Monday, March 21, 2022
March 21
The fruit vendor is BACK on 1st Avenue and 6th Street
H/T Steph and Isa!
Himalayan Vision is closing on 2nd Avenue
Tenzin, the owner, says his last day will be March 26. Until then, he has discounted items by 20 to 80 percent ...
Tenzin said he simply couldn't make the rent anymore and decided to close. (There was not a rent increase, and at the same time, the landlord was not going to negotiate a lower rate.)
Himalayan Vision and Millie, the store cat... will be missed... 
Himalayan Vision is open noon-8 p.m. ... and closed on Wednesdays.
And we were told that Tenzin won't be able to keep Millie. So if there's anyone interested in adopting her, please reach out to Tenzin at the shop. [Updated 3/26: Millie has a new home!]
Top two photos by Steven... Millie photo by Lola Sáenz
Checking in on the USA Super Stores, opening soon on 3rd Avenue and 10th Street
Workers have been filling the space with large displays of items, including Marcal toilet paper ...
... and tins of McKenzie & Lloyds Danish Style Butter Cookies ...
We first reported on this pending arrival on Feb. 3. Looks like the place will be open SOON.
USA Super Stores have been opening in former Duane Reade/Walgreens outposts around the city, including Avenue D and Second Street.
This Duane Reade by Walgreens closed in early March 2020 ... several years after expanding and gobbling up several small storefronts, forcing Excel Art and Framing Store and East Village Cheese (which was never the same) to relocate.
A'more Caffè coming to 2nd and A
The sign promises premium coffee roasted in NYC.
The business has a new Instagram account that notes "something good is coming."
This retail space was previously BikeFix NYC, which relocated to a larger storefront on Sixth Street.
The former Barnyard Cheese Shop is for rent on Avenue B
In early December, Beatriz Gutierrez decided to reopen her popular sandwich shop/market for weekend-only service at 168 Avenue B between 10th Street and 11th Street. It was done by the end of January.
This past week, the smaller for-rent sign on the storefront was joined by a much-larger banner.
Barnyard closed in October after Gutierrez could not find someone to helm her kitchen. Her longtime cook, who lost a brother during the pandemic, left to be with his family in Mexico.
Barnyard Cheese Shop's companion business next door, Brix Wines, remains open.
The white and red stripes: The new-look KFC on 14th Street
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Week in Grieview
• Holyland Market is closing on St. Mark's Place; owner to focus on hummus biz (Monday)
• A visit to Archie's Press on 10th Street (Thursday)
• Gaia Italian Café Shop is coming to the East Village (Thursday)
• Cooper Union: Longtime Stuyvesant Street businesses "informed us of their decision to vacate the property" (Wednesday)
• Report: Relief supplies for Ukraine stolen from 2nd Avenue nonprofit (Wednesday)
• 9th Precinct now issuing tickets to anyone parking in Neighborhood Loading Zones (Tuesday)
• Gallery Watch: Emily Oliveira at Geary on the Bowery (Friday)
• Longtime East Village artists bring 'Double Trouble' to the Tompkins Square Library branch (Tuesday)
• A broken gate at 89 1st Ave., where permits are still pending for a new building (Wednesday)
• La Fleur Café to set up shop on 9th Street (Monday)
• The taco cart is BACK on 2nd Street and Avenue A (Thursday)
• Indoor service is back at Abraço (Sunday)
• Openings: Nudibranch on 1st Avenue (Wednesday) ... Openings: Essex Squeeze on 5th Street (Tuesday)
• A new restaurant for the Papilles space on 7th Street (Tuesday)
• Avenue A Deli and Grill shapes up (Monday)
... and from EVG reader David Sippel from Friday on Second Avenue at 14th Street — a mini-tree discard for the books...
Support for Ukraine at Archie's Press
Photos by Stacie Joy
Owner Archie Archambault, an East Village resident, is donating the proceeds of his Little Ukraine print (available in-store only) to humanitarian aid for the war-torn country. (He was also going to distribute them to any shop to display in their windows)...
We featured Archie's Press this past week in a post here. Since EVG contributor Stacie Joy's previous visit, Archie created the Ukraine flyers.
Meanwhile, while Stacie was at the shop yesterday, Archie worked on a new flyer with his Vandercook SP-15 letterpress...
... and the final product...
Archie's is at 219 E. 10th St between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
Store hours:
Monday 1-6 p.m.
Tuesday-Wednesday Closed
Thursday-Friday 1-6 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday noon- 6 p.m.
Sunday's opening shot
Per this cut-n-paste:
In 2022, the March equinox happens on Sunday, March 20, at 11:33 A.M. EDT. This marks the return of spring to the Northern Hemisphere.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
A 'Wild Style' anniversary
Here's a climatic scene filmed at the now-demolished East River Park amphitheater...
New at MoRUS: 'Fighting Words: Political Pictures (New Voices in Comix)'
Details via the EVG inbox...
MoRUS celebrates the subversive power of comics with a group show of works by artists who participated in ABC No Rio’s Comix as Political Expression course at the museum. "Fighting Words: Political Pictures (New Voices in Comix)" will open on Saturday, March 19 with a reception beginning at 4 pm. The show will be available for viewing through Sunday, April 3 on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m., or by appointment.Participating artists are Yasmeen Abdallah, Mark He, Annabelle Heckler, Vanessa Glynn, Sam Johnston, Ariel Kleinberg, Adi Talwar, Seth Tobocman and Tamara Wyndham.
Varying in focus and medium, the works were created during the ABC No Rio course led by Tobocman at MoRUS in the fall of 2021. The exhibited works grapple with and uplift contemporary social and political struggles from the climate crisis, police brutality and worker organizing to emotional and physical health and social isolation.
MoRUS is located at 155 Avenue C between 9th Street and 10th Street.
Poster by Mark He
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