Week in Grieview

[Photo yesterday by Luke on Seventh]

The Bowery Mission needs donations (Monday)

A sneak preview of the Westside Market, opening soon on Third Avenue (Thursday)

No, 'NYC's first bar for pregnant women' isn't opening on Avenue A (Monday)

What's going on with the former Mary Help of Christians property? (Tuesday)

The expanding Jehovah's Witnesses on Avenue C (Tuesday)

Yaffa Cafe closes for good (Thursday, 45 comments) for this reason (Friday, 32 comments)

How you can help save Siempre Verde Community Garden from luxury housing (Friday)

Korilla BBQ's interior will include an illustration by East Village artist Terry Galmitz (Tuesday)

PS 64 rally coverage (Tuesday)

Full reveal at the rebranded Eleventh and Third (Monday)

About the Cock moving to Avenue B (Tuesday)

Looking for Dana Scully (Monday)

In case you have some mystery charges from South America (Thursday)

The Os Gêmeos mural returns to view on the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall (Tuesday)

Hitchcocktober! (Wednesday)

Kotobuki has closed on 3rd Avenue (Thursday)

One less dorm in the East Village, but one more luxury rental (Friday)

Cool clouds (Tuesday)

Lou Reed wasn't really feeling this interview (Tuesday)

Neighborhood's priciest rental now selling for $9.5 million (Wednesday)

Menkui-Tei has closed for renovations (Wednesday)

Out and About with Mikey Cole (Wednesday)

… and speaking of Mikey Likes It Ice Cream… just noting the new mural on the gate for October's flavor of the month — Halloween…

Last night's waxing moon

Here's a report from local astronomy buff Felton Davis:

It rained all day Saturday, and that must have washed a lot of soot out of the atmosphere, because the waxing moon came up unusually sharp and clear. Gassendi Crater on the edge of the Mare Humorum was spectacular as the shadow of the sun receded across its sharp edges and central blip. And down and to the left of Tycho was another stretch of jagged craters that will all look smooth on Tuesday night when the moon is full.



The eclipse of the moon will take place just before dawn on Wednesday, Oct. 8, as the earth passes directly between the rising sun and setting moon.

We've had a whole lot of partly-cloudy-chance-of-showers in the last week, so don't get your hopes up for anything different on Wednesday. If it is clear, all the way down to the horizon, I plan to get on the #5 Train to Bowling Green at 4:30 am, and walk over to Battery Park. The moon will set long before the eclipse is over.

It's too cold and too far away to bring the telescope, but anyone with a camera and a tripod should be able to get some amazing photos. Will the darkened moon set over the Statue of Liberty, over Ellis Island, or north of Ellis Island? I have no idea!

Report: NYPD looking for a possibly albino suspect in yesterday's Chase branch robbery

[Photo yesterday by Derek Berg]

As we reported yesterday, someone robbed the Chase branch on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place.

The NYPD have released the following description of the suspect, who left with $1,080:

"white male (possibly albino), 5'10", mid to late 20s, light colored hair with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a black and grey jacket, dark rimmed glasses, black sneakers with a red bandana around his neck."

Anyone with information that could help in the investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You may also submit tips online.

H/T Gothamist

St. Stanislaus represents in the annual Pulaski Day Parade

Today is the 77th annual Pulaski Day Parade in New York City. This year's theme: "Canonization of Blessed John Paul II."

And, once again, St. Stanislaus on East Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue will be part of the parade… as you can see from these float photos this morning by EVG Senior Float Photographer Derek Berg …

There is, apparently, a plant thief among us

A reader shared this from a building on East Seventh Street.

Don't make it an issue, OK?

Mystery surrounds faceless cartoon mural on East 12th Street

On East 12th Street near First Avenue.

Last week! (Above!)

Yesterday!



A source will only reveal that the mural will be of a "beloved bald cartoon character."

Well, Ziggy is too short… so it has to be Henry, right?



Updated: Thanks to everyone who confirmed this is the work of street artist Jerkface.

Reader report: Chase branch robbed on 2nd Avenue

[Photo by Ada Calhoun]

The one at St. Mark's Place. (Not the one on East 10th Street.) Officers on the scene earlier this afternoon confirmed a robbery to onlookers. No other details at the moment.

In May 2013, a man named Jerry Gomillion reportedly tried to rob this branch.


[Photo via @Ewingweb]

Today

Photo by Bobby Williams

A block party on East 9th Street today

We're told that the block party is rain or shine here on East Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C, so… looking like rain at moment, according to looking out the window.

It's beginning to look a lot like …ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

EVG Facebook friend/photographer Michael Paul spotted these in the front windows at Dee & Dee on East 14th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue…

Happy Easter.

Flyers warn of a 'sexual predator'

The above flyers are up along Avenue B and East Eighth Street and East Ninth Street.

The person responsible for the flyers said that the incident took place outside 295 East Eighth St. at Avenue B around 2 a.m. Friday. The suspect described in the flyer left the scene when a neighbor intervened and jumped the fence into Tompkins Square Park.

A painting-perfect day

East 10th Street near Avenue A this afternoon… via Bobby Williams

Tie me up, tie me down

Here is Primetime with "Tied Down." The London-based band released their debut 7" EP in August via La Vida Es Un Mus Records.

Doggone it: Someone stole the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade posters

[Photo from 2013 by Derek Berg]

That's the word from organizer Garrett Rosso, who reports that someone stole the FedEx delivery boxes from outside his apartment door yesterday.

It will be another week before more posters will arrive.

Meanwhile, he shared the information with us... the date is Saturday, Oct. 25 ... the rain date is Oct. 26...



Per Garrett: "Runway competition will be from Noon to 2:30 p.m. Then all pawticipants will follow this year’s BEST IN SHOW for a pawsitively posh, costumed canine parade around the entire park. All donations go to City Park Foundation for the maintenance and upkeep of the Tompkins Square dog run."