Lauren Edmond at FringeNYC on Fourth

You still have until 8 p.m. to check out FringeNYC on Fourth today... Pictured is East Village-based painter Lauren Edmond, one of the locals in a group show at Alex Harsley's 4th Street Photo Gallery...

More info here.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[FringeNYC on Fourth yesterday. Photo by Bobby Williams]

Dorm blockbuster for 35 Cooper Square (Tuesday)

Irritating mystery noise on East Ninth Street (Friday)

Josie's opens on East Sixth Street (Friday)

Are the crusties more violent this summer? (Wednesday)

Joe Strummer at 60 (Tuesday)

Why the sandbox has been closed in the Tompkins Square Park Playground (Wednesday)

Bento Burger closed (Monday)

Looking at a charmingly shabby East 10th Street townhouse (Thursday)

Nicoletta unleashes its sidewalk cafe (Monday)

Bar on A closed (Thursday)

We lost another tree in Tompkins Square Park (Tuesday)

Joey Pepperoni now serving $1 slices on First Avenue (Thursday)

Photo of a bridesmaid climbing a fence at First Park (Monday)

Two more floors for 205 Avenue A (Friday)

One year ago today: Waiting for Hurricane Irene

While parts of the South brace for Hurricane Isaac... I'm reminded that it was one year ago today when New York started prepping for the arrival of Hurricane Irene...

And have you noticed how many East Village windows still have tape on them to protect from flying glass and stuff...? (Or maybe this pre-dates Irene... and to ward off UFOs...)

You may relive revisit all of our Irene posts here.

The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Tompkins Square Park today

Here's a reminder that the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival comes to Tompkins Square Park today at 3. The lineup: the Ernestine Anderson Quartet, Gregory Porter, Andy Milne & Dapp Theory, and Sullivan Fortner.

You can read more about the musicians here.

Admission is free. Free jazz. (Heh.)

Updated: Dave on 7th passes along this shot of workers setting up the stage ... it went up around 8:30...

Woo, Beer Marathon

Photos via Dave on 7th.

Star lives, and may be available for adoption

Star, the dog that the NYPD shot on East 14th Street on Aug. 13, is OK and may soon be available for adoption, according to Gothamist.

As of last night, Star is now in the custody of Animal Care & Control. Said Richard Gentles of the AC&C: "Her owner had until that day and time to reclaim her but since he didn’t ownership was legally transferred to AC&C."

According to Gentles, Star's medical bills, "which have already amounted to nearly $10,000, will be paid for through donations to AC&C’s Special Treatment and Recovery (S.T.A.R.) Fund."

And per Gothamist:

"It's expected she'll be put up for adoption—but Gentles says no one has expressed interest in being her human (yet)!"

Serena Solomon at DNAinfo has more on the story here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Report: NYPD shoots dog on 14th Street and Second Avenue (Warning: Post includes graphic image of the dog after the shooting)

[Image courtesy of AC&C via Gothamist]

Trash and a dead rat at the Tompkins Square Park Playground this morning

A reader this morning noted an unusually dirty playground in Tompkins Square Park on East Ninth Street and Avenue A ... newspapers, half-eaten containers of food, etc. ...

But... per the reader, "The icing on the cake was the dead rat, which was still pulsating, chilling in a swarm of flies by the still broken-down sandbox."

In the summer of 2010, New York magazine named this one of the city's best playgrounds.

How do we feel about a Tim Hortons opening on East Houston?

As you may have noticed in recent weeks... hanging in the vacant space next to Katz's on East Houston...

EVG reader Chris F. sent along the above photo. BoweryBoogie and The Lo-Down both recently noted the arrival of Tim Hortons, launched by the former NHL star who spent some 20 years in the league.

Per the website:

The Tim Hortons chain was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario. The chain's focus on top quality, always fresh product, value, great service and community leadership has allowed it to grow into the largest quick service restaurant chain in Canada specializing in always fresh coffee, baked goods and homestyle lunches.

And...

Sadly, Tim did not live to witness the chain's great success. He was traveling back to Buffalo from a game at Maple Leaf Gardens when he was killed in an automobile accident on February 21, 1974. The Buffalo Sabres retired his Number 2 sweater as a tribute to his memory. At the time of Tim's death, there were 40 Tim Hortons restaurants.

There are now 3,000 locations in the United States and Canada ... including 11 in the city. (This will make No. 12.)

I'm not at-all familiar with the chain (except what I posted above) ... though I'm not sure I like the sound of "Timbits"...

Tomorrow is NYU Freshman Move-In Day

Tomorrow, NYU welcomes nearly 4,000 new students during the school's official Freshman Move-In Day. For the new students and parents, this means a day of great excitement and stress. For you, well, tomorrow may not be the best day to, say, finally decide to rent a car and run errands, like drive to P.C. Richard on East 14th St. to buy that new air conditioner you've been talking about all summer.

Meanwhile, at other NYU residences, some students are already moving in, such as here on the Bowery at East Second Street...

Anyway, please be on your best behavior tomorrow. Any encouragement, words of wisdom, neighborly advice, etc., to pass along ...?

Today in photos of a Home Depot cart tied to a light pole with plastic on East 9th Street

Phew.

Pic by Bobby Williams.

My girl and me we hang around in bars

Copenhagen's Gangway with "My Girl and Me" circa 1988.

Tonight at the Pyramid Club: 'Rise great spirit of Avenue A!'

From the EV Grieve inbox... heh ... at the Pyramid tonight starting at 10 ...

Tonight join Rosalie Knox & Jacquelyn Gallo as we journey into the unknown where unicorns frolic, faeries shine & nails get did.

With musical offerings by DJ MIKE BILL$ and DJ MAX GERONIMO, we summons the olden gods of yore who once burst through ye olde Pyramid Club with splendor and majesty. Rise great spirit of Avenue A!

If it pleases the court, our pro go-go dancers including seasoned contortionist AMAZING AMY + majorly bonerific ARIC-SHUN aka JUGGERNUT + the unihorned wonder REVE and many more will grip their feet and steady their beat to music curated by the best djs in our friends list — all MC'd by Mr JOHNNY BIZARRO himself.

A place where only oddity reigns supreme, costumes are encouraged.

Searching into the darkness, we jump into the abyss. What do we say to the God of death? Not today.

~FOR WE ARE HORNY~

BASEMENT OF PYRAMID CLUB
DOWNSTAIRS FROM 80S NIGHT!
$5 - entrance to both!!