[Updated] Week in Grieview

[Avenue A Thursday afternoon]

RIP Walter De Maria (Monday)

Curb-crash driver on Second Avenue pleads not guilty (Wednesday)

Part of the former rolldown gate at the Mars Bar is now art in this East Village apartment (Tuesday)

About Archie & Sons, a new luncheonette on Third Avenue (Tuesday)

The Yippie Museum reopens (Wednesday)

Details on the first MoRUS Film Festival (Wednesday)

So long Max Fish (Tuesday)

How to get your money's worth from a Citi Bike (Tuesday)

AAA Amici Pizza has closed (Wednesday)

A Thai import for Avenue A (Thursday)

Still no tenants at 51 Astor Place (Tuesday)

First sign of Mee Noodle Shop (Thursday)

Tearing down Mary Help of Christians (Friday)

Out and About in the East Village ... at the 4th Street Food Co-op (Wednesday)

Painting over Tu Casa (Monday)

Live on St. Mark's Place for $19,500 a month (Monday)

7B in the movies (Wednesday)

Flooding at the Tompkins Square Park Dog Run

EVG correspondent Derek Berg notes this scene at the Tompkins Square Park Dog Run today... The area around the doggy pool is taped up like this ...

He recently spoke with a city engineer who was inspecting the area outside the dog run because of complaints of "flooding." He said that there was probably more water flow than the drains can handle.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[This morning on First Avenue]

At the Sun Bright Hotel on Hester Street, "where men pay $10 a night to live in tiny cells bounded by chicken wire" (New York Post)

The MoRUS Film Festival continues all this week (MoRUS)

Video for "Take A Look At That Baby" — from the forthcoming album by Eden & John's East River String Band... and featuring R. Crumb. (YouTube)

Remembering Ronnie Cutrone (The New York Times)

Interview with underground cartoonist Kim Deitch (Comic Book Resources)

A tourist films NYC in August 1980 (Flaming Pablum)

Stoops in the city (Gog in NYC)

Jimmy McMillan endorses Anthony Weiner (The Observer)

Beatbox championship yesterday at Drom (NY1)

End of day

Photo by Bobby Williams

[Updated] Today in Tompkins Square Park

The Bambi Killers — always a favorite... and it was the band's first show of 2013...





And David Peel & the Lower East Side...





And the Damn Kids...





And they were just three of the bands to perform today during the 25th Annual Tompkins Square Park Riot Reunion concert this afternoon... more bands are on the bill tomorrow afternoon.

Bambi Killer photos by peter radley. David Peel photos by Bobby Williams. Damn Kids photos by Edward Arrocha.

We hope to have more photos and video to post later... still collecting it...

Spirit of Capt. America

Tompkins Square Park today. Photo by Bobby Williams.

[Updated] The Shadow returns

Chris Flash let us know that The Shadow has returned... "Our last issue was published EXACTLY five years ago — we'll be publishing every 3-4 months from here on," said Flash, the publisher.

You can find copies of the underground paper, which debuted in 1989, this weekend during the 25th Annual Riot Reunion shows in Tompkins Square Park.

Updated:

Stores carrying The Shadow include: St. Mark's Books, East Village Books (St. Mark's, between First + Ave A), Gem Spa, Blue Stockings, MORUS (Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space) at 155 Avenue C, and more to come.

Per Chris: "The Shadow is all about neighbors supporting local businesses that support the community. We need more stores and venues to sell The Shadow."

[Via Facebook]

[Updated] Lula's Sweet Apothecary apparently reopening today

[From May]

Back in May we noted that Lula's Sweet Apothecary, the popular vegan ice cream shop on East Sixth Street, had been closed for a reorganization.

Fast forward to today.

So happy Blythe Boyd, founder of @lulasweet is opening her new vegan shop at 3pm today at 516 E 6th (A/B). See you there! @evgrieve

— VegChic (@VegChic) August 3, 2013

There's no mention of a reopening just yet on Lula's Facebook page or website.

Updated:

As we understand it, the shop will have a yet-to-be-determined new name.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Report: Divorce could force closure of Lula’s Apothecary on East Sixth Street

A new sign at Lula's Sweet Apothecary, which remains closed on East 6th Street

For conversation starters, there's always a Bud Light Lime Display Tree

So there's this. A tipster shared this Craigslist post dated July 28 ... Per the all-caps post, it's a "GREAT DISPLAY RACK AND CONVERSATION STARTER."

Seeing as it's Craiglist, you never know if this is for real... Also, the address for pick-up is the St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.

In any event, not sure if this would start a conversation as much as stifle it...

Takin' it to the streets like the Doobie Brothers

Summer Streets started today...like here on Fourth Avenue at East 12th Street... Per the SS website:

With nearly 7 miles of open streets, 5 rest stops and a seven-block-long art installation in the Park Avenue Tunnel – open to pedestrians for the first time in history – there is plenty to explore at Summer Streets. And remember, everything at Summer Streets is free!

And sorry about that headline. Hey, it's free!

Here is the CBGB movie soundtrack

You may have seen this yesterday ... Omnivore Recordings is releasing the “CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” on Oct. 8. (The first pressing is reportedly on translucent pink vinyl.)

