A tribute to fallen Polish leaders outside St. Stanislaus

Members of the local Polish community left candles and flags outside St. Stanislaus on Seventh Street during the weekend to pay tribute to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other government leaders who were killed in a plane crash yesterday morning...





The Wall Street Journal has more on the local reaction...

iCrotch

On St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue. And I had my first iPad-in-public sighting last Saturday... a fellow standing in the brunch line at Prune.

Call the cops if you've seen this guy

Via 1010 Wins:

The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance to identify a man wanted for a series of burglaries in the East Village.

Police say the suspect is responsible for nine burglaries, with the most recent coming April 4.

In all the incidents, police say the man fled the scene with assorted property.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers Web site or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

Previously.

First Avenue, 9:52 a.m., April 10

And I hope that no one was inside at the time of the drunken buffoonery.

Report: East Village burglar has hit nine apartments in last month

Fox News has the following report:

The NYPD is investigating a series of burglaries in the East Village. The brazen burglar has struck at least nine apartments from March 10 through April 3, police said.

He even hit one building twice in one day -- once in the morning and once at night, the NYPD said.

The nine apartments are in the East Village from East 13th Street to East 8th Street from Avenue C to 3rd Avenue.

He usually comes through a window or back door, but on March 17 he came through the roof of a building on East 9th Street to burglarize the top floor apartments, police said. The owner of that apartment believes there were at least two burglars.

NYPD BLOTTER

The New York City Police Department is asking for the Public's assistance identifying the male wanted for a series of Burglaries that occurred within the confines of the 9th Precinct, details are as follows:

1. 03/10/10 at 1600 suspect entered 410 East 13 St apt 3A through Roof/sliding door
2. 03/10/10 at 0730 suspect entered 410 East 13 St apt 6B through window
3. 03/12/10 at 1600 suspect entered 416 East 11 St through rear door
4. 03/14/10 at 1800 suspect entered 316 East 11 St Apt 4c through window
5. 03/14/10 at 2000 suspect entered 121 St. Marks Plc through window
6. 03/17/10 at 1900 suspect entered 339 East 9 St through window
7. 03/17/10 at 2300 suspect entered 343 East 9 St through roof
8. 03/20/10 at 0149 suspect entered 207 Ave B through window
9. 04/03/10 at 2210 suspect entered 153 Ave C through window

Hi neighbor!

Another day, another wacky new store sign on First Street

First, as Jeremiah noted at 70 E. First St., came the sign for Robot Daycare....



...then came the Missing Sock....

...and the latest, courtesy of an EV Grieve reader... The NY Academy for Mime.




Previously on EV Grieve:
A new shopowner with a sense of humor on First Street

Atomic Passion has closed

The Web site for Dirt Candy on East Ninth Street brings the news that its neighbor, Atomic Passion, has closed after 17 years.

They just couldn’t make the numbers work anymore. We all know that life isn’t fair, and anyone who expects the good guys to win is living in a dream world. But it’s a loss to the block for Atomic Passion to go, and losing my neighbor makes me feel like it’s not Atomic Passion that’s wrong here, it’s the world where their numbers aren’t the ones that work. Most people didn’t notice Atomic Passion close, but if you were on East Ninth Street last week you would have seen part of the city die. Because when Atomic Passion closed, New York City became just that much colder, just that much of a tougher place to live.

I learned of the news via Jeremiah. He has more on it here. Terry Richardson wrote about it here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
East Village vintage stores doomed?

About the "thug" who "seriously injured a man in a Greenwich Village apartment"

Bob Arihood has more information about the following item in the NYPD Daily Blotter from yesterday.... first, here is the item from the Post:

Manhattan

A thug seriously injured a man in a Greenwich Village apartment after they had met at a bar, authorities said yesterday.

After leaving the pub together, Joel Pakela, 40, escorted the victim to the apartment on Mercer Street at 5:20 a.m. last Thursday, cops said.

Inside, Pakela suddenly attacked the man, hitting him repeatedly in the face and breaking his orbital bone, sources said.

Witnesses called 911 and police arrested Pakela after a struggle, authorities said.

He was charged with assault and resisting arrest, said a spokesman for DA Cyrus Vance Jr.

As Bob noted: "It seems that an East Village personality that we all know , the infamous L.E.S Jewels ( a.k.a. Joel Pakela) is going to be doing some time." (Read Bob's full post here.)

[Photo via Slum Goddess]

Noted

NY Barfly (via Grub Street) has a post on that Secret-Service-looking fellow pacing back in forth in front of Keith McNally's Pulino's on the Bowery and Houston:

Turns out the guard was there to secure the pies. The staff explained it was a “sketchy corner”, so he was milling about to keep the peace, and presumably to protect the pepperoni.

Reader mailbag: Cops called after a sandwich order is cancelled

The following is an e-mail from an EV Grieve reader...from an outing at Simone at First Avenue and St. Mark's...

"I had a very unpleasant incident at Simone earlier today when I went with a friend for a snack. When we went there it was a nice quiet place and we placed our order. Soon after our soup came the lights went down and the (what they called) music got very loud. When we were unable to get them to keep the volume down we went to leave, did not want to pay for a cancelled sandwich order (that we did not take with us).

They called the police. Long story short, I called to cancel my credit card charge and I was advised that TWO charges (in the same amount but NOT in the amount of my receipt) had been billed to my card."

I responded, they called the cops? Were you still there?

"We were there when the cops came. How could we leave? The cops were not any help. Even though we did not take the sandwich with us they said we had to call the [Better Business Bureau] and take [Simone] to Small Claims Court."

[Image via New York]

Your first Copper Building update in the last two months

We are, of course, contractually obligated to check in on Avenue B's Copper Building every two months... But seriously, it has actually been two months since our last post on Ol' Rusty. And we were just plain wrong at the time to think that the building was all sold out... A quick look at StreetEasy shows there are nine active listings (and nine in contract)... with an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

And there seems to be a model home now to show...



And the other day, we stood and watched with some neighbors all the work being done on the patio spaces... Nothing really sinister happening...




...though someone expressed concerned that one of the workers may easily take a tumble...





Previously.