Week in Grieview

[Photo on 7th Street yesterday by Susan Schiffman]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Staten Island pizzeria Joe & Pat’s taking over the Lanza's space on First Avenue (Wednesday)

Out and About with Eric Rignall, owner of Inkstop Tattoo, celebrating 20 years on Avenue A (Wednesday)

At the Women's March on NYC (Saturday)

New owner of 629 E. 5th St. offers tenants incentives to move out early (Tuesday)

New map offers look at area's civil rights and social justice history (Monday)

When there was a bank building on East Houston at Avenue A (Friday)

What are those green bicycle lights on Citi Bike? (Monday)

Two units hit the market at Poppy Lofts on Avenue B (Friday)

El Sol Brillante garden members collecting funds to repair their fence (Friday)

You will still have a few more seasons to enjoy the East Houston Reconstruction Project (Thursday)

The phone books are here (Tuesday)

Former beverage distributor on Second Street demolished to make way for 8-story condoplex (Tuesday)

Secara has not been open lately on Fourth Street (Thursday)

Sandwicherie New York yumming soon in former Fresh & Co. space on 4th Avenue (Tuesday)

Spanish street artists PichiAvo will bring "Urbanmythology" to the Bowery Graffiti Wall (Thursday)

Beer & Cigars replace Massage & Bodywork on Avenue B (Tuesday)

Construction watch: 688 Broadway, aka 1 Great Jones Alley (Thursday)

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Today's big crane action

Apparently some kind of cell tower removal/addition here on Sixth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. Or else there's another explanation...

Saturday's parting shot

A view downtown earlier via Bobby Williams...

[Updated] At the Women's March on NYC

EVG correspondent Steven shares a few photos from along the Women's March on NYC route this afternoon...









Crowd estimates in NYC are at 200,000400,000-plus (see below) ... the route stretches from 47th Street and Second Avenue to the Trump Tower. There are reportedly hundreds of other marches in cities across the world ... "to march in support of equality and promote civil rights for every human."

A big thank you to the organizers and the men and women of the NYPD for keeping 400,000 New Yorkers safe during today's #WomensMarchNYC. pic.twitter.com/vkGharcQqk

— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) January 22, 2017

And a few more photos via Steven...











And via Derek Berg...

Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day

Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay! Learn all about NYC's squirrels and how you can help keep them safe and healthy: https://t.co/wgkFgmClJE pic.twitter.com/iVDI4wHGa3

— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) January 21, 2017

I was unaware of this day. Thank you NYC Parks!

Well, then let's repost some squirrel shots from the vast EVG Squirrel Photo Vault ...


[Photo by Goggla]


[Photo by Mr. Baggs]


[Photo by Steven]


[Photo by Goggla]


[Photo by Bobby Williams]


[Photo by Goggla]


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Friday's parting shot

Photo tonight on Fourth Street by Derek Berg...

State fare

Some synth-pop and white pant suits circa 1984 courtesy of Industry's "State of the Nation."

Avenue A, 3:10 p.m., Jan. 20

At Fifth Street... RIP

EV Grieve Etc.: RIP Wayne Barrett; a 'Coping with the Election' film series at the Anthology

[Photo on St. Mark's Place by Derek Berg]

Wayne Barrett, who spent 37 years at The Village Voice investigating developers and landlords, has died at age 71 (The New York Times)

Investigation is ongoing in the murder of Brooke Garcia, 27, who was strangled in the Lillian Wald Houses (Patch)

Luxury developers discuss Lower East Side real estate (The Lo-Down)

Anthology Film Archives on Second Avenue and Second Street launches "Inauguration of the Displeasure Dome: Coping with the Election" series (Anthology Film Archives)

City art galleries close on Inauguration Day (DNAinfo) ... while several NYC museums are offering free admission today (Curbed)

Before the Palladium there was the Academy of Music on 14th Street (Ephemeral New York)

On Wednesday, Caffe Bene reopened on Avenue A at 13th Street following a renovation that saw the arrival of a more-extensive menu and new seats... (Rish, the owner, is on the left in the photo below...)


[Photo by Lola Sáenz]

Founded on Mott Street in Chinatown in 1933, Fong Inn Too has closed (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Remembering Lydia Lunch’s "The Gun Is Loaded" (Dangerous Minds)

...and a contingent from the Lower East Side Girls Club are among the locals taking part tomorrow in the Women's March on Washington. The girls worked with artist Sophia Dawson on Monday to create signs for the march...







Girls Club photos by Amy Goldwasser

When there was a bank building in the middle of East Houston at Avenue A

EVG reader Steph Romeo was watching "The Naked City" from 1948 when she spotted this...



...and a view from East Houston near Norfolk looking west to Essex and Avenue A... a thin building in what is now the middle of East Houston...



On the left, you can spot the Provident Loan Society Building, which is still there today (not for long, though) on the southwest corner of Houston and Essex...



Steph look further, and found this image from the comprehensive digital collections at the NYPL... here's a shot of the building's front entrance circa 1929 ... showing the Community State Bank (not another bank branch!) and a dental office in the address that is listed as 2-4 Avenue A aka 240 1/2 E. Houston. ...


[Via NYPL]

I didn't have a chance to do any further research to find out when the building was razed ... it's also a good reminder to rewatch "The Naked City" and the subsequent TV series inspired by the film, which has many Lower East Side locations. I've haven't watched any of that in more than 10 years.