Cherry Tavern cherry-free for now

[EVG photo from 2010]

Last July, the Cherry Tavern on Sixth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue turned blue...


[Photo by Goggla]

And now, the bar has returned to its pre-blue look, though without the cherries on top out front...



No word if they will return to the bar's exterior. The Cherry Tavern opened here in 1975 — happy 43rd summer!

Week in Grieview

[Photo on St. Mark's Place yesterday by Christine Champagne]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

Here's the 1st look at the new building proposed for the 2nd Avenue explosion site (Tuesday)

NYPD looking for suspect who robbed woman in 13th Street building (Thursday)

Help for Juan Carlo, the flower vendor at Bueno East Mart on Avenue A (Tuesday)

Lancelotti Housewares expands on Avenue A (Monday)

So long to the 3 rhinos (Wednesday)

NIKO East Village debuts on Avenue D and 6th Street (Wednesday)

The latest NY See (Thursday)

Mysterious 84 2nd Ave. sells again, this time for $7.8 million (Thursday)

Papilles now open on 7th Street (Thursday)

Flowers inside skateboard planter on 7th Street destroyed (Wednesday)

Tarallucci e Vino East Village reopens after a months-long renovation (Wednesday)

News roundup: Feds say that the NYCHA covered up public housing dangers for years (Monday)

More about Sauce Pizzeria, opening later this summer on 12th Street (Thursday)

A vigil for Yemen at Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

Report: Tokyo-based yakitori restaurant with a Michelin star coming to Elizabeth Street (Wednesday)

The EVG podcast (Friday)

Blank slate at the Bowery Mural Wall (Tuesday)

Six months of inactivity at 75 1st Ave. (Tuesday)

The 7 restaurants that have closed on the Bowery in the past year (Monday)


[Mermaid Parade practice in Tompkins Square Park via Derek Berg]

Bushwick-based chef looking to bring Short Stories to the Bowery (Friday)

Wax off: Mr. Moustache has closed on 14th Street (Monday)

Silky Kitchen set for 13th Street (Monday)

About halfway there at the incoming Moxy East Village (Monday)

Blue out at former Citibank branch on Avenue A (Thursday)

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10th Street's role in the worst mob movie ever made

[Photo in February 2017 by Daniel]

As you likely recall from February 2017, crews filmed scenes for "Gotti," the biopic starring John Travolta (above, to the left of the open door!) on 10th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

"Gotti," directed by "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly, was finally released on Friday ... and it arrived DOA. (Opening weekend box office tally here.) The film is currently enjoying a quite rare 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The Post thought it was so bad, it blurbed the review on the cover yesterday...



With these notices, "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" is no longer the worst movie ever filmed on 10th Street.


[Photo from the Union Square Regal Cinema]

Previously on EV Grieve:
Mob scene on 10th Street as 'Gotti' crew and John Travolta hold forth

Saturday's parting shots

Happy early Father's Day from a discarded mattress on Avenue C and 9th Street ... photos by Bobby Williams...

Almost Solstice tomorrow at the Green Oasis Community Garden

Celebrate the almost solstice tomorrow (Sunday!) with the "Almost Solstice Event" at the Green Oasis Community Garden on Eighth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D. There may even be music!

Enjoy part of your Saturday at the New York City Marble Cemetery

It's an Open Day today from noon until 6 p.m. at the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ...

A vigil for Yemen at Tompkins Square Park

Today from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., a group of activists will hold a vigil on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place to raise awareness of the growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen. (The group had been holding the weekly vigils in Union Square, and recently moved to Tompkins Square Park.)



Felton Davis, one of the organizers, provided some background:

At the weekly vigil for the people of Yemen, we display signs about children starving or dying of cholera. This past week, as the battle for the port city of Hodeidah began, people started saying that the situation in Yemen was an emergency.

But for a whole year — mostly at Union Square and now at Tompkins Square Park — we have been saying that it's an emergency. Delegations of activists have descended upon the offices of elected officials, and tried to get through to them that it's an emergency. Fifteen of us blocked the UN missions of Saudi Arabia and the United States on Human Rights Day in December, and were arrested, saying that it's an emergency.

When will the emergency be over, when Yemen ceases to exist as a nation, and is carved up by whoever prevails in the war? Is there any sort of less drastic way that the emergency could be dealt with? What room is there in all this for compassion — neutral compassion — and respect for the value of human life?

For further reading:
The Next Disaster in Yemen, The Atlantic

Humanitarian Crisis Worsens in Yemen After Attack on Port, The New York Times

What Happens if Mass Starvation Takes Hold in Yemen?, The New York Times

Friday's parting shot

Photo in Tompkins Sqaure Park today by Derek Berg...

The Gang's all here

Kazuashita, the new record from Gang Gang Dance — their first in seven years — is out on 4AD next week.

The label has released a few audio tracks this spring, such as the one here for "Lotus," the lead single.

The EVG podcast

I recently launched an EVG podcast, recording the episodes at the East Village Radio studio on First Avenue (in case you're wondering why there's some background noise, such as a grocery cart filled with recyclables).

We started with something music-related, talking with Mike Katz and Crispin Kott, the authors of the recently released book "Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City."

Here's the first one...



I also interviewed Goggla about the red-tailed hawks in Tompkins Square Park. Will be posting that edition soon.

Anyway, I hope to cover a variety of topics moving forward. More about all this later...