Friday's parting shot

It was so windy today that the umbrellas were calling 911.

Photo on Second Avenue and Fourth Street by Lola Sāenz...

Wind claims part of the Avenue C Pharmacy awning

Today's high winds (#windmaggedon!) brought down the awning alongside the Avenue C Pharmacy between 11th Street and 12th Street. The awning fell in the grassy area to the south of the shopping complex where there weren't any pedestrians.

Thanks to @evan_kapitansky for sharing the photo.

Here on 'Earth'

Members of the Horrors, the Black Angels, Elephant Stone and the Earlies formed Mien ... the track here, "Earth Moon," is from their first record out on April 6.

Being the butt of something

Via a crime story in Town & Village today:

A man arrested for selling loosies in Union Square wound up facing far more serious charges when he didn’t do a good enough job hiding his stash and almost 60 envelopes of heroin fell from his butt crack when he bent over to be searched, police said.

Checking in on Winter Storm Riley undergoing bombogenesis

In other words, it's really windy. That's the weather forecast for now. Photo today on Second Avenue by Derek Berg.

Matthew Kenney's PlantMade teams up with Pure Green on 2nd Avenue

Pure Green is getting a new roommate in its space on Second Avenue between 9th Street and 10th Street.

PlantMade, a cafe via plant-based chef Matthew Kenney, whose bio says that he is "crafting the future of food®," will be serving "artisanal coffee and plant-based pastries" inside the Pure Green space.

The Pure Green-PlantMade combo debuts today after a week of renovations...



Pure Green, which has multiple NYC locations, sells cold-pressed juices, smoothies and various bowls of açaí, opened last March in this new storefront. They originally shared space with Greecologies, whose menu included a variety of grass-fed yogurts as well as desserts, coffees and teas.

Kenney is also involved with 00 + Co. and Bar Verde a few blocks to the south on Second Avenue.

H/T Steven!

Previously on EV Grieve:
152 2nd Ave. storefront to yield a combo Greek yogurt and smoothie shop

Joe and Pat's signage arrives on 1st Avenue (above the Lanza's)

Joe and Pat's, the Staten Island-based pizzeria, looks ever-so-close to opening... the signage recently arrived here on First Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street.

The sign for Lanza's, the previous tenant here, remains intact above the doorway. And Jeremiah Moss recently noted that Lanza's antique murals seem to have survived the gut renovation.

Speaking of renovations, it has seemingly taken awhile to get the space in Joe-and-Pat's shape. (The coming soon sign arrived in April 2017.)

This location of Joe and Pat's, whose first branch opened on Staten Island in 1960, will serve their signature thin-crust pies as well as a variety of pastas and salads. No word on when they may open.

Lanza's closed for good back in July 2016. The Italian restaurant had been in the space since 1904.

PokéVillage is the EV's first poke casualty

A commenter mentioned this on the Poke N' Roll post from Wednesday... PokéVillage has closed on 14th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. A for rent sign hangs in the window. (Thanks to EVG reader Shiv for the photo!)

The Pokésters opened here in December 2016 toward the end of the Great Poké Rush of 2015-16. This marks the first closure of a poké-serving restaurant in the East Village during this time.

The address was previously home to Saving$ Paradise, which merged with I.Q. Decor in the spring of 2016. IQ Decor just went out of business following a rent increase.

Tibetan speciality shop DöKham is now open on 1st Avenue

After 29 years on Prince Street, DöKham relocated to 117 First Ave. between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place...

And the shop that specializes in clothing and accessories from Tibet had its grand opening last night ... featuring traditional Tibetan food as well as live music by Mongolian musicians Baagii Bayarjargal and Suvda Khereid ...


[Photo last night via @radicaldesi]

The shop is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Thursday's parting shot

Cosmo's Launderama on First Avenue by Chris Rowland (who just launched an Instagram account here).

The Real Yellow Pages have arrived

Reader reports are coming in from all over the neighborhood with news that the Yellow Pages have arrived. Or are arriving.

This year's cover features a shot of the Empire State Building under attack by a spacecraft a la "Independence Day" as well as an ad for Epic Security Corp. "Fully insured. Armed and unarmed guards." The security guard pictured does have both arms.

While the directories are tightly wrapped in plastic, you may still want to bring them indoors before it really starts to rain...

Dora – Nora

Dora - Nora

Dora - Nora, Nora - Dora,

Will Christo do what is honorable,

Nora - Dora, Dora - Nora,

Nesting, no time to squabble,

Dora - Nora, Nora - Dora,

Females, time to huddle,

Nora - Dora, Dora - Nora,

Only one hawk from this muddle,

Dora - Nora, Nora - Dora,

Open the envelope please, Ah cuddle,

Dora!

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peter radley

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