Workers remove rest of giant elm in Tompkins Square Park

Workers started cutting down a giant elm in Tompkins Square Park on Thursday... and now the tree near the entrance on Avenue B at East Ninth Street is gone...


[Bobby Williams]

Workers had said part of the tree was hollowed out and in danger of falling... and to show this, a portion of a hollowed-out limb remains...

Adinah's Farm is back open

On Thursday, the NYPD has closed Adinah's Farm on Avenue C and East Second Street ... the sign on the corner deli's door noted "stolen property offenses."

Not sure what happened, but Steven Matthews passes along word (and photo) that the deli was reopen as of last night...

BBQ balance: Slippy splop warning on Second Avenue

Oh yeah. Waiting for the light on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place... a BBQ splop.



Then! Street cleaner! Jump back!



The street cleaner turned the splop into a nice smooth and very slippery line... within a few minutes, we witnessed three different people nearly slip. Not flip-flop friendly terrain here.

[Updated] 200 East Village ConEd customers without power

We've heard from a few readers around East Sixth Street and Avenue C who lost their power late last night.

According to the ConEd outage map, there's a "manhole problem":



The estimated power return is 11 a.m.

Updated 9:30 a.m.

East Sixth Street between Avenue B and C is currently closed... and there are at least 15-18 ConEd trucks on the scene...





Updated 11:34 a.m.

ConEd is now estimating that the power will be restored by 3 p.m.



Updated 2:30

We're told that ConEd has restored the power.

[Updated] Report: 18-year-old-man shot outside Jacob Riis Houses

An 18-year-old man suffered life-threatening wounds after being shot in the face last night at the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D, the Post reports.

The man was found in a courtyard at 118 Avenue D around 10:45 p.m. Police said they don't have a motive yet for the shooting.

Police also said that "unruly residents began throwing trash and other objects onto the crime scene below," which required them to call in back-up and emergency services.

Updated 2:27
The Daily News reports that the teen, Deontay Moore, has died.

On a sunny day

Tompkins Square Park today. Photo by Bobby Williams.

Talking about Burning Sensations

Burning Sensations with "Belly of the Whale" circa 1982 in honor of the East River floating pool rendering...

Noted

A familiar sign this time of year on East Sixth Street... Noted this one in previous years on previous posts.

Richard Hell on his East Village apartment

Richard Hell discusses the virtues of his East 12th Street apartment in The Wall Street Journal today. (Subscription required?)

Here's an excerpt:

The apartment is in the back of the building on an upper floor, so it's quiet and full of light, with a great cross breeze. It has a funkiness that you don't find in Manhattan much anymore — worn unvarnished wood floors that groan when you walk on them, cracks in the plaster walls, sagging original moldings. The place only improves with degradation, as long as you don't try to tart it up.

And!

I'm not nostalgic. I don't feel like the apartment matters because it evokes the '70s or something. But it's nice that we've been together for so long and we're still compatible, even handsome, in a battered way.

Hell moved in in 1975, and wrote a lot of his music here, including "Time" and "The Kid with the Replaceable Head."

On the topic of "The Kid with the Replaceable Head," here's an animated cartoon music video created by Washington D.C. kid's show "Pancake Mountain" ...

Rite Aid's enchanted forest

EVG Senior First Avenue Rite Aid Correspondent Goggla checks in with the latest on the mural update on the East Fifth Street side of, uh, Rite Aid... Enchanted?

Indeed, I'm suddenly and strangely compelled to clip a coupon to save 40 percent off my next purchase of Preference by L'Oreal.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] As the Rite Aid turns (colors)