EVG reader David shared this from outside the psychic's space on Third Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. No word if the palm reader foretold these typos on its new sign.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Noted
EVG reader David shared this from outside the psychic's space on Third Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. No word if the palm reader foretold these typos on its new sign.
[UPDATED] Rally Saturday afternoon to keep the Tompkins Square Park asphalt courts free of synthetic turf
Updated 9/6
The city has announced that it will no longer cover the court with synthetic turf!
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The skateboarding community is coming together Saturday afternoon to show their support for keeping the multipurpose courts in the northwest corner of Tompkins Square Park free of synthetic turf.
As we reported on July 2, the city has plans — apparently only known to residents who may have attended a Community Board committee meeting in May — to cover the courts with synthetic turf, rendering the space useless for skateboarders and street hockey players, among other groups.
The turf project, happening at several area parks, is a result of the city's flood-protection plan that will close East River Park next March for 3.5-plus years. The city needs to find space for the sports teams and youth leagues who use the fields along East River Park.
Here's more from Adam Zhu, the East Village resident who launched the petition — titled "Save Tompkins Square asphalt!" — in early July:
For generations, Tompkins has been a safe haven for skateboarders and other marginalized activities. It serves as a melting pot for all walks of life and is an integral part of our identity as a neighborhood and community.
The city now plans to install AstroTurf there to prioritize permitted sports, which will destroy the way our community has utilized this park for decades. Please join me on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. in the NW corner of the Park to show the city what this park means to us!
In July, reps for the skateboarders met with the Parks Department. Both sides have reported that it was a productive meeting. However, Crystal Howard, a spokesperson for the Parks Department, told Patch last week that the proposal to turn the lot into astroturf remains. "We continue to consider the skateboarder's interests as we review the matter," she said.
You can find the petition here. As of last evening, there were over 32,000 signatures.
As Zhu recently told The New York Times: "There is something important about this specific spot, and that has to do with the history of the park at large and our personal history with the park — having grown up here, met all our friends here.
"I’m not fighting to make this a skate park," he added. “It’s a multiuse park, and it functions very well as is."
Previously on EV Grieve:
• No winners yet in Tompkins Square Park synthetic turf battle (Aug. 27)
• Petition to 'Save Tompkins Square asphalt!' closing in on 19,000 signatures (July 8)
• Skateboarders upset over plan to add synthetic turf to the northwest corner of Tompkins Square Park (July 2)
At Gallery 72, everything that John Holmstrom did with the Ramones
East Village resident John Holmstrom, the co-founder, editor and illustrator of Punk Magazine, is bringing together the huge catalogue of work he created for the Ramones for an exhibit starting tonight at 72 Gallery.
Here's more about the exhibit, titled "All the Stuff I Did With the Ramones":
John first met the Ramones at the very dawn of the New York Punk Scene. As the founding editor of Punk Magazine at the age of 21 in late 1975, Holmstrom's work became the visual representation of the punk era.
He featured the band on the cover of Punk Magazine issue #3 — helping to cement them as the quintessential punk band and Joey Ramone as the silhouette to be replicated in countless teenage bedrooms to this day. John went on to have a long collaborative relationship with the band — most famously illustrating the album covers Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin.
This show give a rare opportunity to see Holmstrom's long-lasting collaboration displayed as a single body of work. One which still feels as fresh and vibrant today as it did when the ink first hit the paper.
The opening reception is tonight (Sept. 5!) from 6-9 at Gallery 72, which shares space with The Great Frog, 72 Orchard St. between Broome and Grand. (The folks behind The Great Frog created the gallery space in their rock 'n' roll ring shop and boutique.)
After tonight, you can check out the exhibit from noon to 8 p.m Tuesday through Sunday until Oct. 18.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Q-and-A with John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk Magazine
John Holmstrom on the CBGB movie and the East Village of 2013
On Avenue A, Coney Island Baby transforms into Lola; live music to share stage with club nights
After 15 months as primarily a live music venue, Coney Island Baby recently switched up concepts — and names — here at 169 Avenue A between 10th Street and 11th Street.
