NYPD looking for help finding men accused of assault on First Avenue

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Twin brothers were attacked by a group of men early May 26 on First Avenue near East First Street. (BoweryBoogie first reported the incident here.)

Flyers are now up around the area in which the incident took place... As the flyers show, the victims are black. The men wanted for the attack are white, and the group numbered as many as 10. The NYPD assigned the incident to the Hate Crime Task Force.

Previously.

Moon set

Last night... photos by Bobby Williams

Today's rain

Photo by Bobby Williams

Nino's is back open on Avenue A

[Bobby Williams]

Nino's — the real Nino's — is back open as of today on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place...Nino Camaj has reopened the pizzeria that he previously sold...



... the pizza was just as good as we remembered it... though the interior still needs to be warmed up a bit. Plenty of time for that.

No sign of a soda fountain machine just yet, though they do sell Italian ices...

Previously on EV Grieve:
New Nino's will be the old Nino's

Cadillac dreams

Earlier today on East Fourth Street and Avenue C... Goggla notes that it attracted a lot of admirers ... and it's for sale...

Above the Bowery

Photo from the Bowery by Bobby Williams earlier today...

[Updated] Noted

Why aren't there any city trash cans on 2nd Avenue this morning?
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) July 20, 2013

Tweeted this observation this morning... several people have also noticed. Anyone know why there aren't any trash cans along Second Avenue?

Updated Sunday morning

Still trash-can free on Second Avenue... and people seem to be just tossing their trash on the sidewalk...

'#EV3 Release Party' today for 'the most desirable walk-up in the East Village'

Big doings today over at the "East Village3" aka "The #EV3" ... aka the buildings at 50-58 E. Third St. where many longtime tenants lost their leases when new owners took over the building last year ...

Today, according to the ALL-CAP notice on Streeteasy:

!!!!!!!!!RED CARPET RELEASE PARTY!!!!!!!!!
WAIT NO LONGER, THE HOTTEST PENTHOUSE 2BR + ROOFDECK IN THE EV JUST HIT THE MARKET!!!

Here's the flyer for the event...



Food. Drink. Music. Red carpet? Let us know if you drop by to say in front of the cameras, the "most desirable walk-in the East Village."

Previously on EV Grieve:
Reader report: Three apartment buildings sold on East Third Street

Advocate for East Third Street buildings moving to Washington Heights

More about the lease renewals at 50, 54 and 58 E. Third St.

Tenants at 50, 54 and 58 E. Third St. banding to together in face of building sale

More drama at 50-58 E. Third St.; 'heavy construction' awaits tenants who stay

And now the renovations really begin at 50-58 E. Third St.

The 'East Village3' is ready for you; for that 'Industrial Chic feel'

Workers remove rest of giant elm in Tompkins Square Park

Workers started cutting down a giant elm in Tompkins Square Park on Thursday... and now the tree near the entrance on Avenue B at East Ninth Street is gone...


[Bobby Williams]

Workers had said part of the tree was hollowed out and in danger of falling... and to show this, a portion of a hollowed-out limb remains...

Adinah's Farm is back open

On Thursday, the NYPD has closed Adinah's Farm on Avenue C and East Second Street ... the sign on the corner deli's door noted "stolen property offenses."

Not sure what happened, but Steven Matthews passes along word (and photo) that the deli was reopen as of last night...

BBQ balance: Slippy splop warning on Second Avenue

Oh yeah. Waiting for the light on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place... a BBQ splop.



Then! Street cleaner! Jump back!



The street cleaner turned the splop into a nice smooth and very slippery line... within a few minutes, we witnessed three different people nearly slip. Not flip-flop friendly terrain here.

[Updated] 200 East Village ConEd customers without power

We've heard from a few readers around East Sixth Street and Avenue C who lost their power late last night.

According to the ConEd outage map, there's a "manhole problem":



The estimated power return is 11 a.m.

Updated 9:30 a.m.

East Sixth Street between Avenue B and C is currently closed... and there are at least 15-18 ConEd trucks on the scene...





Updated 11:34 a.m.

ConEd is now estimating that the power will be restored by 3 p.m.



Updated 2:30

We're told that ConEd has restored the power.

[Updated] Report: 18-year-old-man shot outside Jacob Riis Houses

An 18-year-old man suffered life-threatening wounds after being shot in the face last night at the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D, the Post reports.

The man was found in a courtyard at 118 Avenue D around 10:45 p.m. Police said they don't have a motive yet for the shooting.

Police also said that "unruly residents began throwing trash and other objects onto the crime scene below," which required them to call in back-up and emergency services.

Updated 2:27
The Daily News reports that the teen, Deontay Moore, has died.

On a sunny day

Tompkins Square Park today. Photo by Bobby Williams.

Talking about Burning Sensations

Burning Sensations with "Belly of the Whale" circa 1982 in honor of the East River floating pool rendering...

Noted

A familiar sign this time of year on East Sixth Street... Noted this one in previous years on previous posts.

Richard Hell on his East Village apartment

Richard Hell discusses the virtues of his East 12th Street apartment in The Wall Street Journal today. (Subscription required?)

Here's an excerpt:

The apartment is in the back of the building on an upper floor, so it's quiet and full of light, with a great cross breeze. It has a funkiness that you don't find in Manhattan much anymore — worn unvarnished wood floors that groan when you walk on them, cracks in the plaster walls, sagging original moldings. The place only improves with degradation, as long as you don't try to tart it up.

And!

I'm not nostalgic. I don't feel like the apartment matters because it evokes the '70s or something. But it's nice that we've been together for so long and we're still compatible, even handsome, in a battered way.

Hell moved in in 1975, and wrote a lot of his music here, including "Time" and "The Kid with the Replaceable Head."

On the topic of "The Kid with the Replaceable Head," here's an animated cartoon music video created by Washington D.C. kid's show "Pancake Mountain" ...

Rite Aid's enchanted forest

EVG Senior First Avenue Rite Aid Correspondent Goggla checks in with the latest on the mural update on the East Fifth Street side of, uh, Rite Aid... Enchanted?

Indeed, I'm suddenly and strangely compelled to clip a coupon to save 40 percent off my next purchase of Preference by L'Oreal.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] As the Rite Aid turns (colors)

Will you swim in the floating East River pool?

I haven't been following this story too closely... the architects who campaigned to put a floating pool in the East River exceeded their crowdsourcing campaign to help make this thing a reality... Sooo, if it all does happen, will you take a dip in the +Pool? (Maybe I should ask this in December.)

Also, arguably my most favorite rendering of all time... just for the whale.



Read more about the pool here.

The Tree Chair of East Sixth Street is in full bloom

Photo by Robert Miner. Previously.