Sinkhole repairs continue on Seventh Street

Workers are still on the scene this morning between First Avenue and Second Avenue... repairing the sinkhole and what not on the block...





Meanwhile, when I went outside to drop an extra safety flare into the sewer, people reported smelling gas on the block. The FDNY was on the scene, did some inspecting, and gave it the all clear.

So let's try the free screening of the French thriller tonight in Tompkins Square Park

Well, the rain and threat of rain KO'd last night's free screening of the French thriller "The Axe" in Tompkins Square Park. So! The organizers will be showing it tonight at 8:30...

Find out more about the 2005 film here.

At the start of the annual NYC Drag March

The marchers all gathered last night around 7 at Tompkins Square Park for the annual trek across town to the Stonewall Inn...

"The very first Drag March happened 19 years ago as an (unofficial) part of the Stonewall 25 commemorations - the organizers of Stonewall 25 didn't wish leather or drag at their event thus our event was propelled into being..."
~Drag March Co-Founder Harmonie Moore of the NYC Church Ladies for Choice

Melanie from East Village Corner shared a few photos with us... (She has more at her site here.)







...and via @emmsape ...

Work continues on East Seventh Street sinkhole

EVG reader MP let's us know that work continues tonight on the sinkhole that formed on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue earlier today...





Per MP: "Apparently there was mass car towing by nypd making for unhappy residents and very unhappy bridge and tunnelers."

Storm Center

Cooper Square during one of today's storms... photos by Bobby Williams.

Reader report: Woman injured in fall on under-construction staircase at 86 E. Fourth St.

Late this afternoon, emergency crews responded to a report of an accident inside 86 E. Fourth St. at Second Avenue...





Per reader @kxd8053, who took these photos ... "woman fell through a marble staircase smashed by construction workers."

According to a notice that the DOB issued today:



"FDNY REPORTS 3RD FLOOR LANDING COLLAPSE WITH ONE INJURY."

We don't know the extent of the injuries yet... more information to follow as it becomes available.

As we've been reporting, RURU & Associates purchased the building last fall ... residents have said that the new owner and management — ID'd by multiple readers and tipsters as the (Oheb)Shalom family — are declining to offer new leases as current tenant leases expire.

Find further coverage of 86 E. Fourth St. here.

Have other tips or photos about the situation here? Please send them our way via the EV Grieve email

Zapped!

These photos from earlier this afternoon are by Gregory Patrick... looking downtown from Third Street and Avenue B...

'Hearts' of darkness

The Crocodiles with "Hearts of Love" from 2010. It's all fun at the beach until the 2:38 mark, when the gratuitous violence begins!

And the band will play Maxwell's Wednesday night...

Looking at (the former) Nice Guy Eddie's this afternoon

As BoweryBoogie noted this morning, workers have quickly gutted the former Nice Guy Eddie's space on Avenue A at Houston/East First. Workers have scrubbed the Eddie's name from the exterior. The 16-year-old bar closed last Sunday, and will be converted into a restaurant serving American comfort food.

And kiss the mural goodbye?

Previously on EV Grieve:
How do we feel about the Kiss mural outside Nice Guy Eddie's?

Moving truck stuck in East Seventh Street sinkhole

We heard reports late this morning about police activity on East Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... including the presence of crime-scene tape...

Turns out that it's for this moving truck, whose rear wheel got lodged in a sinkhole (or, perhaps, caused the sinkhole...)

Thanks to EVG reader @Knickerbock4Lif for the early accounts and these photos...







... and via another reader...







...and EVG reader Ryan...





And not the first time a moving truck has been nearly swallowed by a sinkhole in the East Village.

2 hours until Germany-Greece at Zum Schneider

Around 12:45, some 30 people were waiting for Zum Schneider to open at Seventh Street and Avenue C. Euro Cup 2012 quarter-finals this afternoon — Germany-Greece at 2:45.

Previously.

Rents going up, duh

The Rent Guidelines Board met at Cooper Union last night to vote on increases for rent-stabilized apartments in NYC.

And? Could have been worse!

Per Curbed, which has a nice summation of the evening:

The RGB voted 5 to 4 to approve an increase of 2 percent or $20, whichever is greater, on one-year leases, and a 4 percent or $40 increase on two-year leases. The owner members had wanted 5 percent and 9 percent, while the tenant members wanted a complete freeze.