As noted on July 29, the space was undergoing a reboot, which included the removal of the Coney Island Baby name from the marquee.
The space is now known as Lola.
Tom Baker, one of the original partners at Coney Island Baby, chalked up the change to the "seven-night-a-week band mill."
"You basically need the venue to be packed for the live shows so everyone goes home happy," he told me. "You have to pay the rent."
The CIB team partnered with downtown nightlife veteran Travis Bass to run public (and private) functions.
"The new vibe is more clubby in a sense," Baker said.
Here's how Bass described the space/scene at Lola in an interview published July 26 at WestwoodWestwood:
We’re keeping the stage, but incorporating it more into a dance floor with beautiful herringbone wood floors, carpeting in the front, lots of palm. It’ll have a very art-fashion world collisions. It can be very fashionable, but janky and artsy and not so perfect. There’ll be a lot of layers to this space. Decorative fabrics, bathroom tiles. We can have shows sometimes early and then turn into a party. The stage could be closed or turned into a VIP room. The various rooms give us options for variety.
The venue will still host the occasional live music and comedy nights, at which times it will go as CIB presents: @ Lola. Tonight, local rockers The Liz Colby Sound begin a Thursday evening residency here. (Find the full schedule of bands here.)
Lola takes its name from the 1961 French romantic drama directed by Jacques Demy.
"A close friend of the CIB family chose the name," Baker said. "She got the inspiration from the film — a testament to the resilience of the heartbroken."
Coney Island Baby debuted on April 26, 2018, with a show by hardcore legends Murphy's Law, HR of Bad Brains and Craig Finn of the Hold Steady. Recent highlights included a Sunday matinee featuring arena band The Raconteurs.
Previously on EV Grieve:
• A 'quick reboot' for Coney Island Baby on Avenue A (July 29)
The return of 'yuppie scum' at the former home of the Sunshine Cinema
Foundation work is underway here on East Houston between Forsyth and Eldridge, where developers East End Capital and K Property Group are putting in a 9-story office building. (Our previous post has more details on what's to come.)
And someone scrawled a message on the plywood rendering of the new building...
This is the first time that I can recall seeing the "yuppie scum" term in the wild in some years. It would make regular appearances at various neighborhood rallies in 2008 and 2009 (here and here, for example) ...
[EVG photo from 2008!]
Perhaps the term will make a resurgence. Jeremiah Moss wrote more about the history of "yuppie scum" back in 2008.
As for what the 9-story building is replacing at this address, the five-screen Landmark Sunshine Theater closed here Jan. 21, 2018, after 17 years in business.
Previously on EV Grieve:
• The Sunshine is gone, and an empty lot awaits a 9-story office building (Aug. 7)
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Wednesday's parting shot
A preview of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s annual Tribute in Light. Thank you to Deb Kadetsky for sharing the photo.
Reader report: A dog-kicking incident on 10th Street
Yesterday (9/3) at around 4:40 p.m., a man approached my two friends and I as we stood on the sidewalk talking on 10th Street between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue ...
He asked us something along the lines of “what are you doing in my spot?” Completely unprovoked, he then kicked my friend's dog across the sidewalk — hard enough that the dog flew about five feet in the air and yelped loudly. He then walked off as though nothing had happened.
We called the cops immediately and they turned up pretty fast but no luck so far in tracking the guy down.
The reader snapped a photo of the man as he walked away. The reader said the dog-kicking suspect was a black male, 5-7 and in his late teens or early 20s with hazel-colored eyes. He did not seem "with it."
Per the reader: "Thought I’d try and make as many people in the neighborhood aware in case he tries to approach anyone else and do the same thing ..."
And the dog is doing OK.
Updated 7:15 p.m.
There are now flyers on 10th Street...
[Photo by Steven]
Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen is back open for the fall (and winter and spring)
[Image via Instagram]
Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen opens today for the season after its customary summer break.
