United (States Post Office) we fall

On Saturday, EVG reader Mr. Baggs noticed a worker removing the remaining letters outside the former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office at 432 E. 14th St. near Avenue A.



As we noted last week, demolition permits are on file to bring down the post office and former Stuyvesant Stationery shop next door for some unspecified new development.

Previously on EV Grieve:
First sign of more development on East 14th Street?

Asbestos abatement to begin at former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office

Davey drill arrives ahead of rumored development at former East 14th Street post office

Former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office slated to be demolished

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bros kicking dropped wings at the bodega employees & calling them terrorists. guess this is east village now pic.twitter.com/P2IeQf9TT3

— C A M P B E L L (@MountWuteverest) October 19, 2014

Avenue B between East Seventh Street and East Sixth Street

Week in Grieview

[Chewie, Avenue B]

Former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office slated to be demolished (Monday)

Boarding up the Alamo on Astor Place (Wednesday)

Out and About with Wasim Lone of GOLES (Wednesday)

An appreciation: Raquel's garden on First Avenue (Thursday)

Q-and-A with Richard Ocejo, author of 'Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars' (Tuesday)

The former La Vie prepped for the condo afterlife on East First Street (Tuesday)

Never-ending construction at 185-193 Avenue B continues to never end (Monday)

Gutting the former Odessa Cafe and Bar (Tuesday)

Checking in on the Tuck Shop (Friday)

A look at the first East Village apartment building named after a secondary character in an Ayn Rand novel (Wednesday)

Your chance to become a gypsy (Wednesday)

98-100 Avenue is now the pits (Monday)

Parmys Persian Fusion becoming Ravagh Persian Grill (Thursday)

The guy with the kids-in-the-car line is back (Sunday)

From Five Points to Vic's on Great Jones (Friday)

Korilla BBQ soft opening on Third Avenue (Wednesday)

Important post about Halloween costumes (Friday)

Researchers discover rats grosser than originally thought (Wednesday)

Wash House space for rent (Friday)

Empellón al Pastor is now open on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place

Empellón al Pastor, the third restaurant from Alex (Empellón Cocina, Empellón Taqueria), is now open.

The doors opened at 12:30… or at least that's what the signs promised… that and football...



Here's a look at the menu… four of the five menu panels are devoted to alcohol …





There's also delivery via Caviar.

And Stupak said this about the space to WWD:

His choice of venue drives home the point: in the Eighties, it was a punk dive bar called Alcatraz. Stupak tapped several artist friends to re-create graffiti on the inside to look weathered.

“At the end of the day, I wanted it to feel like a quirky dive bar that someone happened to inject a taqueria into,” he says.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Chef Alex Stupak vying for former Sushi Lounge space on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place

As the for rent signs turn on Avenue A

Here are a few scant details about chef Alex Stupak's new venture on St. Mark's Place

CB3 OKs liquor license for Alex Stupak's new restaurant on St. Mark's Place

More about Empellón al Pastor, opening this fall on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place

You might be seeing more of these Amazon Fresh trucks on East Village streets in the weeks ahead

EVG reader Michael Hirsch spotted this Amazon Fresh truck on Avenue A and East Third Street yesterday afternoon.

On Friday, Amazon launched its grocery delivery business on the East Coast with service for now to Park Slope.

According to Re/code, who first reported on the service here:

Amazon Fresh customers in the city who place orders before 10 am will receive deliveries later that same day; orders placed after that time will be delivered the following day. The service is known mainly for groceries, but also offers thousands of other items such as electronics and toys that are available for same-day delivery as well.

A spokeswoman declined to say when the service might be available in other parts of New York City, including Manhattan.

The driver told Michael that the service would begin in the East Village in the next few weeks.

Re/code noted that the company is storing Amazon Fresh food in a new warehouse in Avenel, N.J.

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Report: Police searching for suspect in attempted Stuy Town rape

Stuy Town tenants received the following alert:

At about 4 a.m. on Friday, October 17, a 20-year-old woman was assaulted by a would-be rapist who followed her into the elevator of her Stuyvesant Town building on the 600 block of East 14th Street. She fought him off, and he fled. The man's image was captured on security cameras in the Terrace and Main lobbies, the elevator, and then later in the street. He was seen climbing down a tree to get to street level.

Per CBS New York:

The suspect is wearing a dark hoodie, a dark t-shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers and carrying a white plastic bag, perhaps filled with groceries. Police said he is Hispanic.

Here is video via Gothamist...



