So long Sounds

Tonight is the last night for Sounds at 20 St. Mark's Place... after 36 years in business here between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Thank you @helenango for the photo...

Previously on EV Grieve:
The last record store on St. Mark's Place is closing

Week in Grieview

[Photo on 2nd Avenue yesterday by Derek Berg]

The Union Square Food Emporium will become a Key Food (Tuesday)

Out and About with Elsie Flores of the Andrew Glover Youth Program (Wednesday)

Owners of the Wayland opening the Drift on Avenue C (Monday)

The Red & Gold Boil has closed on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Ben Shaoul replacing luxury rentals with condos at Bloom 62 (Friday)

A family continues to feel the loss on Second Avenue (Thursday)

Bench in Tompkins Square Park dedicated to food writer Josh Ozersky (Tuesday)

Former home of the East 12th Party Crew now for sale (Monday)

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union now owns 49% of 51 Astor Place, which people still think is in Midtown South (Wednesday)

Indian-speciality movie rental shop closes on East Sixth Street (Friday)

As the traffic islands disappear and appear on Third Avenue (Tuesday)

Brewing Soon signage arrives for Caffe Bene on Avenue A (Monday)

Purple Ginger out, Kin Asian Bistro is in on East Sixth Street (Thursday)

A rental with everything but the kitchen sink (no, really) (Thursday)

MoRUS extends Adam Purple memorial show through Oct. 25 (Wednesday)

Long-dormant First Avenue development site changes hands (Tuesday)

Squirrel jumping (Tuesday)

Old Flat Top's new friend (Monday)

Black Seed bagels opens Monday (tomorrow) on First Avenue (Thursday)

When it's time to remove the Mickey Mouse statue with an erection from the Standard East Village (Tuesday)

4-bedroom rentals arrive at 329 E. 10th St. (Friday)

A barber shop is coming soon to East Second Street (Thursday)

… and the vintage boutique Dusty Buttons opened yesterday in its new home at 324 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue… (back story here)


[Image via Facebook]

Finally, you can get a burger served on a chocolate doughnut on the Bowery

[EVG photo from last week]

PYT — "Home of America's Craaaziest Burgers" — debuted on the Bowery last evening. This is the first NYC outpost of the Philadelphia burger place known for some pretty wacky creations.

See for yourself on their sidewalk sign here at 334 Bowery between Great Jones and Bond… for local flavor, PYT is offering the Basquiat Premium Beef Burger…



For now, PYT's hours are 7 p.m. to midnight… and cash only.

In the meantime, you can check out PYT preview pieces at Gothamist … and Eater …

Since last November, Forcella, Espoleta and Gia Trattoria have come and gone fairly quickly at this address.

Previously on EV Grieve:
PYT bringing its offbeat burger creations to the Bowery

Noted

H/T @HopeBeach

Heart around the Park

[Photo by Lola Sáenz]

The Hearts of the World project made a stop yesterday afternoon in Tompkins Square Park…

First, here's more about the Project:

Hearts of the World allows children, many from devastated areas, to explore their inner worlds, their passion, their fears and their unique potential. Since 2010, Hearts of the World has fostered self-expression through painting workshops in ten countries. Started at the Lower East Side Girls Club, by its founder, NYC-based artist Nicolina, the HOTW team has partnered with schools, social service agencies and arts organizations to create life-altering workshops.

And a few scenes from the afternoon, where people were invited to paint what was in their hearts…


[Photo by LS]


[Photo by Chris Flash]


[The Human JukeBox Brass Band via CF]


[Project founder Nicolina Johnson via CF]

Previously on EV Grieve:
Hearts of the World returns to Tompkins Square Park tomorrow (Saturday!)

Raul's Candy Store is red (again)

Just noting the new paint job from this past week over at Raul Candy Store, which has been at 205 Avenue B between East 12th Street and East 13th Street since 1981. (It opened on Avenue D in 1976.)

