A weekend-only pop-up flower shop on Avenue B

Photos by Stacie Joy 

East Village resident Andrea Fabano has opened a pop-up floral shop on weekends at 106 Avenue B between Sixth Street and Seventh Street ...

She plans on being in the space through July. 

For now, her hours are noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Find her on Instagram here.

Saturday's parting shot

Crate digging at A-1 Record Shop on Sixth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue...

That sinking feeling again on 7th Street

Several EVG readers pointed out a collapsed portion of the sidewalk outside 84 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue... happened sometime last night...

... apparently a flashback gift from the ConEd/DEP Hell Summer of 2021 Work on the block. 

Anyway, we understand that the building's landlord will block off this section of the sidewalk until city repairs can be made. 

The business here, AuH20 Thriftique, an excellent vintage shop, will be open per usual from noon to 7 p.m. 

H/T Cara!

EVG Etc.: Landlords challenge NYC rent laws; city seeks next Nightlife Mayor

Photo yesterday on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg 

• Some landlords want the Supreme Court to overturn NYC's rent regulation laws (Gothamist) 

• It is Community Board application season (The City) 

• At the ribbon-cutting for the renovated new home of La MaMa (PIX11 ... previously on EVG) 

• Ya-Ting Liu, a former transit advocate, will become New York City’s director of the public realms (Streetsblog)

• Ariel Palitz, the current founding director of the Office of Nightlife, is officially stepping down from her role at the end of April (Time Out) 

• A visit to SOS Chefs on Avenue B (Eater)

• With Mary Ellen Mark's "Streetwise" as the blueprint, a young photographer captures teens who gravitated to Tompkins Square Park (i-D Magazine) 

• See "Citizen Kane" on a big screen this weekend (Anthology Film Archives) 

• Three chances to see David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" on a big screen (Metrograph) 

• The artists resisting the gentrification of Chinatown (Hyperallergic) 

• "Raw Power" turns 50 (The Wall Street Journal)

Letter perfect

Designer Olive Panter has replicated the 23k Boston gild lettering designed decades back for the International Bar (highlights reel here) ... which has had several East Village iterations, since 2017 at 102 First Ave. at Sixth Street. 

Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m., if you haven't been by lately.

Openings: Bagel Market on 14th Street

Bagel Market debuted this past week at 238 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. (Thanks for letting us know, Pinch!) 

The shop is open daily from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Find a menu here.

As we noted on Jan. 6, this is the fifth NYC outpost for the brand that started in the summer of 2020.

The business takes over for Bagel Boss, the chainlet that opened a location here in July 2021. They closed several months later in October for, per management, "gas and electric problems" in the building. Bagel Boss never reopened here.  

'Special' delivery

 

Local faves Hello Mary — Helena Straight, Stella Wave and Mikaela Oppenheimer — released a new single yesterday ahead of the band's full-length debut on March 3. 

Enjoy this "Special Treat."

Previously on EV Grieve: 

• Hello Mary takes the stage at Webster Hall 

• An afternoon out with Hello Mary

The bus stopped here ... after striking the sidewalk bridge on 10th and C

Lots of reader pics from this afternoon... when an M14D cut the turn a little tight on the NE corner of Avenue C and 10th Street and struck the sidewalk bridge...

There weren't any reports of injuries, and the workers were on the scene to secure the sidewalk bridge, which has taken a few hits through the years...

Thanks to Jose Garcia, EVJackie and everyone else for sending along photos!

This afternoon in photos of full rotation excavators (TB153fr edition)

Photo by Stacie Joy 

Transformer-replacement work continues at the ConEd substation along Avenue A, Fifth Street, and Sixth Street... it's quite a production, as anyone who has stood outside Sophie's (or lives in the immediate area) can attest...

Immaculate Conception School is closing

Photo by Steven

The Archdiocese of New York announced this week that 12 Catholic schools will cease operations at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, including Immaculate Conception on 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. 

This is the last Catholic grade school (serving students K-8) in the East Village.

Per NY1:

There was a shift in demographics and lower enrollment at the schools that are closing, according to officials. This was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Archdiocese reported spending between $500 million and $700 million to support the schools closing, which they say is unsustainable.

The school dates to 1864 (find a PDF with history here), part of the Immaculate Conception church when it was at 505 E. 14th St. The church, on the north side of 14th, was demolished in the 1940s to make way for Stuy Town. 

The school's current building was completed in 1945. Per Wikipedia: 

In 1943 the parish took over the chapel and hospital buildings now known as Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses, completed in 1896 to designs by Barney and Chapman and formerly owned by Grace Church. This existing facility was expanded with a four-story brick convent and parochial school at 415-419 E. 13th St. and 414-416 E. 14th St. ... and completed in 1945.

The archdiocese shut down St. Brigid School, founded in 1856, at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.  The St. Brigid School building remains on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue B. In 2022, a handful of NYC public school teachers who received medical or religious exemptions to the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate were working remotely from the school.