Week in Grieview

Posts from this past week included ... (with a photo of the basketball courts in Tompkins Square Park earlier in the week by Vinny & O) ...

• Local elected officials, NYCHA reps get firsthand look at the problems at Mariana Bracetti Plaza (Tuesday) 

• City's first plant-based community fridge is up and running outside Overthrow on Bleecker Street (Monday) 

• Essex Market regulars Davidovich Bakery opening an outpost on Avenue A (Friday) 

• A labor of love: 3rd and B'zaar's latest seasonal pop up open through February on 3rd Street (Wednesday) 

• Our dwindling number of diners (Monday) 

• Gallery Watch heads to Half Gallery (Wednesday) 

• So much face-touching in this week's NY See panel (Thursday) 

• Police searching for suspect in 1st Avenue assault on Wednesday afternoon (Friday) 

• New photos of suspects wanted for brazen attack last month on 3rd Street and 1st Avenue (Wednesday) 

• Black Seed Bagels and chef Bobby Hellen launch Black Seed Pizza (Thursday) 

• A Valentine’s Day pop-up: Never Ending Taste coming to Yellow Rose (Friday) 

• Construction watch: 302 E. 2nd St. (Wednesday) 

• Construction watch: 298 E. Houston St. (Thursday) 

• Kyuramen debuts on 14th Street (Monday) 

• Mi Salsa Kitchen, serving Cuban cuisine, announces itself on Houston and Allen (Thursday) 

• Superiority Burger reopens on March 12 (Wednesday) 

• Reader report: A mini return of the former Stuyvesant Market on 14th Street and Avenue A? (Tuesday) 

• Casse-Cou Chocolate bringing vegan treats to 4th Street (Monday) 

• A new tenant for the former JAM Paper & Envelope space on 3rd Avenue (Wednesday)

• Succession to the throne on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Village Dream Tattoo & Piercing shop has apparently closed (Tuesday) 

• How about some more bubble tea for St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

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Gov. Cuomo extends closing time for bars and restaurants by 1 hour

On Friday, Gov. Cuomo announced that closing times for restaurants and bars will be extended from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. statewide beginning today. 

Cuomo set the 10 p.m. curfew in mid-November as the number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise in New York. 

The rollback of the curfew was due, he said, to the decline in hospitalization and infection rates throughout the city and state. 

Per his announcemnt:

"Our decisions are based on science and data and we adjust as the virus adjusts. The infection rate and hospitalizations have continued to significantly decline. Accordingly, we have adjusted with arena and catering hall openings with rigorous testing and limited capacity indoor dining openings in New York City. We will also move the restaurant and bar closing hour from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. statewide on Sunday. We will continue to follow the science and react accordingly. If we keep the infections down and vaccinations up, we will continue to stay ahead in the footrace against this invisible enemy."

On Friday, Cuomo said that the NYC daily positivity rate was 3.91 percent — the lowest percent since Dec. 19. 

As Eater noted, some in the restaurant industy were hoping for a midnight curfew. (Some are also hoping for a return of overnight subway service — especially for restaurant workers.)

News of the curfew rollback came on the same day as indoor dining — at 25 percent — returned to the city.

Image by WindAwake

Sunday's opening shot

As seen today (Valentine's Day!) at the Ninth Street Community Garden and Park on Avenue C...

Saturday's parting shots

New work by Manco Studio in Tompkins Square Park today... photos by Derek Berg...

EVG Etc.: Making it work at Theater 80; Celebrating the Lunar New Year

• Local chefs from 886, Málà Project, Fish Cheeks and Nowon have teamed up to raise awareness about the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans (Eater)

• Police say a few protestors from the Black Trans Liberation NYC rally on Thursday night vandalized Jackdaw on Second Avenue and 13th Street (Daily News) 

• Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village resident Janice Rosario, a choreographer and teacher, launched a nonprofit to help those in need in public housing (Dance Magazine) 

• Study shows that the Second Avenue F stop has some of the highest levels of air pollution in subway system (The Guardian) 

• Restaurants left vulnerable after NY's commercial eviction moratorium lapses (Eater) 

• A feature on the College Student Pantry at Trinity Lower East Side on Avenue B and Ninth Street (B+B ... previously on EVG)

• Theater 80 on surviving during the pandemic (NY1)

• Katz's made it through the 1918 pandemic. Here's how the deli managing COVID-19 (CNBC)

• Where to eat and celebrate the Lunar New Year (Gothamist) 

Photo from last night at the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street

Some love for the late Sylvain Sylvain on Valentine’s Day

An array of artists and musicians are taking part in a tribute to the late Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls tomorrow evening. 

