Joey Pepperoni bringing his $1 pizza to First Avenue

A branch of Joey Pepperoni's Pizza is opening here on First Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street... (this space was most recently Ikura Sushi...) There are a few Joey Pepperoni locations around the city... Midtown Lunch reviewed the $1 cheese slice at the Tribeca outpost.

The verdict: This was a good piece of pizza, and when you add in the $1 price tag it’s kind of amazing. The crust was really crisp and the cheese plentiful and slightly browned in spots.

And what's the verdict on the Joey Pepperoni mascot?

And the space next to Joey P's is for rent too...

h/t @robbyohara

There goes the neighborhood... again (again)

Spotted on the plywood at the under-renovation Cabrini Center on Avenue B and East Fifth Street...

21 E. First St. now tall enough for floor numbers

Continuing to note the progress at 21 E. First St. at Second Avenue... this is from the East First Street side...

Numbers go to 8 ... and it looks as if the crew is starting on the 10th floor... on the the way to 12...

Black Iron Burger back open after brief remodeling hiatus

Black Iron Burger on East Fifth Street near Avenue B reopened this weekend after a five-week long renovation... about four weeks longer than originally advertised... which caused a little concern among the restaurant's fans...

Week in Grieview

[The beauty in Tompkins Square Park this morning]

Vacating 32 Avenue C (Wednesday)

Juice Press opening another East Village location (Monday)

OLSEN TWIN ALERT (Friday)

Branding for 51 Astor Place (Thursday)

St. Mark's Bookshop meets crowdfunding goal to help move (Tuesday)

UFOs (Sunday)

What an East Ninth Street parking lot will look like one of these days (Wednesday)

Brick Lane Curry House still planning expansion on Second Avenue (Tuesday)

"Boardwalk Empire" filmed on East Fourth Street (Monday)

315 E. 10th St. now renting (Wednesday)

Fares reopening on Avenue A (Tuesday)

BaoBQ closes on First Avenue (Monday)

Blackbird is now open on Avenue B (Sunday)

NYPD shoots dog on East 14th Street (Monday, warning: graphic image) The dog is in "stable condition (Tuesday)

Gothamist posted the video showing the shooting and the chaotic aftermath. It's a 9-minute video that you can find here.

Here is a 75-second version that shows the shooting... some people have been curious to see the video to help them understand what was happening... please keep in mind that the video is graphic and shows the officer shooting the dog in the first 8 seconds of the start time...

Perhaps this is a subtle hint that tags here are no longer really welcome

The wall here on East Second Street at Avenue C (the side of The Stone) receives its fair share of tagging attention... someone paints the wall... only to be tagged again (familiar story) ...

Anyway, so there's this on the wall now.

When everyone has to be the life of the party

East Sixth Street last night.

Ooh, foxy lady

Spotted along First Avenue...

Photo by Bobby Williams.

East 11th Street burglar worked for real-estate company

The New York Times today has more about the purple-gloved man the NYPD arrested for twice breaking into an apartment at 516. E. 11th St. ... After a burglary in June that showed no signs of a forced entry, the tenant set up a surveillance camera ... which led police to apprehend 24-year-old convicted felon Piotr Pasciak in Brooklyn...

Michael Wilson at the Times interviewed Pasciak at Riker's ... where Pasciak admitted that he is a heroin addict... here's an excerpt from the article that explains how he came to break into No. 516...

In April, working for the real estate company, he was showing apartments all over Manhattan. It was hard work, and after a particularly stressful week with a prospective tenant who ultimately did not sign a lease, he left and soon returned to his $50- to $100-a-day heroin habit.

His money ran out. When he left his job, he said, he kept the keys to the apartments he was showing. One of them was on East 11th Street. Someone had moved in. On June 12, he rang the doorbell and, satisfied no one was home, entered with the key and stole the video games.

“I didn’t hurt anyone,” he said. He refused to name the real estate employer or say what he did with the electronics, other than that they were used to get heroin. The building’s super said various real estate brokers showed apartments there.

Rain delay

Avenue A and East 11th Street during this morning's rain shower...

Mr. Romney ordered a blue sports wagon, where is it?

The anti-Romney "Vacation"-themed wheat paste makes an appearance on the plywood adjacent to the First Avenue Rite Aid... BoweryBoogie had spotted these back in the spring on the Lower East Side...

Meanwhile, I'll get to the bottom of this. Davenport!

Despite predicament, Mickey Mouse still smiling

We spotted this tragic scene earlier this week on Avenue A at East 10th Street ... some poor child is now Mickey balloon-less...

At this point, we do not know if the balloon was lost before or after its intended destination. Perhaps an errant delivery person accidentally let go of the balloon on the way to the party ... or, after the celebration, the excited child let the balloon slip from his or her grasp... only to see it tangled above Avenue A ... slowly losing air... but Mickey, still stuck as of this morning, is managing this crisis. Still smiling.