Sunday's opening shot

The season of giving thanks, from St. Mark's Place at First Avenue...

Noted

As seen on Seventh Street near Avenue C... and there's a sudden urge to watch "Road House" tonight.

EVG Etc.: City Council approves redistricting; Anna Delvey launches dinner series

Fall at Albert's Garden on 2nd Street 

• Your Election Day questions answered (NY1) 

• Local City Councilmember Carlina Rivera and others speak out about the warehousing of rent-stabilized units (The City) 

• NYC migrant crisis highlights long standing homeless shelter issues (Gothamist) 

• City Council approves redistricting maps (City & State ... Village Preservation) 

• Sietsema checks out MayRee on First Street (Eater ... previously on EVG) 

• Pete Wells says that the French-influenced Claud on 10th Street "is one of the most impressive places to hit the East Village in several years" (The New York Times ... previously on EVG)

• The Thrillist guide to the East Village (Thrillist) 

• Under house arrest, Anna Delvey is launching a dinner series out of her East Village apartment (Eater)

• The "Meet Me in the Bathroom" doc is now playing at the IFC Center (Official site... previously on EVG) 

• UFOs on the big screen (Anthology Film Archives) 

• Glendalis is the protagonist of this 10-year photographic voyage on the Lower East Side (i-D) 

• Scarlett Johansson and David Yurman hosted a shopping soiree to benefit the Lower Eastside Girls Club (Vogue) 

• The noise and traffic are constant complaints from the neighbors near Clinton Street and Grand Street (PIX11) 

• Goggla captures the fall bird migration (Laura Goggin Photography) 

• Heidi Klum's Halloween worm costume at the new Moxy Hotel on the Bowery inspired some good memes (Hyperallergic)

Saturday's opening shot

Clocks go back one hour at 2 a.m. with Daylight Saving Time ... so if you're reading this post tomorrow, it will be 8:17 a.m. and not 9:17 a.m. 

And the new clocks at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (above!) on 10th Street and Second Avenue arrived in September 2018. 

On Nov. 12, 1955, lightning struck the clock tower, which generated 1.21 gigawatts of power.

Hello again

Photo for EVG last year by Stacie Joy 

Big week for local band Hello Mary... the trio — bassist Mikaela Oppenheimer, guitarist Helena Straight and drummer Stella Wave — announced the release date for their debut LP — March 3, 2023. 

They were also profiled in Rolling Stone in a piece titled "Say Hello to the Next Great New York Rock Band." 

And then there is a brand-new single-video... this is "Spiral."

   

Previously on EV Grieve: 

• Hello Mary takes the stage at Webster Hall 

• An afternoon out with Hello Mary

About the 'First Mondays' reading series at Performance Space New York

Performance Space New York's series, "First Mondays: Readings of New Works in Progress," continues this fall. 

Here's more about what to expect from the series, organized by writer-historian Sarah Schulman, on Monday, Nov. 7, and Monday, Dec. 5: 

On Nov. 7, in an event Schulman dubbed "House Favorites," First Mondays features what Schulman describes as "a literary cornucopia of writers' writers, for readers who love writers." They include Lambda Literary Award and Arab American Book Award winner Rabih Alameddine ... poet and former director of the Asian-American Writers' Workshop Ken Chen ... and experimental poet, prose writer, and scholar of critical pedagogy and queer theory Sara Jane Stoner... 

And on Dec. 5... 

In an ongoing commitment to presenting alumni of Performance Space, First Mondays features an evening of new work-in-progress by Chris Cochrane — an innovator of improvisational new music and co-creator of THEM with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dennis Cooper — with his collaborators Viv Corringham and Miguel Frasconi. 

The "First Mondays" readings start at 7 p.m. (a livestream option is also available). Events are free with RSVP ... which you can do here or here.

The readings take place at Open Room, Performance Space New York, 150 First Ave. (at Ninth Street), 4th floor.

How long will this booted Dodge Durango sit here on 11th Street?

An EVG reader shared this photo... of a new-model Dodge Durango — parked with a boot — on 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.

The boot arrived toward the end of September. The next day, the reader and a friend saw a young couple very thoroughly washing the vehicle inside and out. 

We assumed maybe they were killing time while waiting to have the boot removed. Hours later we came by again and the vehicle had been stripped clean of license plates, registration information, VIN, etc. 

The vehicle has sat here without plates and with deflated tires all of October.

Heading into November, the reader wonders how much longer the SUV will sit here. Perhaps it needs to be towed into the Avenue A bus lane to garner some city attention?

Just what the doctor ordered? MedRite Urgent Care debuts on 14th and 3rd

The MedRite Urgent Care is now open on the SE corner of Third Avenue and 14th Street. (Signage arrived in February.) 

The walk-in clinic has more than 20 locations around NYC and the metropolitan area. The hours here: Saturday-Sunday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

And the new outpost is about 60 steps away from the CityMD location on 14th Street. 

As for the new MedRite storefront, this space has been on the retail market since the Capital One® branch moved away in July 2016. 

Thursday's parting shot

A black-and-white view this evening from Seventh Street and First Avenue...

Noted

Photos by Derek Berg 

Thanks to the magic of TV-making, there's a new medical cannabis dispensary on Avenue A... temporarily taking the place of Avenue A Deli & Grill just south of St. Mark's Place for a scene today...

Crews for "Law & Order," an American police procedural and legal drama TV series now in its 47th season, were also spotted on Avenue B and Eighth Street.