Your East Village pizza update

New signs are up in the windows of the long-time coming Apizza on First Avenue at East Second Street... noting that this California-based healthy pizza place is "coming soon." BoweryBoogie first noted this impending arrival back on Dec. 23, 2010.

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Speaking of healthy pizza... the transformation of the former Naked Pizza on East 14th Street continues... this will be the second NYC location for good old-fashioned Joe's Pizza ...

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...and signage arrived for the new 2 Bros. Pizza on First Avenue near East 14th Street...

Former kind of weird sushi place on the Bowery is now home to the Wise Men

And at 355 Bowery, we have the former home of Osaka Vibe/Orange Valve — aka, that kind of weird sushi place on the Bowery. We wrote an appreciate (of sorts!) about it back in December 2011, after the kitchen temporarily closed for renovations... only to never reopen again.

Now, a new venture called Wise Men officially opens in the space on Wednesday, according to Grub Street. And three women are behind the space: photographer Danielle Levitt, S magazine creative director Christina Chin and hospitality vet Caroleyn Ng.

As BoweryBoogie pointed out, the name Wise Men is a nod to Ms. Chin's "ancestral connection to the area. When the Chins emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1960s, the family opened Wise Men, proclaimed at the time as the first 'western-style' steakhouse in Chinatown."

Back to Grub Street: "In a bar-heavy area that's all about modernizing, Wise Men's a much-appreciated nod to old-school New York meat and cocktails."

The valve wheel from that kind of weird sushi place remains as the Wise Men doorknob. But there aren't any $1 Jello shots.

Previously on EV Grieve:
An appreciation of sorts: That kind of weird sushi place on the Bowery

The never-opened Yogurt Crazy owes NYU back rent

Signs for the incoming Yogurt Crazy here on Third Avenue between 12th Street and 11th Street arrived last June.

And we haven't seen much, if any, activity in the space. Apparently the shop has been on the clock. A "rent demand" letter dated Feb. 2 is on the front door... Per the letter, signed by Peter Min, director of NYU's Lease and Acquisitions, Yogurt Crazy owes $37,134.87 "for rent and additional rent" through Feb. 28.

They'll have to sell Crazy amounts of FroYo to pay that.

Snow adventures in Tompkins Square Park

Photos today by Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[Friday night on Avenue A via Slum Goddess]

NYCHA plans to lease public housing space for luxury development (Wednesday)

RIP Arpad Miklos (Tuesday)

"Hipster girls ... and bearded guys" wanted for new bakery concept (Monday)

Jennifer Esposito is opening a gluten-free bakery on East 10th Street (Tuesday)

Jared Kushner may soon own the whole neighborhood (Tuesday)

Meet "the flute mistress of epic doom metal" (Wednesday)

Former Nino's Pizza is for sale (Friday)

People waited in line for free pancakes (Tuesday)

7-Eleven sign jokesters (Friday)

It snowed (Saturday)

Water main break on East 13th (Thursday)

Scott Stringer's plan for the East River (Thursday)

Laundry bistro! (Monday)

The Village Scandal has been evicted (Wednesday)

Demolition on Lafayette (Thursday)

A truck full of dead pigs on the LES (Wednesday)

Looking at 205 Avenue A — too tall already? (Tuesday)

[Updated] At the Direct Action Fashion Show

Last night, The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) on Avenue C presented a Direct Action Fashion Show. Per the organizers: "Celebrate how activists use costumes, puppets, and props to draw awareness to various environmental, social, and political issues and create positive, sustainable change."

By all accounts, it was a festive (and colorful!) evening. See for yourself in these photos by Brian Caron ... (Find more of his work here.)

Find more photos on the MoRUS Facebook page.

And here's a video by Paul DeRienzo showing the grand finale with all the models on the runway...



Here are the grass suits in action...



And an overview of the whole evening...

Tompkins Square Park Ice Rink is now open

A walk through parts of Tompkins Square Park this morning can prove to be a treacherous journey... parts of the Park haven't been shoveled/plowed, etc. ... and no sign of any rock salt just yet...

Also slippery... the plywood walkway outside the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A and East 11th Street...

Watching you

Photos today in Tompkins Square Park by Bobby Williams.

Watching You 2

Via EVG regular peter radley...

Reminder: MoRUS hosting 'Direct Action Fashion Show' tonight

Just a reminder...

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) presents: DIRECT ACTION FASHION SHOW

Celebrate how activists use costumes, puppets, and props to draw awareness to various environmental, social, and political issues and create positive, sustainable change.

At the same time that parts of our city will be taken over by Fashion Week’s bold images intended to grease the wheels of extreme consumption, we plan to explore the ways in which spectacle can be used for the greater good, rather than corporate gain.

Prior to the event, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra will lead a march to pay tribute to the community gardens, as a reminder that this vital community resource still needs our support. Earth Celebrations, Time's Up!, People's Puppets of OWS, The MoS Collective and other organizations will be in attendance, and Arrow Chrome will DJ. Special appearance by Gene Pool, the "Can Man." Expect food, drinks and sparkles galore.

Details:
MoRUS (Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space) History Museum
155 Avenue C, between 9th and 10th Streets, Manhattan
7 pm; $5-10 sugg., no one turned away

And here's a quick video of preparations the other night...



Find more info at the MoRUS website... and at the Facebook event page.

Noted!

Via Dave on 7th: "In case no one else noted what a nice day it is!"

[Updated] There is an M14 stuck on Avenue A at this moment

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At this point, we're not sure exactly what happened here on Avenue A near East 11th Street. Other than that the bus is stuck, and the MTA is on the scene to help make it unstuck. No word on injuries.

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[Julie Cirigno Reale via Facebook]

[Via EVG reader eureka]

Updated 11:59

... and the MTA has removed the bus... and now, showing the damaged Cemusa shelter, via Shawn Chittle..

Updated 1:33
EVG regular Greg Masters sent some shots too from this morning...

And now, photos of snow for people who like photos of snow

If you tuned into The Weather Channel (or any media outlet) the last 72 hours, then you probably knew that we were going to buried alive by the worst blizzard ever, oh save us Jim Cantore! some snow was expected in the area.

It did snow. Maybe what, 6 or 8 inches? Here are some random photos of that from this morning.