EV Grieve

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg from outside an NYFW show — Wiederhoeft — at LaMama on Fourth Street) ...

• The former P.S. 64/Charas is now headed to a bankruptcy sale (Wednesday)

• Here's the first look at the new building slated for 50-64 Third Ave. (Friday)

• The owner of Max restaurant is returning to Avenue B with a new pizzeria (Thursday)

• Report: Early morning stabbing on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

• Welcoming Beastie Boys Square to the Lower East Side (Monday)

• At Fucking Awesome with Chloë Sevigny (Wednesday)

• Kyp Malone's 'Dream Articulations' at Snow Gallery (Saturday)

• Openings: Cantina Cubana on Avenue B (Friday) ... Motel No Tell on Avenue A (Thursday) ... EVC Caffé on 5th Street (Wednesday)

• Friday night with Crackhead Barney and Friends at Grace Exhibition Space on Avenue C (Thursday)

• Dim Sum Go Go's East Village outpost set for a soft opening (Thursday)

• Report of a fire at 91 E. 3rd St. (Wednesday)

• Doja Cat's "Scarlet" alter ego spotted in Tompkins (Tuesday)

• Double rainbows on 9/11 (Monday)

• Signage time for Seasoned Vegan (Monday)

• The case of the missing East Village Mini Market signage (Thursday)

• A look inside the incoming Popeyes on 14th Street (Monday)

• Mr. Kim arrives on St. Mark's Place (Monday)

• About Schmuck on 1st Avenue (Monday)

• 5 weeks (or so) until the Wegmans at Astor Place opens (Tuesday)

... speaking of Wegmans, reps were handing out freebies in Tompkins Square Park yesterday ahead of the grand opening on Oct. 18 (photo by Stacie Joy)...

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Skating goals in Tompkins Square Park

The top photo by EVG; the rest by Stacie Joy

Late Friday afternoon, skateboarders filled the multipurpose courts (TF!) in Tompkins Square Park ... taking part in a hockey skate jam via Fucking Awesome on Ninth Street.

The hockey goal was a popular obstacle to take on...

As we've been reporting, the city is expected to start the pavement reconstruction here this month.

The Parks Department will reconstruct the multipurpose courts, adding various amenities, including a two-lane seal-coated walking loop and new asphalt.

According to a landscape architect with the Parks Department (from a presentation in February), there's a lot of "asphalt structural damage," and it "needs to be replaced and repaired. And the only way to do that is to take all the asphalt down to the sub base and put new asphalt down."

Other additions: new benches, a kickball court, a high-low fountain that kids and adults can use simultaneously, and three new basketball backstops at the eastern end.

Skaters are worried the new asphalt will be either too soft or hard for skating, turning this decades-long hotspot into a useless spot.

If there were any concerns about the future here, it didn't show on Friday with an upbeat, endless summer vibe.

A 'Moment' at Café Chrystie

Photo on Sept 8 by Stacie Joy

Last month, we noted that East Village resident Pep Kim debuted a new café-boutique concept at 184 E. Seventh St. at Avenue B (SE corner)... the storefront houses Café Chrystie and his Chrystie NYC clothing brand.

Kim said that he planned to host the occasional photo show and other art events here.

The shop has hosted two to date ... Sept. 8 saw the opening of "Give Me a Moment," a zine release event/photo exhibit featuring the work of stylist Mustafa Yanaz (above left) ... the work will be here through Sept. 28...

Sunday's opening shot

Morning shadows in the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Saturday's parting shot

Photo by Stacie Joy

A scene from the 17th annual Anarchist Bookfair today (mentioned here) at La Plaza Cultural on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Avenue C.

Tompkins Square Park is the last stop for this Theater for the New City production

The 2023 edition of the five-borough tour for the Theater for the New City's Street Theater Company ends tomorrow (Sunday!) afternoon in Tompkins Square Park.

Crystal Field, executive director at Theater for the New City, wrote and directed "Life on the Third Rail, or A Subway Delay to the Future," this musical that "tells a story in which a violent hurricane floods the subways, sending a heroic subway crew into a new world."

The free show starts at 2 p.m. Read more about the production here.

H/T Steven!

Kyp Malone's 'Dream Articulations' at Snow Gallery

Photos and text by Daniel Efram

"Dream Articulations," multimedia artist Kyp Malone's first solo show, opened Thursday evening at Snow Gallery, 129 Eldridge St. between Delancey and Broome on the Lower East Side.

Though Malone is known by many for his musical contributions to Rain Machine and previously, in large measure to TV on the Radio, he has been painting seriously since a young age.

"Dream Articulations" is a colorful and absurdist take on "a detailed imaginary world thought to originate in childhood." Malone grew up being deeply informed by the Jehovah's Witness; however, as he grew older, his track led away from the church's teachings, leading him to describe his art as "redecorating the architecture from cult indoctrinations."