Warning: People to be having fun around here today!

Heh. Just joking with that headline!

Um, anyway, the fifth annual Dance Parade is today... which is why you see the barricades on Avenue A...

...and St. Mark's.

Will be interesting to see what happens when the street fair on Third Avenue collides with the Dance Parade.

Anyway, I'm never going to be able to find a place to park for supper tonight.

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

Oh yeah!

Just getting set up this morning at 9... this street fair runs from 14th Street ("East Union Square")

...down to Sixth Street, where traffic is already fucked backed up.

Say trees

Yesterday, EV Grieve reader Meredith Battjer sent some photos of workers planting new trees along East Eighth Street near Avenue C. Part of the MillionTreesNYC movement hereabouts...

And thanks to @bobbyjohnspeaks who has ben keeping me posted about the trees via Twitter.

Dedication

Earlier today in Tompkins Square Park.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Red alert

First Avenue, 8:58 p.m., May 20

A man for all seasons

Originally had something really depressing lined up. Instead, Divine. From 1985.

Today in product placements for Ray's, Coca-Cola

After the DOH gave Ray's Candy Store the OK to reopen yesterday afternoon, Dave on 7th was on hand to greet the first official customer since the closure on Monday ...

Yes

[Bob Arihood]

Bob Arihood delivers the good news about Ray's at Neither More Nor Less.

Live: The DOH inspection continues at Ray's

Maria, who has been cleaning Ray's around the clock...

The tabulation continues...

Photos by Dave on 7th

[Updated] Live: DOH inspector inside Ray's Candy Store

Previously.

Per Dave on 7th:
"It just became a tourist attraction.
People looking for a good egg cream.
More lost sales."

Photos by Dave on 7th.

They might be Giant

So there's a newish photoblog called Giant Behemoth. Among the works featured: The photography of C-Squat resident Ariel Hamm Flores, like the one on this post. See his photos here.

Meanwhile, if you're interested in submitting some photos, then you can send an email to:

giantbehemoth@gmail.com

Developing: Today may be the last chance for Ray's

Shit Week Continues at Ray's. Per Bob Arihood at Neither More Nor Less, today may be the last inspection for Ray before the DOH intervenes. Bob writes: "We don't know at this time if this means expensive major renovations and new equipment too."

Renovations and equipment that Ray can't afford. Thus, the end of Ray's. Not that we're jumping to the worst-case scenario right away or anything.

Read Bob's post here.

Today in EV Grieve talking about stuff

This week went by in a blurry. So a belated thank you to Rebecca Marx at the Voice for interviewing me for a piece that was titled, EV Grieve Reflects on the Lessons of CB3 Meetings, Superdive, and the East Village as a "Foodie Tourist Trap"

You can read it here.

And there are no refunds.