Birdbath Bakery now open on Third Avenue

As Eater noted, the fifth location of Birdbath Bakery, a spinoff of City Bakery, opened yesterday on Third Avenue at NYU. Among other things, they'll serve Kombucha on tap. And we hope that no one decides to detoxify the body right there on the corner... Jeremiah noted the Birdbathers impending arrival back in October.

Distributing Cornell's plants continues today

As you can see from the sign, more of the plants that belonged to Cornell Edwards, who opened The Flower Stall at 143 E. 13th St. in 1967, will continue to be distributed today...

Second Avenue, 9:48 a.m., May 7

Noted

Just noticed that Diablo Royale Este put up a Cinco de Mayo banner on the property that belongs to the coming-soon Tompkins Square Bagel next door ...

A new paver around Temperance Fountain

This morning, a worker was on the scene at Temperance Fountain in Tompkins Square Park...

...adding a paver from the Make Your Mark in the Park program ...

Read more about the program here.

For your red eyes only

First Avenue near Third Street.

A flea market on Fourth Street today

[Bobby Williams]

Today in photos of rabbits on leashes in Tompkins Square Park

[By Bobby Williams]

More photos from today's Union Square bus fire

Courtesy of East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy.

Previously.

And it sounds like an empty house

The Stranglers with "Duchess" from 1979.

[Updated] School bus fire on Union Square

At 14th Street and 4th Avenue. No injuries reported.

After the fire: East Village Farm returning Monday

Five months after a devastating fire ...


[Special Monkey]

East Village Farm at Second Avenue and East Fourth Street is reopening Monday, as EV Grieve reader @mattheworley reports. EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams took this photo yesterday...

Meanwhile, nearly one year after the fire, there's no sign of life at the Stuyvesant Grocery (and the rest of the building) at 14th Street and Avenue A...


[Sergey]

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Major early-morning fire on Second Avenue and Fourth Street

Breaking: Tompkins Square Park ping-pong table defaced, a little bit

On March 19, the city installed a new permanent ping-pong table in Tompkins Square Park. And we've been wondering how long before someone tagged or defaced or befouled it.

Well! We now note the arrival of a sticker in the last, oh, well, since we walked by it yesterday.

What is the sticker promoting? Like the sports fan who runs out onto the field, the network that won't show the person and the announcer who gets all huffy about the fact that someone is on the field (help me out of this sentence!), we will not disclose that information.

To be continued, likely.

August Cardona buying Bowery Wine Company, expanding next door

There's the following item on this month's CB3/SLA meeting agenda under the Alterations/Transfers/Upgrades category:

• To Be Determined (Epicurean Management), 11 E 1st St (trans/op) (Bowery Wine)

Well, 11 E. First Street is the space to the east of the Bowery Wine Company.

According to documents on the CB3 website (warning! PDF!), August Cardona, owner of Dell'Anima, L'Artusi and Anfora, is the name of the applicant.

The plans call for buying the Bowery Wine Company and expanding into the empty space next door in the Avalon Bowery Place.

In total, there'll be 50 tables seating 160 people with plans for outdoor dining and a sidewalk cafe. The proposed hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week.

Not familiar with Dell'Anima? Here's a summary via New York magazine:

This is what happens when a former Babbo sommelier and an ex–Del Posto kitchen whiz get together and open an unassuming little trattoria: mobs of salivating foodies and goggle-eyed scenesters clamoring to get in.

Salivating foodies? Goggle-eyed scenesters? Sounds about right for the Bowery 2.0.

The CB3/SLA meeting is May 16 at 6:30 pm — JASA/Green Residence, 200 East 5th Street at the Bowery.

Soon, you'll be able to go No. 1 or No. 2 at First and First — for 25 cents

The Villager has the poop on an item on this month's CB3 agenda. As Lesley Sussman reports, the Department of Transportation plans to install an Automatic Public Toilet (A.P.T.) at the southeast corner of First Avenue and First Street on the small concrete island that separates Houston and First Streets.

Per The Villager:

The first A.P.T. was installed three years ago in Madison Square Park and is one of 20 D.O.T. plans for the city. There are currently three A.P.T.’s in operation.

The toilet is self-cleaning and would cost 25 cents to use. Operating hours would be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — not much solace for clubgoers after a night of beer swigging.

Image via.

The pleasures of eating in Extra Place

Previously.

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

In Extra Place, no hoop for you!

Oh, crap. So much for my little hoops obsession in Extra Place...

Before!

And right after that!

And now!

[Bobby Williams]

The hoop is gone.

So who was the killjoy?

Fat Sal's is open now on Avenue A

Here's at the former APizzA spot on Avenue A, the fifth NYC location of Fat Sal's opened yesterday.

Also, for the record... we once noted a reader's concern about the pizzeria's new ventilation blower that was really going to "suck (or blow) big time" (heh) ... However, the reader has noted that Fat Sal's has been a very good neighbor since moving in, and they even spent extra money on a less-noisy ventilation system...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Fat Sal's coming to Avenue A

The Bowery now safe for celebrity smooching

Photogs spotted actress Diane Kruger and her boyfriend Pacey Witter Johusa Jackson necking and stuff on the Bowery before lunch at Gemma the other day. And now you can get on with your day.

[Photo via OK!]

Seventh Street, 8:54 p.m., May 5

Photo by Dave on 7th.