4 holiday-related events that you can do today in the East Village

You can:

• Attend the Tompkins Square Park tree lighting at 4

• Shop at the "De-Flea Market" at Bar 82

• Go to the The Neighborhood School’s Holiday Fair

• Visit the Christmas Bazaar at the Ukrainian Museum on East Sixth Street

Let me know what I'm forgetting in the comments... (What I'm forgetting about holiday-related events, that is...)

Tree Lighting this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

The lights are on the tree...

The festivities get started at 4 ...

As The Villager reported this week, the Tompkins Square Park Neighborhood Coalition will dedicate the event to the memory of Kevin Dowd, a former vice president of the coalition who died March 8 after a battle with lung cancer.

It could have been a very different tree lighting this year... Hurricane Irene brought down a tree back in August that nearly took out the Park's Holiday Tree...

The morning after

[Outside the 13th Step]

[Vazac's Penistrated!]

Today at Bar 82

Saturday, but it just seemed longer

Photos by Bobby Williams.

One down, 24,793 to go

[Dave on 7th]

Santa down this afternoon on Avenue B between Sixth Street and Seventh Street...

And how is your Saturday afternoon?

A little bit ago on Second Avenue at Ninth Street...

Thanks to A. Sasaki for the photos...

Cleanup today at 26 St. Mark's Place

This morning, crews were on the scene at 26 St. Mark's Place, where a fire broke out yesterday...

As DNAinfo reported, the fire started on a mattress in the third-floor apartment.

And from outside the building... the apparent culprit in the fire ... via @joshappelbaum ...

We hear that some residents are blaming a longtime tenant for the blaze.

Apartment fire in Stuy Town

Crazy Eddie passes these photos of an apartment fire at a 10-12 Stuyvesant Oval address ... no word yet on the extent of the blaze...

Someone has already thrown away a Christmas tree

On St. Mark's Place. Or is this left from last year? Also, we haven't forgotten about the whole Christmas in June/July/August/September nonsense business... We have a winner, who will be revealed at the appropriate moment.

Nevada Smith's at Webster Hall

We've been meaning to note this since we reported that Nevada Smith's closed at 74 Third Ave. on Nov. 27.

So until they move up the street to 100 Third Ave. some day ... Nevada Smith's is has been showing matches at Webster Hall... Thanks to our friend Esquared for the photos...

The schedule is posted on the Nevada Smith's Facebook page.

[Updated] School officials trash the skateboard ramps from Open Road Park

Earlier this week, an EV Grieve reader told me that the NYC Department of Education closed the Open Road Park, which is adjacent to the East Side Community High School on East 12th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

This also happened back in June, as we first reported. During a meeting in late June, Mark Federman, the principal of the school, told residents about increased "incidents of trash and debris, smoking cigarettes, marijuana — some selling of marijuana."

The park reopened as of July 1.

We thought this most recent closure would also be temporary.

Not so.

The park's skateboard ramps have been discarded along with the rest of the trash along East 12th Street ...

UPDATED:

A reader on Facebook just commented, "A white station wagon has just removed all but the dark brown ramp, which wouldn't fit in his car."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Open Road Park closed now on 12th Street

Why the Open Road Park is closed