Christmas tree yearbook photo

The trees arrived this holiday weekend at stands all around the neighborhood (like the usual places, 14th Street at First Avenue, Houston at Essex, Astor Place between Lafayette and Broadway, Second Avenue at Seventh Street, etc.) ...

The nice folks at Tree Riders NYC on Second Avenue at 10th Street outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery always have the tallest/largest ... with some reaching 18 feet...



And they have a 25 footer on the way... in case you have Cathedral-type ceilings or plan to decorate a lobby.

RIP Chile

A longtime resident of 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B recently passed away.

A neighbor on the block shared the news.

He was originally from Chile, and everyone called him Chile. He has lived on the block for decades, and he had two sweet dogs, Diego and Dante, who are now in need of a home.

He had sold his apartment and was going to go back to Chile with his dogs in late October. However, the neighbor noted that he had health problems, and he wound up in the hospital just days before he was supposed to leave. He eventually went into palliative care.

Back to the neighbor...

I feel sad that he didn't make it home to Chile. He had a cat, too, but he had already given the cat to a neighbor on the block because it was going to be hard enough for him to deal with getting the dogs from the plane to where he was going in Chile. They were his babies. He loved these dogs and would want them to go to a good home.

Everyone who walked down East 12th Street between A and B would have met him and Diego and Dante at some point.

Updated 11/28

Animal; Haven is looking for a new home for the dogs now.

Updated 12/2

Diego and Dante have both been adopted! Going to a new home in Brooklyn!

Updated 12/5

Read an update here!

The pop-up bar before Christmas: Miracle on Ninth Street returns for 5th season

[Image via Facebook]

For the fifth consecutive year, Miracle on Ninth Street — a Christmas inspired pop-up bar — is open for the season (as of yesterday) inside Mace, the cocktail bar at 649 E. Ninth St. at Avenue C.

And what started on Ninth Street is now worldwide. Per Facebook:

Miracle Owner/Cocktail Kingdom Founder & CEO Greg Boehm, Beverage Director Nico de Soto, and Manager Joann Spiegel have partnered with over 80 renowned bars (and counting!) across the world to launch sister pop-ups in cities as far-flung as London, Panama, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and many more.

Miracle on Ninth is open through Dec. 24, with the following hours: 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday and 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Noted

From earlier this week... Fake ad for "Ivamka Trump's Sweatshop for Women" spotted on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... "A Presidential Parody" via Maia Lorian and Abe Lincoln Jr. ...

Buying a 'Round'

The Germs' "What We do Is Secret," the 20-minute EP originally released in 1981, received the Record Store Day Black Friday treatment today ... with remastered tracks on blue color vinyl.

The audio track here is their version of "Round and Round," written and first recorded by Chuck Berry.

Grant Shaffer's NY See

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Here's this week's NY See, East Village-based illustrator Grant Shaffer's comic series — an observational sketch diary of things that he sees and hears around the neighborhood ... and elsewhere.

Black Friday Deal of the Day

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[Updated] Report of a fire at 204 E. 13th St.

The FDNY responded to a report of a fire this morning at 7 on the top floor of 204 E. 13th St., a four-story building between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

MAN ALL HANDS 204 E 13 ST, MIXED OCCUPANCY FIRE ON TOP FLR, UNDER CONTROL

— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) November 23, 2018

A resident on the block shared these photos and video...









No word at this moment on injuries or the cause of the fire. The resident said that the FDNY quickly extinguished the fire in the apartment, which appears to be gutted.

According to Streeteasy, the building, owned by Steve Croman, has three residential units. Bruno Pizza is in the retail space.

Updated 11/26

Bruno Pizza, will be closed for the foreseeable future.

"There is extensive water damage in the restaurant," owner Demian Repucci told me via email. "But the biggest thing is that ConEd shut off the electricity, gas and water to the whole building.

"We're trying to figure out the situation and what it will take to get back up and running."

Take a Stand at this holiday market on 7th and C

The Stand, the small gallery space on the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Avenue C, is hosting a holiday market starting today (Black Friday!) at noon.

Here's info via the EVG inbox...

Join us for our East Village Stand Holiday Market Nov. 23 - Dec. 24 on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue C.

Opening Reception & Performances: Friday, Nov. 23, 6-8 pm. A shakuhachi zen flute performance by Till Behler

Participating vendors at the East Village Stand Holiday Market include:

• Bottleworks, bottle lamps, pendant lights and glassware by Joe Harrigon

• One of a kind handmade picture frames by Anne Edris

• Taconic Trading Company spiced pepitas and Applewood smoked sea salt

• eulenspiegelchocolatelab cookies and chocolates

• Black Lives Matter holiday themed jewelry and ornaments by Carla Cubit

• Artwork by Baum Earth Elements

• Handmade natural products by Body Vanity

Find updates via Facebook. The Holiday Market is expected to be open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday (not counting the 6-8 opening reception tonight...).

Green paint arrives on the new 12th Street bike lane

On Wednesday, crews painted the new eastbound bike lane on 12th Street... I spotted them between Second Avenue and Avenue A ...







The bike lane for 13th Street arrived at the beginning of the month.

Meanwhile...

Time elapsed between painting the new 12th street bike lanes and people parking in them 1.0234seconds. #bikenyc @bikeblognyc @evgrieve #eastvillageParking #workingclass @bikesnobnyc pic.twitter.com/38ezAPTQFX

— Christopher J Ryan (@ChrisRyanAction) November 21, 2018

As previously reported, the city put in a bike lane on the north curb of 12th Street from Seventh Avenue to Avenue C, and the south curb of 13th Street from Greenwich Avenue to Avenue B separated from traffic with a painted buffer ahead of the April L-train closure.

The bike lanes are just one of the ways the city hopes to keep people/commuters moving during the 15 (or so) months that the Canarsie Tunnel under the East River gets repaired.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Prepping for the new protected bike lanes on 12th and 13th streets

Bike lane line work continues on 12th Street

DOT puts down the green paint on the new 13th Street bike lane (except for one mysterious spot)