Sunday, May 1, 2022
Sunday's parting shot
At the March Against Gun Violence
Photos by Stacie Joy
"We're here for them, the community — and the community is here as you can see," 7th Precinct Commanding Officer Luis Barcia told ABC 7. "They're also doing their part and working with us to stop the violence."
The march started at Delancey and Columbia on the Lower East Side ... and ended at P.S. 34 on 12th St. between Avenue C and Avenue D. EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos...
According to ABC 7, there have been nearly 450 shootings this year — a 9% increase over the same period last year.
"This is how serious this is to everyone, including the mayor," said NYPD Deputy Inspector Ralph Clement.
Mayor Adams met with top NYPD leadership yesterday to discuss crime strategies in the wake of citywide violence, per NBC 4.
On Friday morning at 9, a 42-year-old man was shot dead on Fourth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. Police have a person of interest in custody.
Week in Grieview
• Man dead in shooting outside Mariana Bracetti Plaza on 4th Street (Friday)
• RIP Paul Adrian Davies (Thursday)
• The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival returns to Tompkins Square Park for the 1st time since 2019 (Wednesday)
• Proletariat and Cadence on the move to larger East Village spaces (Monday)
• Luzzo's bringing the Neapolitan pizza to this corner of Avenue B (Tuesday)
• Police release surveillance video of suspect in connection to stabbing on Avenue A (Monday)
• City shrinks the size of the passive lawn in East River Park (Monday)
• A break-in at Lucky on Avenue B (Thursday)
• Coming soon: Rake Wine Bar on 3rd Street (Monday)
• FULL reveal at 141 E. Houston St.; Yonah Schimmel can breathe again (Friday)
• Openings: Little Myanmar brings Burmese cuisine to 2nd Street (Thursday)
• About the "explosion" in Tompkins Square Park this morning (Wednesday)
• Workers removing the former Root & Bone curbside dining structure (Monday)
• Old-timer Rakka Cafe doesn't appear to be coming back on St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)
• Your season 2 "Russian Doll" reader (Wednesday)
• What you knead to know about Librae Bakery (Monday)
• Good Heavens! A rebrand for 169 Avenue A (Tuesday)
• Pouring Ribbons replacement 11 Tigers announces itself on Avenue B (Wednesday)
• Openings: Lot Stop on 1st Avenue (Monday)
• Strings Ramen shutters on 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)
• Thai Direct looks closed now on Avenue A (Wednesday)
• Captain Cookie & the Milk Man will be taking orders soon on Astor Place (Thursday)
Cleaning out the former businesses along Stuyvesant Street
Photos by Steven
Village Yokocho, Angel's Share, Sunrise Mart and Panya shuttered in recent weeks. Cooper Union, which leases the buildings from their owners and had subleased them to the Yoshida Restaurant Group for more than 25 years, said it was the tenants' decision to move on. (This post has more background.)
Workers removed half of the sidewalk dining structure here on April 21 (H/T MP!) and removed the rest of it in recent days... (not sure who used the outside space — Village Yokocho? Panya?) 
This is the second recently closed business that had someone remove the outdoor dining structure, joining Root & Bone on Third Street.
Report: Workers at the Starbucks on Astor Place vote to unionize
The workers voted Friday in favor of a union by an 11-2 count. The Reserve Roastery in Chelsea voted to unionize in early April.
According to Nation's Restaurant News:So not only a blowout win in NYC, but another downstate store filed today as well!! Welcome Farmingville!
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) April 29, 2022
Working at an understaffed SB next to a CityMD during a pandemic...uhhh, workers deserve better. #UnionStrong pic.twitter.com/zSc4XnEFSg
In just four and a half months, Starbucks went from having zero union presence to employees voting to unionize at 32 stores around the country, with dozens of unionization elections occurring weekly.
And...
Throughout this process, there has been growing tensions between the Starbucks corporation — which has made it clear that direct representation is preferable and that the unions have been disruptive — and union group SBWorkers United, which has accused its parent company of union-busting.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Saturday's parting shots
6 posts from April
• Farewells: Rev. Anne Sawyer has left St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery (April 19)
• Closing day at Panya on Stuyvesant Street (April 18)
• Suspect in Sunset Park subway shooting arrested in the East Village (April 13)
• Remembering International Bar owner Molly Fitch (April 10)
• Standoff on 9th Street (April 6)
• A last look at the now-closed East Village institution Sunrise Mart (April 5)
Have a seat outside [plant-baked] on 7th Street
Photos by Stacie Joy
Current hours: Wednesday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to noon; Friday-Saturday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A 'March Against Gun Violence' today on the Lower East Side
Anyone who wants to take part can meet up at 10:45 a.m. at Delancey and Columbia on the Lower East Side. The march ends at P.S. 34, 730 E. 12th St. between Avenue C and Avenue D.
