Posts this past week included (with watercolors in the rain Thursday morning)...
• East Village Loves NYC issues a fundraising appeal to help continue feeding New Yorkers in need (
Monday)
• Proposed plans now call for a 24-story residential building on 14th Street and Avenue C (
Tuesday)
• Essex Card Shop getting closer to reopening on Avenue A (
Tuesday)
• Remembering Maximiliano Contreras at the Parkside Lounge (
Friday) ... Remembering Jose Fernandez (
Monday)
• 'Alien' nation: East Village duo the Acute release debut full-length record (
Wednesday)
• Office building for 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's Place moving forward after developer secures $70-million loan (
Monday)
• City once again closes the area around the chess tables in Tompkins Square Park (
Thursday)
• At the book party for Ada Calhoun's 'Also a Poet' (
Friday)
• 'Summer in the City' with East Village writer Jennie Willink (
Saturday)
• Suki Japanese Kitchen expands in East Village relocation (
Thursday)
• Checking in on the Bowery Mural Wall 'on pause' (
Thursday)
• Proletariat opens in new 7th Street home (
Friday)
• The all-new 360 Bowery is in the piledriving and jackhammering phase (
Monday)
• Coming soon: Ando Patisserie on 10th Street; Unique Omakase on 1st Avenue (
Wednesday)
• Desert Rose CafĂ© has apparently closed on 9th Street (
Wednesday) ... Report: Raclette has closed on 12th Street (
Monday)
• Openings: Fries Factory on 14th Street (
Wednesday)
• Team behind Ichibantei eyeing 100 3rd Ave. (
Monday)
• Sales underway at the 'bespoke' La Botanica on 6th Street (
Thursday)
And several readers noted a passed-out Santa yesterday morning outside the KFC on Second Avenue and 14th Street... he was apparently OK and sleeping off
something...