Memorial Day on Avenue A, 1991

Bob Arihood posted this on Memorial Day 2007 at Neither More Nor Less…

This was Memorial Day 1991 : the spirit of the time was somewhat more rebelious than it is today . This night ... disorder ruled .

This is your avenue A without the boutiques , bars and restaurants . There were no doggy pastry shops on avenue A : none in the entire neighborhood for that matter .

Visit Neither More Nor Less here for more photos and Bob's narrative.

Friday night when it rained

EVG contributor Michael Sean Edwards took these photos on Friday night on East 10th Street near Avenue B during the rainy season…

Today in photos at the Tompkins Square dog run

Photo via Bobby Williams …

Week in Grieview

Raising money for the family of Wen Hui Ruan (Tuesday)

Stories from the Cadillac with the Tiger in it (Tuesday)

East Village Radio signs off (Saturday)

Flood on East Houston! (Thursday)

Is the end near for the BP station on Second Avenue? (Thursday)

Feast and the Google Glass drama (Friday)

Video: Watch the baby hawks eat! (Thursday)

Mimi Cheng's dumplings replacing Viva Herbal Pizzeria (Thursday)

Details on the luxury rental The Nathaniel, complete with rooftop reflection pool (Friday)

Move-out trash at NYU (Wednesday)

Out and About with Yehuda Emmanuel Safran (Wednesday)

Details on what's taking over for Sapporo East, and RIP Mother Earth (Monday)

New coffee shop coming to East 10th Street (Wednesday)

Barcade looking at 6 St. Mark's Place for next outpost (Tuesday)

Miss Lily's opens (Sunday)

Former Tu Case Recording Studio space for lease on Avenue B (Wednesday)

East 14th Street demolition (Monday)

Renovations at the new home of St. Mark's Bookshop (Tuesday)

Dunkin's Donuts on the move on East 14th Street (Monday)

The Mediterranean Grill and the Efendi Hookah Lounge closes (Tuesday)

Quick-serve Indian and Pakistani food coming to Fourth Avenue (Monday)

Check out the $$$$ rebranded "Eleventh and Third" (Wednesday)

This summer rental "penthouse" comes with hammocks (Thursday)

Spice Cove is moving on East Sixth Street (Tuesday)

Movie night in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

China Wok is back open! (Tuesday)

… and checking in on some EVG analytics or whatever for the week…

Crunch Bowery opens with a preemptive 'there goes the neighborhood'

Crunch Bowery opened for business yesterday … and they are apparently making a funny with the "there goes the neighborhood" line …



The Crunch around the corner on Lafayette will close soon … because! As BoweryBoogie reported on May 16, 708 Broadway/404 Lafayette is being converted into a — ding! ding! — hotel!

Previously on EV Grieve:
Crunch moving to the Bowery; CB3 OKs New York Sports Club on Avenue A

The Loisaida Festival street fair is TODAY; big chair photos await

Day Three of the Loisaida Festival begins soon (depending on when you are read this) … it's the street fair component of the festival … on Avenue C between East Sixth Street and East 12th Street …

There is some of the usual street festival stuff… but this one also has more unique vendors …





… and yes! Gag holiday cards on the way!



Here are more details on what to expect today noon till 5:

Kid Zone — anchored at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden 9th Street & Ave C
Children and/or Puppet Theater, Storytelling, Arts & Crafts Workshops, Capoeira demos and more.

Green Zone — a designated block featuring environmental and civic organization offering hands-on learning on topics of environmental literacy, food waste & composting, neighborhood storm surge resiliency.

Exhibitors and Vendors
Will feature local Loisaida artists and NYC based Latin American artists, creative arts & crafts, clothing, community, civic and cultural organizations, housing and health services, domino tournament, sampling of diverse Latin American foods and staple Latino restaurants from the neighborhood.

You may head over to the official website for a list of the performers today and other details.

