Checking out Centre-fuge Cycle 17 on East 1st Street

Just taking a look at Cycle 17 of the Centre-fuge Public Art Project … the rotating outdoor gallery/construction trailer here along East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue …









The artists this time around are Erik Martinez, Hiss, King Bee, Kristy McCarthy, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Shaun Edwards and Vballentine.

Find more info about Centre-fuge here.

Despite Grand Opening banner, Capital Laundry & Dry Cleaners has closed on Avenue B

Been meaning to note that Capital Laundry & Dry Cleaners closed earlier this month at 44 Avenue B between East Third Street and East Fourth Street.

And, despite debuting last September, management decided to keep the Grand Opening (30 percent off on drop-off and pick-up service) banner up these past nine months.

Anyway, Quick Coin apparently won this round…



H/T EVG regular Salim!

Previously on EV Grieve:
New laundromat now open at site of former laundromat

Full exposure at 212 E. 14th St.

EVG East 14th Street/IHOP Way Correspondent Pinch passes along word that 212 E. 14th St. is now plywood free following its total gut renovation with one-floor extension these past two years.

Fits right in now along here just east of Third Avenue and adjacent to the newish Jefferson retail-residential complex.



The storefront was most recently the Super Saving Store, which closed in June 2011.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Residential, retail and an additional floor for 212 E. 14th St.

The latest Cool

Outside Peter Brant's new art space at 421 E. Sixth St.

Find more Cool here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Capturing 'Cool'

Week in Grieview

[No refunds kid! Photo by Derek Berg]

Northeast corner of St. Mark's Place and Third Avenue fetching $50 million for development site (Wednesday)

More about the 2nd branch of Tompkins Square Bagels opening in the East Village (Tuesday)

Not much progress on the all-new Tompkins Square basketball courts (Monday)

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space announces 3rd annual film fest for Aug. 1-8 (Thursday)

Out and About with Glenora Blackshire (Wednesday)

Ray optimistically plans to return to his store next week (Tuesday)

More condos for University Place (Tuesday)

Unidentified homeless man stops sexual assault on East Seventh Street, chases down assailant (Wednesday)

A Belgian fries place opens on St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

The retail space at 20 Avenue A is on the market (Wednesday)

Report: Workers claim that 2 Bros. doesn't pay minimum wage, offer overtime (Monday)

Ciao for Now closing West Village location (Wednesday)

Christodora House residents don't have gas (Friday)

Pushcart Coffee opening an East Village outpost (Monday)

Moonstruck Eatery makes an appearance at 167 Avenue A (Tuesday)

Pet store signage unleashed on Second Avenue (Thursday)

Superiority Burger opens on East Ninth Street (Thursday)

Bikes, By George! space is for rent (Thursday)

Is the new Marc Jacobs collection for you? (Monday, 26 comments)

Fallen limb on Avenue B (Wednesday)

Icon Realty adds the for rent signs at the former Cafe Pick Me Up (Monday)

… and a scene from yesterday morning on East 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B… where police were interested in talking with some people on the fire escape with a giant banana and water cooler …


[Photo via EVG reader Mike]

Said one reader: "They had an megaphone earlier and were chatting with pedestrians. (Highlight from 10:30 AM: 'Attention New York: I am day drunk.'")

Vivian isn't really lost

On Friday evening, several concerned readers sent along photos of flyers spotted all over the neighborhood for a missing miniature dachshund named Vivian.

Vivian is not really lost.

Turns out this is some kind of social experiment about kindness.

An EVG reader explains.

"I saw the dog tied up ... then I walked a block and saw the poster. I was like holy cow! So I called the number on the flyer and sent them photos of the dog and then went and waited with the dog. I was waiting a while and then a guy came over and said he was doing a social experiment with his friend on how people behave."



Oh!

And how did the reader behave?

"I was totally stressed out and missed an appointment, waiting with the dog who was not really lost!"