The NYPD's crime statistics for March in NYC showed "an overall crime index increase of 36.5% compared to the same time last year, but a dip in homicides," NBC 4 reported.
Friday, April 29, 2022
'Anti-glory' days
The debut album from the Chicago-based trio Horsegirl is due out on June 3 via Matador Records. The video here is for a single from the LP, "Anti-glory."
A look at 'Mush Arcana' at CLLCTV.NYC on 3rd Street
And this marks her first solo show... EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by the space for the opening last night...
"Mush Arcana" is up through the weekend at CLLCTV.NYC at 209 E. Third St. between Avenue B and Avenue C. Hours: today, 4 to 10 p.m. ... Saturday, noon to 8 p.m. ... Sunday, 4 to 8 p.m. with an artist Q&A at 5 p.m.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Man dead in shooting this morning outside Mariana Bracetti Plaza on 4th Street
Photos by Stacie Joy
Updated 4/30 11:30 a.m.
Police sources tell us that they have "a person of interest" in custody. More details to follow...
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EMTs transported him to Bellevue, where officials said he died.
According to the Citizen app, the suspect fled westbound on Fourth Street on a bicycle.
There are also unconfirmed reports of gunfire last night at the Mariana Bracetti Plaza related to a "beef in the building."
Sources said that the victim, whose identity has not yet been released by police, pending family notification, used to live in Mariana Bracetti Plaza.
Updated:
CBS 2 identified the victim as Anthony Ramon.
Previously on EV Grieve:
This post's for you: The East Village connection behind Neil Young's new box set
Photo by Daniel Root
And there's an East Village connection to this four-LP/CD collection of Young's music from the 1980s.
Gracing the cover is a photo of Young that East Village-based photographer Daniel Root shot in 1988 at the long-gone venue The World on Avenue C and Second Street. (Read more about The World in this article.)
How did this selection happen?
"Neil picked it from their files," Root told me. "I suggested alternatives, but they said once he picked it, that was it."
I asked Root a few questions about all this, starting with the night he took the photos.
What I remember about the night was the packed house and the decrepit state of the place. It looked like the balcony and/or the chandelier could come down at any minute. Don’t remember much about the music except for the taping horn section and Neil’s wonderfully unhinged solos, but that’s usual for me when I shoot live shows and music videos. I’m listening for the "form of the music" more than the music itself. When I say form I mean I listening for "here comes a solo, here comes the big finish, group interaction, last song of the encore is about done and get ready for the big group hug/wave/smile."
And on the selection process...
The amount of luck and happenstance that got all this together is somewhat amazing. Shot in 1988, the stock photo house that represented my music photos sent them to him. They sent back most of them but kept some. The Neil Young Archives found them in the drawer when they decided to put out a 1980s collection and he picked that one.Thankfully the slide was still stamped with my name and phone, and thankfully none of that had changed. They had to clean it because it was in a drawer for 35 years but they did a great job.The release date was pushed back three times over two years. I started thinking it wasn't going to happen.
Previously on EV Grieve:
FULL reveal at 141 E. Houston St.; Yonah Schimmel can breathe again
Workers have finally removed the sidewalk bridge and construction attire from outside the new 9-floor office building at 141 E. Houston St. ... providing a full view of the 65,000-square-foot structure between Eldridge and Forsyth.
Someone already welcomed the structure with a few tags on the future retail spaces...
The red entrance you see out reveals a narrow alleyway/courtyard that separates the new building and No. 137 to the west — the longtime home of Yonah Schimmel. According to the listing for the two retail spaces at 141 E. Houston St., this corridor is Sunshine Alley, perhaps a lame nod to the Sunshine Cinema. (Previous marketing materials called the courtyard Houston Alley.)
The listing notes a "built-in capacity for a commercial kitchen with venting to the roof," so a food-drinks operation is within the realm of possibilities for a new tenant.
In some positive news, the circa-1910 Yonah Schimmel (revisit our post on them here) with its classic storefront is now in full view again after two years of obscurity thanks to the neighboring construction...
It's like we can breathe again!
