Chico's back; ditto for the Rat Pack

As you may know, Chico is back in town to do a few more murals in the neighborhood. Aside from his anti-violence mural on Houston and Avenue B, he created this tribute to Eric "Taz" Pagan on 13th Street and Avenue A.



He also did this Rat pack mural on the gate of Summit, the new bar that replaced Baraza on Avenue C near Ninth Street.


Saturday:



Sunday:



For further reading:
A well-preserved Chico mural (BoweryBoogie)

Chico, ‘The Messenger,’ spreads message of peace back on L.E.S. (The Villager)

52 pickup: Numbers up at E2E4

More progress at the E2E4 tower of condo on the Bowery...

Then!





The 52 --- for 52 E. Fourth St., of course -- is now in place on the gated driveway...

Now!




Previously on EV Grieve:
Scarano's gated community continues to get gated and secure on the Bowery

Election Day special

This mural was created during Art Around the Park in September. This past weekend, it appeared on the gate of a community garden on Eighth Street.



For further reading:
Just Say No (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Noted

There's probably a very good reason why these Burger King receipts were put up on 10th Street and Avenue A...

A tribute for Snoopy

Late yesterday afternoon, a woman stood on the southeast corner of First Avenue and Third Street with a makeshift memorial for her beloved dog Snoopy.



When I asked her what happened, she quickly said that she was not asking for money. She said that a man had come up to her a little earlier and started screaming at her for being on the corner.

She explained how on Thursday she was walking across First Avenue, slipped on a manhole cover and landed on her beloved pet. The dog died before she could get him medical attention.

Her tribute below tells more of the story. It is her aim to get more and better emergency medical treatment for pets in the city. She will be circulating a petition soon.






I asked if I could take her photo. She thanked me but declined. She did tell me to take pictures of the tribute and post them on YouTube.

Halloween weekend in review: cab crashes, high-end hotel graffiti, NYC marathon, Dakota Fanning's crotch and lots more!

We took some photos of the Halloween punk rock show in Tompkins Square Park.



We saw two cabs collide with a Sleepy's truck.



The Cooper Square Hotel wants graffiti on building "to fit in with the edgy local art scene."



We created an East Village of the Damned photo essay



We lived blogged the NYC marathon for three minutes.



And we saw Dakota Fanning's crotch courtesy of the Post.

Broadway cab crash leaves six injured

Just saw this on WCBS:

A pair of taxicabs collided in the East Village Sunday night, careening into a sidewalk scaffolding and leaving six people injured.

The two cabs crashed and, in the process, brought down the scaffolding, and were left under the mangled mess hours after the accident.

A witness tells CBS 2 that one of the cabs tried to overtake the other before the two collided and careened across Broadway at the corner of E. 8th Street, jumping the curb and coming to rest on the sidewalk under the scaffolding.

Gothamist has more photos. Looks like the Gap was taken out in the accident.

And this was the second crash involving cabs in the neighborhood yesterday.

Butcher Bay deep-sixed?

Yet another strange chapter in the short history of fish-shack eatery Butcher Bay, which opened back in February on Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... after the owners gutted the space from the short-lived Seymour Burton... there have been menu changes, new chefs and CB3 lawsuits...and now, the restaurant is closed...the windows are papered over...with the following note:



"...closed temporarily to write our memoirs..."

Village Green sheds the sidewalk shed

Some day soon, Village Green, the "eco-indulgent" new condo on 11th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, will look like this...



...where residents enjoy "serenity in the city" while cars roar up the street at 100 mph...



...and we've been eagerly awaiting what this will really look like...



And now, the sidewalk sheds have been removed...







Previously on EV Grieve:
Village Green opening its houses this weekend

Le Souk has really closed

On Friday, we heard that troubled hookah hotspot Le Souk had, indeed, closed after losing its liquor license.

I was curious if that was permanent. This sign now greets potential Le Soukers.



I asked Stacie, a resident who has lived nearby for a lot longer than the eight years that Le Souk has been around, for her take:

Yep -- it's closed. No dining, no drinking, no dancing, no parties. No bouncers, no crowds, no fights. No honking, no puking, no throbbing (music), no nothing.

With Le Souk's departure and the closure of Layaly, only one Hookah bar, the Horus Cafe, remains along the Avenue B corridor...

Habib's Place abruptly closes

Habib's Place on Avenue A near Sixth Street has abruptly closed. Really closed. (And you can now see the name of one of the former occupants...)



Thanks to EV Grieve reader Creature for the tip and photo. According to Creature: "I swear this was a fully functioning restaurant [Saturday]. I caught a look inside, before the gate was closed, and the place was gutted. Including the name blacked out."

This was Habib's third location in the East Village since 1992.

New Cooper Union building gets its first (temporary) storefront tenant

That retail space for rent in the new Cooper Union building is now occupied...





It's serving as the information center for Performa 09, which runs through Nov. 22

Absinthe absent on First Avenue (and Elvie's now for lease)

Jeremiah has written about the ongoing noise problems at Absinthe wine bar at 111 First Ave. near Seventh Street. It opened last December.

Anyway, I'm not certain when the place closed or changed concepts or names or whatever, but a new canopy is up at the address...



Meanwhile, up First Avenue near 12th Street...We noted a few weeks ago that Elvie's Turo-Turo, the Philippine eatery, was seized by the marshals...the "for lease" signs went up last week.

Squat the condos

Looking for delivery bikes outside the Moonstruck Diner

On Friday, some fliers appeared calling for a boycott of the Moonstruck Diner on Second Avenue and Fifth Street...




According to the signs, a blind man cut his hand on one of the diner's "7-9 commercial bikes that are always blocking the East 5th Street sidewalk." And the Moonstruck Diner "refuses to move those obstacles."

I walked by the Moonstruck several times over the weekend to see how many bikes were around... or if the owners responded...

Here's what I saw...an abandoned ATM...and a few bikes...not 7-9, though, at least when I was around.





And there weren't any bikes around Saturday morning.

Mini Bar getting ready to open on Seventh Street (just a block away from Big Bar)

The new small plates-type place is coming along on Seventh Street near Avenue A...(will this cause confusion with Big Bar goers?)... Signs are up, with a "coming in November" notice.



This will be the third business here in fairly quick succession...

Previously on EV Grieve:
A Cure for this location?

The Post continues tradition of exposing celebrity crotches

Jennifer Aniston was exposed back in August...Today, Dakota Fanning, who's 15.