Where magic happens on Avenue C

From an article in The New York Times today titled Casa Adela in East Village Is the Home of the Magical Rotisserie Chicken…

The grandmother who makes the rice and beans — a great-grandmother, actually — was visible through Casa Adela’s window, with its gold script proclaiming “Authentic Puerto Rican Cuisine Since 1976.” She is Adela Ferguson, 79, and she was checking the timer on a 1950s-era rotisserie oven, with eight whole chickens, golden and peppery spices flecking the crisping skin as they rotated slowly — seven more minutes until perfection.

Casa Adela is at 66 Avenue C between East Fourth Street and East Fifth Street

Cautionary nesting instincts

Perhaps not as exciting as red-tail hawks or night herons or seagulls or people dressed like chickens or.. what were we talking about?

Oh, birds.

@SquareMusings shared this photo from Avenue D and East Eighth Street, where a nest remains strategically placed in the yellow (speed up? slow down?) slot…

Did anyone watch the 1st Tompkins Square Park ping pong tournament championship yesterday?

We only noticed the sign today…



Appears as if the 1st tournament was sponsor free.

Remembering Dorothy Day, with a call for a shrine in her honor on 2nd Avenue

Tonight at 6, the Church of the Nativity is holding a special mass in honor of Dorothy Day at 44 Second Ave. between East Second Street and East Third Street.

Day was a journalist and social and political activist in the Lower East Side where she worked with the poor and founded The Catholic Worker. Today the Church refers to her as a "Servant of God" as the canonization process has begun.

Day's granddaughter, Martha Hennessey, will share readings from Dorothy's writings throughout the service. She will also talk about the parish's request for a Dorothy Day shrine after the mass, outside of the church.

The Church of the Nativity is slated close Aug. 1. After months of fighting the archdiocese for a chance to appeal, parishioners are now asking the Archdiocese to build a shrine for Dorothy Day within Nativity, or to build a chapel/retreat center within the new building should the church be demolished. Nativity was the parish of Dorothy Day.

The New York Times has more on this in an article from Monday titled Invoking the Radical Spirit of Dorothy Day to Fight a Church Closing.

The expected closure comes amidst a massive reorganization of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Under the plan, the church, founded in 1832, would merge with Most Holy Redeemer on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

The conventional wisdom is that the Archdiocese will sell the property for retail-residential development.

One passer-by told the Times: "If you ask me, I think they’re trying to close it to make a high-rise condo so they can bring more money to the neighborhood."

And we've heard from people who figure the block from the church to East Second Street will eventually all be luxury housing…



As for Dorothy Day, here's more from here granddaughter in the Times:

Ms. Hennessy, who lives nearby at the Catholic Worker’s Maryhouse when she is in New York, said she felt “a disconnect” between the drive to canonize her grandmother and the decision to close her church. She said she hoped a way could be found to honor Day and her legacy, perhaps using the vacant rectory building, if not the church itself.

"In the East Village, with all the affluence, the party atmosphere and the materialism, we still have poverty," Ms. Hennessy said. "They are doing their best to hide it, but if there was a shrine dedicated to the history of her work, that might be more helpful. It would raise the question of economic refugees."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Parishioners fight to save the Church of the Nativity on 2nd Avenue

At the 2015 New York City Drag March

The annual Drag March departed Tompkins Square Park last evening for the walk to the Stonewall Inn … EVG contributor editrrix was there and shared photos from the Park with us…

























Find her whole set from last night here. And check out Goggla's photos from the evening here. As she wrote: "Beautiful day, beautiful people."

[Updated] Vivian is missing

Help find Vivian! @evgrieve pic.twitter.com/sKHWqn3To1

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) June 26, 2015

Flyer spotted on First Avenue at East Seventh Street... Here's the email if you have any info: helpusfindvivian@gmail.com

Updated 6-28
Vivian isn't missing. She is part of a "social experiment" on kindness.