At Coat of Arms Friday Night

LES Clothing Co. had its grand opening celebration at Coat of Arms on 43 Clinton St. on Friday night. Shawn Chittle stopped by and took these photos...

First, though, as BoweryBoogie reported last October, Robert Lopez, founder and CEO of LES Clothing Co., had filed a lawsuit of trademark infringement against Coat of Arms, among other retailers.

However, as Lopez told Shawn: "We worked it out ... good situation turned of it."

Indeed, as you can see...

DJ Ralphy CBS...

LES-based rapper Six Lowa...

Robert Lopez...

For further reading:
Interview: Robert Lopez of LES Clothing Company (BoweryBoogie, November 2011)

This is what 298 E. Second St. looked like on Feb. 19, 2012

This year, we'll post photos like this of various buildings, streetscenes, etc., to capture them as they looked at this time and place... The photos may not be the most telling now, but they likely will be one day...

Today

Photos by Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[Avenue A near 10th Street]

A three-alarm fire at 21 E. Second St. (Wednesday)

The Holiday will become a restaurant-lounge serving fish-n-chips (Tuesday)

Happy birthday McSorley's (Friday)

A runaway running machine (Thursday)

For the people who said that the Mars Bar was always a pit (Monday)

Be Tom Cruise's neighbor (Tuesday)

A new look at 51 Astor Place (Wednesday)

It was Coen Brothers Week (Friday)

A short-term rental where the guests aren't supposed to talk to the neighbors (Tuesday)

The Bowery's first Synagogue (Monday)

Starbucks on First Avenue and East Third Street opens tomorrow

Hugh Burckhardt at More Than Usual points us to this sign at the freshly egged Starbucks on First Avenue and East Third Street...

Meanwhile, we took a look inside ourselves on Friday evening ...

This will be one of the select locations to serve Starbucks Reserve™ Coffee. Per a 2010 Starbucks blog post:

Everyone claims to have the world’s best coffee! But not often are the words “exotic, rare and exquisite” used to describe that coffee. For Starbucks to append all three words, the coffee must be really special.

We’ve introduced Starbucks Reserve™ coffee to a limited number of stores. This new line of coffees, each available only for a short time, represents the best of the best! You can expect to find flavors that explode on your palate and fade with a lingering complexity. When you taste a Starbucks Reserve™ coffee, you’ll be reminded of our heritage and the early days of the specialty coffee business that we helped to create.

Only 3% of the world’s coffee is good enough to make it into a bag of our coffee, and Starbucks Reserve™ represents a tiny fraction of that 3%. You all have told us that you want to see rare and exotic coffees in our stores, and that is exactly what we have done in bringing treasures like Galapagos San Cristobal to you.

And this looks like the latest Reserve release... from a news release dated Jan. 5, 2012:

Starbucks announces the release of Organic Ethiopia Sidamo® coffee, one of the most renowned coffees in the world for its distinctive lemon flavors. For the first time in the Starbucks coffee line, follow the journey from crop to cup by scanning the QR code on the bag. From being meticulously tended by coffee farmers in their family gardens, to how each cherry is ripened and handpicked at the peak of its flavor, to the exquisite flavor notes in each cup, this digital journey is a unique opportunity for customers to learn more about this coffee.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Today's sign of the apocalypse: Starbucks taking over The Bean's space on First Avenue and Third Street

The East Village rolls out welcome wagon for new Starbucks

There are pieces of Kate Moss all over the East Village

You've seen those Kate Moss ads for Supreme seemingly everywhere the last few days...

We've seen people try to pull these things off the plywood for souvenirs...

...and workers charged with keeping the construction sites ad-free...

... as a result, there are bit and pieces of the ads on a lot of sidewalks this morning...

Someone egged the new Starbucks on First Avenue last night

Looked about two or three eggs here at East Third Street. And this employee had to clean it up...

This location officially opens tomorrow.

Noted

"Heavier loads"? Photo by Stephen Popkin last night.

Report: Cab crashes into Hearth last night

[Image via @marcocanora]

From Eater, we learn that a cab crashed into Hearth on First Avenue at East 12th Street last night around 11. There weren't any injuries.

