Taking another look at that crazy bed frame installation inside The Fourth

The Fourth is the name of the restaurant going into the space at the five-years-in-the-making Hyatt Union Square on Fourth Avenue...

Walked by it and stopped to admire this again inside the eatery...



Gives us the spins, for some reason...

3 spring-like scenes

Photos today by Bobby Williams.

If you're going to tonight's CB3/SLA meeting...

Just a reminder that it's in a different location this month (and hereafter) ...

SLA & DCA Licensing Committee
Monday, April 8 at 6:30 pm — University Settlement Neighborhood Center
189 Allen Street (between Houston and Stanton ... north of main entrance.

Among the many items on the agenda:

• Golden Cadillac (RIP Boca Chica)
• Cagen
• The Asphalt Jungle
• Ex-Soho Billiards to Red Square

But no Living Room...

Find the full agenda here.

Here is the official poster for CBGB the Movie

Here, via the CBGB Movie Facebook page, is the official poster... The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively been posting the new, uh, posters for the past week. There are an additional four posters featuring the characters who portray Joey Ramone, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith and Stiv Bators.

You can find all those via THR here, including this one of actress Malin Akerman as Debbie Harry...



John Holmstrom, founding editor of PUNK magazine, designed the posters.

This one was just a teaser of sorts.

The 'No 7-Eleven' players in Tompkins Square Park

The No 7-Eleven gang visited Tompkins Square Park on Saturday for an afternoon of plays... games... and Reverend Billy from The Church of Stop Shopping ...


[Steve Carter]


[SC]


[Bobby Williams]

... and here's a video by Matteo Minasivia YouTube...



You may read a recap of the day via the brand-new No 7-Eleven blog right here.

Early-morning motorcycle fire on East Third Street

Via Twitter, @katieaka reports that a motorcycle parked on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B caught on fire in the early-morning hours... We don't know the cause of the blzae. Back in January, at nearly the same spot, a pile of discarded Christmas trees caught fire in front of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.

And it was a weekend for cars and motorcycles randomly catching on fire. (Read more about this in the comments.)

More about the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office closing/relocating

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A follow-up on Friday's item about the the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office closing/relocating... An EVG reader sent us this letter by the front doors at the branch on East 14th Street near Avenue A ... the letter has more details about what's happening here...

From Joseph J. Mulvery, facilities implementation, U.S. Postal Service:

"The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is proposing the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant Station Post Office...to a yet to-be-determined location with the same zip code area.

The reason behind this proposal is the upcoming expiration of the lease on the present location. The lease will expire in February 2014, and we have been unable to reach agreement with the landlord on a new lease."

Jeez, the USPS can't even afford it here...

The letter was apparently posted on Wednesday.



And as a reminder:

There's a Town Hall scheduled on the matter between Community Board 3 and Community Board 6 on April 22. Location: — Campos Plaza Community Center (gym) at 611 East 13th Street (btwn Aves B & C)

Previously on EV Grieve:
UPDATED: Did you hear the rumor about the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office branch closing?

Di Bella Bros. ghost signage uncovered on East 13th Street

EVG regular evilnyc notes sign work over at the Hamptons Market on First Avenue and East 13th Street, which has revealed...



... the name of the former longtime tenant — Di Bella Bros., which opened here in 1925... A New York magazine article from August 1984 noted that Carmine and John Di Bella retired in the early 1980s ... and that they sold the business to Sue and Jason Shim, "who have mastered most of their recipes."

In previous posts about Hamptons, several readers noted Di Bella's delicious stuffed artichokes and bell peppers...

Will we be talking about Hamptons Market in such loving ways years from now?

Residents don't care much for neighbor peeing on the front of their building before going upstairs

Well then. A resident along East Fifth Street shares this... Apparently residents witnessed a man peeing in front of the building this past weekend ... then he went inside and upstairs to his apartment.

Which, based on the signs that someone attached to the front door and the tenant's door, didn't go over so well...





Said the resident: "Is this what the neighborhood is coming to? That the stupid woos and bros who have moved into the neighborhood feel the need to relieve themselves wherever and whenever they feel like it — even in front of THEIR OWN APARTMENT BUILDINGS, rather than walking up the stairs to use the facilities like a normal human being? WHAT is wrong with people?"

Medieval frog-gargoyle thing is gone. And we're doomed. DOOMED! (MORE DOOMED?)

When demolition commenced at 9-17 Second Ave. in December 2011, Goggla spotted the following on the plywood not to far away from the former Mars Bar...

Per Goggla: "I like to think it's warding away evil spirits..."

Indeed.

But, unfortunately, we recently noticed that this, this thing was gone.



Stolen? Removed by a worker? Eaten? We'll never know.



Evil spirits, be kind...

Piccola Positano has apparently closed on East Fourth Street

The gate has been down at the Italian restaurant here just west of Avenue B the past week to 10 days. Prior to that, a neighbor told us that the eatery was only making pizza deliveries — no meals in the dining room.

We haven't 100 percent confirmed the closure just yet... there are no signs about "closed for renovations" or "on spring break" anywhere. The restaurant remained closed during the weekend as well.

Piccola Positano opened in late 2011/early 2012... the previous tenant, Tonda, seemed to have similar problems. It would be closed for weeks then randomly reopen for one weekend.

E.U., the first "gastropub" in the East Village, had the space before Tonda. And that was drama city. E.U. battled the SLA for 18 months before finally getting approved for a beer and wine license. (Read more E.U. drama here at Eater.)

A jinxed location?

Fourth Avenue pay phone receives back-rent payment notice

And then there's this. Spotted the other day on a pay phone on Fourth Avenue at East 12th Street...





So, based on this notice, the DVD Funhouse at 814 Broadway — one block over — hasn't paid a lick of its $21,218 monthly rent since they moved into the place in in early 2012... good for a whopping $250,898...



That's a lot of $2.99 Tyler Perry DVDs...