The rustic basement cafe, which generates income for the St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Seventh Street, is open Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Check out Streecha's Instagram account for daily specials. You can always find traditional Ukrainian fare such as borscht and vareniki here. Not to mention homemade desserts and coffee.
Visit Streecha at 33 E. Seventh St. between Second Avenue and Cooper Square.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A visit to the Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen on 7th Street
L train work moves to the entrance of the future Trader Joe's on 14th Street
As you may have noticed in recent days, the walkway configuration has changed on 14th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue in the L-train rehab zone...
Preliminary work started in the summer of 2017 on building new L-train entrances at Avenue A, including accessibility-compliant elevators.
Here's a rendering...
The front entrance of the incoming Trader Joe's at 432 E. 14th St. is now closed off to pedestrians ...
Pedestrians now have to navigate this path between the Trader Joe's-adjacent construction zone and 14th Street...
As for the Trader Joe's, the store's website simply notes "coming soon."
Not sure how soon "soon" is — especially when you see the inside of the space. Here's how the interior looked earlier last week before the construction moved to the front of the entrance...
Speaking of entrances, crews have restored part of the street and sidewalk outside the Associated across 14th Street...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Nightmare scenario for residents who learn that 14th Street and Avenue A will be the main staging area for the L-train reconstruction
Trader Joe's finally confirms that a Trader Joe's is opening on 14th Street at Avenue A
Pub in the works for longtime corner bar space on Houston and Suffolk
[Photo from Saturday]
Gene Lennon, the proprietor behind Juke Bar on Second Avenue and 12th Street as well as Trinity Pub on the Upper East Side, is applying for a new liquor license for 269 E. Houston St.
Lennon will appear before CB3's SLA committee on Monday evening for the currently vacant space on the corner of Suffolk Street.
According to the questionnaire on file at the CB3 website (PDF here), the still-unnamed venture has proposed hours of 11 a.m. to 4 a.m. Monday through Friday, with a noon start time on Saturday and Sunday.
The bar will feature a menu of standard pub fare as well as a jazz brunch.
Lennon has operated a variety of pubs in the city dating to 1995.
He would be taking over a space that been a variety of concepts through the years, most recently as Suffolk Arms, a high-end cocktail lounge from celebrated bartender Giuseppe Gonzalez. That well-appointed bar opened in February 2016 to much acclaim. It went dark in the spring of 2018.
Before Suffolk Arms, this prime corner spot sat empty for several years. The Local 269 never reopened after a flood wiped out the live music venue's equipment in the fall of 2012. Other recent bar tenants included Meow Mix and Vasmay Lounge.
One note about the space: The old neon Bar sign is currently MIA from above the front door.
[Photo from 2016]
Monday's CB3-SLA committee meeting is at the Perseverance House Community Room, 535 E. Fifth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Plywood wraps itself around the incoming Suffolk Arms
Whatever happened to the former Heathers space on 13th Street?
[EVG file photo]
Two retail spaces recently arrived on the market at 506 E. 13th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B...
Per the listing:
Brand new, mint-condition, white-boxed space with floor-to-ceiling windows (full glass front), exposed brick, recessed lighting, new hardwood flooring, partial kitchen (however no food establishments, please), renovated bathroom. Open floor plan with tons of potential. Similarly-finished but smaller second space also available next door (same address).
The rent is $107-$118 a square foot.
The larger of these spaces (the storefront on the west) was home for eight years (under two different owners) to Heathers, a bar-lounge hotspot of sorts that attracted plenty of press during its time here.
Heather Millstone opened Heathers in 2005, and the bar quickly became a lightning rod for noise complaints. (The Times had a lengthy article in January 2007 about the ongoing noise issues between the bar and neighbors.) There was also plenty of CB3-related drama for Heathers with its liquor license in the fall of 2011.
New owners took over the bar during the summer of 2012 ... and the place abruptly closed in October 2013.
Post Heathers, the space has been on and off the market these past five years. I can't recall any business being in the space during that time.
You have through Sunday to swim in city pools (though not the Tompkins Square Park mini pool)
The Tompkins Square Park mini pool is now closed until next summer. The pool season ended here on Labor Day... and workers have already drained (most of) the water, as these photos via EVG Mini-Pool Correspondent Steven show...
