Week in Grieview

[Photo on East 9th Street Friday by Derek Berg]

Get well soon, Ray! (Wednesday)

Rent hike will force Bikes, By George! to close on East Fourth Street (Monday)

Tenants rally for better living conditions at 128 2nd Ave.; file contempt of court motion vs. landlord Icon Realty (Friday)

Tompkins Square Bagels makes it official on Second Avenue (Monday)

Gas leak shutters Dallas BBQ, leaves residents without hot water and cooking gas (Tuesday)

Report of an OD at the First Avenue McDonald's (Thursday)

Report offers recommendations for preserving independent East Village businesses (Tuesday)

Out and About with Ilyse Kazar (Wednesday)

"The great sandwich experiment" has ended at Lord Hamm's (Tuesday)

Keeping The Bowery Mission in mind this summer (Friday)

Live in a cottage above Third Avenue (Tuesday)

The Typewriter Project arrives in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

J. Crew executives post taunting Instagram pics on Third Avenue hours after staff layoffs (Thursday, 46 comments)

Le Jardin Bistro has closed on Avenue C (Friday)

Students with autism create planters for the Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community Garden on Suffolk Street (Thursday)

Nail salon in the works for former Amor Baker space on Avenue B (Thursday)

The new residential building on East Houston and Suffolk (Tuesday)

Work begins on the incoming Mimi's Hummus on East 14th Street (Thursday)

Taxi Parts Inc. now open on First Avenue (Monday)

A letter from the editor (Sunday, 241 comments)

93 2nd Ave., home of Lit Lounge, is for rent (Friday)

The rent is due at the incoming Turntable Retro Bar & Restaurant on Avenue B (Wednesday)

Bago now serving food to-go on First Avenue (Monday)

Dinosaurs are now extinct on East 12th Street (Wednesday)

Noted

ATM out-of-order signs are getting so informal...



Photos on St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue via EVG ATM Correspondent Steven...

The V-Spot is soft opening this weekend on St. Mark's Place

The family-run Park Slope vegan restaurant The V-Spot recently started selling empanadas from their TK outpost at 16 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

And now this weekend they are in a soft-opening phase. Per Facebook: "We will have our delicious Latin, Organic, Vegan comfort food ready to serve you. Right now, we're here personally sampling small bites & vending baked empanadas." Hours today are 1-9 p.m.



And here are lousy photos of the menu that I took...





In other V-SPot news, the family successfully reached its $50,000 Kickstarter goal ... with 295 backers pledging $50,673 to help open the restaurant on St. Mark's Place.

We're running out of different ways to say that the New York City Marble Cemetery is open today

Today at the New York City Marble Cemetery on East Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... via the EVG inbox...

Come celebrate midsummer today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at our first Neighborhood Open Day of 2015 ... featuring music 12 to 2 p.m. as part of makemusicny's Exquisite Corpses tour.

The Exquisite Corpses will also be in Abe Lebewohl Park outside St Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue and East 10th Street this afternoon from 2-4.

And for your calendars...

Upcoming Neighborhood Open Days at the New York City Marble Cemetery:
Saturday, July 11
Sunday, Aug. 9
Saturday, Sept. 12
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

And!

Fall Open Weekend, with historic displays, photos and artifacts
Saturday and Sunday
Oct. 17-18
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Read more about the cemetery here.

2 hawks fledge as 1

[Photo via TwoHawksNYC]

Hawk watchers were happy today to see two of Christo and Dora's three offspring successfully fledge today... (thankfully none of that drama like last year.)

One of the kids ended up atop 507 East Fifth St., the building that houses Sophie's just east of Avenue A...

The TwoHawksNYC blog has an account with photos of what happened today right here. And Goggla will have photos soon.

The baby hawks have been nesting 12th floors above Avenue A on the Ageloff Towers between East Third Street and East Fourth Street…

Previously on EV Grieve:
Red-tailed hawks nest on the Christodora House

The hawks of Tompkins Square Park have laid an egg at the Christodora House

More eggsciting hawk news from the Christodora House

Breaking (heh) news: The hawks of Tompkins Square Park are officially parents

Hawk (and egg) watch continues on Avenue A, now with the help of a live webcam

Christo and Dora are parents! (Again!)

Look at the 3-week-old hawklets high above Avenue A

Growing up so quickly above Avenue A

Mermaid love on 1st Avenue

Photo between East Fourth Street and East Fifth Street today via Derek Berg... post Mermaid Day Parade...

Maybe keep your windows closed over here for awhile

[Photo of 442. E. 13th St. from June 6]

As you may know, the directionally named luxury condos Thirteen East + West are in the works at 436 and 442 E. 13th St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.

An EVG reader notes that there is activity of late at No. 442, where there's an Area 51-looking scene unfolding on the rooftop of the former mystery garage… turns out there are posted notices for asbestos removal here…



Per the reader: "Neighbors on East 13th as well as on East 12th are warned to perhaps keep their windows closed during this tear-down procedure."

No. 442 was previously home to the mysterious Electrical Motor Maintenance, which never seemed to be in operation. Still, for years, the rooftop boasted several venting units that were alway purring away, protected with an anti-crime lighting system. What were they protecting?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Tracking the coming changes to East 13th Street between Avenue A and 1st Avenue

A look at the new luxury condos coming soon to East 13th Street

The mystery of 442 E. 13th St.

A mural continues to grow on Avenue C

[Photo Wednesday by Peter from 8th Street]

On Wednesday, artist Zio Ziegler began work on a mural on the north-facing wall of the recently unveiled 137 Avenue C at East Ninth Street …

Here's how the mural was looking last evening in this photo via EVG Facebook friend Karen Platt…



The mural kinda looks like the plot of a Ridley Scott film. Actually though the building owner commissioned the wall to a nonprofit, the Solutions Project, to paint on in conjunction with the launch of their clean energy NYC campaign.

On Thursday, the Solutions Project held a kick-off event next door in La Plaza Cultural Community Garden where Mark Ruffalo, co-founder of the campaign, and Leonardo DiCaprio spoke while launching a national campaign that aims to "make clean energy more accessible and affordable for 100 percent of the people." (Read the news release about the campaign here.)

Several community leaders and activists were also in attendance.

Mark Ruffalo & Leonardo DiCaprio in the Lower East Side--100% clean energy campaign #100isNow http://t.co/wTrtrzXS4H pic.twitter.com/z59YHqwiZh

— GoLES (@GOLESNYC) June 18, 2015

There's a a vintage cookbook cook-off and potluck at Jimmy's No. 43 today

[Image via Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks]

Jimmy's No. 43, 43 E. Seventh St. between Second Avenue and Cooper Square, is hosting the following event today. Via the EVG inbox…

Join us today from 1-3 p.m., where we'll be serving up dishes from recipes found in vintage cookbooks (for our purposes, we're looking at recipes prior to 1985, so not the typical stuff you can Google)!

It's in part to welcome Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks to the neighborhood and also to continue our #EastVillageLoves campaign that we launched after the explosion in March.

Bonnie Slotnick opened her first cookbook shop in the West Village in 1997 and recently moved the business to East Second Street. Her stock in trade is out-of-print cookbooks, mainly 20th-century titles at affordable prices.

Find more details here.

Meanwhile, Jimmy's No. 43 has debuted a new collaboration with Chef King Phojanakong of Kuma Inn and Umi Nom … resulting in Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43, which will feature Thai and Filipino street food. Read more about this at Eater.

Come as you are

The Mighty Wah with mighty fine hair from 1984... "Come Back"