Gen Korean BBQ House next for 14th Street and 3rd Avenue

Gen Korean BBQ House is opening an outpost on the SW corner of 14th Street and Third Avenue... the former home of 5 Napkin Burger. They are taking the entire space — including the storefront that served as the 5 Napkin Express, then Taman Falafel.  

Reps for the California-based company will appear before CB3's SLA committee next Monday for a liquor license for this location...

The chain has 18 locations in California, Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada and Texas ... with a handful more in the works. 

Gen Korean BBQ is apparently known for its all-you-can-eat specials. There's a menu with the questionnaire on the CB3 website here. 

This CB3 virtual committee meeting is Monday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m. Find the Zoom link here.

The 5 Napkin Burger branch closed here in January after nearly 10 years. And a comeback for Disco Donut will have to wait!

New smoke shop called Smoke Shop debuts on 3rd Avenue

If there's an empty storefront, then there's a smoke shop just waiting to open... And over on Third Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street, a smoke shop apparently just called Smoke Shop is now open...

... with a velvet rope for a more upscale bong-shopping experience...

There was a storefront shuffle here, with the UPS store moving over a space... Smoke Shop then took the former UPS.

Chick-In to bring Korean-style chicken to Allen Street

A quick-serve restaurant serving Korean-style chicken is shaping up at 205 Allen St. just south of Houston (and below the Dash Snow mural). 

Don't know too much else about Chick-In. There's an Instagram account, though no posts just yet. 

The space was previously home to Vivi Bubble Tea.

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a construction notice on 2nd Avenue) ...

• Reader report: Private security firm now keeping tabs on unhoused encampment on 9th Street (Sunday) 

• Luzzo's debuts on Avenue B, closes on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)

• You can find items from Dress Shoppe II this summer at A Repeat Performance on 3rd Street (Wednesday) 

• 44 Stuyvesant St. is on the sale market for the first time — ever (Tuesday) 

• A visit to P&T Knitwear on Orchard Street (Friday)

• Pride outside the 2nd Avenue F stop (Wednesday) 

• The Marshal seizes Bar None on 3rd Avenue (Friday) 

• The Tacos Cholula cart makes triumphant return to 2nd Street (Thursday) 

• Renovated 104 E. 10th St. comes into view (Wednesday) 

• City Councilmember Carlina Rivera makes bid for Congress official (Friday) 

• Report of a fire at 11 St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) 

• Aliens of Brooklyn colonizing 9th Street (Thursday) 

• MayRee to bring Thai food to 1st Street (Thursday)

• Coming soon to 14th Street: Fries Factory, Urban Juicery (Tuesday) 

• The stately 122 E. 10th St. is for sale (Monday) 

• Openings: Hard to Explain on 10th Street (Thursday) ... Birria LES on St. Mark's Place (Wednesday) ... Everytable on Avenue B (Tuesday)

• Retail space at 44 Avenue B hits the rental market (Wednesday)

• The Salads Days of our lives (Monday)

... and a new era...

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Please explain

Photo by Stacie Joy 

As seen at the Orchard Alley Community Garden on Fourth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D: 

Welcome Starbucks to Orchard Alley!

A reader asked about this. We do not know! A joke? An inside joke? A commentary about the community garden?

Starbucks is not in expansion mode anyway. Since early 2020, Starbucks has permanently closed 44 of its 235 locations in Manhattan, per The New York Times.

[Updated] June 5

Good Sunday morning from 10th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue...getting the house cleaning done early so you can enjoy this fine-looking day. 

Thanks to Jaderade for the photo!

Updated 6/6 

 

The photo made the morning news today on NY1 with comments by Pat Kiernan ... (thanks Corinne for the pic!)...

Saturday's parting shot

As seen today along Second Avenue [😍] by Derek Berg...

A 'Grave New World' at MoRUS

A new group show is now on view at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) as part of the ABC No Rio In Exile series.

Some info via the EVG inbox about the exhibit that opened yesterday:

"GRAVE NEW WORLD: Death. Destruction. Decay. Dystopia." 

With work by Kelly Boehmer, Anastasia Clarke, Alexis Karl + Adam Torkel, Kristen Leonard, Caitlin McCormack, Kit Mills, Tom Prinsell, and Kate Stone. 

You can check it out Saturdays and Sundays from 3-6 p.m. The closing-night reception is June 24 from 6-9. 

MoRUS is at 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street.

So many kh-kh-kh-kh-khanges at Key Food

A quick weekend update (has that name been taken?). 

Thank you to everyone who has shared photos and reports in recent days from our home-away-from-home, Key Food. 

As we've been noting, a major aisle reorg is underway here on Avenue A and Fourth Street. The frozen foods section is heading from aisle 1 to 6. The produce area will be revamped and expanded. 

That's just for beginners. EVG correspondent Stacie Joy has been on it... and a report is forthcoming. 

Until then, enjoy these two photos courtesy of Maggie Ruggiero ...

...  and William Klayer...

... and the personal collection of EVG (on loan) ...

... the 400 cases of Skinny Pop are safe...

... to be continued...

A clean-up day for Tompkins Square Park

The Youth Council of Assembly District 74, represented by Harvey Epstein, has organized a clean-up day TOMORROW (Sunday, June 5) in Tompkins Square Park. 

Volunteers can meet at 1 p.m. at Seventh Street and Avenue B. The Parks Department will provide the necessary cleaning supplies. You may RSVP at this link.

Red-tailed chicks continue to dine-in

Photos by Steven 

While the three Tompkins Square Park red-tailed hawk chicks are getting closer and closer to branching out and leaving the nest, they're not ready to hunt and prepare their own meals. 

In this sequence, Amelia makes an in-nest delivery (no third-party apps here!) ... before taking for Park parts unknown...

The three chicks have grown so quickly (the first hatch was April 17, per Goggla) and appear to be in their mischievous plotting phase...

Friday's parting shot

Sunset this evening... Fifth Street and Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... thanks to Eva Jakubowski for the photo...

June 3

A seasonal shade of yellowed brown on Houston and Ludlow today... thanks to Robert Miner for the photo...

Here comes the 'Sun'

 

Local faves Hello Mary debuted a new single/video this week... here's guitarist Helena Straight, bassist Mikaela Oppenheimer and drummer Stella Wave with "Looking Right Into The Sun."