Today in Tompkins Square Park

At the Hare Krishna Tree ...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Your Sunday evening ornithology break

From EV Grieve regular peter radley ... photos of an Ovenbird in Tompkins Square Park...

Via the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...

A small, inconspicuous bird of the forest floor, the Ovenbird is one of the most characteristic birds of the eastern forests. Its loud song, "teacher, teacher, teacher," rings through the summer forest, but the bird itself is hard to see.

Week in Grieview

The landlord of 50-58 E. Third St. (Wednesday, 55 comments)

Here's the rooftop addition at 315 E. 10th St. (Tuesday)

An MCA mural on East Seventh Street (Tuesday)

Did anyone notice that Angels & Kings closed? (Monday)

East Village photographer to take pictures on every street in the world (Thursday)

Another record store leaving the East Village (Monday)

The CBGB movie is happening (Tuesday)

Florence, but no Machine, outside the Bowery Hotel (Monday)

Looking at the possible East Village bike-sharing locations (Friday, 38 comments)

New home for the Lakeside photobooth (Monday)

AC repairs leaving residents steamed on Seventh Street (Thursday)

Rats in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

New apartment for 14th and Third (Monday)

Considering the existence of 7-Eleven (Tuesday)

Pop-up party ends at Riff (Sunday)

Store cat! (Friday)

A Beastie Boys mural before and after on East First Street

Here we are at the start of the third cycle for the Centre-Fuge public art project on East First Street... EV Grieve reader samo got the before shot on Thursday with Danielle Mastrion ...

By Thursday night...

[Via @jimnobu]

... and now...

Read more about Centre-fuge here.

And here's a look at the side of the trailer now...

'A Singular Vision' opens today at The Ukrainian Museum

From the EV Grieve inbox ... via The Ukrainian Museum at 222 E. Sixth St. ...

A Singular Vision: Ilona Sochynsky, Retrospective of Painting, a comprehensive exhibition of more than 50 paintings, including many large-scale works from all phases of the artist's development, will open to the public today. Curated by Jaroslaw Leshko, Professor Emeritus at Smith College, the exhibition will be on view through October 7.

Ilona Sochynsky’s painting career, entering its fourth decade, presents an oeuvre of visual beauty, intelligence, intensity and complexity. At its core, it is a profoundly personal journey of discovery. Her earliest paintings explore the imagery of Pop Art (she was especially drawn to the works of James Rosenquist) and Photorealism, a movement prominent in the 1970s. She responded to the latter’s hyperrealism and its subject matter of cars, motorcycles and street scenes, which she reinterpreted in her work to extraordinary effect.

Fetish in Black & White
2008, oil on canvas

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair! (plus, Best Pickle on A-Stick)

In case you missed yesterday's street fair on Second Avenue ... there's another one today on Broadway, from Union Square to, oh, maybe Astor Place. Didn't actually look ...

...and cliffhanger ending...

Meanwhile, after yesterday's Second Avenue street fair...

We don't know what it is either.

Wedding party pub crawl?

Seventh Street and Avenue B.

Today

An anti-fracking protest that drew the attention of the NYPD...

...Spring Fling in Tompkins Square Park...

...and the ping-pong table photo shoot...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Spring Fling in Tompkins Square Park this afternoon

Workers set up the temporary stage in Tompkins Square Park... it's the Spring Fling concert this afternoon...

Bands appearing (in alphabetical order)
Crosshatch
Charetta
Demilitia
Fall of the Albatross
Kore Rozzik
Nevereven
Risk/Reward
SOS

SET TIMES
SOS 2
NEVEREVEN 2:30
CROSSHATCH 3
RISK/REWARD 3:30
KORE ROZZIK 4
CHARETTA 4:30
FALL OF THE ALBATROSS 5
DEMILITIA 5:30