Week in Grieview

TenEleven is closing on Avenue C (Tuesday)

Another for rent sign at the Amato Opera (Monday)

Tompkins Square Park loses another tree (Friday)

New hotel checks into 147 First Avenue (Monday)

Blood outside Fine Fare (Sunday)

Movies return to Tompkins Square Park this summer (Thursday)

Looking at the front of 100 Avenue A (Wednesday)

We interview two 7 year olds about books, Starbucks (Thursday)

How about this mural for the Houston-Bowery mural wall? (Friday)

The parking apocalypse on East Ninth Street (Wednesday)

Bite Me Best closes on Avenue C (Thursday)

Lot on East Third Street in contract (Wednesday)

White Plains bar owner taking over Friend House on Third Avenue (Wednesday)

34 Avenue A still a mystery (Tuesday)

Supper and Lil' Frankie's are turning 10 (Thursday ... and thanks to them for giving two EVG readers VIP tickets for tonight's anniversary party at Webster Hall)

Puke Island this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

Via the EV Grieve inbox...

This Sunday... Tompkins Square Park will host the 2012 edition of “Puke Island”, an afternoon of FREE punk/rock/metal music. The outdoor all-ages event will be from 2-6 PM. Scheduled to perform (with set-times):

Lynch Pigs (2 PM)
Miscegenator (2:40 PM)
(A)Truth – (3:20 PM)
Mongrel Bitch (4 PM)
Truth In Needles (4:40 PM)
Alekhine’s Gun (5:20 PM)

Updated: Memorial for murder victim on East Fifth Street

There is a memorial on East Fifth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D near the site of Friday night's fatal stabbing. CBS New York has more details on what transpired. A "nasty fight" broke out between a boyfriend and girlfriend. That's when 31-year-old Corey Capers, a relative of the woman, intervened. The boyfriend then allegedly stabbed Capers to death and fled the scene.

According to CBS, "Police have identified the boyfriend and said that they are close to an arrest."

Meanwhile, a reader sent along the above photo, noting one of the inscriptions - "you lost your life trying to save another."

Updated 2 p.m.

The Post reports that the woman was the aunt of Capers; the Daily News says that the woman was his grandmother. Gothamist posted a photo of Capers (left) and the suspect, who police identified as 47-year-old Carl Knox, aka Abdul Hakim ...



Capers reportedly has a 5-year-old son and was engaged to be married.

Updated 6:01 am. June 11:

The Daily News reports that Knox has been in and out of state prison since 1986. "His rap sheet lists more than 25 arrests, including for such serious charges as rape, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said."

Previously.

Today in Tompkins Square Park

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Noted

The Post today cites Department of Transportation records that show there were 754 bike-car collisions in the five boroughs during the last three months of 2011.

Brooklyn had the most collisions of any borough with 285 crashes while Manhattan had 229. Per the paper: "The highest concentration of bike-car crashes in all of the city was on the Upper East Side, which had 26. The West Villlage had 21 crashes, and the East Village and Midtown East, each had 19."

[Updated] Report: 31-year-old man stabbed to death on East Fifth Street

[Reader submitted]

Multiple readers have noted that the NYPD has continued to block off parts of Avenue C this morning. According to Gothamist, a 31-year-old man was stabbed to death. "[T]he incident happened before 3 A.M. in front of 737 East 5th Street. Police found the 30-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive with a stab wound to the chest."

The address is between Avenue C and Avenue D.

More information to follow as it become available.

Gothamist reported that the stabbing is being treated as a homicide. This will mark the first homicide in the 9th Precinct in 2012. According to CompStat, there was one homicide in the 9th Precinct in 2011. (Most current CompStat report is here — PDF)

Updated 10:40 a.m.:
Avenue C and East Fourth Street and Fifth Street are back open, EVG reader AC points out...



AC said that detectives are going door to door now on Avenue C.

A crime scene unit remains on the scene.





Updated 6:51 p.m.:

FOX News is reporting this:

Police said the victim was part of a dispute between his aunt and her boyfriend.

According to authorities, the boyfriend fled the scene after the stabbing and are looking for him.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Tompkins Square Middle School carnival is today

Celebrating the 10th year of the school...

Fireflies!

We spotted the 1st fireflies of summer in Tompkins Square Park last night. Visit your local park this weekend to see them while u still can!

— New Yorkers 4 Parks (@NY4P) June 8, 2012

Yes. Before the BEES get them!

A song for you to roller skate to this weekend

Secret Service with "Oh, Susie" from 1979.

Dead tree removal in Tompkins Square Park today

Here's how the once-majestic elm in Tompkins Square Park looked at the end of the day yesterday... after workers took down the majority of the diseased tree...


[Bobby Williams]

Workers removed the rest of the tree today...


[Robert Miner]







Top three photos by Bobby Williams.

The CBGB biopic will have authentic toilets

A few more details today about the CBGB biopic via the Savannah Morning News ...

• Crews are continuing to build the set that will replicate CBGB in a Savannah studio. "The actual bar — and toilets — of iconic club CBGB will be flown here and installed." (Ed note: And where have the toilets been in recent years...?)