Packing up the 1960s on East Ninth Street

After the Coen Brothers filmed scenes for the 1960s period piece "Inside Llewyn Davis" on East Ninth Street yesterday ... crews were on the scene early this morning to pack up the dressed-up storefronts...

Will Good Beer keep the Schaefer sign in the window?

Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street

Today outside the Hyatt Union Square

As the signs outside the incoming Hyatt Union Square on Fourth Avenue and 13th Street promised, a crane was on the scene today...

We were hoping to see them hoist the hydroponic bamboo garden. Unfortunately, it was a few things that looked like this.

What is this? (Please, no serious responses.)

Mr. B is missing

Spotted on First Avenue near Fifth Street.

Two hawks beat as one

From yesterday in Tompkins Square Park ... from Bobby Williams... A busy day...

...including a little cat and mouse with a squirrel...

Then. The arrival of another red-tail hawk. Squabbling ensued.

Night falls on 'Inside Llewyn Davis' on East Ninth Street

Nighttime action from the Coen Brothers between Avenue A and First Avenue...

And much earlier today... via Bobby Williams...

Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street

No. 158 (or so) and counting for McSorley's

Happy belated 158th (or 150th) birthday to McSorley's today, who celebrated by having members of the New England Patriots on-hand...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Happy 155th birthday, McSorley's (or not)

Talk to you later

The English Beat with "Too Nice To Talk To" circa 1982.

Clearview's Chelsea Cinemas showing 'The Bodyguard' at midnight this weekend

Buy tickets here.

The theater is at 260 W. 23rd St. between Seventh and Eighth Avenue.

EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition

[The Bowery, photo by Bobby Williams]

Does the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant have the best potato pancakes in the city? (Fork in the Road)

History of the endangered Bialystoker Home for the Aged (Bowery Boys)

Ed Sanders at Boo-Hooray Gallery last night (Village Voice)

Past, present and future of the Delancey Underground (BoweryBoogie)

Lots of thoughts on the new Empellon Cocina on First Avenue (Eater)

CB3 joins fight to save Bowery newsstand (The Lo-Down)

Solving a Television photo location mystery (Flaming Pablum)

Where ya peen?: The Standard goes full frontal again (The Grumbler ... more thoughts and photos on Curbed)

L train not being kind to bars and restaurants in Williamsburg (Gothamist)

Speaking of Williamsburg: Drinking at Redd's (Tripping With Marty)

NYU faculty want more administrative transparency on pending gym demo (NYU Local)

And if you're in Boca Raton anytime until March 15, check out "Low Fidelity - The Photographs of Bobby Grossman 1975-1983" (The Sun-Sentinel)

[Bobby Grossman]

Is this the final Starbucks sign on First Avenue?

Marjorie Ingall sends along this photo from First Avenue and East Third Street ... She asks a fine question: Is this signage temporary or will Starbucks keep the stenciled look for that rebellious East Village feel?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Today's sign of the apocalypse: Starbucks taking over The Bean's space on First Avenue and Third Street

[Updated] Coen Brothers back in action on East Ninth Street

Well, after yesterday's rain delay... the grounds crew is pulling the tarp off the field and...uh, removing those not-very-1960sish-shoes from the trees...

The above "Inside Llewyn Davis" photos from East Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue are via EV Grieve reader Lulu...

And via @melissa0sue ...

...and @StarkOnline ...

... and via @delcecato ...

Previously on EV Grieve:
The Coen Brothers want to dress up East Ninth Street

Today in looking at David Schwimmer's in-progress mansion

The construction crew at David Schwimmer's new place at 331 E. Sixth St. is making a lot of progress, at least based on this aerial shot by EV Grieve reader weigone... this photo is from Wednesday...

...and from Feb. 1 ...

Some neighbors, who say they have put up with horrendous noise from the site in recent weeks, are curious about the box-like structure in the top photo — elevator shaft? Indoor BBQ pit? Vault? Panic room?

Boarding up 21 E. Second St.

A three-alarm fire involving 140 firefighters broke out late Tuesday night at 21 E. Second St., a six-floor apartment building between the Bowery and Second Avenue...

Yesterday, Bobby Williams notes that workers were on the scene to board up the windows. The Red Cross is currently offering temporary housing to the 30-plus residents who were displaced from the fire.