Why couldn't Zoltar foretell this development?

A readers passes along this unfortunate bit of news from outside Gem Spa tonight...

Get well soon, old friend... Plus, we need you — the Breeders' Cup is coming up...

Week in Grieview

[Tompkins Square Park this past week. Photo by Bobby Williams]

RIP Donald Suggs (Tuesday)

City approves the new East Village/Lower East Side Historic District (Tuesday)

Sushi coming to former Polonia space (Monday)

A FroYo shop closes, sells its surplus of Fruity Pebbles (Tuesday)

Remembering Downtown Beirut and other "most-mourned" bars (Thursday)

Old PS 64 update (Wednesday)

A Subway closes on First Avenue (Thursday)

A huge rent increase for family with cancer-stricken 2 year old (Tuesday, 54 comments)

2 new floors for 80 E. Second St. (Friday)

Arrest in Tompkins Square Park sexual assault (Sunday)

A Daniel Craig moment on East 10th Street (Friday)

Reader report: Man arrested for having dog on L train platform

Per a reader:

Brooklyn bound L train at 1st Ave. 2 a.m.

Police gave this guy many chances to leave before backup came and arrested him. He was being a jerk and saying he seen dogs on the train before.

Not sure what's going to happen to the dog.

Night and day on Ninth Street and Avenue A

Photos by Shawn Chittle.

Here's the Taylor Swift section at Duane Reade's Avenue B store

I don't recall any other pop singers getting their own section at Duane Reade. Can't say that I know anything about her ... except from the tabloids reporting on her dating a Kennedy.

San Francisco Giants celebration tree mended on Second Avenue

On Friday, we noted the Urban Etiquette Sign that an EVG reader spotted on Second Avenue near 14th Street... outside Bay Area-rooting sports bar Finnerty's. Some fans in celebration mode apparently broke off some branches...

A commenter later noted: "I see the broken limbs have been removed and damaged area sealed. Fair enough."

And here's a photo of the tree now...

Watching Television this morning

Been hanging out over at The YouTube early this morning... going through videos that I put in my favorites but never watched for some reason, like this grainy rehearsal footage of Television circa 1974 ... I like the one commenter who says "Verlaine is like a trobadour from the asylum who has never washed his hair."

The lineup at this time:

Tom Verlaine — vocals, guitar
Richard Hell — vocals, bass
Richard Lloyd — guitar
Billy Ficca — drums

Next De-Flea Market tomorrow at Bar 82

PUB CRAWL ALERT

A reader sent this in via Facebook...

Saturday October 13th is the 3rd day of New York Comic Con. It also happens to be a damn good day to drink, eat, and generally party your way through the East Village.

How do we resolve the simultaneous occurrence of these 2 extraordinary events?

By throwing NYC's First COMIC CRAWL!

There will be food. There will be drinks. There will be mayhem. There will be Comics!
*There will NOT be blood.

Featuring many of the East Village's coolest spots.
- Idle Hands Bar
-Destination Bar
-Billy Hurricane's
-Mama's
-Alphabets
-Fresco Gelateria
-Liquiteria
-Professor Thom's
-Wechsler's Currywurst & Bratwurst
-Keybar
-La Lucha
-Otto's Shrunken Head
-Poco
-Jimmy's No. 43
-East Village Tavern
-Double Down Saloon

DNAinfo featured this pub crawl here.

Anyone else getting really tired of this kind of shit?

A celebration of Donald Suggs' life tomorrow night at Eastern Bloc

Via Facebook:

Dear friends and loves of Donald,

We're having a party at one of his favorite places, Eastern Bloc, to commemorate his life. If you like, come with stories — you'll have a chance to tell them. Come with love, because he'd want you to share it. And come prepared to celebrate, not just to mourn. With drinks. And mariachis.

As you know, Donald was also a tireless activist. Please consider donating to some of the causes that were dearest to him:

One Iowa

Grassroots Leadership

The celebration starts at 5. Eastern Bloc is on East Sixth Street ... just east of Avenue A.

Suggs, a longtime East Village resident who worked at Exit 9 on Avenue A, died last weekend of an apparent heart attack. He was 51.

Continuum Coffee now open on Avenue B

About a year ago we heard that Continuum Cycles on Avenue B was going to open a coffee shop... and we promptly forgot about it.

Here was owner Jeff Underwood writing about it last October on the Continuum blog:

We will have vegan treats too. Movie nights, bicycle art, books, clothing and tubes, patches, lights, pumps and much more until late night. Also remember, we are open for everyone. Cyclist or not.

Anyway, Continuum Coffee opened Wednesday adjacent to the shop between East 12th Street and 13th Street...

[Via @ContinuumCoffee]

They have oatmeal and vegan muffins and stuff... and they'll be screening horror movies every Friday and Saturday this month... and bike-themed films on Sunday...

Immaculate Conception Church flea market is on

The Mary Help of Christians flea market on Avenue A at East 11th Street officially ended the first weekend of September (to make way for some unspecified, incoming development) ... and the action was moving over to the Immaculate Conception Church on East 14th Street at First Avenue...

Well, today is the first day. And here are a few shots from early this morning, where some vendors — and familiar faces — were still setting up...

There are also vendors in the church's gymnasium, where every photo I took came out really blurry. Like this one!

Anyway. Every Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Don't Panic: Free concert tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park

And the band times:

2 p.m. — ALIENZ
3 p.m. — JENNIFER BLOWDRYER
4 p.m. — SEXUAL SUICIDE
5 p.m. — ICONICIDE

Red dawn, though at sunset

Photos by Bobby Williams.