The virtual show will feature a mix of stories, performances and videos from David Johansen, Debbie Harry, Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins, Clem Burke, Lenny Kaye, Bob Gruen and many more. 

"A Celebration of the Musical Life Of New York Dolls' Sylvain Sylvain" is being presented by Rolling Live Studios and the Bowery Electric. Tickets for the show, which starts at 7 p.m., are $15. (Find the link here.) 

Sylvain, co-founder and guitarist of the New York Dolls, died on Jan. 13 of cancer. He was 69.

Previously on EV Grieve:

On the phone with Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls 

A Valentine's weekend pop-up market at Ace Bar

Ace Bar is playing host to a group of local vendors-artists this Valentine's weekend... items for sale will include homemade jewelry, silk flowers... and love spells! 

The Valentine's pop-up is today from 2-7 p.m.  ... and 1-6 p.m. tomorrow.

Ace Bar is at 531 E. Fifth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. 

In other Ace Bar news... someone stole one of the outdoor heaters in the bar's curbside space...

An employee said the man first checked out the heater at 10:30 Thursday night, then came back yesterday morning at 8:30 with the tools to remove it.

Saturday's opening shot

City crews were out this morning salting roadways for the anticipated winter weather expected this afternoon... to the National Weather Service for some ALL-CAPS forecasting...

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 AM EST SUNDAY... 

WHAT...Mixed precipitation including freezing rain expected. Total snow accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch. 

WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York. 

WHEN...From 1 PM this afternoon to 10 AM EST Sunday. 

IMPACTS...Difficult travel conditions are possible due to icy roadways, especially this afternoon through tonight

Friday's parting shot

Fetch! A scene in Tompkins Square Park today by Derek Berg...

Removing a curbside living space on 9th Street and Avenue C

An EVG reader shared the following photos... someone had moved into the curbside dining structure on Ninth Street at Avenue C outside the temporarly closed Esperanto... 

The man, and the various items that he has collected, had been in the Ninth Street space since this past Saturday. We're told that nearby residents had called 311 and other city agencies about the encampment... 

By this afternoon, some workers — unsure who sent them — arrived to remove the roof from the curbside space...

... and eventually the man's items had been moved to the sidewalk...

In recent weeks, several curbside spaces at currently closed bars-restaurants have temporarily been turned into encampments... including outside Lucy's on Avenue A...

Come out to 'Play'

 

Missed this single when it came out back in the fall — the UK-based duo Nova Twins with "Play Fair."

The band recently announced "Nova Twins Presents Voices For The Unheard," a new compilation album they'vee curated to spotlight underrepresented POC artists from the rock and alternative scene. 

Police searching for suspect in 1st Avenue assault on Wednesday afternoon

Police are searching for a suspect they say critically injured a 59-year-old man after punching him Wednesday afternoon on First Avenue near 12th Street. (Update: Readers say it was actually 11th Street near the Islamic Council of America.)

CBS 2 has a few more details:

Police say the suspect got into a dispute with the 59-year-old victim. Things escalated, and the suspect punched the victim in his left eye. 

The victim fell to the street and knocked his head on the concrete. That left the victim semi-conscious, police said. He suffered a fractured skull and swelling of the brain, according to authorities. 

The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.

Accounts of the assault did not include a description of the suspect (he appears to be wearing checkerboard slip-ons by Vans) ... the NYPD did release this footage last evening...

🚨WANTED for an ASSAULT: On 2/10/21 at approx. 2:51 PM, at 1st Avenue and East 12 Street. The suspect punched a 59 year old male victim in his left eye, knocking him down causing him to be semi-conscious. Any info call or DM NYPDTips at 800-577-TIPS. Reward up to $2,500. pic.twitter.com/4GTu3d9w5r

— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) February 12, 2021