Mini Thai Cafe mysteriously reopens as Mini Thai Cafe

After being closed a good 8-9 days, Mini Thai Cafe has reopened on Avenue A near Seventh Street ... We were told the eatery would be combined with Avenue A Sushi next door for one big restaurant... However, an EV Grieve operative stopped in the restuarant over the weekend and was told by a manager that the deal next door fell through... And last night, the slightly remodeled restaurant was open as usual...



The fate of Avenue A Sushi is unknown... The formerly colorful gate ...



...was painted over by workers yesterday...




Previously on EV Grieve:
Mini Thai Cafe and Avenue A Sushi to be combined into one new restaurant?

Today in nail salon openings

New on Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street... Previously this location was home to Top A Nails, who moved one block to the south to the old old Blue space.



I have nothing against nail salons, but doesn't it seem like there are already plenty around here...?

Meanwhile, another salon opened two weeks ago on 10th Street near First Avenue in the former JC Penney catalog store... the chatty owner said she moved her shop from 13th Street between University and Fifth Avenue after the landlord jacked up her rent to $11,000 a month...



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Momofuku Milk Bar wants someone who'll work all the time

Per Craigslist:

momofuku milk bar seeks JUNIOR MANAGER (east village & midtown)

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Date: 2010-04-05, 9:02PM EDT
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Momofuku is an award-winning and high-volume restaurant group (Noodle Bar, Ssam Bar, Ko, Ma Peche, Milk Bar).
Our team is young, fast-paced and hard-working.
We value organization and attention to detail.

Momofuku Milk Bar is a collaborative environment, drawing talent from those who have worked at places like bouley, del posto, diner, eleven madison park, jacques torres, magnolia bakery, nobu downtown and wd-50.

We are looking for a junior manager! Must have 24/7 availability.

We manage the day-to-day operations of both milk bars (east village and midtown).
We love our job and are looking for like minded, hard working individuals that are up for any job, big or small.
We are growing and would love to hire people who want to grow with us.

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More on Rev. Billy's arrest

Following up on the item from earlier today....

Some excerpts from Courthouse News (via Gawker):

The self-ordained Rev. Billy Talen was arrested on Easter Sunday after putting a "holy hex" on JPMorgan Chase bank, which he calls the nation's largest financier of coal-mining mountaintop removal. The former New York City mayoral candidate and his green-robed chorus put the hex on two bank branches, saying Morgan Chase has helped destroy more than 450 Appalachian mountains, deforested 800 square miles and polluted more than 1,200 miles of streams.

The police did not arrive until the choir reached a second branch, at Astor Place, where the choir left another "deposit" of West Virginia dirt.

As Talen concluded his sermon, NYPD Officer William Svenstrup ordered him to withdraw his deposit of dirt from the bank floor.

The Rev. Billy refused.

"Then you are coming with me," Svenstrop said, while another officer took out the cuffs, and used them, and the choir chanted, "Free speech! Free press! Free people! Repressed!" Then the choir sang the text of the First Amendment.

Choir member Gaylen Hamilton said in an interview that Talen's wife was two weeks overdue on her pregnancy and had started experiencing contractions that morning. Several other choir members were worried that Talen would miss the birth of his child.

But at the 9th Precinct, an officer said that Talen had been released shortly after his arrest. Arresting Officer William Svenstrup, spotted at the precinct, would not reveal the charges, if any, against the Rev. Billy.

Marketers at McDonald's Germany think of us as cappuccino cupcakes

I spotted this doozy at Eater National. As they report, "McDonald’s Germany has just introduced cupcakes inspired by four different neighborhoods in New York City. Each ad features a Manhattanite from each 'hood explaining why the cupcake is characteristic of where they live."

And Eater used Google translator to translate the ads... here's the East Village representative: "Here come from the most famous artists in New York. And here in dozens of tourists looking for new art galleries. I now play Andy Warhol once and tell everything what I like to art. This cappuccino cup cake = for example: all great art."


McDonald's in Germany is here.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Steve for the above photo taken yesterday at 10th Street and First Avenue....

