Missing the OTBs

The Kentucky Derby is today... though betting on it is more challenging now with the closure of the OTBs (like the one above on Third Avenue in the 40s) back in December.

From an article in The Wall Street Journal yesterday:

In a city where it's possible to do just about anything imaginable, it's suddenly become enormously difficult to legally put money on the most prestigious horse race on the planet.

So it's off to Belmont then... instead of a trip to Delancey...

Birdbath Bakery now open on Third Avenue

As Eater noted, the fifth location of Birdbath Bakery, a spinoff of City Bakery, opened yesterday on Third Avenue at NYU. Among other things, they'll serve Kombucha on tap. And we hope that no one decides to detoxify the body right there on the corner... Jeremiah noted the Birdbathers impending arrival back in October.

Distributing Cornell's plants continues today

As you can see from the sign, more of the plants that belonged to Cornell Edwards, who opened The Flower Stall at 143 E. 13th St. in 1967, will continue to be distributed today...

Second Avenue, 9:48 a.m., May 7

Noted

Just noticed that Diablo Royale Este put up a Cinco de Mayo banner on the property that belongs to the coming-soon Tompkins Square Bagel next door ...

A new paver around Temperance Fountain

This morning, a worker was on the scene at Temperance Fountain in Tompkins Square Park...

...adding a paver from the Make Your Mark in the Park program ...

Read more about the program here.

For your red eyes only

First Avenue near Third Street.

A flea market on Fourth Street today

[Bobby Williams]

Today in photos of rabbits on leashes in Tompkins Square Park

[By Bobby Williams]

More photos from today's Union Square bus fire

Courtesy of East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy.

Previously.

And it sounds like an empty house

The Stranglers with "Duchess" from 1979.

[Updated] School bus fire on Union Square

At 14th Street and 4th Avenue. No injuries reported.

After the fire: East Village Farm returning Monday

Five months after a devastating fire ...


[Special Monkey]

East Village Farm at Second Avenue and East Fourth Street is reopening Monday, as EV Grieve reader @mattheworley reports. EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams took this photo yesterday...

Meanwhile, nearly one year after the fire, there's no sign of life at the Stuyvesant Grocery (and the rest of the building) at 14th Street and Avenue A...


[Sergey]

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Major early-morning fire on Second Avenue and Fourth Street

Breaking: Tompkins Square Park ping-pong table defaced, a little bit

On March 19, the city installed a new permanent ping-pong table in Tompkins Square Park. And we've been wondering how long before someone tagged or defaced or befouled it.

Well! We now note the arrival of a sticker in the last, oh, well, since we walked by it yesterday.

What is the sticker promoting? Like the sports fan who runs out onto the field, the network that won't show the person and the announcer who gets all huffy about the fact that someone is on the field (help me out of this sentence!), we will not disclose that information.

To be continued, likely.