Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo along Second Street) ... 

• Parking removed on sections of Avenues A and D; curbside bus lanes set for M14 service (Wednesday) 

• RIP Lisa Martin (Thursday)

• Hoop dreams: A memorial for Jesse Parrilla (Friday) 

• Lord Kitty fell from a window and needs surgery (Saturday) 

• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Kevin Sabo on ‘Kimberly Pepperoni’s Closet’ (Thursday)

• Treetops tops off on 2nd Avenue; signage arrives (Monday) 

• Openings: Sacco on 11th Street (Thursday) ... Cafe Joah on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Police searching for suspect who burglarized a storage room on Avenue B (Saturday) 

• A visit with Wolfie, a talented emerging outsider artist — and rabbit (Tuesday) 

• City pools open with limited staffing (Tuesday) 

• More burgers for the former Black Iron Burger on 5th Street (Thursday) 

• Compilation Coffee coming to St. Mark’s Place (Monday)

• Brooklyn Roasting Company opens a cafe inside the Strand (Monday) 

• ‘American Horror Story’ brings the porn and 1980s mobiles to 9th Street (Friday)

• Let the wheatpaste battle BEGIN! (Wednesday) 

• A new Korean concept for the Oiji space on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Raclette reopens (Monday)

• Blank Street continues East Village expansion with outpost on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

... and we had a @Culture.20 sighting on Second Avenue ... photo by Derek Berg...

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Reader report: FDNY truck collides with vehicle on 10th Street and Avenue C

Several EVG readers shared info from a Citizen post yesterday ... in which an FDNY truck collided with a car, sending the vehicle into the sidewalk bridge on the NE corner of 10th Street and Avenue C.

There weren't many details about the collision, except that the vehicle took down the light pole on the corner.

There weren't any reports of injuries. Will update if/when more information is available. 

Top image via Citizen

Noted

Someone left a message on this stump at the entrance to Tompkins Square Park at Seventh Street and Avenue A...

"Jesus is coming. Look busy." 

 OK! Doing laundry.

The tree came down on May 7.

Sunday's opening shot

Have a yabba dabba doo time with this new stone-age Basquiat wheatpaste on the Bowery and Houston... courtesy of DeGrupo ...

Saturday's parting shot

Today on Seventh Street via Derek Berg...

[Updated] Lord Kitty fell from a window and needs surgery

Updated: Sadly, the fall was too intense and Lord was unable to breathe on her own. She was put to sleep. Per Lindsay: "So thank you all for your kindness, for your help, for raising awareness I cannot tell you how much it meant to me, to us ..."

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East Village resident Lindsay Flora came home last evening to discover that Lord, her nearly 9-year-old cat, whom she rescued as a kitten, fell from a fourth-floor window.

Lord survived the fall, “but we had to take her to the emergency vet immediately. Due to the extremity of the fall and the need for the x-rays, overnight stays, medicine, and her having a broken hip, plus some internal organ issues, it’s a lot, and we have her staying overnight a few nights to stabilize.” 

Lindsay launched a GoFundMe to help her pay for Lord’s medical expenses. 

“I’m not sure I can put into words how much she means to me, but she is my best friend, my baby, the absolute love of my life,” she wrote. 

Find the link here.

Police searching for suspect who burglarized a storage room on Avenue B

The NYPD has just released information about a suspect they say burglarized a storage room on Avenue B and took $26,000 in merchandise. 

According to the police, the incident occurred at 4:25 a.m. on June 11 at 23 Avenue B, which is between Second Street and Third Street. As previously reported, workers added two new floors and combined the two four-story structures here.

The police report does not mention the name of the business... the lone one being Gas on Deck, a recreational marijuana dispensary and accessories shop.

There is a $3,500 reward for information about this theft...

WANTED for a Burglary at 23 Avenue B. #Manhattan @NYPD9pct on 6/11/22 @ 4:25 AM an unknown individual forcefully entered the storage room at location and removed approximately $26,000 worth of merchandise. Reward up to $3500 Call 1-800-577-TIPS Calls are CONFIDENTIAL pic.twitter.com/OEzHoVzkj8

— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) July 2, 2022

 

Now the bus knows what it's like to wait for a lift

The stricken M14A bus that blew out a tire on Avenue A yesterday was still waiting for a tow this morning.

The heavy-duty tow-truck was spotted between 10th Street and 11th Street ... and blocking the bus stop outside Tompkins Square Bagels...

The blowout occurred around 4 p.m. yesterday just south of 13th Street. Witnesses said it was loud as hell. There weren't any reports of injuries. 

And coincidentally, "Blow Out," Brian De Palma's excellent 1981 thriller with John Travolta, Nancy Allen and a menacing John Lithgow, is playing tonight (July 2 as well as July 4 and July 8) at Metrograph on Ludlow Street.

 

'American Horror Story' brings the porn and 1980s mobiles to 9th Street

Top photo by DP; the rest by Steven 

Film crews for a TV series with the code name "Bandana" (aka "American Horror Story," season 11) are filming on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (and along Avenue A and elsewhere) this evening. 

And the liberal Hollywood perverts have converted a storefront on the block is now a "video peeps" shop...

There are also some cars that your friend's older brother drove in high school...

Blow out on Avenue A

Photos by Steven 

The Fourth of July came early this afternoon on Avenue A just south of 13th Street ... when a tire on an M14 bus blew out, causing a roar that several EVG readers described as sounding like an explosion...

There weren't any reports of injuries, just a few frazzled nerves and a line at the next stop on A...