Week in Grieview

[Caught in the rain on Avenue A via Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Q&A with the authors of the "Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City" (Thursday)

Printed Matter will have a bookstore inside the Swiss Institute's new 2nd Avenue home (Tuesday)

Funny business: Comedy club replacing comedy club on 4th Street (Monday)

The latest I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant (Friday)

At Dual Specialty Store (Thursday)

Don't be surprised to see a human take your order (and cash) at the Astor Place Shake Shack (Monday)

Tinkersphere leaves 5th Street for the Lower East Side (Friday)

An injured opossum on Avenue B (Monday)

The former East Village Cheese space has a new tenant on 7th Street (Friday)

Bareburger making its Orchard Street debut (Thursday)

Moxy East Village arrives at the lobby level (Monday)

Pink Bear Ice Cream and Steam Rice Roll has apparently closed on 14th Street (Tuesday)

Cafe Zaiya has closed on Cooper Square (Wednesday)

About the bar-restaurant proposed for 2 St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

2 years later, 136 2nd Ave. ready for its restaurant (Wednesday)

Hot Box looking ready to debut on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

Report: Ravi DeRossi bringing Fire & Water to 7th Street (Tuesday)

... and something for the birds on St. Mark's Place... photo by EVG reader Hansley Yunez...



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Teenage fan club: Basquiat exhibit opens tonight at Howl! Happening

[Image from 1979 by Robert Carrithers]

"Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat" opens this evening (6-8) at Howl! Happening, 6 E. First St. near the Bowery. Here are details via the EVG inbox...

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to announce "Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat," a group exhibition focusing on the artists and scene around Jean-Michel Basquiat's teen-aged, pre-fame years.

Curated by Howl! Happening, Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, and Mary-Ann Monforton, "Zeitgeist" complements and amplifies the theatrical release of Sara Driver’s film "Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat."

The period covered in the exhibition and film tells the story of Jean-Michel’s early work, peers, and creative community in gritty, pre-AIDS, downtown New York — before the rise of the 80s art and real-estate juggernaut.

Special events will include:

• A panel discussion featuring Alexis Adler, Felice Rosser, Lee Quiñones, Al Diaz, and more
• A screening of Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary "Burroughs: The Movie" from the Criterion Collection
• An evening of films featuring an experimental film by Basquiat’s bandmate Michael Holman, with a soundtrack by Gray, the band he and Basquiat formed; David Schmidlapp’s film of Walter Steding playing beneath the Brooklyn Bridge; and Paul Tschinkel’s film about New York/New Wave, curator Diego Cortez’s groundbreaking exhibition at PS1 in 1981
• A performance by Felice Rosser
• A special series of film screenings in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives

Find more details here. The exhibit is up through June 10.

"Boom for Real" opened back on Friday at the IFC Center.

Neighborhood Open Days start today at the New York City Marble Cemetery

The New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue returns with its Neighborhood Open Days through October... the peaceful green space action starts today from noon to 6 p.m. ... [Updated 1 p.m. — they closed for now with the rain. They will reopen if it lets up...]



And it hasn't been so peaceful during the week on the block with the street work...

Mother's Day at Albert's Garden

[Image via Albert's Garden]

Via the EVG inbox...

Albert's Garden is opening for a Mother's Day celebration tomorrow (May 13!) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Stop by with your mom, family or even yourself to this serene East Village community garden and enjoy refreshments, a view of the goldfish or a relaxing sit under one of our shade trees.

The garden is at 16 E. Second St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Green day

EVG reader Daniel Root shared these photos of the "Ecological City 2018 – Procession for Climate Solutions" in progress on Avenue C and Seventh Street... here's the schedule for the rest of the afternoon.









"Ecological City" is described as "a climate action, ecological urban pilgrimage and performance art event."

Noted

Spotted on 11th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Not sure if the flu story worked. There's also an NYPD relocation sticker on the windshield...



Can't quite make out where the car was relocated from... looks like 37th Street?

H/T @losrambles!

Happening today: 'Ecological City 2018 – Procession for Climate Solutions'

"Ecological City 2018 – Procession for Climate Solutions" takes place today in community gardens in the East Village as well as along
the East River.

