Fight night

Last night, some longtime residents of Avenue B projected the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight against a building on East Third Street... and people stopped to watch...



... a lot of people. Including some local firefighters...





Gothamist has a video from the scene here.

Thanks to Joon and Shutter-ed for the photos!

Sunday in the Park

Another visit by Marlene/Hot Dog ... photo in Tompkins Square Park via @edenbrower

Week in Grieview

[Photo from Friday on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Update on the deadly NYPD shooting at 538 E. Sixth St. (Monday)

Posters arrive to memorialize Moises Ismael Locón Yac and Nicholas Figueroa on Second Avenue (Thursday)

Sushi Park chef sues 121 Second Ave. landlord Maria Hrynenko (Tuesday)

A new look for the Joe Strummer (Thursday)

A second Tompkins Square Bagels shop confirmed for the East Village (Monday)

The Stage is now crowdfunding to help in its legal fight with Icon Realty (Friday)

An East Village salon with Nepalese roots (Tuesday)

The Marshal seizes Luca Bar (again) on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Residents say 125 Second Ave. remains uninhabitable (Tuesday)

"Stomp" is leaving the East Village (Thursday)

Films on the Green return to Tompkins Square Park with 2 Friday nights in June (Friday)

Lan Cafe has closed (Thursday)

Out and About with Mark Mace (Wednesday)

Why Kennedy Fried Chicken is closing on East 14th Street (Monday)

95 Avenue A now free of construction netting and sidewalk bridge (Tuesday)

Filming Krysten Ritter at Sophie's (Wednesday)

Frustration and declining sales at Punjabi Grocery & Deli (Tuesday)

Met Foods checks out of its longtime Third Avenue home (Monday)

What the cluck? Chickens in the works for former vegetarian hotspot Dirt Candy on East Ninth Street (Tuesday)

... and some found artwork the other evening...


[Via @briankubovcik]

E-Nail is back open

The salon at 125 Second Ave. reopened today … for the first time since the deadly gas explosion at 121 Second Ave. on March 26. (E-Nail had temporarily relocated to a space on East Sixth.)

Meanwhile, Enz's remains closed next door… owner Mariann Marlowe is currently selling her vintage clothes from a storefront at 627 E. Sixth St. between Avenue B and Avenue C. And at 127 Second Ave., B&H Dairy hopes to reopen in the coming week.

H/T EVG reader Beth

You have until 5 p.m. to hang out in a cemetery

You can visit the New York City Marble Cemetery on East Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue until 5 p.m. as the headline explained.

Read more about the cemetery here.

At the NYC Cannabis Parade

EVG contributor Stacie Joy was in Union Square yesterday for the annual event … in which an estimated 400 people (that number via the Post) marched down Broadway from 32nd Street to Union Square for an afternoon of festivities…








[Hello Dana Beal]

















From the Post:

[T]he cops adopted a tacit all-toke, no-action policy.

“We have zero arrests, and we don’t plan on having any,” one sergeant told a Post reporter.

Advocates praised the cops’ mellow take on toking as the latest sign New York was inching toward decriminalization.

Last month, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson warned the NYPD in a memo obtained by The Post that his office would no longer prosecute people caught possessing — or even smoking — marijuana in public.

5:15 a.m.

Photo by Bobby Williams

Trees arrives for Icon Realty's newest roof deck

There was a lot of activity this morning outside 154 Second Ave., Icon Realty's new residential building between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street where rentals range from $4,500 to $9,500.

EVG reader Dan Theisen noted that workers were hoisting some trees and bushes up to the landscaped roof deck…







… roughly right here….



Perhaps this will be a more tranquil rooftop experience. There are reportedly an "endless barrage of rowdy DJ dance parties" on the roof deck at the Icon-owned 205 Avenue A, as the Post put it last August.

Blue plastic tarp comes alive on Avenue A

Photo by Grant Shaffer

At the former 121 Second Ave.

As of yesterday, there are now two small bouquets of flowers and crosses in the lot where 119-123 Second Ave. once stood.

Moises Ismael Locón Yac and Nicholas Figueroa died during the gas explosion at 121 Second Ave. on March 26.

A #SAVENYC show tonight at Arlene's Grocery

Via the EVG inbox…

The #SaveNYC Concert will be taking place TONIGHT, Saturday May 2, at Arlene's Grocery. This event's primary mission is to create public awareness of the Small Business Jobs Survival Act. We have Penny Arcade and DeeDee Luxe on board along with Joe Hunt. Ann McDermott will be there to speak about our mission.

Find more information about #SaveNYC here.

Arlene's is at 95 Stanton St. between Ludlow and Orchard.

Get your 'Uncommon Plants' today on East 12th Street

Today from 10 am to 1 pm
El Sol Brillante Community Garden
522-528 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B

Details here.