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Photos and interview by Stacie Joy East Village-based singer-songwriter Franzi Szymkowiak and her band Lukka (Ashley Gonzalez on bass and S...

Big changes are on the horizon for the Tompkins Square Library .  The New York Public Library has announced plans for a $30.2 million comp...

ICYMI: Signage is up for Good Time Country Buffet at 166 First Ave. between 10th Street and 11th Street.  As we previously reported , the...

After nearly four years of service, Marylou closed for good on Sunday at 41 St. Mark's Place just east of Second Avenue.  The owners ...

Signage is up for Wake and Late at 372 Lafayette between Bond and Great Jones.   The Los Angeles-based Wake and Late "specializes in...

EVG's Stacie Joy spotted NYC artist Zimer finishing his "Let's Go Knicks" and Jalen Brunson mural on Houston and Eldrid...

EVG reader Guillermo shares this find from Seventh Street, between Second Avenue and Cooper Square... a discard before the summer official...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy A new Filipino street-food concept is in the works for the former Biga Bite pizza space on the SW corner...

Karma has quietly left the neighborhood.  The art gallery, which at one point operated a bookstore and three exhibition spaces, has closed...

We spotted workers yesterday prepping the Village East by Angelika into a screening hub for the Tribeca Festival, taking place tomorrow th...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy If you've recently stopped by the rather nondescript Craft Beer and Smoke on First Avenue between St....

As of yesterday, the NE corner of Broadway & 12th Street is also now known as Fred Bass Way.  Bass (1928-2018) took over the family bu...

Photos by Stacie Joy  Every once in a while, EVG leaves the neighborhood. Yesterday's destination: the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Que...

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy  HAGS has made a big impression in a very small space.  Since opening at 163 First Ave. at 10th Street i...

Construction resumed late last week on the in-progress mixed-use building at the northwest corner of First Avenue and Second Street. This...

A few recent Third Avenue openings to note. The new outpost of Han Dynasty is up and running at 98 Third Ave., between 12th and 13th Stree...

Photos by Stacie Joy  Another brand is getting in on the East Village $10-cup-of-pasta trend .  A Cups of Pasta outpost opened this past Fr...

Spring art on 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue by Jocelyn Tsaih   And a mini month in review...   • Inside the new ABC No Rio ( May 28 )  • A mother...

Posts this past week included (with a rando shot on 7th Street) Never miss an EVG post with the weekly EVG newsletter. Free right  here .   ...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy   The new mural on the southwest corner of Avenue C and Sixth Street was officially unveiled last Sunday ...