• "There's also a lowered area where producers will shoot false exteriors of the Bowery, with virtual New York looking north across Louisville Road, west of downtown Savannah."

• "The open extras call for “CBGB” is 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday at Meddin Studios, 2315 Louisville Road. Producers are looking for music lovers, musicians, motorcyclists, 1970s car owners and people with an overall ’70s look."

Read the whole article here.

[Photo: Getty images via New York]

About Max Fish in Asbury Park

The Post has a feature today on the Asbury Park branch of Max Fish... which includes this "tale of the tape" ...



The article quotes Deb O'Nair, one-time keyboardist for the Fuzztones who now spends time in Asbury Park.

"The days I was hanging out in [Manhattan’s] Max Fish, it was all artists and musicians. Now that neighborhood feels like a big NYU dormitory."

Meanwhile, Max Fish owner Uli Rimkus doesn't have much to say on the future of the original bar on Ludlow Street.

"Right now, I'm surviving day by day," she says. But at least she isn't worried that her new neighbors will call in complaints to 311 this summer. Pointing toward the ocean, she says, "They're fish."

Previously on EV Grieve:
The art evolution of Ulli Rimkus and Max Fish

From Tin Pan Alley to Max Fish

Angel Ortiz decking out T-shirts on East 11th Street

Shawn Chittle came across graffiti artist Angel Ortiz aka LA 11 last night on East 11th Street near Avenue B...









He told Shawn that the T-shirt(s) will be part of an exhibit opening tonight titled Who's on Deck?

Per the Sacred Gallery website:

Who's on Deck? A Graffed out skate deck art show. Two NY street artists take old skateboard decks which have been ridden on the streets of NYC & left discarded and bring them back to life for all to see. There will also be a small photographic exhibition from Erica Reade. Exhibition opens Friday 8-11pm

The exhibit will be up through June at the Sacred Gallery NYC, 424 Broadway (second floor) between Canal and Howard.

Behold the rear of the Schwimmer mansion

Seems like just yesterday that David Schwimmer's dream home at 331 E. Sixth St. was just a hole in the ground... like in February...

EV Grieve reader weigone, who took the above shot, has some updates from the backside for us...







Also, per weigone: "I could've SWORN I heard Schwimmer's voice. That was the week when it was rumored that he'd visit."

Previously.

New owners, hours in store for Flea Market Cafe on Avenue A

[Image via]

We continue to look at some of the items on this month's CB3/SLA agenda on June 18. According to documents on the CB3 website (PDF!), the principals behind L'Orange Bleue on Broome Street will be taking over the Flea Market Cafe on Avenue A between St. Mark's and East Ninth Street. (L'Orange Bleue, a Moroccan-French restaurant, closed last year after a 14-year run.)

The documents show that the new proposed hours are 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday-Thursday and until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. So apparently the new variation of this cafe will be open for breakfast and lunch. And, at least based on the application, it doesn't appear that the menu might change too much: The principals describe the food here as "French Bistro Cuisine." (Not sure about a name change. The application reads, "Trade name (DBA): Flea Market Cafe.")

As for their old place on Broome Street, New York magazine described it this way: "L'Orange Bleue offers a cheery balance of tempered exoticism, local Eurocharm, and American thrift."

We like this cookie mural, but Tony Goldman does not

Lower East Side resident Luke Mathews recently asked me about the Houston-Bowery mural wall ... he had an idea and wanted to run it by the powers-that-be... I told him Tony Goldman and Goldman Properties were in charge of the wall ... curated and organized in collaboration with The Hole.

Luke shared his idea with me. (Actually, he has two variations.) I liked it. I've always liked those fudge-striped cookies too.





Apparently Luke received Tony Goldman's contact information.

On Tuesday, given that I was somewhat invested in this, Luke shared Goldman's one-word reaction to the mural idea...



Luke, who has never done a mural and enjoys photography, found a positive in all this — "happy that I got a response at least."

Toy excavator spotted at 35 Cooper Square

I get to push it over first! A mini mystery lot.

Yesterday afternoon at the former 35 Cooper Square.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

And now, a photo of Anthony Bourdain at The Burger Shop on St. Mark's Place

A tipster passed along this photo... apparently Bourdain was rather randomly? hanging out the other night at the Burger Shop, which opened last fall on St. Mark's Place near Avenue A... eating with a group of friends...



Never been to The Burger Shop. Our tipster really likes it. Perhaps Anthony Bourdain does too...

This is what a 'house of hospitality' on East First Street looked like on June 3, 2012

This year, we'll post photos like this of various buildings, streetscenes, etc., to capture them as they looked at this time and place... The photos may not be the most telling now, but they likely will be one day...

At the New York Funny Songs Fest

The New York Funny Songs Fest kicked off last night on/in the Lower East Side... (Here's an article about the festival in the Times.) Jessica Delfino (seen in first photo) organized the event, billed as "the city's first comedy music festival." It runs through Sunday.

EV Grieve contributor Stacie Joy was there for the opening night at the Lolita Bar on Broome Street ... performers last night included Jen Kwok, Rob Paravonian, Reformed Whores and Molly Pope ... Myka Fox served as host.















Here's the Funny Songs Fest website with all the times and stuff.

And bonus photo of Jessica Delfino with her mother...