— Yonah Knishes (@YonahSchimmelNY) April 28, 2022
Previously on EV Grieve:
• Sunshine Cinema-replacing office building moving forward; demolition watch back on
• Discarded theater seats and goodbyes at the Sunshine Cinema
• The 9-story boutique office building coming to the former Sunshine Cinema space
• The boutique office building replacing the Sunshine Cinema will be 'unbounded by walls' with an outdoor space called Houston Alley
• Discarded theater seats and goodbyes at the Sunshine Cinema
• The 9-story boutique office building coming to the former Sunshine Cinema space
• The boutique office building replacing the Sunshine Cinema will be 'unbounded by walls' with an outdoor space called Houston Alley
Thursday, April 28, 2022
RIP Paul Adrian Davies
Paul Adrian Davies, an East Village mainstay since his arrival in 1978, passed away on the weekend of April 15. He was 69.
Originally from Cardiff, Wales, the affable "self-taught photographer" lived on Seventh Street between Avenue C and Avenue D.
Davies is known for documenting and publishing a book around Rolando Politi's installation of the Winter Flowers at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden on the SW corner of Avenue C and Ninth Street. In 2000, Politi began decorating the fence top with sculptures of flower-like whimsical (movable) assemblies created using packaging waste.
Davies also captured East Village-based scenes from the COVID pandemic in a series of photographs titled "Six Feet Apart But Still Together," featured at the Tompkins Square Library branch.
Here's described his approach to photography on his website:
I am particularly drawn to the "street" in the widest context of that word. The "street" could be a temple in India, a marketplace in Mexico, a protest in Barcelona or the New York subway.I like to observe the activities that take place in these settings and look closely at how people present themselves and interact with one another. I also enjoy the random events which happen in these environments and create unique moments and images.I am very interested in the dialogue which takes place on the "street" via graffiti, murals, scribblings, stickers and posters. I view this as a strong and important alternative to traditional communication channels such as print, television and even the internet.
Friends are planning a celebration of his life next month.
Updated:
The memorial is Tuesday, May 10 at 5:45 p.m. ... at the Green Oasis Community Garden on Eighth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D.
Openings: Little Myanmar brings Burmese cuisine to 2nd Street
Photos by Stacie Joy
Eater had the scoop about Little Myanmar's arrival:
The lauded underground Burmese spot Yun Cafe — famously wedged among a row of shoebox-sized businesses inside the Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street subway station in Jackson Heights — is expanding aboveground.The family behind the operation — married couple Thidar Kyaw and Tin Ko Naing handle the cooking, while their daughter Yun Naing is the business manager — is opening a rare Manhattan Burmese establishment called Little Myanmar ... with a full-blown kitchen that expands on Yun Cafe's existing repertoire with tangy noodle soups, steaming hot curries, mala skewers, and baked cassava cakes.
Little Myanmar, which includes five tables for in-person dining, is open daily from 3-9 p.m. for now. You can follow them on Instagram via this link or call them at (917) 475-1183.
A break-in at Lucky on Avenue B
Owner Abby Ehmann told EVG contributor Stacie Joy that the break-in occurred just after 4 a.m. The bar has a rolldown gate. However, the burglar got into the residential part of the building and into the back garden, where he picked the lock to the back door.
Surveillance video shows that the man spent nearly 30 minutes inside the bar here between 10th Street and 11th Street. (Don't worry — this clip isn't 30 minutes long!)
He took all the cash left in the drawer ... as well as a $5 bill that someone had signed for Abby to staple to the wall.
The burglar didn't steal anything else — and even locked the door behind him.
Police sources also said the same suspect robbed an unnamed business early that morning on St. Mark's Place.
Captain Cookie & the Milk Man will be taking orders soon on Astor Place
The Washinton, D.C.-based business "is a mobile bakery and dairy bar serving fresh-baked cookies, local milk, and made-to-order ice cream sandwiches."
Per the Captain's Facebook page: "In addition to the greatest chocolate chip cookie in the world, Captain Cookie serves flavors like Ginger Molasses, Peanut Butter, Cardamom Snickerdoodle, Oatmeal Raisin, Cocoa Cayenne Espresso, Pumpkin Muffaroons, and more! Plus the excellent Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie!"
The Astor Place location is opening tomorrow.
Updated 1 p.m.
A rep for the Captain shared this info:
The new Captain Cookie is operated by Neil Hershman, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who is no stranger to the NYC food scene. Hershman successfully runs seven other dessert stores throughout New York, including his debut last year of the city's first Dippin' Dots store. A frequent customer of Captain Cookie during his college days in Washington, D.C., Hershman and his friends often reminisce about the craveable late-night, warm cookies. Realizing nothing could compare to Captain Cookie's quality and service, Hershman says introducing the brand to New York City is a no-brainer. He is currently building an additional Captain Cookie store in Times Square that's expected to open this summer.
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