• RIP Molly Fitch (Monday)
• One man dead, several people injured in a fire at 118 Avenue D (Thursday)
• The Community Holiday Feast in Tompkins Square Park is now taking place on Sunday (Friday)
• At the rally for Casa Adela (Monday)
• At the annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting (Monday)
• A rally in support of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project; activists lose appeal (Friday) ... Activists: Even with a new court order, the city continues demolition of East River Park (Tuesday)
• Making a connection with the history of this 13th Street apartment (Thursday)
• Gallery Watch checks out Bockhaus's Anti Christmas Special by Ryan Bock at Ki Smith Gallery (Friday)
• This is the closing date for Dress Shoppe II (Thursday)
• Gia Trattoria has closed on the Bowery (Wednesday)
• The SE corner of Avenue C and 3rd Street is now sidewalk-bridge free after 8-plus years (Thursday)
• Dry cleaners and laundromats make a return (Monday)
• Noho Market debuts on the Bowery (Monday)
• Construction watch: 699 E. 6th St. (Thursday)
• Snack Bowery has closed (Monday)
• Dumpling N' Dips coming soon to St. Mark's Place (Wednesday)
• Summing up feelings about SantaCon (Sunday)
• August Laura has closed on Avenue A and 6th Street (Thursday).
And after August Laura closed, several readers noted that up to 8-10 people moved into the restaurant's seldom-used Sixth Street streetside structure...
Since then, someone has removed most of the barriers...
... and boarded up the Avenue A streetside structure. The residents (and one business owner) who emailed us about these want the street eateries removed, as the retail space will likely sit empty for months...
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