Your chance to own Billy Leroy's desk — for free!

Earlier today, we pointed out some of the free stuff to be had outside Billy's Antiques on Houston... Proprietor Billy Leroy just provided us with an update — there's even more stuff for free...

...including Billy's own personal desk with sticker celebrating his MTA Sign Fiasco. Real Bowery History!

[Updated] Reader report: FDNY responds to smoke scare at BAD Burger

Shawn Chittle and Dave on 7th pass along word that the FDNY has responded to a report of smoke at BAD Burger on Avenue A near 11th Street... the FDNY is on the scene now...

Dave on 7th, who took these shots, reports: "No sign of fire. But BAD Burger employee reports that the kitchen and dining room filled up with smoke. Probably from the furnace. Nothing actually appears to be happening, which is a good thing."

Updated 1/17:
Owner Keith Masco provides an update in the comments.

Memorial for Dashane Santana on Avenue D

Outside the Rite Aid near Seventh Street. The 12-year-old died after being hit by a van while she crossed Delancey Street last Friday.

Hearing tomorrow for the East 10th Street Historic District

From the EV Grieve inbox...via the East Village Community Coalition

Six months after Community Board 3 unanimously supported it, the City's Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has scheduled a hearing for the East 10th Street Historic District. The proposed district runs along the north side of Tompkins Square Park between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Unfortunately, the LPC has yet to schedule a hearing date for the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. As the LPC waits, we risk losing more historic buildings in our community.

Please join us Tuesday, January 17th to testify in support of this district and urge LPC to move forward with the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District:


1:30 PM
LPC Public Hearing Room 1
One Centre Street (at Chambers)
9th Floor
-Please bring photo ID to enter the building

If you cannot attend the hearing, please email testimony to: comments@lpc.nyc.gov and copy EVCC at director.evccnyc@gmail.com or mail/fax to:

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
One Centre Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10007
(f) 212-669-7960

Previously on EV Grieve:
A bid to protect the integrity of 315 E. 10th St.

Landmarks Preservation Commission expedites hearing on East 10th Street Historic District

Free stuff outside Billy's Antiques

The gang at Billy's Antiques on Houston near the Bowery are putting out some freebies today. Billy's is now closed for the next year or so to make way for a two-story structure here. (Billy says that he will return.)

Noted

[via EV Grieve reader AC]

Seventh Street and Avenue A.

East 10th Street, 9:37 a.m., Jan. 16

Flyer campaign against Bar Veloce

evflip spotted these flyers along Second Avenue... from someone making allegations against the Bar Veloce management...

We sent an email to the "boycottveloce" account to learn more about this...

Does this mean more condos then? Your chance to claim a vault

Bobby Williams spotted this outside the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue near Second Street yesterday...

Dining on Avenue A late this afternoon

Late this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park along Avenue A... a red-tailed hawk sighting... photos by Bobby Williams...

...then a quick late lunch...

Week in Grieview

[14th Street near Second Avenue]

RIP Andrew Kowalczyk: The last East Village landlord of his kind? (Monday)

East Third Street lots hits the market for $6 million (Tuesday)

Duke's closed on Avenue C (Wednesday)

We counted the number of Subway sandwich shops in the neighborhood (Thursday)

CB3/SLA votes down a beer-wine license for BAD Burger (Monday)

A look at the abandoned theater inside the doomed East Village Farms (Friday)

A walk up First Avenue in 1997 (Thursday)

More development for East Houston (Friday)

Three-plus years later, 120 St. Mark's Place still doesn't have a Certificate of Occupancy (Monday)

Your chance to own the King's gyro rotators, gas griddle

King Gyro recently closed on First Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street ... the owners are now going for that Pudgie's-Nathan's-Arthur Treacher's combo.

Anyway, today at noon, they are unloading the stuff that they don't need for the new eatery...

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

East Village residents apparently really like having macaroni and cheese delivered

[EVG file photo]

Delivery.com has named S'MAC, the mac-and-cheese empire on East 12th Street, the city's busiest delivery service in the city. (This only takes in account deliveries made via Delivery.com from 2011; S'MAC took in more orders than any other restaurant that delivers, the Post reported.)

Co-owner Sarita Ekya told the Post that they make upwards of 50 deliveries an hour on Saturdays.

And as the Post points out, S'MAC (short for Sarita's Macaroni & Cheese) "the restaurant's name is a play on words that harks back to the bad old days when junkies lined up on East Village streets looking for a different kind of fix."

"East Villagers get it," said Ekya, a Nova Scotia native. "Other people will think it's just an abbreviated form of the whole name."

Gold rush on Second Avenue

This afternoon on Second Avenue near 14th Street outside Finnerty's, the home to Bay Area sports... the San Francisco 49ers played the New Orleans Saints today...

Photos by Bobby Williams.