Behold the chicken fillet at Ray's

There is a new menu item to note at Ray's Candy Store: Chicken fillet (lightly breaded) on a roll with tomatoes. A $5 item.

Photo by Peter Brownscombe.

More about Yuan Noodle, coming soon to 2nd Avenue

In late April, we noted that there was a new restaurant in the works for 157 Second Ave.

Yuan Noodle is on this month's CB3-SLA committee agenda for a new liquor license. (You can read their CB3 questionnaire here.)

Eater has more on what's to come:

Former financier Jacob Ding is using family recipes to open a Guilin boiled rice noodle and dim sum parlor, after his wife told him she wished that type of restaurant existed.

Ding grew up in Guilin, China, where rice noodles reign. They’re thick and come with various topping such as roasted peanuts, scallions, chiles, and assorted pickles. Ding will serve his dry, as opposed to with soup, alongside a condensed gravy-like sauce and with options like roast pork and braised beef.

Yuan Noodle will also offer classic dim sum dishes, such as shumai, har gow, and vegetable dumplings.

The restaurant is now hiring ...



The address here between Ninth Street and 10th Street previously housed Biang!, the sit-down Chinese restaurant via Xi'an Famous Foods owner Jason Wang, and Alder, Wylie Dufresne's bistro.

Long-empty storefront starting with a clean slate on 6th Street

And in news about new dry cleaners... there is a dry cleaners (Magnolia!) coming to 514 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.

As far as I can recall, this space has been empty since Betola Espresso Bar closed in June 2013.

Week in Grieview

[Photo Friday in Tompkins Square Park by Bobby Williams]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

A proposal to co-name part of 2nd Avenue and 7th Street after the victims of the 2015 gas explosion (Monday)

The housing limbo of Raphael Toledano's (former) East Village tenants (Monday) ... while East Village tenants pay Toledano a visit at his Upper West Side home (Thursday)

Anna has left the East Village after 22 years (Tuesday)

New MoRUS exhibit features LES posters and flyers from the 1980s and 1990s (Wednesday)

Veteran restaurateur Sushil Malhotra opening Old Monk in former Babu Ji space on Avenue B (Thursday)

Reader report: Man with knife takes backpack from guest in building on 13th Street and 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

May is Lower East Side History Month (Monday)

90s Forever on 9th Street this month (Wednesday)

L'Apicio serving its last meal on May 20 (Monday)

Construction watch: 287 E. Houston St. (Tuesday)

Parantha Alley opens in the Bowery Market (Monday)

Out and About in the East Village (Wednesday)

A map to track the city's 280 miles of sidewalk bridges (Wednesday)

A look at the MTA's new @LinkNYC on wheels (Friday)

A quick look at Fiaschetteria Pistoia on 11th Street (Thursday)

2 Bros. Pizza unveils new sign, branding on St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

'Enjoy the Royal Tenenbaum lifestyle' at the price-reduced Kate Spade house of 12th Street (Friday)

Vogue Magazine held a pre-Met Gala party on 6th Street (Monday, 35 comments)

Bowery Road and the Library of Distilled Spirits check into the Hyatt Union Square (Monday)

Juice Press annex for rent on 1st Street (Monday)

...and how did we not mention the budding sinkhole on First Avenue and Fifth Street from Friday...

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May 7

On this first Sunday in May, someone decided that it might be a good day to toss the Christmas/holiday tree ... and did so on Avenue A and Sixth Street so that we can all enjoy it for a little longer.

Thank you to EVG reader Eli for the photo.

Report: Postal worker arrested after allegedly kicking door, hitting cops

Gothamist has a report on a U.S. Postal employee's bad day yesterday afternoon.

Things reportedly began when letter carrier Daniel Jean tried to deliver mail to the Columbia Care medical marijuana dispensary at 212 E. 14th St. just east of Third Avenue. The security guard wouldn't allow him to enter, and offered to take the mail instead. Jean refused. He ended up coming back three times, the last in which he allegedly kicked and damaged the front door.

Police caught up with Jean on 11th Street and Third Avenue. Per Gothamist: "When police tried to arrest him, the NYPD spokesperson said that Jean allegedly hit two of the cops, injuring their hands, knees and backs."

The NYPD charged Jean with criminal mischief, obstruction of governmental administration and assault.

EVG file photo

Previously on EV Grieve:
A patient visit to the medical marijuana dispensary on 14th Street

Morning crime scene

Spotted on Fourth Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery... photo by Derek Berg

You won't be able to visit the New York City Marble Cemetery today

In case your plans today included a visit to the New York City Marble Cemetery during its Neighborhood Open Day ... that isn't happening now... a handwritten note here on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue says the cemetery won't be open today "due to illness" ...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

A message on the Cemetery's website is more ominous: "As of May 5, 2017, the Cemetery is temporarily closed to visitors until further notice."

The New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street will be open next Sunday (Mother's Day!) from Noon to 4 p.m. Find their schedule for the season here.

Saturday's parting shot

Spotted on Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. Photo by Bobby Williams...

A note about 14th Street today

An EVG reader passes along a gridlock alert for drivers, passengers and crosstown bus passengers (well, anyone) on 14th Street ... there is the Second Avenue Street Festival going on until 5 p.m. today, which is causing some gridlock action as the top photo shows.

Oh, and the L is down for the weekend. (2019 preview!)

#LTrain Riders should plan an alternative route for this weekend travels. pic.twitter.com/BsIg9CAPCl

— Rosie Mendez (@RosieMendez) May 5, 2017

As for the Street Festival, there is a better-than-usual selection of street meat...





...and beware of the lousy Beyonce bootlegs...



Street Festival photos by Steven