However, because it's still summer (woooooo!), the city's 50-plus outdoor public pools remain open. So you have until Sunday evening (Sept. 8!) to enjoy Hamilton Fish Pool on Pitt and East Houston and the Dry Dock Pool on Avenue D and 10th Street.
Outdoor pools are open daily from 11 a.m. through 7 p.m., with a break for pool cleaning between 3-4 p.m.
Same rules apply as they did on opening day in June: No urinating or defecating in the pools.
CVS FYI
That 24/7 CVS in the base of the condoplex on the corner of Orchard and Houston opened over the Labor Day weekend (about a week later than advertised).
The drug chain joins Marshalls and an Equinox Fitness center as the retail tenants at this 11-story, 94-unit building.
In July, the developers behind 196 Orchard St., including Ben Shaoul’s Magnum Management, sold the retail portion of the building to the AR Global affiliate New York City REIT for an incredible $88.75 million, according to The Real Deal.
This property on Houston between Ludlow and Orchard previously housed a single row of storefronts, including Ray's Pizza and Bereket.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Making way for Ben Shaoul's new retail-residential complex on East Houston
Katz's is now the last business on East Houston between Ludlow and Orchard
A CVS is coming to the corner of Houston and Orchard in Ben Shaoul's luxury condoplex
Report: retail portion of Ben Shaoul's luxury condoplex on Houston and Orchard sells for a whopping $88 million
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
An unsettling find on 5th Street
An EVG reader shares these photos from Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... the reader did a double-take at this note...
At first, the reader thought this might be some kind of sick gag (as we've seen notes on curbside garbage bags in the past). However, upon closer inspection, it looked as if someone took care to wrap the contents inside the double plastic bag.
Apparently this is an acceptable way to dispose of a pet in NYC. According to the Department of Sanitation website:
The City accepts reports of dead animals. The City will collect a carcass from a public area or street (or from private property – if the animal may have been rabid, was killed by a family pet or scratched or bit a person or pet.) You may also place a dead animal in a heavy-duty black plastic bag or double plastic bag and put it out on the day of garbage collection with a note taped to the bag stating "dead dog" or "dead cat", for example. Animals that may have been rabid should not be put in the garbage. The City cremates dead pets for a fee, though the ashes are not returned to the animal’s owner.
Jury selection starts for defendants in 2nd Avenue gas explosion that killed 2 men
[Aerial photo of 119-123 2nd Ave. from March 27, 2015]
Jury selection is set to start today for Maria Hrynenko and two others for their role in the gas explosion on March 26, 2015, that killed two men, Nicholas Figueroa and Moises Locón, and leveled three buildings — 119, 121 and 123 Second Ave.
The trial could last as long as three months in Manhattan Supreme Court, the Daily News reports.
Hrynenko, her son Michael Hrynenko (now deceased), contractor Dilber Kukic and their plumber Anthanasios Ioannidis illegally tampered with the gas line at 121 Second Ave. then failed to warn those in the building before the blast, according to the Manhattan District Attorney.
Charges against Hrynenko, Kukic and Ioannidis include second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and several counts of assault in connection to more than a dozen injured victims.
This past March, the fifth defendant, Andrew Trombettas, was sentenced to probation and community service. Trombettas had previously pleaded guilty for his role in rubber-stamping a modification to 121 Second Ave. prior to the explosion. The D.A.'s office charged him with two counts of "Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, a class E felony."
The News has comments from Kukic’s lawyer:
The defense is expected to argue that tampering was not the root cause of the explosion.
“I think the DA is going to try and show that there were all these irregularities regarding the gas piping,” said Kukic’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo. “None of that is what caused the gas to leak.”
Instead, he said, the gas leak came from the restaurant’s kitchen where workers heard a “hissing.”
“They smelled gas for months prior to the explosion. It was not a one-time thing,” Agnifilo said.
If the fire started in the kitchen, the defendants are expected to argue that couldn’t be blamed because their potential liability would have been isolated to basement operations.
