Meanwhile, on 38th Street...

Dave on 7th was on 38th Street earlier... where he figured there must be some logical reason why somebody put this meter in the middle of the sidewalk.

Fab 5 Freddie told me...

EV Grieve reader Pedro happened by Gallery 151 at 350 Bowery Wednesday night where Fab 5 Freddy was debuting his month-long art show titled "New York:New Work."

And Fab 5 Freddy was out front speaking with friends and fans...

BoweryBoogie has more on the show here.

Why people will be running and eating pizza and stuff tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park

Oh, tomorrow marks the second annual NYC Pizza Run at Tompkins Square Park. Ninety runners, uh, run 2.25 miles, stopping at three checkpoints to eat slices of pizza.

If you want to take part, you're too late. It's booked.

If you want to take pictures of runners throwing up pizza, then please send them to our friends at EV Heave.

You can find more info here.

The former Café Charbon will become a sports bar 'with an emphasis on value'

As we reported from the CB3/SLA meeting back in January, the team behind The Stumble Inn, Off the Wagon, Gin Mill, Jake's Dilemma, Down the Hatch and The 13th Step are taking over Café Charbon on the corner of Orchard and Stanton Streets. The CB3/SLA committee unanimously approved the transfer.

Yesterday, BoweryBoogie noted that Café Charbon is now closed.

The new owners provided a few details about their plans for the space during the January CB3/SLA meeting: It will be a full-service tavern open from 11:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. The French doors will close at 10 p.m. There will be $1 drafts at happy hour, a private party room and DJs on occasion (no dancing, though).

Yesterday, we asked Michael Asch, one of the two senior co-owners of the 13th Step and its sibling bars, for more about their plans for the former Café Charbon.

They hope to be open in September or October after "a face lift."

"We will be a sports bar, pub and grill, serving burgers, salads, sandwiches, etc., with an emphasis on value — both on the food as well as liquor," he said.

And how about a name, given the ruckus about the 13th Step?

"We are also planning to be sensitive to to the community as far as a name is concerned," he said.

Introducing Gallery 98

Marc H. Miller passes along word about the latest edition to the 98 Bowery website ...

For collectors interested in New York’s downtown art scene circa 1980, the website 98 Bowery has debuted a unique online gallery featuring ephemera, multiples and one-of-a-kind artworks connected to the radical art group Collaborative Projects Inc. (aka “Colab”).

During its short but eventful history, Colab left its mark with exhibitions like the Times Square Show and the Real Estate Show, the affiliated alternative spaces Fashion Moda in the South Bronx and ABC No Rio in the Lower East Side, and a succession of pop-up “A More Stores” featuring low-priced artist multiples. Working collectively, the group was an incubator for ideas and a launching pad for member artists like Jenny Holzer, Tom Otterness, and Kiki Smith. Every item listed on Gallery 98 dates from Colab’s prime years, 1975 – 1985.

Among the items:

Find more here.

For further reading on EV Grieve:
Life at 98 Bowery: 1969-1989

Revisiting Punk Art

Q-and-A with Curt Hoppe: Living on the Bowery, finding inspiration and shooting Mr. Softee

Voices from 98 Bowery's past

An Urban Etiquette Stoop Sign

We spotted this Urban Etiquette Sign recently under a sidewalk shed on the tree-lined 10th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue (AKA, Central Village)...

Perhaps the sign worked, because we spotted this fellow taking a nap a few stoops away...

Here's Johnny! on East Fourth Street

Between Avenue C and Avenue D.

And is this the best scene from "The Shining"?

Open, uh, house tomorrow at the New York City Marble Cemetery

Over on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. If anything, then this provides a chance for you to discard any unwanted explosives!

Meanwhile, mark your calendars:

Summer Neighborhood Open Days
Sunday, July 10
Saturday, Aug. 13
Sunday, Sept. 11

11 am to 5 pm

Fall Open Weekend
Saturday and Sunday
Oct. 15 and 16

10 am to 5 pm

Visit the cemetery website here.

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Boca Chica now delivering

Several readers have pointed out the arrival of Boca Chica delivery menus on their front doors... the Latin-American mainstay on First Avenue at First Street is now offering delivery for the first time...

Reservoir dogs, kind of

At the Tompkins Square Park Dog Run today... Photos by Bobby Williams.

Fun in the bike lanes

In case you haven't seen this by now... this video has made the rounds the last two days. It's from Casey Neistat, the East Village-based filmmaker about his experience getting a $50 ticket for not riding in the bike lane on Second Avenue near St. Mark's Place.

Hilarity ensues.

And here's an interview with him at New York magazine.

EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition

A feature on Avenue C's Nublu (The New York Times)

Advocates: Car crashes more deadly than gun violence in NYC (DNAinfo)

Fallout from the painted-over Fat Black Pussycat sign (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Wednesday in Tompkins Square Park (Neither More Nor Less ... Melanie has more shots here at East Village Corner)

No law against women walking around NYC topless (Runnin' Scared)

Good Samaritan gives Natividad Zirate new tools (BoweryBoogie)

The Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival is Sunday (The Lo-Down)

Goggla posts her Art Around the Park photos (The Gog Log)

Shots of Kenny Scharf's freshly painted rolldown gates on Delancey (Fresh Paint NYC)

And, last night, we mentioned that a cat named Delilah is missing from 6th Street and Avenue B ... A reader spotted this rather thin-looking cat last night at the Creative Little Garden on Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... The reader called Delilah's owners, though it wasn't a match...