Father Knows Best

Spotted outside the Blarney Cove on East 14th Street this weekend... And happy Father's Day...

East River Bandshell and the NYC Pride Rally

A few photos from Crazy Eddie... who went down to the East River Bandshell for the beginning of the NYC Pride Rally...

Today in photos of a plush horse rocking chair curbside

Late yesterday afternoon along St. Mark's Place. Photo via Bobby Williams.

End of the evening shift at the Stage

Love this photo of the Stage on Second Avenue near St. Mark's Place at closing time ... Found the shot via Twitter by @SetoPhotos ... photo by freelance photographer Michael Seto.

Previously on EV Grieve:
An appreciation: Breakfast at Stage

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

Today, the festival is on Third Avenue, from 14th Street to St. Mark's Place...



There is nothing else left to say.

In a lonely place

NY-based A Place To Bury Strangers with "You Are The One" off their forthcoming album, "Worship," out June 26.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

A guide to NYC Pride Week (NYC Pride)

CB3 OKs co-naming part of Delancey after Dashane Santana (BoweryBoogie)

More details about the Paulaner Brauhaus opening on the Bowery (The Lo-Down)

Tom Duane's retirement shakes up downtown political world (East Villager)

Archival photos of NYC swimming pools from the 1930s (Curbed)

The art of Alex Harsley (The New York Times)

Excellent guide to free summer events in Coney Island (Amusing the Zillion)

... and via Shawn Chittle ... a reminder that Alphabet Scoop is open for the season on East 11th Street ... During the summer, the Father’s Heart Ministries runs the shop that employs at-risk youth in the neighborhood. (You can read an article about it at The Villager here.)





... Shawn said that he spotted new East 11th Street resident Justin Long in the shop the other day...

Hours (subject to change):
Sun 2pm-10pm
Mon-Fri 5pm-9pm
Sat 11am-11pm
543 East 11th Street

Final preparations at Nicoletta, opening tonight at 5

At Nicoletta, the new pizza place on Second Avenue and East 10th Street... workers are scrambling to have the place up and ready ....



...for the grand opening tonight...



For sneak previews, check out Eater and Grub Street and Serious Eats ...

(A few Eater commenters noted that the interior looks like a T.G.I. Friday's...)

If you go, then let us know how it is... because, to be honest, we'll likely never step foot in the place...

Live in this historic East Village synagogue (with hot tub) for $25K

Step right up here on East Eighth Street between Avenue B and C... and behold this "spectacular fourplex" ...



The Town listing is ...

One of the city's last tenement Shuls, now a chic landmarked building, this former synagogue was brilliantly transformed into a magnificent home in 2005 by world-famous designers from the Ian Shrager Hotels – earning recognition in Architectural Record for its extraordinary transformation, and attracting the likes of press, politicians and entertainment figures. Yours to rent is the exquisite result of their top-of-the-line gut renovation...

Other distinctive features that make this sun-drenched residence such a unique work of art are its custom-made windows that are exact replicas of when the building was a synagogue (including the Star of David!), and luxurious touches that include Brazilian hardwood cherry floors, hand-poured Brazililan glass mosaic tiles by Vidrotil, beautiful Wenge wood paneling, radiant floor heating, floor-to-ceiling steel cased windows and doors (the list goes on).

I'll say!





A three-six month lease available starting July 1. And as the headline says, it's $25,000 per month.

Mysterious plywood arrives at Mystery Lot

What is this? A stack of plywoody-looking plywood has arrived at the Mystery Lot...



...and it looks gently used...



Perhaps it's finally the beginning of the beginning of the end of the Mystery Lot... the space will become an 82-unit, eight-story development some day.

First item of business here: Removing the mystery masonry garden wall.

Also, remember... If you see something interesting along here, then please take a photo and send it our way... when the trucks, dumpsters and bendy things arrive in good time, we'll have a post sharing everyone's Mystery Lot shots... You can send them via the EV Grieve email

[And thanks to EVG reader Kim for sending along a plywood shot as well...]