“I don’t think the DA will ever really conclusively pinpoint what the problem was, where the gas came from,” Agnifilo [said].
Hrynenko and the defendants had made 25-plus courtroom appearances since February 2016, which all ended the same — "adjourned/bail continued."
Shaky Cohen's Nexus Building Development Group paid $9.15 million for the empty lots at No. 119 and No. 121 that Hrynenko owned. In a previously recorded transaction, Ezra Wibowo paid $6 million for the adjacent property at 123 Second Ave. that was owned by a different landlord who had no role in the explosion. There isn't any development planned there for now, according to previous reports.
Workers have been quickly erecting the Morris Adjmi-designed building at 119 Second Ave. — officially 45 E. Seventh St. — that will feature 21 condo units and ground-floor retail. The new building will include a commemorative plaque that honors Nicholas Figueroa and Moises Locón.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Updated: 2nd Ave. explosion — landlord, 3 others charged with 2nd degree manslaughter; showed 'a blatant and callous disregard for human life'
RIP Nicholas Figueroa
RIP Moises Ismael Locón Yac
A family continues to feel the loss on 2nd Avenue
Exclusive: 2nd Avenue explosion sites have a new owner
Dedicating Moises Locón Way and Nicholas Figueroa Way on 2nd Avenue at 7th Street
Artichoke Basille’s Pizza vying for former Nicoletta space on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street
Looks like the Nicoletta space will remain a pizzeria on Second Avenue at 10th Street.
Reps for the ever-expanding Artichoke Basille’s Pizza chain, which started in the East Village, are on this month's CB3-SLA agenda for a liquor license for 201 E. 10th St.
This questionnaire for the Sept. 16 meeting isn't online yet. However, the name of Artichoke co-founder Francis Garcia is on the application posted at the CB3 website.
Renovations are currently underway at the former Nicoletta space, which had a sizable dining room and outdoor cafe. Artichoke's plans for the venue aren't immediately known.
This would mark the second East Village location for Artichoke, which moved from its original East Village home (circa 2008) on 14th to a larger space across the street in June 2017.
Artichoke has been expanding nationwide with multi-unit franchise deals, most recently opening in Oakland, Calif.
As for Nicoletta, the much-heralded pizzeria from Michael White closed last December at this address after six-plus years in business. They are still delivering pizzas from an undisclosed location.
This corner space on 10th Street and Second Avenue had been on the retail market with a nearly $18,000 monthly ask.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Artichoke appears to be moving into a new space on 14th Street
Report of an early-morning fire at 328 E. 14th St., home of Artichoke Basille’s Pizza
Artichoke Basille's Pizza signage arrives at new 14th Street location
FDNY says fire that started at Artichoke was accidental
2nd acts: Sushi counter for the former Amato Opera on the Bowery
The former Amato Opera building at 319 Bowery may finally have its first (full-time) retail business...
Reps for Kissaki Omakase will appear before CB3's SLA committee on Sept. 16 for a full liquor license for the space...
One of the applicants was an executive chef/partner at Gaijin in Astoria. Plans here call for a sushi counter with proposed hours of noon to midnight Sunday through Thursday, with a 1 a.m. close Friday and Saturday. (Find more details via their online questionnaire.)
In January 2009, Anthony Amato, the company's 88-year-old founder, announced that he had sold the building that was home to the opera since 1964. Amato Opera staged its last performance in May 2009. (Earlier history: The four-story brick building was a cigar factory from 1899 to 1926.)
Steve Croman bought the building in December 2008 for $3.7 million. The retail space had been on and off the market since at least 2012. It was once pitched like this, circa 2012...
The retail listing had originally asked $34,995. A post on @TradedNY noted the 1,800-square-foot space went for $200 per square foot.