According to the Stuyvesant Town Report, "The woman was badly injured and treated at Beth Israel Medical Center."

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.

Two weeks ago, a man with the same general description was spotted by a neighbor trying to attack a young woman on East Eighth Street at Avenue B. The neighbor who intervened placed these flyers around the neighborhood.

The East Village Community Flea & Market back in action today

A Saturday without rain. Shocker! Which means that the East Village Community Flea & Market returns today to Second Avenue … some details via the EVG inbox…

This Flea Market features several vendors whom you may recognize as veterans of the Flea Market circuit in New York City. For the remainder of October & November, before the typical Holiday hordes descend, you can take the time to try on, ask questions, browse, shop, cruise, and hang out. No chain stores here... Come out & show that DOWNTOWN, New York City can still support local artists, small businesses, and a Flea Market!

The East Village Community Market is located just outside the gates of the St. Mark's Church in the Bowery (and turns the corner, continuing down 11th Street). It takes place every Saturday from 11AM until 7PM.

You can usually expect between 10 and 20 vendors…

Pace yourself

Halloween is still about two weeks away.

Unless there is another explanation for this on Avenue A.

Overnight Citi Bike recap

What's going on @CitibikeNYC? There are a half dozen abandoned citibikes in the east village at 8th at and 1st ave. pic.twitter.com/ujlkpa0idC

— DS (@davidsokol) October 18, 2014

Hooks, line and sinker

Here is Mary Timony's new band, Ex Hex, with "Waterfall." The D.C.-based power-pop trio's first record came out last week.

They'll be at the Mercury Lounge on Nov. 2.

Trees to grow on East 12th Street (and elsewhere)

You've likely seen crews digging up chunks of the sidewalk around some side streets in recent weeks… this morning, EVG reader Greg Masters spotted these workers on East 12th Street just west of Avenue A… they're prepping the plots (which maybe look like fresh graves?) for two new trees along here…





It's all apparently part of the Department of Parks & Recreation's Street Tree Planting program.

This is fine and all, but it is taking up valuable sidewalk space for more docking stations or _______________________.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Tompkins Square Park the other day via Bobby Williams]

State: Airbnb listings mostly illegal (The New York Times)

HVAC Units at relocated Dunkin' Donuts on East 14th Street driving neighbors crazy (BoweryBoogie)

East Sixth Street between First and Second Avenues will be named Miriam Friedman Way (DNAinfo)

Jeremiah Moss on the two marble cemeteries of the East Village (Metro)

In her new showing opening Sunday at Joe's Pub, Penny Arcade confronts a gentrified New York (The New York Times)

Court gives NYU OK on $6 billion neighborhood-gobbling expansion (Capital New York)

So what is the Lowline, and who is it for? (The Lo-Down)

What happened to the Jewish supply stores of Essex Street? (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Christo lets a good meal get away (Gog in NYC)

Support for Siempre Verde Garden on the LES (The Villager)

Hearth and Proletariat teaming up for an Oktoberfest meal Sunday (Details here)

Looking at the former stables in the Village (Off the Grid)

Restaurant apparently not returning to Union Square pavilion (A Walk in the Park via Eater)

"Shadows & Blood," an exhibition of works by the New York artist Richard Hambleton, continues through Nov. 9 at Dorian Grey Gallery, 437 E. Ninth St. (Details here.)

...and we only heard about this crowdsourcing campaign yesterday... longtime East Village residents Adam Alexander and Leslie Sternbergh Alexander are trying to raise money by selling some of their art collection in return for money to pay for rent... (The income challenges followed Leslie's bout with colon cancer.)



Find their IndieGoGo page here.

The Tuck Shop is alive and well on East 1st Street

[Image via the Tuck Shop website]

As noted this week, the Australian-based pie and coffee chain closed six out of its seven NYC locations, including the outlet on Fourth Avenue and East 13th Street.

In the comments, several readers noted how much they like the original meat-pie purveyor here — The Tuck Shop at 68 E. First St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Seems like a good time to check in with owner Niall Grant.

We are alive and well and, in fact, had our best month ever in September. October is looking even better so we will be here for a long while to come with the support the community. We've been open for nine years already and will be signing a new lease shortly.

I have been a East Village resident since emigrating from Ireland in 1992 and opened the Tuck Shop in part because I felt there were enough Irish bars in NYC already.

Tuck Shop did close the St. Mark's Place location last July. There is a second Tuck Shop location in the Chelsea Market.