And, via Billboard Magazine, here's the track listing:

Life During Wartime – Talking Heads
Kick Out the Jams (Uncensored Version) – MC5
Chatterbox – New York Dolls
Careful – Television
Blank Generation – Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Slow Death – Flamin’ Groovies
I Can’t Stand It – The Velvet Underground
Out of Control – Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
Psychotic Reaction – The Count Five
All For the Love of Rock ’n’ Roll (Live) – Tuff Darts
All By Myself – Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
California Sun (Original Demo) – The Dictators
Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth – Dead Boys
I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up) – Joey Ramone
Get Outta My Way – The Laughing Dogs
Sunday Girl (2013 Version) – Blondie
I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
Sonic Reducer – Dead Boys
Roxanne – The Police
Birds and the Bees – Hilly Kristal

Thoughts?

As Billboard noted, after premiering at the CBGB Festival, the film opens Oct. 11 in New York, Los Angeles and other select cities.

H/T @saywhatagain

Bag from the past

EVG reader Lara Kubovcik spotted spotted a familiar site on First Avenue and East 11th Street yesterday... this Tower Records bag... the store on East Fourth Street and Broadway closed in 2006 (as well as the one on the Upper West Side) ... which reminds me to drop my Gimbels bag on the street one of these days...

Noted

Ahh! Friday night in the #eastvillage. Guy holds gf head as she pukes in front of @SaintsAlp teahouse, 11pm @evgrieve pic.twitter.com/nZedWyZ4d8

— Tenement City (@tenementcity) August 3, 2013

Rare bird

Here are shots of a Black Crown Night Heron ... a rare bird to be found in Tompkins Square Park... photos by Bobby Williams...

Feeling 'Blue'?

Lene Lovich with "Blue Hotel" circa 1982.

Village Fishmonger starting Monday night delivery service to Tompkins Square Bagels

As we've noted, Tompkins Square Bagels owner Christopher Pugliese has expressed interest in opening a fish market somewhere in the East Village.

Until that happens, here's an interim solution... Starting Monday night from 6-8, Tompkins Square Bagels at 165 Avenue A will serve as a pick-up location for anyone who orders from Village Fishmonger.

Samantha Lee, an owner of Village Fishmonger, which launched last fall, said that they are "a sustainable seafood company in NYC that sources local and responsibly harvested seafood."

It works like Community Supported Agriculture, delivering locally harvested seafood to members on a weekly basis. Tompkins Square Bagels is VF's first East Village pick-up location. (They also do a series with the Washington Square CSA at the St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery Greenmarket on Tuesdays this summer.)

You can find more details about how all this works at the Village Fishmonger website.

Lee, a former East Village resident, told us that "there is a need for more access to better seafood product, which we definitely felt when we lived in the area."

Headless stuffed animal body found in Tompkins Square Park

EVG reader Chris M. made this grizzly grisly discovery this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park. No one has been blamed — yet.

Checking in on the new front gate at Tompkins Square Park

There was welding activity yesterday at the Park's front gate on Avenue A at St. Mark's Place ... the one that dude in a station wagon apparently crashed into on June 27.

The above photo shows (half of) the gate this morning. (And it may not actually be a new gate, just new here.) Anyway! It appears the gate is working — it prevented this bottle of Stella from entering last night... (or early this morning).

The disappearing Mary Help of Christians

An East Village resident has been keeping tabs on the destruction at the former Mary Help of Christians lot... workers are taking down the rectory on East 12th Street first to make way for the new residential development...

Wednesday...








Thursday...





...three stories gone by the end of the day...



...and the garage with the familiar Mary Help of Christians mural is gone. Here's a last look yesterday... next to the machine that eventually crushed it...




And from the ground, a few end-of-day-shots via Bobby Williams... not much else to say.

This weekend: 25th Annual Tompkins Square Park Riot Reunion concerts

The 25th Annual Tompkins Square Park Riot Reunion concerts continue this weekend...

Bands performing Saturday:
-Porno Dracula
-Coffin Daggers (Featuring Victor of Nausea)
-David Peel
-ISM
-Bambi Killers
-Hammerbrain

Sunday:
-Iconicide
-Urban Waste
-Nihilistics
-Sic F*cks
-Reagan Youth
-Antidote

Here is the Facebook event page for more details.

If you can't make these, then there's also a concert Sunday night at the Pyramid...



Also, the Tompkins Square Park riot is one of the subjects covered during the first film festival from The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) tomorrow and Sunday ...

August 3: 25th Annual Tompkins Square Riot Reunion Films!
Featuring "Your House is Mine" (filmmaker Carolyn McCaughey in attendance!), "Squat or Rot" and a Paper Tiger TV special on the demolition of the 5th Street squat.
Paper Tiger TV details.
@ MoRUS (155 Avenue C)

August 4: 25th Annual Tompkins Square Riot Reunion Films!
Featuring a special historical slideshow presented by Seth Tobocman and "Tompkins Square Park: Operation Class War on the Lower East Side"
@ MoRUS (155 Avenue C)

For more details about the film festival here.