have a...

The former Spice Brothers space is for rent on St. Mark's Place

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Photo by Steven  A for-lease sign now hangs on the storefront at 110 St. Mark's Place, officially marking the end of the Spice Brothers ...
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Last days for ‘Cancel This Show!’ at the Clemente

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Photos by Stacie Joy  You have a few days left to catch "Cancel This Show!," a group exhibition at the Clemente that asks where a...

Dec. 18

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Just one week before Christmas and someone decided to discard their tree here on Avenue B between 10th Street and 11th Street. It looks pr...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Wednesday's parting shot

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Outside St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at Second Avenue...
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The secret life of Key Food’s holiday decorations

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy As you've likely noticed, Key Food on Avenue A is officially in full holiday mode, including 24/7 Chr...
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Mark Bittman’s Community Kitchen wraps up Lower East Side pilot

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  Community Kitchen, the sliding-scale restaurant project from food writer and activist Mark Bittman , clo...
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UZ Grill House, in grand-opening mode, has not been opening lately

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Photo on Dec. 3 by William Klayer  After a mid-November grand opening, UZ Grill House has sat closed all this month at 180 First Ave. on the...

A coffee shop percolating for 22 St. Mark's Place

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On Dec. 8 , we noted that the Chocolate DIP outpost at 22 St. Mark's Place had apparently closed.  By the end of the week, workers had...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Tuesday's parting shot

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Photo by William R  A snowy scene on Sixth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C... featuring a neighborhood familiar (1950s Dodge Coronet?)....
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Updated: Timeline for reopening northern section of East River Park pushed to end of 2027

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View of East River Park from just below Houston Street The post has been updated with comments from the DDC  The timeline for completing the...
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Signage alert: Justin's Salt Bread on 2nd Avenue

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The owners of  Okiboru House of Udon  at 124 Second Ave., between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place, have a new concept in the works a...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Monday's parting shot

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Photo by Stacie Joy  Here's Hannah Studnick with her pup Habibi.  Studnick is the owner of Ruby/Dakota , the gallery at 155 E. Second St...
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Fallen tree blocks sidewalk along Avenue B in Tompkins Square Park

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Photos by Stacie Joy   We received several reader reports of an uprooted tree yesterday in Tompkins Square Park ( h/t Steven ), along the Av...

SantaCon 2025 recap: A quieter crawl through the East Village?

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  If SantaCon 2025 felt a little less chaotic in the East Village, that wasn't your imagination.  For ...
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