Man OD's in Tompkins Square Park

From East Village photographer Steven Hirsch... A man OD'd in the Park and was revived by EMTs a little after 9 p.m. ...

[Updated] Breaking: Glowing objects spotted over East Village; no one has ruled out UFOs

Via EVG reader MP just after 9 p.m. ... "Series of at least a dozen glowing objects coming from downtown over east village toward Williamsburg... Get higher and higher and eventually fade away. Like large glowing embers. Spooky."

Yes!

Updated 11 p.m.

East Village photographer Steven Hirsch shared unretouched photos of the UFO sighting objects in the sky as seen from Tompkins Square Park ...

Holiday tree on East 13th Street; angels we have heard on high?

EVG reader Kim sent this along earlier today from East 13th Street... We are usually old-fashioned and ask for a newspaper for authentication purposes (at least an iPad edition). But! In the absence of a newspaper... a Peridance schedule will do...

Izzy is missing

Readers spotted these flyers go up in and around Tompkins Square Park this afternoon...

Blackbird opens tonight at 9

Construction delays KO'd Blackbird's opening last Thursday evening... However, the bar taking over the former Lakeside Lounge space on Avenue B at East 10th Street will now open tonight at 9, per the EVG inbox (and the sign outside the bar) ... Blackbird is owned and operated by Lakeside principal Laura McCarthy, as BoweryBoogie first reported.

[Image from last week by Bobby Williams]

Week in Grieview

[Thursday night in Tompkins Square Park by jdx]

Who said, "The East Village is ripe for picking right now"? (Thursday)

The East Fifth St. Tree Committee returns to work (Monday)

Please turn off the light on the Juliet balcony (Wednesday)

17 East Village construction projects happening right now (Wednesday)

Is an NYPD officer listing his apartment on Airbnb? (Tuesday)

New building for East Seventh Street (Monday)

New building for East Ninth Street (Friday)

Watch a video titled 'Nazi chased out of Tompkins Square Park' (Monday)

Damaged Elm OK for now in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

That Help Wanted sign at Lanza's (Tuesday)

Big City Records is closing (Monday)

After filing for Chapter 11 protection, South Brooklyn Pizza opens its dining room on First Avenue (Friday)

IL bagatto closed after tonight for summer break

In case you're an IL bagatto fan over on East Second Street near Avenue B... closing for their usual summer break after tonight...

The story behind the arrest of the purple-gloved burglar of East 11th Street

The other day, we posted the video the NYPD circulated showing a purple-gloved man breaking into an apartment at 516. E. 11th St. ... Anyway, a piece in The New York Times today has the whole story... A quickie recap. A new tenant moved into this apartment in April. The superintendent had put in a new lock. Two months later, someone entered the apartment — no forced entry — and took some electronics. The tenant, "a college professor of technology," set up the surveillance camera.

Police have now charged a 24-year-old man who lives in Greenpoint with the burglaries. (The man has spent time in prison for home-invasion burglaries upstate.) It was not clear why the man had a key to the 11th Street apartment. He had never lived there, as far as anyone knew.

Anyway, interesting story. Right the whole thing here.

There's no place like home

Spotted on First Avenue...

Happening now: people running and biking in the streets; the DOT taking your photo

Just a reminder that Summer Streets are happening today... on Fourth Avenue/Lafayette... and more around the City ...

... and depending on where you are, you may even have your photo taken by a DOT rep hovering over the street... like here on Fourth Avenue and East Ninth Street...

Perhaps for promo purposes. Or to hand out tickets later for people who didn't stop at the light...

Reader report: South Brooklyn Pizza dining room now open

After reading that South Brooklyn Pizza filed for bankruptcy protection (first reported by Crain's today) ... several readers noted that the First Avenue location's dining room expansion was now open...

Read more about all this at Vanishing New York.

Westway to the world

Sunset.

Photo by Bobby Williams.