A Royal corner of the East Village

During the weekend, Chico worked on a new Kate-William mural on Houston at Avenue B. (See our pictures from Saturday here.)

Chico was finishing up the mural yesterday afternoon...

[Top photo by Bobby Williams]

As BoweryBoogie noted in his coverage yesterday, Harlem-based liquor depot Branson B. Champagne is sponsoring the mural, which will only be up for three weeks.

The new murals replaces the Loisaidas album art...

...which at least one person took issue with...

Fourteen years earlier, Chico memorialized William's mother here on the same corner...



...art that was eventually vandalized...

Sign campaign against the Boiler Room on Second Avenue

Spotted near Third Street... the bar is on Fourth Street just east of Second Avenue...

An end of an era at Pyramid — so long 1984!

Per WNYC:

It's the last night of 1984 in the East Village.

For 18 years, fans of '80s music have flocked to the storied Pyramid Club on Avenue A nearly every Friday to enjoy songs by artists from the Smiths to Cyndi Lauper spun by the party's promoter and D.J. Chip Duckett.

But now Duckett said he is pulling the plug on the party and moving on to other projects.

"Honestly, it's just time for me to move on to something different," Duckett said. "1984 has lasted almost twice as long as the '80s lasted. People who can drink legally now were three-years old when this party started."

And now, something obvious...

On its 1-year anniversary, the Horsebox thanks neighbors by throwing a toga party

Saturday night here on Avenue A between 13th and 14th Street... sorry we missed it.

Avenue A Sushi is now...

Avenue A Sushi closed last spring...



And reopened as something else... and then closed again...

I've lost track of the various incarnations of late... In any event, there's a new sign now...

Hmm. "Mexican-Italian Infusion." (!?)

Meanwhile, during the weekend, a bartender there allegedly smoked crack and locked himself inside the Bistro. Bob Arihood has that story here at the much-welcomed return of Neither More Nor Less.

Signs of spring: Peter Corbin, aka the Bike Man

Back on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A. (Read more about him here. BoweryBoogie recently noted the return of another bike repairman, Natividad Zirate.)

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Today at the New York City Marble Cemetery

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

[Dave on 7th]

Previously.

A celebration for Coney Island

East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy sent along some photos from Electric Eden, a Gala Fundraising Benefit in support of Coney Island USA that took place this past Thursday at Amnesia on West 29th Street.... featuring the cast of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. (Read more about it here.)

May 1

OK! Roger_Paw made this discovery today on East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

And she is quite excited about this. "I rushed over to the nearby gas station and bought a paper to prove authentication. The thing still had lights and ornaments on it!"

Gruber MacDougal, spokesperson for the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS), was his usual reserved self.

"We applaud Roger_Paw for paying $1.25 for today's New York Post," said MacDougal, who's attending the beatification ceremony for Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. "In our estimation, the paper was only worth 87 cents."

Week in Grieview

Talking with John Linnell of They Might Be Giants (Friday)

Mara's Homemade sets closing date (Monday)

"Gossip Girl" invades Velselka (Tuesday)

An Avenue B now and then (Wednesday)

We hung out with Vincent D'Onofrio, kind of (Wednesday)

We learned why Pangea has been closed (Friday)

We looked at the CB3/SLA May meeting docket (Thursday)

The Bluebird Coffee Shop was sold (Wednesday)

Wai? Cafe is relocating to Avenue B (Tuesday)

Why the summer of 2011 is ruined (Tuesday)

And at the Mars Bar...

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Missing people

[Spotted on the Bowery by Bobby Williams]

[Spotted on East Houston by samo]

'Tis the season

Or maybe it's always the season around here... photos from this morning...

52E4 space now advertising beverages

The ground-floor retail space awaits a tenant here at 52E4, the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery near Fourth Street ... Meanwhile, might as well make at the window space useful... a new SoBe campaign appeared yesterday...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at 52E4's commercial space, and that cake no one ate

Boutique on Bowery possibly opening today; new lease signs appear at 52E4

Seventh Street, 9:32 a.m., May 1

New York City Marble Cemetery is open today

Today on Second Street ... New York City Marble Cemetery opens its doors to the public for the afternoon...

This past week, EV Grieve contributor Bobby Williams noted some workers tending to the grounds...

Read more about the cemetery here.

Stewie is lost

Sign spotted on Avenue B by Bobby Williams.

Today at the St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

Not this morning, but one just like it on Friday

Chico paints William and Kate

As I exclusively reported, a couple named Kate and William were married recently. And Chico was back in town to honor their union on Houston at Avenue B....

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Today in weddings in Tompkins Square Park

Photo by Bobby Williams.