Snow pong

The first winter for the ping pong table in Tompkins Square Park.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

New kids on the block

Anyone?

Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue today... Photo by Bobby Williams.

Turns out the Penistrator did taint the first snowfall of the year

Our correspondents kept a watchful eye out for any sign of The Penistrator or various copycats after yesterday's Storm of the Saturday® ... Finally, reports are coming in from the field... on St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...

Looks as if we're in for another long winter.

Previously.

Week in Grieview

Here comes "Alphabet Plaza" (Friday)

Opposition to East Village landmark protection (Saturday)

Workers quickly start dismantling roof of historic 315 E. 10th St. (Wednesday)

MLK Day Brunch at 7A (Monday)

Flyer campaign against Bar Veloce (Monday)

Left behind by the wise men? (Friday)

Your chance to live in a cabin on the Lower East Side (Wednesday)

The Second Avenue of 1997 (Friday)

Fire scare at BAD Burger (Monday)

Pot-laced rice krispie treats (Friday)

Another 7-Eleven for the East Village (Wednesday)

Diagrams of the future (alleged) David Schwimmer house (Tuesday)

The real reason it's so cold today

Seventh Street.

Hashtag #Boo

Gameday predictions

The Bowery Electric: 34
49ers: 28

The lines of San Francisco

I originally sent this out via Twitter around 9: 30 or so.

49ers fans already on line outside Finnerty's on Second Avenue. The Post had a feature yesterday about the bar being a Bay Area sports haven.

And a look at last week's line closer to game time....

[Bobby Williams]

[Updated] Noted

Somewhere on East Fifth Street...

And on East First Street...

The storm that almost was

Via ~ Joan...

Via Bobby Williams...

Via Matt LES_Miserable

Memorial for Mary Spink tomorrow

As you may have heard, Mary Spink, the community activist and executive director of Lower East Side People’s Mutual Housing Association, died on Monday. She was 64. As The Lo-Down first reported, she had been battling a failing liver and kidneys.

She was a well-respected member of Community Board 3. Spink has had a long, varied career. Per The Lo-Down: "After arriving in the city as a teenager, she owned and operated a dress shop, a newsstand and a hardware store. She was a cook, a record promoter, a brick layer, a dancer, a waitress, a plumber, an office manager, a superintendent and a property manager. She served as Director of Drug Prevention for the Archdiocese of New York."

She volunteered as a board or committee member at more than 20 organizations including 19 years as a board or committee member of the LES Peoples Federal Credit Union, 14 years as a board member of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, and for nine years served as a board member and Chair of the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

"Mary was a feminist in a league with Emma Goldman, a community activist in a league with Jane Jacobs, a personality in a league of her own," Lyn Pentecost, executive director of the Lower Eastside Girls Club, told me via email. "Without Mary as our Board Chair in our critical years — we would not be building a. Girls Club today."

Tomorrow at 5:30, community members will take part in a service at Cooper Union (Seventh Street and Third Avenue).

A few scenes from The Storm of the Saturday®

It's here — The Storm of the Saturday® ... the most devastating 2-3 inches of snow that we've had all day... Here's how things are looking .... so far...

And we were waiting for that one guy who always runs out for a quick errand in shorts in weather like this ...

During whiteout, motorists making way down Third Avenue with help of pink sports bra

[UPDATED] FDNY: Man struck and killed by L train at 14th Street and Third Avenue station

We first posted this information on our Twitter account this morning... (here... and here...)

An FDNY official told me around 8:45 that someone was under a train at 14th Street and Third Avenue... the L was stopped in both directions...

Early reports indicate that the man is dead.

UPDATED:

Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reports the man was struck and killed by a Brooklyn-bound L train. He was pinned beneath the train. Nearly 200 passengers had to be evacuated from the train through the tunnel, Hedlund notes.


UPDATED:

The MTA has changed the status of the L:

UPDATED:

The Post reports that the victim was 22 years old. And he was standing on the tracks between the Union Square and Third Avenue stations. Officials have yet to release his name, or offer any theories why he was standing on the tracks.

UPDATED:

The Post ID'd the victim as Brian Omara O'Mara of Garden City. Still no explanation why he was walking on the tracks.

UPDATED:
Sunday night.

Per The Wall Street Journal:

Police said Mr. O'Mara had been out drinking with friends, who later realized he didn't enter a taxi with them at the end of the night.

Police are checking Mr. O'Mara's MetroCard to determine what time he entered the train station. It is believed he used an emergency exit on the station platform to enter the tunnel and was hit by a train, police said.

Officers recovered a cellphone, a wristwatch and a wallet with more than $100. A woman who answered the phone at Mr. O'Mara's home declined to comment.

And here's Tompkins Finest Deli on Avenue A

As we first noted back in August, the Ave. A Mini Market abruptly closed... Workers rehabbing the space near 10th Street said that another deli was coming soon... Yesterday afternoon, Bobby Williams got a look at the new signage going up...

It's the one of the Deli 3.0s with paninis and wraps and smoothies and stuff.

And look — bagels! (Bagel war?)

Previously on EV Grieve:
Ave. A Mini Market abruptly closes

On second thought, Avenue A Mini Market not reopening

Avenue A Mini Market now without part of its front window