Construction next door damages Action for Progress day care center on Houston (BoweryBoogie)

Remembering Bleecker and Christopher (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Avenue A sidewalk shed gaining in popularity (Neither More Nor Less)

How to find a cab (The New York Times)

Ron Kuby to defend Billy's Antiques (DNAinfo)

LES in a pickle over disappearing tradition (AFP)

From @dpentecost on Twitter: Seen on T-shirt, Prune customer 1st St: "Selling Out is the new Keeping it Real"

And Steve also captured some new, always-popular crosswalk hijinks, here at Avenue C and Fourth Street....

Rev. Billy arrested at Astor Place

Two weeks ago, there were multiple reports of the coal mountain mud left at the Chase branch at 10th Street and Second Avenue ... Rev. Billy & the Church of Life After Shopping, complete with the makings for another coal mountain, were holding protests last evening at the Chase branches at St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue and on Astor Place... according to readers R and M, Rev. Billy was arrested at Astor Place, as their photos show...





So, in the last few days, the 9th Precinct has arrested Rev. Billy and the chef of Pulino's... hmmm....

Previously on EV Grieve:
More on that coal mountain mud pile at Chase

Used book store opening on Avenue A

Shockers! An EV Grieve operative reports that a used book store is opening at the former Etherea Records space on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Fourth Street... A crew was working on the space this past weekend... opening date expected around May 1...



Wow. A used book store and a fishmonger opening soon on Avenue A...? I'll be passing out in the corner now for a few minutes.

Making the rats feel at home in the Mystery Lot

Courtesy of the The Antagonist Movement. In the beloved Mystery Lot.

Bombing the Domino Sugar Refinery

The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) passed along a link from north of the Williamsburg Bridge... As The Street Spot noted this past Friday, the Domino Sugar Refinery was bombed last week in epic fashion...




Thanks to Luna Park for letting us repost these... She has more shots on her Flickr page.

Pot/pregnant wife etiquette sign already spoofed

On Friday, we posted this apartment etiquette sign from The Luxury Spot...



It was quickly spoofed at Barstool New York...

Etiquette sign season continues

Spotted on Third Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue...



Apparently a few folks from the Renewal on Bowery shelter across the street are congregating here...

A note for the irresponsible dog owners

On East Fourth Street near Avenue B.

Meatball bubble gum and other scenes from Easter

Oh, and free samples of frosting from Butter Lane Cupcakes on Seventh Street....

Why Pulino's chef Nate Appleman was arrested

According to Page Six today:

Nate Appleman, chef at Keith McNally's new Bowery hotspot Pulino's, got arrested Wednesday afternoon in the East Village. Appleman, who is covered in tattoos but stands barely 5-foot-8, was heading home from the pizza restaurant between shifts when cops spotted a chain running from his belt into a pocket. "It's a pocket knife that's two inches long that I used to cut boxes at work," Appleman told us. "I've collected knives since I was a kid. My mother gives me a knife every year on my birthday. This knife is the one she got me this year." After three police cars surrounded him, Appleman was taken to the 9th Precinct and charged with weapons possession. He was released two hours later and is due in court on April 27.

[Photo via BoweryBoogie]

Baseball tonight: Yankees-Red Sox rivalry brewing on Second Avenue?

As baseball fans gear up for the season opener tonight between the Yankees and Red Sox... Finnerty's on Second Avenue near 14th Street put up a large Yankees logo Friday...



...which is next door to the EV home of the Red Sox, Professor Thom's...



We asked Chris at Professor Thom's if they would let this stand...

"I saw that Friday when they were painting it. Rather big, huh? We won't be going that far -- our rep is very public already. But, look for a line down the sidewalk dividing the two fan bases."

You'll need to get your ham burrito elsewhere today

Chipotle on Union Square is closed... and they're very sorry about this.

Seen at the fish market: Spare the monkfish! Have an Easter Bunny instead!

13th Street.

Seventh Street, 9:52 a.m., April 4

Hunts that involve Easter eggs

And if you plan it right, you can go to all three...