Han Joo coming soon to St. Mark's Place

Han Joo, the well-regarded Korean cold-noodle specialist in Flushing, is opening an outpost at 12 St. Mark's Place. (You can read a review on Han Joo here at Serious Eats.)

In recent years, the ground-floor address has been Hirai Mong, Gama, San Marcos, Siren and @Cafe ... and, at one time, the second home of St. Mark's Bookshop...

Giant pink sports bra will no longer be distracting motorists, pedestrians on Third Avenue

Flashback to the corner of Third Avenue and East 11th Street this past January...

And despite the role the Giant Pink Sports Bra filled in helping guide motorists down Third Avenue during the Great Whiteout of Jan. 21...

The Pink Sports Bra has, sadly, been retired.

The wall this weekend.

Feel free to share your favorite Giant Pink Sports Bra moments in the comments.

Friend House closes on Third Avenue

Multiple readers this past weekend pointed out that Friend House has closed on Third Avenue at East 13th Street... there is the Marshal's notice ... as well as for rent signs...

Let's see... it was Hea until September 2009, when Friend House across the street took over the space (same owners)... Friend House ran afoul of the DOH several times ... we also recall attending a CB3/SLA meeting where residents complained about late-night noise from the second-floor bar...

A bat-shit crazy story on East 14th Street

[Stacie Joy]

EV Grieve contributor Stacie Joy shared this anecdote from earlier today... which happened on East 14th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... Passersby spotted a wounded bat on a tree... and...

... we had to stop people from touching it or trying to put him into a paperbag and take him home as a pet. Nuts! As I was calling an animal hospital, he flew out into traffic right into someone's open car window. Bet that was an interesting moment.

Today in Tompkins Square Park

At the Hare Krishna Tree ...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Your Sunday evening ornithology break

From EV Grieve regular peter radley ... photos of an Ovenbird in Tompkins Square Park...

Via the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...

A small, inconspicuous bird of the forest floor, the Ovenbird is one of the most characteristic birds of the eastern forests. Its loud song, "teacher, teacher, teacher," rings through the summer forest, but the bird itself is hard to see.

Week in Grieview

The landlord of 50-58 E. Third St. (Wednesday, 55 comments)

Here's the rooftop addition at 315 E. 10th St. (Tuesday)

An MCA mural on East Seventh Street (Tuesday)

Did anyone notice that Angels & Kings closed? (Monday)

East Village photographer to take pictures on every street in the world (Thursday)

Another record store leaving the East Village (Monday)

The CBGB movie is happening (Tuesday)

Florence, but no Machine, outside the Bowery Hotel (Monday)

Looking at the possible East Village bike-sharing locations (Friday, 38 comments)

New home for the Lakeside photobooth (Monday)

AC repairs leaving residents steamed on Seventh Street (Thursday)

Rats in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

New apartment for 14th and Third (Monday)

Considering the existence of 7-Eleven (Tuesday)

Pop-up party ends at Riff (Sunday)

Store cat! (Friday)

A Beastie Boys mural before and after on East First Street

Here we are at the start of the third cycle for the Centre-Fuge public art project on East First Street... EV Grieve reader samo got the before shot on Thursday with Danielle Mastrion ...

By Thursday night...

[Via @jimnobu]

... and now...

Read more about Centre-fuge here.

And here's a look at the side of the trailer now...

'A Singular Vision' opens today at The Ukrainian Museum

From the EV Grieve inbox ... via The Ukrainian Museum at 222 E. Sixth St. ...

A Singular Vision: Ilona Sochynsky, Retrospective of Painting, a comprehensive exhibition of more than 50 paintings, including many large-scale works from all phases of the artist's development, will open to the public today. Curated by Jaroslaw Leshko, Professor Emeritus at Smith College, the exhibition will be on view through October 7.

Ilona Sochynsky’s painting career, entering its fourth decade, presents an oeuvre of visual beauty, intelligence, intensity and complexity. At its core, it is a profoundly personal journey of discovery. Her earliest paintings explore the imagery of Pop Art (she was especially drawn to the works of James Rosenquist) and Photorealism, a movement prominent in the 1970s. She responded to the latter’s hyperrealism and its subject matter of cars, motorcycles and street scenes, which she reinterpreted in her work to extraordinary effect.

Fetish in Black & White
2008, oil on canvas

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair! (plus, Best Pickle on A-Stick)

In case you missed yesterday's street fair on Second Avenue ... there's another one today on Broadway, from Union Square to, oh, maybe Astor Place. Didn't actually look ...

...and cliffhanger ending...

Meanwhile, after yesterday's Second Avenue street fair...

We don't know what it is either.

Wedding party pub crawl?

Seventh Street and Avenue B.

Today

An anti-fracking protest that drew the attention of the NYPD...

...Spring Fling in Tompkins Square Park...

...and the ping-pong table photo shoot...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Spring Fling in Tompkins Square Park this afternoon

Workers set up the temporary stage in Tompkins Square Park... it's the Spring Fling concert this afternoon...

Bands appearing (in alphabetical order)
Crosshatch
Charetta
Demilitia
Fall of the Albatross
Kore Rozzik
Nevereven
Risk/Reward
SOS

SET TIMES
SOS 2
NEVEREVEN 2:30
CROSSHATCH 3
RISK/REWARD 3:30
KORE ROZZIK 4
CHARETTA 4:30
FALL OF THE ALBATROSS 5
DEMILITIA 5:30

[Updated] Breaking: Hostage situation on East 12th Street

Sources say that it's at 514 E. 12th St. ... also from the Gothamist news map...

NYPD on scene say that four shots were fired.

Photos via EVG reader Rick V.

Updated: 11:01 a.m. People on the scene say that it's over... NYPD has left... We'll see if we can any details on what happened.

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair! (plus, Bouncy Castle!)

Woo! Street fair season is heating up ...

And look — two butterflies on the M15 sign. (And what does that mean when two butterflies land on an M15 street fair notice? You won't catch a cold all summer?)

Just before 9, workers were setting up starting at East 14th Street, heading down south to Cape May County maybe Fifth Street. Or Sixth? I didn't walk down to see.

There are balloon arrangements...

...and the usual variety of food stands...

... and entertainment...

Bouncy castle! Bouncy castle!

Avenue A, 8:44 a.m., May 12

Reader reports: DOA on Avenue B

Several readers have told us that emergency responders are/were on Avenue B and East Sixth Street. Readers say that there was a DOA male in a wheelchair near Sunny & Annie's. We don't know more at this point. We'll head over that way and see if we can find out any more information.

B-Side turns 9 today

EV Grieve reader Michael notes the above sign... B-Side on Avenue B between 12th Street and 13th Street... celebrating an anniversary today... always a solid bar... and one that we haven't written about too much.

Oh, and hurry on that happy hour...

Get Down on it

fIREHOSE with "Down With the Bass" from 1991.