Here's how the Times described the event:

Ecological City employs mobile sculpture, giant puppets and costumed performers to celebrate conservation, sustainability and solutions to climate change ... the procession will spend the day offering theater, poetry, music and dance at various sites, ending with a river-cleansing ceremony at the waterfront in East River Park.

The procession starts at 11 a.m. (regardless of rain) at the Loisaida Center at 710 E. 9th Street between Avenue C and Avenue D. You can find the full schedule here.

Dream a little Dream

La Luz's new record, Floating Features, is out today... the above video is for "Mean Dream."

Plant and bake sale at the 6 & B Garden this weekend

From noon to 5 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday!) and Sunday.

The community garden is on the southwest corner of Avenue B and Sixth Street.

Sneak preview!

Plants ready for the annual plant and bake sale this weekend - Sat. & Sun. May 12 & 13 from 11 am - 5 pm

A post shared by 6&B Garden (@6bgarden) on May 11, 2018 at 7:17am PDT

EVG Etc.: ATM robbery on Houston and Lafayette; L-train-shutdown meeting recap

[Photo on 9th Street by Derek Berg]

NYPD looking for this suspect in violent afternoon robbery at the Bank of America ATM on Lafayette and Houston (CBS 2)

At Wednesday night's L-Train-Shutdown Town Hall (Gothamist)

The 2018 Le Petit Versailles garden season has begun. Check out the list of events at the garden on East Houston between Avenue B and Avenue C here.

Tonight: A Chino Garcia Oral History and screening of "CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth" as part of Lower East Side History Month (Loisaida Center)

Q&A with Jeremiah Moss titled "The Aesthetics of Gentrification, and New York’s Top-Down Approach to Change" (Hyperallergic)

More about Slurp Shop opening on First Avenue (Eater ... previously)

Solid reviews for Sara Driver's documentary "Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat," opening today at the IFC Center (Official site... Rotten Tomatoes)

"In My Room" is an exhibit featuring the work of photographer Saul Leiter, who lived and worked in the East Village — now showing at the Howard Greenberg Gallery (The Eye of Photography)

Mother's Day at the Metrograph includes screenings of "Mermaids" and "Mildred Pierce" (Official site)

More on the Ramones book by Danny Fields (The Village Voice)

And happening tomorrow at First Street Green Art Park...

MAY 12, 2018 Join us for a full day of events including community workshops, murals, music, and art.  33 East 1st Street, at Houston St & 2nd Ave. 1:00 – 4:00 pm: Community Mural School, Learn about the environment by making collaborative art with painters Alex Evans & Anna Souvorov. @alex_andrae @asouvs 1:00 – 4:00 pm: SVA flower & plant collage workshop by Suzanne Anker, Chair of School of Visual Art’s BFA Fine Arts Department. Ms. Anker weaves traditional and experimental media in SVA's Bio Art Lab. @svanyc @svabioart 5:00 - 7:00 pm: Opening Reception for “Neighbors” by John Raymond Mireles, Restoring America’s shattered national unity one photograph at a time, Mr. Mireles exhibits portraits of Americans from all 50 States from his “Neighbors” Project on the perimeter fence from May 1-July 4, 2018. @johnmireles 7:00 - 9:00 pm: Benefit reception co-hosted by Turn Gallery, 37 E First Street (suggested donation $25). All day - Live painting by "Wasteland" Open Call muralists and Centrefuge. @centrefugepublicartproject New Media artists Carlos Rosas and Leanna Rosas debut "MAMA II: Above Board” – a Media Art Mobile Attack unit on wheels with FSG's greatest hits projected on the sail. Music by DJ Jake Lama www.jakelama.com @jakelama #murals #photographynyc #muralart #muralsnyc #streetart #publicart #blockparty #park #artpark #nycpark #nycart #nycartist #local #localartist #supportlocal #supportart #community #neighbors #nonprofitart #streetphotography #streetstyle #urban #urbanphotography #lowereastside #schoolofvisualarts #communitymural

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