And in news about new dry cleaners... there is a dry cleaners (Magnolia!) coming to 514 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
As far as I can recall, this space has been empty since Betola Espresso Bar closed in June 2013.
Monday, May 8, 2017
Long-empty storefront starting with a clean slate on 6th Street
And in news about new dry cleaners... there is a dry cleaners (Magnolia!) coming to 514 E. Sixth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
As far as I can recall, this space has been empty since Betola Espresso Bar closed in June 2013.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Week in Grieview
[Photo Friday in Tompkins Square Park by Bobby Williams]
Stories posted on EVG this past week included...
A proposal to co-name part of 2nd Avenue and 7th Street after the victims of the 2015 gas explosion (Monday)
The housing limbo of Raphael Toledano's (former) East Village tenants (Monday) ... while East Village tenants pay Toledano a visit at his Upper West Side home (Thursday)
Anna has left the East Village after 22 years (Tuesday)
New MoRUS exhibit features LES posters and flyers from the 1980s and 1990s (Wednesday)
Veteran restaurateur Sushil Malhotra opening Old Monk in former Babu Ji space on Avenue B (Thursday)
Reader report: Man with knife takes backpack from guest in building on 13th Street and 1st Avenue (Tuesday)
May is Lower East Side History Month (Monday)
90s Forever on 9th Street this month (Wednesday)
L'Apicio serving its last meal on May 20 (Monday)
Construction watch: 287 E. Houston St. (Tuesday)
Parantha Alley opens in the Bowery Market (Monday)
Out and About in the East Village (Wednesday)
A map to track the city's 280 miles of sidewalk bridges (Wednesday)
A look at the MTA's new @LinkNYC on wheels (Friday)
A quick look at Fiaschetteria Pistoia on 11th Street (Thursday)
2 Bros. Pizza unveils new sign, branding on St. Mark's Place (Thursday)
'Enjoy the Royal Tenenbaum lifestyle' at the price-reduced Kate Spade house of 12th Street (Friday)
Vogue Magazine held a pre-Met Gala party on 6th Street (Monday, 35 comments)
Bowery Road and the Library of Distilled Spirits check into the Hyatt Union Square (Monday)
Juice Press annex for rent on 1st Street (Monday)
...and how did we not mention the budding sinkhole on First Avenue and Fifth Street from Friday...
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May 7
On this first Sunday in May, someone decided that it might be a good day to toss the Christmas/holiday tree ... and did so on Avenue A and Sixth Street so that we can all enjoy it for a little longer.
Thank you to EVG reader Eli for the photo.
Report: Postal worker arrested after allegedly kicking door, hitting cops
Things reportedly began when letter carrier Daniel Jean tried to deliver mail to the Columbia Care medical marijuana dispensary at 212 E. 14th St. just east of Third Avenue. The security guard wouldn't allow him to enter, and offered to take the mail instead. Jean refused. He ended up coming back three times, the last in which he allegedly kicked and damaged the front door.
Police caught up with Jean on 11th Street and Third Avenue. Per Gothamist: "When police tried to arrest him, the NYPD spokesperson said that Jean allegedly hit two of the cops, injuring their hands, knees and backs."
The NYPD charged Jean with criminal mischief, obstruction of governmental administration and assault.
EVG file photo
Previously on EV Grieve:
A patient visit to the medical marijuana dispensary on 14th Street
You won't be able to visit the New York City Marble Cemetery today
In case your plans today included a visit to the New York City Marble Cemetery during its Neighborhood Open Day ... that isn't happening now... a handwritten note here on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue says the cemetery won't be open today "due to illness" ...
[Photo by Derek Berg]
A message on the Cemetery's website is more ominous: "As of May 5, 2017, the Cemetery is temporarily closed to visitors until further notice."
The New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave. between Second Street and Third Street will be open next Sunday (Mother's Day!) from Noon to 4 p.m. Find their schedule for the season here.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Saturday's parting shot
Spotted on Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. Photo by Bobby Williams...
A note about 14th Street today
An EVG reader passes along a gridlock alert for drivers, passengers and crosstown bus passengers (well, anyone) on 14th Street ... there is the Second Avenue Street Festival going on until 5 p.m. today, which is causing some gridlock action as the top photo shows.
Oh, and the L is down for the weekend. (2019 preview!)
#LTrain Riders should plan an alternative route for this weekend travels. pic.twitter.com/BsIg9CAPCl
— Rosie Mendez (@RosieMendez) May 5, 2017
As for the Street Festival, there is a better-than-usual selection of street meat...
...and beware of the lousy Beyonce bootlegs...
Street Festival photos by Steven
Today in photos of police-escorted charter buses on Avenue A
EVG reader Paul Dougherty shares this photo from 9:30 a.m. on Avenue A at Sixth Street... NYPD cruiser (one in front and one in back) escorting three charter buses with tinted windows. The first bus was marked District of Columbia.
Jared Kushner in town checking on his East Village properties? Potential homeowners coming from Steiner East Village? Attendees going to a post-post Met Gala party? Anyone?
Today in community garden plant sales
Both items via the EVG inbox...
UNCOMMON PLANTS FOR CITY FOLK
WHEN: Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
WHERE: El Sol Brillante Community Garden, 522-526 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B
Rock Garden plants and choice perennials for sun & shade, including native plants
Plants are grown by members of MCNARGS (including many from Tom Stuart) with additional selections from Wrightman, Garden Vision Epimediums, Gowanus
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Plant & Bake Sale, 6th Street & Avenue B Community Garden (southwest corner of 6th and B)
Saturday-Sunday, May 6-7, 12-5 p.m.
Our Horticulture Committee and other volunteers have been hard a work growing and procuring plants, baked goods, and other items to sell.
All money raised from this event goes directly to fund our always FREE Events Programming for the Summer. This includes Music, Spoken Word, Film Nights, Slide Lectures and Talks, Workshops, Drawing in the Garden, and more.
Find more details here.
Friday, May 5, 2017
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