Here's a photo from late August…



… and from 2009…

Today in Eroto-Boutiques on East 7th Street

A longtime East Village resident is having her annual stoop sale today… via the EVG inbox…

I'm doing another old-fashioned, non-commercial mega stoop sale Saturday … real prices…

This one is a total clean out … there will also be music, women's clothing sizes 6-12, household items and more

MEGA STOOP SALE & Eroto-Boutique
Saturday Oct. 10, 9 – 5 PM
70 E. 7th St. between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue

Hearts of the World returns to Tompkins Square Park tomorrow (Saturday!)

Via the EVG inbox…

Join us this Saturday afternoon (tomorrow!) in Tompkins Square Park, have a seat at our 100-foot-long table and paint what's in your "heart" as part of the Hearts of the World project.

Bring your painting home with you or donate it to our worldwide exhibition tour. *All materials provided*

Great for kids, adults and everyone in between.
The Human JukeBox Brass Band is playing music all afternoon. The Lower Eastside Girl's Club will be making FREE silkscreen prints. (Bring a t-shirt, tote bag, etc...)

Tompkins Square Park, Center Circle
Saturday, Oct. 10, 1-5 pm, *FREE*
(Rain date Sunday, Oct. 11)

Find more info on the Facebook events page here.

'Thigh' masters

There are like 5000000000000000 bands playing the annual CMJ Music Marathon next week.

Here is one of the groups — Heaters with "Levitate Thigh." The Michigan-based trio will be at Elvis Guesthouse on Avenue A Tuesday evening.

The 6&B Harvest Fest is tomorrow (Saturday)

Rescheduled from last Saturday's rainout ... now 2-7 p.m. tomorrow.

The garden entrance on Avenue B between East Sixth Street and East Fifth Street.

Check out the lengthy list of local merchants who donated the raffle prizes here.

EV Grieve Etc.: An Other Music appreciation; an update on Metrograph Cinema

[Photo on 2nd Avenue Wednesday by Derek Berg]

Update on the Metrograph Cinema, coming in early 2016 to Ludlow Street (BoweryBoogie)

City to spend $1 million on ads promoting rent freeze on stabilized units (The New York Times)

City renovating two former East Village squats (The Villager)

Praise for Bruno Pizza on East 13th Street (Gothamist)

More on building a mesh network in the neighborhood (New York Business Journal)

An appreciation for Other Music on East Fourth Street (Flaming Pablum)

Now on display at the Dorian Grey Gallery on East Ninth Street: Paul Benney-Louis Renzoni with Ecliptic (Dorian Grey Gallery)

More about The Garret Bar, which recently opened on Avenue A (WWD)

Live music at the Hester Fair tomorrow (The Lo-Down)

NYU students say university hasn't been paying student employees (The Village Voice)

Coming Oct. 17: A John Zorn benefit concert as part of a Harry Smith celebration (Anthology Film Archives)

RIP Chantal Akerman, director of the great NYC film "News From Home" (Dangerous Minds)

McNally Jackson Books is opening a location with cafe at the South Street Seaport (DNAinfo)

Pizza Rat battle (Eater)

...and Ichimi Cosme, specializing in Japanese/Korean skincare products, has opened at 318 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...


[Photo by Steven]

... and a lunchtime photo from Tompkins Square Park yesterday by Bobby Williams...

49 years ago today, the Hare Krishna movement started in Tompkins Square Park

Here's a little history courtesy of Off the Grid (via The New York Times):

In 1965, after a difficult month on a steamship, a spiritual leader named Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York convinced that if Americans would embrace his conception of Krishna consciousness, the other countries in the world would follow. In 1966 he founded the International Society of Krishna Consciousness at 26 Second Avenue, near 2nd Street.

On October 9, 1966, Swami Prabhupada led a group of followers to the nearby Tompkins Square Park. Under the leafy canopy of an American elm tree they began to chant a distinctive 16-word mantra: ”Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.” It was Swami Prabhupada’s first outdoor chanting ceremony outside of India and it was the birth of the Hare Krishna religion.

Read more of the tree's history here.

EVG correspondent Steven took the above photo this morning of Vani, who was here to mark the anniversary.