Bike corrals arrive at the 4th Street Food Co-op

Yesterday, we noted that the bike corrals are now in place in front of Continuum Cycles (and Continuum Coffee) on Avenue B near East 12th Street...

CB3 OK'd bike corrals (CityRacks!) for the 4th Street Food Co-op as well back in December. As the photo from EVG regular Derek Berg above shows, the racks are in place on East Fourth Street too.

Jill Woodward wrote this in December at the The 4th Street Food Co-op blog:

We need the parking because so many of our members and shoppers arrive by bike, and it can be difficult to find a parking place near the store.

The tradeoff is 1-2 fewer spaces for automobiles in exchange for up to 20 spots for cycles. That calculation can result in more business for the neighborhood, according to a recent report by TA.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Here's your new East Ninth Street bike rack (18 comments)

More bike corrals on the way for East Village businesses

Report: East Village resident first woman to try out for the NFL

I've seen the stories in recent weeks about Lauren Silberman, the first woman in history to register for an NFL regional scouting combine. (She is trying out as a field-goal kicker.) Today, she competes alongside college kickers at the Jets training facility in Florham Park, N.J., for the right to advance to a Dallas super-regional combine in April.

The previous stories about just says that she lives in New York. The Post mentions today that she lives in the East Village. (Not sure what the Post defines as the East Village.)

In any event, Silberman, 28, was a club soccer player at the University of Wisconsin. Plus, she worked on her master's in comparative media studies at MIT, "writing her thesis in 2009 about how athletes use video games to boost their performance."

Here she is talking about the combine ...

Noted

On Lafayette near Bond via EVG regular Derek Berg

Balloon rally

Avenue A and East 7th Street via Bobby Williams...

19 days till spring

Tompkins Square Park today... via Dave on 7th.

A brief history of humiliating Teddy bears in the East Village

Goggla spotted this on East Second Street near Avenue B today ... and yes, the note around the neck reads "can't bear it anymore."

Why must people do this to poor stuffed bears? From the EV Grieve "humiliating teddy bears" archives...

[Bobby Williams]

Here are the new bike corrals outside Continuum Cycles on Avenue B

Thanks to @chufucious for passing along this photo showing the brand-new bike corrals in front of Continuum Cycles (and Continuum Coffee) on Avenue B near East 12th Street...

Here's a photo of the DOT installing them yesterday via @nixta ...



Back in December, we noted that CB3 OK'd bike corrals (CityRacks!) for the 4th Street Food Co-op and Continuum Cycles.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Here's your new East Ninth Street bike rack (18 comments)

More bike corrals on the way for East Village businesses

New-look Flea Market Cafe shows itself on Avenue A; reopens March 11

The Flea Market Cafe closed back in the fall for renovations... the paper is off the front windows now...





The folks at Ten Degrees around the corner on St. Mark's are now operating the restaurant. There's not much information on the Cafe's website, except for the opening date — March 11.



H/T to esquared™ who had the details last month in a comment.

Speaking of flea markets...

There's one today at the East Side Community High School on East 11th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue ... 12:30-5 p.m.

Lawsuit claims a British empire at the World Class Learning Academy on East 2nd Street

An axed admissions director at the World Class Learning Academy — a U.K.-based independent school for kids from 3 to 11 — claims in a lawsuit that British employees are treated much better than their American counterparts, the Post reports today.

In the suit claiming national-origin, sex and age discrimination, Sarah Bottoms, who lives in Brooklyn, alleges that administrators at the school on East Second Street "gave British employees greater allowances for time off, raises, excusal from student supervisory duties and subsidized lunches."

The school, at the site of the former LaSalle Academy, is run by Brits John and Dawn Taylor.

Also, there's this claim:

"On more than one occasion, Ms. Taylor told Ms. Bottoms that men preferred Asian woman because" their sexual organs were smaller, the suit claims.

Bottoms says she went to HR — and was fired.

An attorney for the school, where tuition is upwards of $34,000 annually, said that they will conduct a thorough investigation of the allegations.

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