Latest weapon in the First Avenue $1 slice wars: Dancing Pizza Menu Woman

@evgrieve the pizza wars have taken a disturbing turn: vine.co/v/b3z6xiMx5QM

— David Fitzgerald (@david_fitz) June 1, 2013

Spotted outside Joey Pepperoni's this past weekend.

When will it end? Full-frontal nudity? Then what about the children?

Previously on EV Grieve:
First Avenue $1 Pizza Wars — now with draft beer

Checking in on the $1 pizza war on First Avenue

The Immigrant Tap Room is now open on East Ninth Street

EVG reader MP notes that the Immigrant Tap Room is now open on East Ninth Street...



As we first reported in January, Jason Corey (pictured above) was opening a bar extension next door to The Immigrant ... he called the new space "a low-key locals hangout bar extension."

EV Grieve Eatery Etc.: Neon signage for Wafels & Dinges; Entrez becomes Farfasha

Several readers have pointed out the recent arrive of neon signage at the incoming Wafels & Dinges on Avenue B and East Second Street... W&D founder Thomas DeGeest, an East Village resident, told us that he doesn't have an exact opening date yet ... "It's definitely gonna be June," he told us.

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Entrez Bar & Grill opened on Second Avenue last fall... and it has randomly, quickly been converted into a hookah bar called Farfasha ...



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Pinalito City closed for renovations in April, as BoweryBoogie reported. Anyway, still under renovation... just noting the Chico plywood now here on East Houston and Clinton...

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Pho 32 and Shabu recently closed at 13 St. Mark's Place... and something called Pan is taking its place very soon... no details on this just yet.

Budget now open on East Ninth Street

As you can see, there's now a Budget car rental place adjacent to the parking garage here on East Ninth Street. And look what you can upgrade too!



Just need to find a docking station!

The storefront has been vacant for more than four years ... since M Sonii, the vintage boutique, lost its lease here...

David's Shoe Repair has left the East Village

As reported earlier, high rents sent David's Shoe Repair packing from its longtime home on East Seventh Street to ... West 35th Street...



Previously on EV Grieve:
For rent sign appears at David's Shoe Repair

Howl! or just another Sunday in Tompkins Square Park?

Photos by Bobby Williams

'It's the Bomb' in Tompkins Square Park

Photos by peter radley

These people just ate a shitload of pastrami from Katz's

Wow. World champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut ate 25 7-ounce pastrami sandwiches to win the first ever Katz's Delicatessen World Pastrami Eating Championship trophy this afternoon on Orchard Street.



Photos by Stephen Popkin.

BoweryBoogie has video here if you can stomach it! The Lo-Down has photos here.

The Katz's Delicatessen World Pastrami Eating Championship trophy is on the move!

[Photo by Stephen Popkin]

On its way to Orchard Street...

Week in Grieview

[3rd Avenue at East 13th Street]

A note for the "Birthday Girl on the Second floor" (Tuesday, 30 comments)

Cab backs into DBA (Sunday)

An update on Kita The Wonder Dog of East 10th Street (Friday)

The end for Odessa Cafe and Bar on Avenue A? (Thursday)

At the Loisaida Festival (Monday)

First sign of the 17-year cicadas in Tompkins Square Park? (Thursday)

Matt Torres talks about all his family in the neighborhood (Wednesday)

An assualt on First Avenue and East First Street (Thursday)

Crunch moving to the Bowery (Friday)

Closing night party info for Motor City Bar (Thursday)

First Citi Bikes spotted in the wild (Monday, 25 comments)

Everyman Espresso doesn't [heart] NY at the moment (Thursday)

Citi Bikes makes dumb mustache joke (Monday, 20 comments)

Distribution deal for CBGB biopic (Thursday)

Remembering Taylor Mead at Art Around the Park

Taylor Mead, the artist and Warhol superstar, died on May 8 after suffering a stroke in Colorado. He was 88. And his spirit lives on at Art Around the Park this weekend ...

Art Around the Park in 6 seconds

Art Around the Park vine.co/v/b3A917QLmJd
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) June 2, 2013

One way of highlighting a lot of the murals without posting 50 photos...

A lot of murals to highlight... such as Nicolina and Perola painting Portal 8 ...


[Courtesy Shane Perez]

GammaBlog has some nice shots here.