Today in the Tompkins Square Park playground

Via EVG reader Terry Towery...

Week in Grieview

[East 10th Street and Avenue C yesterday. By Shawn Chittle]

The East Village is getting popular (Friday)

The East Village has a lot of bars (Thursday)

Graffiti is expanding on East 10th Street (Tuesday)

New York Observer publisher buys 5 East Village walk-ups (Wednesday)

Looking at the new home for the Avenue A flea market (Tuesday)

Standing in line for $1 FroYo (Thursday)

Porchetta.Hog closed for now on East Fifth Street (Thursday)

Chubby Mary's opening on East 14th Street (Monday)

"Pudgy purse snatcher" alert (Wednesday)

Baoguette Cafe closes on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Arabella 101 50% leased on Avenue D (Thursday)

A chase after after a stolen iPhone (Thursday)

Workers have gutted the former Cabrini Center on East Fifth and Avenue B (Thursday)

Pop art on East 10th Street (Monday)

'We would love the community to join us as we say goodbye'

Last weekend, a neighbor of Mary Help of Christians on East 12th Street said that the church was having its final mass last Sunday. That was incorrect information. Parishioner Josephine left us a message saying that the last mass will be celebrated there today at 11:30.

Per Josephine: "We would love the community to join us as we say goodbye."

The church will be making way for some sort of yet-specified new development.

Previously.

On Avenue A last night

Photos by Shawn Chittle.

And leftover from Friday night via EVG reader Duke...

World Famous Pee Phone now getting in on the farm-to-table craze

Broccoli? That's so 2007. Where's the kale? Seventh Street and Avenue A.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Today in photos of angry looking storm clouds

As I first reported, it rained today.

And our brave correspondents, uh, braved the rain for these photos...

Via Matt LES_Miserable...

And from Greg Masters...

...from EVG...

...and Shawn Chittle...

Bomb Pop opens tonight at Bullet Space

New exhibit at Bullet Space opens tonight at 6... (the exhibit is up through Oct. 27).

At 292 E. Third St. between Avenue C and Avenue D.

Death Star crane construction KOs half of Third Avenue today

Crews here from the Galactic Empire to install the superlaser weapon to work on 51 Astor Place.

Previously.

Oh, you just HAD to know what was in the box

Spotted at East 10th Street near Fourth Avenue. And is this some new Marc Jacobs line for Fashion Week?

Free concert tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park

Via the EV Grieve inbox...

[David Peel from July 2011]

Tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park:

The Comrades 2 - 2:20
Mans Gin 2 - 2:55
Alienz 3 - 3:25
Jennifer Blowdryer 3:35 - 4:00
David Peel 4:10 - 4:40
A Truth 4:50 - 5:20
The Non-Prophets 5:30-6:00

This show commemorates the events of September 11, 2001 and embraces new activist energy while celebrating the vitality of the counter cultural scene that has survived on the Lower East Side, despite the rampant gentrification, soaring rents and lost venues that have contributed to the cultural genocide sweeping New York City.

Brought to you by The SHADOW, Wombat in Combat and......Those Fucking Anarchists...

[Thanks to John Marshall Mantel for the photo]

[Updated] East 10th Street Block Fair today

[Bobby Williams]

A much better street fair.

Updated:

A few photos from the Block Fair via Bobby Williams...

Morning on First Avenue

Live on the sunset strip

Photo by Bobby Williams.

No tech bubbles

The bubble fellow is back... Photos this evening in Tompkins Square Park by Bobby Williams.

All together now...

Patti Smith from 1988 with "People Have the Power."

So, how about that 'nightlife district' in the East Village?

Well, it doesn't seem as if that idea for an East Village "nightlife district" is off to a rousing start. On Wednesday night, CB3's Economic Development Committee met to hold preliminary conversations about zoning changes that would place restrictions on the location of clubs and large bars.

As Grub Street reported today, committee co-chair Richard Ropiak said while the idea might have worked 20 years ago in the East Village, "it ain't going to happen now."

Paul Seres of New York City Hospitality Alliance told Grub Street that the city "probably isn't ready for a dedicated club district, but that it might be able to create one 'post-Bloomberg.'"

Bloomberg only has one or two more terms, right?

[Image via]

Today on First Avenue

... between East 13th and East 14th Streets...

Is that a yarn hammock?

Looks comfortable.

Photos by Dave on 7th.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

[Spotted on First Avenue near East First Street]

A talk with the author of "Buried on Avenue B" (The New York Times)

The Slipper Room returns (Musto)

Fashionable mob trashes Audi at Broadway and Bleecker (Gothamist)

[Video] A slice of Third Avenue life circa 1980 (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Somehow the LES to fit in yet another hotel (BoweryBoogie)

Sietsema gives a nice plug to the always-reliable John's of 12th Street (Fork in the Road)

A feature on Grey Era Vintage on East 9th Street (DNAinfo)

Bowery subway attacker gets 13 years (The Lo-Down)

9/11 memoirals in the City (Ephemeral New York)

... and tonight... if you haven't seen "The Vanishing City" yet...

Village Zendo
588 Broadway just below Houston
East side of Broadway
11th Floor, Suite 1108
7:30
$10

[Updated] Mysterious (for now!) balloons arrive on East 14th Street

EVG reader Aaron sends along these shots this morning... someone (a protester?) put up signs from ballons at the intersections of 14th Street and Third Avenue and 14th Street and Irving Place.

Aaron couldn't make out the signs. Anyone else see them?

Updated:

See the comments for more info. And @robbyohara notes that DOT workers have removed the balloons and signs....

The Big Dig begins at The Mystery Lot

Construction equipment arrived at the Mystery Lot back on July 23... and crews this morning are now digging in, as you can see from this photo via EVG reader Katja...

Next stop, the Lowline!

Previously on EV Grieve:
The Mystery Lot likely facing a luxurious end

The last days of the Mystery Lot