Week in Grieview

[Waiting for Prune's brunch, via James Maher]

Our interview with Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls (Friday)

Revisiting Fetus Squat (Thursday)

TR Crandall Guitars opening on East Third St. (Monday)

Ada Calhoun is writing a history of St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

Video revisits the winter storm of Feb. 8 in the East Village (Wednesday)

A little more time for 9th Street Bakery (Tuesday)

We love Ink on A (Monday)

The Smith eyes basement expansion (Thursday)

Nobu alum heading to open Japanese restaurant on East Ninth Street? (Monday)

Your LES view of the Domino Sugar Factory might look like this (Monday)

THE EAST VILLAGE IS NOISY (Wednesday)

It snowed, some (Friday)

Another condo! (Thursday)

Live Fast closing on Clinton Street (Tuesday)

Caffe Buon Gusto closed on Avenue B (Monday)

At the Coney Island USA Spring Gala 2013

Coney Island USA held its annual Spring Gala last night at Webster Hall. The Gala's theme: The Burlesque Manifesto, which honored the role Coney Island USA played in beginning the neo-burlesque movement.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy was there and shared a few photos (maybe a little NSFW)...

















Find out more about Coney Island USA here. See Stacie's photos from the 2012 Gala here.

Richard Hell's New York (Mystery Lot shout-out!)

Richard Hell continues to do some press in advance of the release of his memoir, "I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp," on Tuesday.

Today, the Post features the longtime East Village resident in its weekly My New York feature... You can read it here.

And he was a Mystery Lot fan!

10. Vacant lot, north side of 13th Street, between Second and Third avenues (now a construction site)

“Whenever I would have to walk across town, I’d try to wrap myself down 13th Street. The lot was all overgrown. And when you were walking down 13th, the buildings that were still standing on 14th Street gave it this kind of broken-toothy kind of edge to it. A friend of mine wanted to make a movie with me — and my first idea was to do something in that lot. I put on a bunch of wounded-person makeup and staggered out from behind one of the 14th Street buildings. I have the footage, somewhere.”

Aside from the interviews that we've already mentioned (The New York Times last Sunday, the Observer), there have also been Hell Q-and-As in New York magazine... Esquire ... Spin has some book excerpts here.

Previously.

There's something about Marty

Here's the completed work at the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall, which was unveiled yesterday at noon ... a surprise to honor legendary graffiti photographer Martha Cooper's 70th birthday.

A growing number of graffiti artists started the tribute yesterday morning at 7. Cooper arrived with her cousin at noon, thinking that she was going to be seeing a new mural — something other than her nickname on the wall.

Brooklyn Street Art has a lot more about the event... with photos and names of everyone who collaborated on the work.

Per BSA:

The brand new “Marty” mural is up for an incredibly short time, possibly only days, so if you have an opportunity or inclination, catch this personal and public display of affection for a lady who helped us all appreciate art in the streets.

Animal NY has more from yesterday here.

Morning tweet

Best breakfast deal in the #EastVillage? B&H on 2nd Ave. twitter.com/evgrieve/statu…

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) March 10, 2013

Yes, aside from making breakfast at home, because someone always says that. At 127 Second Ave.

On a clear (leafless) day, you can see...

From Tompkins Square Park today... always liked the view... via Bobby Williams...

A false alarm on St. Mark's Place

The FDNY responded to a report of a fire this afternoon on St. Mark's Place near Avenue A... according to reports, it, thankfully, turned out to be a false alarm... here are a few photos via Bobby Williams showing the firefighters in action...

If you were looking at this tomorrow, it would be 4:45

Spring forward tonight. So if you were looking at that clock outside the Upper Rust on East Ninth Street tomorrow, as the headline suggests, if would be 4:45 and not 3:45.

So. What do you plan on doing with the extra hour that you lose?

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Happy birthday Martha Cooper!

Legendary photographer Martha Cooper, who chronicled the city's graffiti scene in the 1970s-1980s, celebrates a birthday today. (No. 70.)

To honor (and surprise!) her, new art is going up on the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall...

Happy Birthday Martha Cooper:-) twitter.com/BKStreetArt/st…

— Brooklyn Street Art (@BKStreetArt) March 9, 2013

Brooklyn Street Art has a photo of Martha's reaction to seeing the mural right at noon.

h/t @LunaPark

The am New York Doll?

EVG Facebook friend Edward Arrocha spotted this last night on Avenue A...