Yet so close to home...

A new one (circa January!) from Brooklyn's A Place to Bury Strangers. Called "So Far Away."

WNBC 4 on the Cabrini closure story

Was curious if or when the mainstream media would pick up on the impending closure of Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Fifth Street and Avenue B... Here's our story on it from Wednesday ...

Let's start talking about the TSP Ratstravaganza again

Spotted this video over at Runnin' Scared. A staffer at the Comptroller's Office, which conducted an audit about not-so-swell conditions for kids in City parks, sent along the video from Tompkins Square Park ... not sure when this was made (not recently, a little green out) ... But it brings us back to the heady days of the TSP Ratstravaganza from last summer.

Speaking of rats. Here's some gore from this week in Tompkins Square Park...

Not this one...

Police looking for these men wanted for slashing 2 victims outside IHOP

[Via DNAinfo]

A Crime Stoppers alert, via DNAinfo ... Per the report:

Police are searching two suspects wanted for slashing two men in front of the IHOP restaurant on East 14th Street.

The suspects allegedly argued with the two victims, who are in their 20s, on the street outside the IHOP, which opened late last year at 235 E. 14th Street, on March 3 about 6 a.m. The suspects then slashed at both victims with an unknown object before fleeing the scene, police said.

Info on these guys? Call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS

EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition

[Spotted on the Bowery, by Bobby Williams]

City's SPURA vision includes big-box retail (The Lo-Down)

Life living next door to a hacker on Avenue D (The New York Times ... Gizmodo)

At the Odessa Cash Mob (East Village Corner ... Tripping With Marty ... It Was Her New York)

Remembering the Fillmore East (Off the Grid)

West Bleecker bloodbath (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

The "Mapping Roots" exhibit at the Carlton Arms Hotel (BoweryBoogie)

The 100 best NYC songs? (Time Out New York)

Screening tonight of the documentary, "The Quest for Cameltoe," featuring Reverend Jen.
8-11 pm at LaunchPad (film begins at 9:30).
721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn
Free but $5 Donation appreciated.
Details here.

And, noted last night on the first warm day of the year...

Here are Robert Sietsema's choices for best East Village restaurants (2012 edition)

[The Village Voice]

At Fork in the Road this morning, Robert Sietsema unveils his list for the best East Village restaurants circa 2012.

Here's the list. Please go over to Fork in the Road for his explanations and critiques of each...

10. Downtown Bakery

9. Dirt Candy

8. Back Forty

7. Zabb Elee

6. Vandaag

5. South Brooklyn Pizza

4. Il Buco Alimentari and Vineria

3. Ramen Misoya

2. Momofuku Ssam Bar

1. Prune

His list prompted more than 50 comments here the last time (in 2010). What do you think of these choices...?

Note: Per Fork in the Road, Sietsema is friends with the chefs at Goat Town, Porsena and Porchetta, so they were not considered for the list.

What it takes to build a six-floor mansion on a narrow East Village street

We're hearing from more and more residents complaining about the construction at 331 E. Sixth St. ... and the noise/congestion is only intensifying ... (Didn't help that film crews for the Coen Brothers were on the block for three days this week...)

Anyway, here's a quick look at the work taking place at the ol' Schwimming hole ...

The city has logged a few complaints at the future David Schwimmer home ... the most recent at the DOB is dated March 2, stating:

ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION WORK BEING DONE AT THIS LOCATION WITH EXPIRED PERMITS. WORKERS CAN SEEN ON-SITE BETWEEN 7AM-6PM. TONIGHT THEY WORKED UNTIL 8PM

Photos by Bobby Williams.

P.S.

Goggla notes that an old piece of the wrought-iron fence leftover from 331 E. Sixth St. is there for the taking...

Joe Strummer gets a fresh coat and shave

Last Friday, we noted that someone had added a few details to the Joe Strummer Mural on Seventh Street at Avenue A outside Niagara...

Anyway, all gone. Joe got touched up a bit yesterday afternoon as these photos by Bobby Williams show...

...and last night...

[EVG]

Steve Jobs officially recognized in Tompkins Square Park

Back in November, workers from Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project planted a Dawn Redwood tree in Tompkins Square Park in honor of Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple...

[Bobby Williams]

There was some discussion in the EV Grieve comments... Both positive...

I like this. The Macintosh empowered creative people and gave expression, connection, and life to an entire community that woud otherwise have been ignored by the big computer and software companies. For this we can thank Steve Jobs, and planting a beautiful redwood tree in our park, (that has lost too many trees this year) seems humble and appropriate.

...and more, uh, critical, like from nygrump...

Who the fuck 'authorized' a tree for steve jobs. what the fuck did he do for the East Village that would warrant a tree. - oh wait, under fascism we glorify the corporate heads.

... and inquisitive, like this from Stedman...

How is Steve Jobs connected to the East Village? Seriously. I want to know.

How about we dedicate the tree to Bob Arihood instead?

Only bringing this up because a worker has added Jobs's name to the tree plaque in the Park... (it's the one on the bottom, below Andrew Johnston, an East Village resident and a writer for Time Out, who died of colon cancer on Oct. 26, 2008).

Previously on EV Grieve:
RUMORS: Memorial tree for Steve Jobs planned for Tompkins Square Park

Meet Kita

Please welcome Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street, whose owners recently brought her home from a shelter.

Demolition in the shadows of the night on Third Avenue

As we've been reporting now the past few months, 74-76 Third Ave. will be demolished to make way for a new apartment complex...

As you can see in the above photo, the demo crew has removed the top floor of 76 Third Ave. ... the previous home of Yummy House and those mysterious windows on the north wall (now down to just one window) ...

Photo by @AndrewPettit

Previously on EV Grieve:
Those persistent rumors about 74-76 Third Avenue and the future of Nevada Smith's

The East Village will lose a parking lot and gain an apartment building

The rest of Duke's is in the dumpster on Avenue C

Duke's, the low-key neighborhood bar near East Eighth Street, closed at the beginning of the year... Workers have been gutting the space this week...

We've heard rumors of another bar taking over the space... Anyone know more about the future of the space?