Still life on Avenue A, sort of

One of the murals in Art Around the Park this weekend...

...and its real-life inspiration across Avenue A ...

Week in Grieview

Teriyaki Boy closes on East 10th Street (Tuesday)

Laundromat fire on Avenue B (Wednesday)

A discarded mattress epidemic? (Friday)

Two motorcycles torched over a simmering parking dispute? (Friday)

Exit 9 moving out (Thursday)

An Avenue A food-truck invasion in the works? (Thursday)

SOS Chefs closes (Wednesday)

Your Subway Sandwich signage on Avenue B (Tuesday)

Former Burial Society now a hole in the ground — thanks developers! (Thursday)

Tagged ping pong table cleaned (Thursday)

And remembering Fleet Week 2011

Fleet Week photo by Stephen Popkin

Madonna, Kate Middleton J. Lo and Lady Gaga in Art Around the Park

If anything, Chico knows SEO!

Reminders tomorrow night: A discussion on proposed rent hikes

This is at the corner of the Bowery where the CB3/SLA meetings usually take place.

Later

Today at the Howl! Festival

All these photos are courtesy of Shawn Chittle ...

Today at the Howl! Festival, still

First three photos via Allen Semanco ...

Remaining photos via Bobby Williams...

S'MAC taking over for Veselka at the First Avenue/Houston kiosk

An outpost of macaroni-and-cheesers S'MAC is replacing Veselka in the First Avenue/Houston kiosk, Patrick Hedlund reports this morning at DNAinfo.

Veselka, which will vacate at the end of June, has manned this space the last five years. The city’s Parks Department put out a request for proposals in January for a new food vendor, Crain's reported.

Previously.

The road to Enlightenment?

At the Howl! Festival in Tompkins Square Park today...Where Meditation Walk takes you...

...to Vendor Village, reports Dave on 7th...

Chalk vandals strike Tompkins Square Park ping pong table

Art near the Park

Avenue A near 11th Street this morning. Part of the sale items at the Mary Help of Christians flea market.

Abandoned kitty on East 11th Street?

From a reader:

There's an absolutely amazing young cat hanging around on East 11th b/n B & C. He/She's way too friendly, well behaved, and clean to be a stray. He's either lost or abandoned. Seems like a young adolescent.

Anyone? Been spotted in the 600 block...

Today in important trend stories

East Village salon featured in report on: Feather Hair Extensions Eating Away at Fishing Lure Supply

The start of Howl!

Until tomorrow.

[Photos by Bobby Williams]

The Bowery, 5:11 p.m., June 3

Wild Youth

Reagan Youth in Tompkins Square Park, Aug. 13, 1988.