See the new Jeff Buckley mini-documentary tonight at 2A

Mini-documentary on Jeff Buckley with some musical performances happening tonight upstairs at 2A courtesy of Tom Clark (OAAITEV alum!) ... Doors at 8:30. And there's very limited space.

Find out more about Sunday night events at the Treehouse at 2A here.

The semi-annual Village View tag sale is tomorrow (Sunday!)

The sale is in the playground just behind 60 Avenue A at the corner of East Fourth Street and Avenue A ... from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Take a look at some photos from last fall's sale here.

Noted

A new Urban Etiquette Sign on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...

Photo by Stacie Joy

Today in free flatscreen TVs

This one's up for grabs on East First Street outside Meltzer Towers Park between First Avenue and Avenue A... Per the note taped to the top of the set, "This one works perfectly!!!"

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

The 2016 Street Fair/Festival continues today with another Street Fair/Festival on Second Avenue. (Just like last week.)

Unfortunately, as always, we arrived too soon. So browsing was difficult because there was still traffic zipping down the Avenue ...



By the time we strolled a few blocks to the south, though, the barricades went up and the traffic was stopped... affording the opportunity to bike down the middle of the Avenue just like any other day...



We only spotted one food option so far: sweet corn on the cob (Have you ever seen a restaurant with a Sweet Corn on a Cobb Salad?)...





Officially, this is the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council-St. Stephen Our Lady of Scapular Co-Sponsored Fair.

Second Avenue is closed from 14th Street to Sixth Street. The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

P.S.

It's fine to bring your pets, but please keep them on a leash so they don't get away...


[Photo further down 2nd Ave. by Vinny & O]

Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen goes on summer hiatus after this weekend

An EVG reader let us know that this is the last weekend for the Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen at 33 E. Seventh St. between Second Avenue and Cooper Square before their customary summer break.

So if you want to load up on their inexpensive stuffed cabbage and pierogis, etc.

The basement cafe, a fundraising arm of the St George Ukrainian Catholic Church up the street, is open (roughly) 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow.

Speaking of St. George, the 40th annual Ukrainian Festival is next weekend on this block...



H/T Eddie!

Previously on EV Grieve:
At the Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen

Skylines and sunsets

Sunsetting action this evening looking toward the Christodora House (above) and North Miami Beach Williamsburg (below)...



Photos by Bobby Williams

Puddle people rise up!

Photo today via Grant Shaffer

Monk power

The Brooklyn-based Honey's new LP is out this week... Named WFMU's release of the day yesterday:

"Hawkwindy/Stooge-oid driving/hooky scuzz trio from Brooklyn."

The above video is for the song "Monk."

EV Grieve Etc.: East Village restaurateurs launch collective; Merchant’s House Museum turns 80

[Photo on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]

Where New York is gentrifying and where it isn't (City Lab)

At Tompkins Square Park, "the outdoor barometer of homelessness in New York City" (The Awl)

East Village restaurateurs launch Eastville Restaurant Collective (Eater)

Baker's Pizza is an NYC "slice destination" on Avenue A (Gothamist)

Christo gathers a feast for the fam in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)

More about who knew what and when about the deed lifting at the former Rivington House (The Lo-Down)

The charges against Steve Croman: "lost in all this schadenfreude is the uncomfortable fact that Croman and his son are embodiments of unfortunate stereotypes about Jews" (Tablet)

On-the-lam owner of Pure Food and Wine and One Lucky Duck busted in Tennessee (Gothamist ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

Third Street Music School Settlement, "America's longest-running community music school" (NY1)

Alex on the impending loss of Other Music (Flaming Pablum)

Merchant’s House Museum on East Fourth Street turns 80 (Off the Grid)

A look inside Beetle House on East Sixth Street (Grub Street... previously)

At the car wash with Jeremiah Moss! (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Making a network of malls in Midtown — in the 1970s (Ephemeral New York)

... and there's sale tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Dias y Flores Community Garden, 520 E. 13th St. between Avenue and Avenue B...

No, LinkNYC didn't set up a kiosk in Tompkins Square Park

In case someone asks.

Photo this morning via Steven.

[Updated] A pre-rush hour look at 3rd Avenue

In the aftermath of Wednesday evening's loose bricks drama... traffic has opened up on the streets surrounding 115 E. Ninth St. ... one lane anyway on Third Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street...



And here's a look at the facade situation...



A DOB spokesperson told DNAinfo that they will carry out a partial demolition to rebuild the unstable part of the facade. There isn't any timeline on the repairs.

DOB records show vacate orders on three units — 14C, 15C and 16C.

Updated 2:30

Third Avenue and the surrounding streets are back open...





...and it appears work continues on the facade...



Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updating] Danger of falling bricks on 9th Street and 3rd Avenue

This morning in photo shoots on Avenue A

Near East 11th Street. Photo by Shawn Chittle.

Report: Despite looming shutdown, MTA plans to start expanding the 1st Avenue L stop

[Photo via EVG reader Michael]

The MTA has now held two meetings for people to yell at them (as Gothamist put it) about the looming L train shutdown to repair the Sandy-damaged tubes.

The two not-great options are basically: total shutdown for a projected 18 months. Or! A partial shutdown with repair work lasting for three (heh, sure) years.

There has been a lot of coverage about the various scenarios ... concerns from straphangers, residents, business owners... (You can check out some coverage at Curbed ... Gothamist ... The New York Times ... Here's a report from last night's meeting via DNAinfo)

Meanwhile! DNAinfo reports that the MTA will begin construction of new entrances to the First Avenue L train stop next year... However, this could all be a big tease, depending on the option the MTA goes with for the tube repairs. As DNAinfo notes:

[I]f the Manhattan stops along 14th Street shut down along with the Brooklyn-to-Manhattan service as some reports suggest could be a possibility, it could be years before riders can take full advantage of the new stairwells.

And here's the rendering for the Avenue A entrance via the MTA (h/t EVG reader Jeffrey!)...



As we previously noted, the MTA 2015-2019 Capital Plan, which was approved by the MTA Board last October, includes $71.9 million for a new entrance to the overcrowded First Avenue stop ... in part to make the entrances ADA compliant.

After last night's public meeting about the L, MTA officials will next hook up with local community boards for discussion before making a final recommendation possibly later this summer. The main work is set to begin in early 2019.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Is an Avenue A entrance for the L train in our future?

Avenue A L train entrance closer to a reality … some day

City council members talk up new L train entrance coming to Avenue A