Week in Grieview

Posts this past weekend included (with a playful snowball fight on 7th Street — pic by Derek Berg) ... 

• Reports: Theatre 80, the crown jewel of St. Mark's Place, enters bankruptcy, hopes to refinance loan (Tuesday)

• East River Park greenway now closing up to 10th Street (Monday) ... Tree sitters take to East River Park (Wednesday)

• About Hekate Café & Elixir Lounge, opening soon on Avenue B (Thursday) 

• An SUV collision on 1st Avenue at 5th Street (Monday)

• Cops searching for a dapper gun-toting suspect who robbed the Villager Smoke Shop (Tuesday) 

• An end of the ride: Busy Bee Bikes closes on 6th Street (Monday) 

• Tamam Falafel has closed on 14th Street; new location in the works (Wednesday) 

• 2022 corner watch: St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• FIRST SNOW OF 2022 (Friday — here and here and here) 

• Dim Sum Go Go makes it sign official on 1st Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Kurt Russell to the rescue at Metrograph (Wednesday) 

• Check out the new video by local faves Hello Mary (Friday)

• The 'High Line East vibes' of 799 Broadway (Monday) 

• 58 1st St. awaits another restaurant (Tuesday) 

• A look at the corner market coming to 6th and A (Tuesday) 

• Boilermaker is closing on 1st and 1st (Wednesday) 

• To the Tompkins Square Park tree stump art with love (Thursday) 

• Christo, badass (Tuesday)

... speaking of Christo, here's another shot from this past week of our resident red-tailed hawks high atop 10th Street and Avenue A ... photo by Steven...

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Sunday's opening shot

A mulch mound courtesy of the chipping weekend in Tompkins Square Park... residents can come by and grab some fresh mulch for tree beds, gardens, etc.

Saturday's parting shot

A discarded balancing act on 10th Street ... thanks to Steven for the pic...

Please be mine

 

A special edition of the weekly Fridays at 5 feature... Remembering David Bowie on what would have been his 75th birthday... this is the video for "Be My Wife," from Low, which was almost released 45 years to the date.

David Robert Jones was born on Jan. 8, 1947, in Brixton, London. He died on Jan. 10, 2016. He made his home nearby on Lafayette Street just south of Houston.

Hot chip: Scenes from MulchFest Day 1

Day 1 of Chipping Weekend, the grand finale of the MulchFest season, is in the books here in Tompkins Square Park. 

Steven braved the low double-digit wind chill for these shots...

Back at it tomorrow (Sunday) for Day 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

So if you have a Christmas tree to dispose of, you still have time to take it to the park. Better, save it for discarding until, say, August, so we will have a Christmas in August post to look forward to... 

#Mulchfest

'Gifts of the Magi' — and Chesney the camel! — at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery

Thursday afternoon saw a production of "Gifts of the Magi" at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in 10th Street at Second Avenue ... sponsored by the Henry Street Settlement and Trinity Church Wall Street... 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by the church before the performance was underway (the festivities began with a parade here from Haven Plaza on 11th Street and Avenue C) ...

Cast member Chesney, a 5-year-old camel from Pennsylvania (here with his trainer Jason Martin of Home School Camels), attracted the most attention... as Stacie said: "Everybody loved Chesney."

MulchFest '22: Everything you need to know about Chipping Weekend, happening THIS weekend

Photo earlier this week by Steven 

When: The two-day chipping event, the grand finale of the MulchFest season, takes place today and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Where: Tompkins Square Park 

Where Exactly: Follow the sound of the wood chipper to the middle of the park. 

What Else?: Tompkins is also a chipping site, which means residents can take home a nourishing bag of fresh mulch to put down on gardens and tree beds and to spice up boring omelets. 

Why Should I Care?: It's eco-friendly and more than 29,000 trees were treecycled last year. Per the Parks Department website: "Help us top this number!" 

How Is It Possible That the Parks Department Can Get Such a Precise Number (29,000) Over Dozens of Chipping Sites in the Five Boroughs and We Can't Get Toilet Paper in the Restrooms in Tompkins?: Yes. 

What If I'm a Social Media Influencer?: Use #Mulchfest to share your mulching memories with friends, family and clingy exes.

Friday's parting shot

Photo from Tompkins Square Park today by Derek Berg...

Alone together again

This week, local faves Hello Mary released a video for the pandemic-related single "Evicted" ... you can check it out ☝️ ... find their music on Bandcamp here... a new interview with them at this link ... and check out this EVG feature on the band here.

Because we haven't posted any Snow... snow... SNOW photos in several hours

Sharing a few more reader pics from today, which marked the first snowfall of Jan. 7 — not to mention 2022. (Click on the images for a better view!)

Goggla captured the top shot in New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street... while Vinny & O took this in Tompkins Square Park...

Meanwhile, an EVG reader took this aerial shot looking into the Park along 10th Street...

East Village Loves NYC offering free COVID-19 PCR testing once again this Sunday

For the third consecutive Sunday, East Village Loves NYC is collaborating with a mobile clinic to provide free COVID-19 PCR testing at the Sixth Street Community Center between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

The testing takes place this Sunday (Jan. 9) from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. You need to sign up in advance — no walk-ins. You can find the link here. 

Results from this past Sunday were returned in 24 hours. Testing is done by Alaine Diagnostics in Saddlebrook, N.J. People who signed up reported a quick and efficient system here.

East Village Loves NYC was formed in the spring of 2020 to feed people in need during the pandemic. In year one,  the volunteers — 400 strong — cooked more than 100,000 meals for New Yorkers during the pandemic ... not to mention donated 325,000-plus pounds of groceries and 7,000-plus pantry bags.

Snow... snow... SNOW!

Here's an early morning look at the snowfall (3-4 inches?????) as seen in Tompkins Square Park...

... and, randonly, Avenue B at Seventh Street...

A winter weather advisory remains in effect until noon today. 

And don't let the National Weather Service scare you with the purple-highlighted blob outlines! (And EV Arrow is for hire!)

NWS radar capturing bands of heavy snow-some with reports of 1-3" per hour rates. Travel has become very treacherous with snow cover on all untreated roads. pic.twitter.com/Y0MRib3owy

— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) January 7, 2022

Snow... snow... SNOW! 2

EVG reader Bradford Carter shared a few photos from an early morning walk/commute along 10th Street...

... and Lafayette...

To the Tompkins Square Park tree stump art with love

Just noting the latest installation at the Seventh and B entrance to Tompkins Square Park. 

As we've noted, someone has been creating installations atop the stump of the English Elm that came down in August 2020 during Tropical Storm Isaias. 

Obviously, the new work is a statement on the duality of human existence. 

Thanks to Steven for the photo!