Week in Grieview

[St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue this morning]

A death in the Grassroots family (Monday)

Schwimmer confirmed as owner and destructor of 331 E. Sixth St. (Monday)

Celebrating a Giants Super Bowl victory on Third Avenue in Speedos (Tuesday)

The eighth Subway opens in the East Village (Wednesday)

East Village Farms (and EVG) on WABC-7 (Thursday)

Neighborhood schoolkids express themselves about Starbucks (Friday)

Interpol (not the band) gets involved in East 13th Street short-term rental (Friday)

The Pink Dorms of East 14th Street (Thursday)

First mention of the East Village in The New York Times (Tuesday)

No more East Village Farms (Wednesday)

316 E. Third St. prepped for the end (Tuesday)

New beginnings for Obscura Antiques (Tuesday)

This is what concert posters on East 10th Street looked like on Feb. 12, 1989 2012

Eh.

She's a cart breaker

Third Avenue near 11th Street this morning.

Tonight in photos of stretch Hummers blocking the crosswalk on Avenue A

At 11th Street. Typical Saturday night hereabouts, of course.

Photos by Shawn Chittle.

Sunday at Bar 82

Tonight at Rage and Boner

Outside Rag & Bone on East Houston and Elizabeth.

Via Billy Leroy.

Rue B is open

Last night we mentioned that Rue B was closed on Avenue B because of some water-power problem ... in any event, it's back open ....

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Reader report: Police shutter La Zarza Lounge on First Avenue

EV Grieve reader Spike brings word on an NYPD closure last evening at La Zarza Lounge near East 10th Street....

Per the sign taped to the gate: "Illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."

Seriously?

10 a.m. or so on East Houston near the Bowery.

Unattended iPad in Cafe Cortadito commode leads to sanitation worker's arrest

Police arrested an on-duty sanitation worker yesterday morning after he reportedly stole an iPad from Cafe Cortadito on East Third Street near Avenue B, the Daily News reported.

He had asked to use the Cafe's restroom. Per the News: "Maldonado found the unattended electronic tablet in the restrooom and hid it in his pants, said police."

The Cafe owner quickly realized that the iPad was missing, and confronted the worker, who handed it over and left. She called the cops, who arrested the worker nearby. Police charged him with with petit larceny.

[Image via Gizmodo]