East Houston back to its good ol' normal self

[Photo Thursday by @maraaltman]

On Thursday morning, a ruptured pipe dating to 1959 flooded East Houston Street with mucky water. Crews worked overnight Thursday to fill in the sinkhole that formed after the break between Orchard and Ludlow … here is how East Houston was looking earlier today… almost as good as its old self!



Holiday weekend or not, the arrows, pointing to the formerly broken roadway, have to work…



The DEP claims that the break was an anomaly, according to NBC News, and not related to the ongoing East Houston Reconstruction Project between the Bowery and the FDR that is set to wrap up long after we're all dead.

Summer begins with random bags of soil and a note from the East Fifth St. Tree Committee

The official start to the summer season is off to a fine start … especially with a note from the local folk heroes of the the East Fifth St. Tree Committee.

PandaCat passes along these photos from last night on East Fifth Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square … showing a few bags of soil … now with a note!



"Please don't put this soil into the tree pit because then the soil level will be too high. If the are bags are a gift for the tree committee let us know."

Reasonable!

Also, just a reminder: Please do not attach bikes or carts to the tree guards. Thank you!

Previously on EV Grieve:
The East Fifth St. Tree Committee back in action

The East Fifth St. Tree Committee is alive and well, and they do not mess around

And now, a word from the East Fifth St. Tree Committee

The East Fifth St. Tree Committee reveals its policy about carts

Today at the Loisaida Festival

From the EVG inbox...

2:00 pm-6:00 pm / New Loisaida Center, 710 E 9th Street (just east of Avenue C) / Admission free

The Production of Nabe:
Loisaida’s land-use and environmental activism, past and present

Screenings: 3 vintage documentaries about Loisaida’s sweat-equity, community garden and environmental initiatives since the 1970’s.

“The Heart of Loisaida” by Marcie Reaven & Beni Matais

“11th Street Movement” by Stuart Leigh

“Umbrella House” by Catalina Santamaria

• Real-time Oral Histories: Historians interview old-time activists/players from Loisaida’s urban appropriation movement.
• Talk/Presentation: Contemporary land use issues, recent development and its environmental impacts in the LES by GOLES
• Debut of “Memorias de Loisaida”, a theatrical piece by artists in residence Papel Machete.

Here's the Festival website with more info. You can find the street festival and live music tomorrow on Avenue C from East Sixth Street to East 12th Street.

East Village Radio says goodbye with Johnny Thunders

[Photo last night by @edenbrower]

East Village Radio wrapped up its 11-year run just before midnight last night by playing "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" by Johnny Thunders … an appropriate song from the former New York Doll, Heartbreaker, one-time East Village native and subject of a new documentary …



East Village Radio reached out to listeners via Facebook and Twitter for suggestions of the last song … that wrapped up a four-hour sign-off party from the station's tiny First Avenue studio.

EVG reader Double U asked this in the comments of our earlier post:

Anyone recorded the final EVR hour?
Anyone who wants to share this historic recording?

Meanwhile, according to the East Village Facebook page, the station WILL NOT host any audio links to archived programming from the EVR website after this weekend. As they say, "Please follow/like your favorite DJs/show hosts for information on their archived EVR shows."

With various licensing fees, East Village Radio could no longer break even. CEO Frank Prisinzano made the difficult decision to shut down the station earlier this month, as we first reported.

I would like to thank the #eastvillage for being a place where something like EVR could happily exist. #RIPEVR east village radio
— Frank Prisinzano (@TheUnknownChef) May 24, 2014

Updated 5-26

Animal NY has an account of the station's last minutes here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: East Village Radio is signing off after 11 years; final day of broadcasting is May 23

On the phone with Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls

Today in stoop sales

Avenue B and East 8th Street … 10 am to 2 pm …

Strike 1 …

Wow… a photo looking to the south in the East Village this evening via James and Karla Murray …

Starting out in the evening

Before this rain earlier this evening… via Bobby Williams…

Have a Beachy holiday weekend

Here we have Veronica Falls from 2010 with "Beachy Head."

Anyway, go, have fun! We'll be fine here alone. No, really!