No. 319 also features three luxury residences, with monthly rents between $8,995 and $10,995.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Life after the Amato Opera
Costume drama on the Bowery as the Amato Opera empties out
Amato Opera looks to be getting an encore as city OKs residential use
Work permits arrive at the former Amato Opera on the Bowery
Residential rentals at the former Amato Opera on the Bowery start at $10,995
Frisson Espresso has closed on 3rd Avenue
After 20 months in business, Frisson Espresso has closed on the west side of Third Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street.
A sign on the door thanks customers... and notes that Frisson's West 47th Street location remains open...
On one hand, this appears to be a potentially prosperous spot for coffee given the proximity to many college students (NYU and Cooper Union have dorms across the Avenue) ... on the other hand, there is a lot of competition right around here, including (but not limited to!) the Bean and City of Saints Coffee Roasters.
In recent years, we've seen Pushcart Coffee on Third Avenue at 12th Street in NYU's Third North dorm close ... as well as Wayside and Greekito on 12th Street at Third Avenue and Starbucks on Ninth Street and Broadway and Ninth Street and Second Avenue.
One big factor: Frisson opened here in January 2018. And the storefront-obscuring sidewalk bridge that surrounds the residential building (The St. Mark at 115 E. Ninth St.) has been up that entire time.
Now the Basics Plus on University Place is closing
Store closing signs are now in the windows at the Basics Plus on University Place at 13th Street. (Thanks to EVG reader Doug for the above photo!)
The signage directs future patrons to visit the East Village BP on Third Avenue at 12th Street (seen below)...
[Photo from this past weekend]
As you'll recall, back in March, the Basics Plus on Third Avenue announced that they were closing. At that time, customers were directed to shop at the University Place outpost...
[Photo from March by Steven]
However, closer to their announced April 29 closing date, the housewares store changed plans, and downsized their square footage at the Third Avenue location.
Who knows what might happen next with Basics Plus, which opened in the East Village in August 2014.
The Basics Plus website lists eight NYC locations.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Basics Plus apparently not closing on 3rd Avenue after all
The Alley now in soft-open bubble tea mode on Cooper Square
The Alley debuted on Sunday at 68 Cooper Square (across from Cooper Union). As previously noted, this is the first NYC location for the growing Taiwanese bubble tea chain.
After a few days of a soft opening, the Alley will be full time starting on Saturday.
As Eater previously reported on the Alley:
With the aid of social media, Alley’s Instagrammable sweet drinks and decor have attracted fervent milk tea lovers to line up for hours for a sip of tea whenever a new store opens. Chinese people coin tea shops like the Alley as the “internet celebrity tea,” meaning the tea goes viral overnight on social media, like internet celebrities.
In the upcoming New York Alley, customers can pick a drink from a menu of two dozens teas that range from bubble tea to fruit tea. “Brown sugar deerioca” — the brand’s logo is a deer head — is a signature milk-based sweet drink with no tea in it. Alley’s other popular drinks are made of fresh milk and local black or green tea. The tapioca pearls, or what the Alley calls deerioca, are made by the restaurant.
Speaking of lines, EVG reader Sheila shared this photo from Sunday... she counted about 40 people waiting to enter...
Monday, September 2, 2019
Report: Man arrested for attempting to kidnap 5-year-old boy outside Katz's
There aren't many details at the moment. Per the Post:
Eric Visa, 46, approached the child as he was walking outside the famous Lower East Side eatery with his family shortly after midnight, according to law enforcement sources.
The creep, who was wearing a top hat, grabbed the boy and walked away before the mother noticed and chased him down, the sources said.
Visa was tracked down by police and arrested at about 3 a.m. He was charged with attempted kidnapping.
The Citizen app listed the address as 164 Ludlow St., which is near Stanton Street...
Feast your eyes on this
That time of year already... the Feast of San Gennaro signage arrived back on Friday on Houston at Mulberry... the Feast takes place Sept. 12-22 this year.
New for the 2019 edition: a zeppole-eating contest. Per The Wall Street Journal (my go-to source for competitive-eating articles!):
The stuff-your-face affair, which is set for Sept. 18 at the midway point of the 11-day festival, is a natural fit for San Gennaro, said Danny Fratta, a longtime zeppole vendor who is organizing the event. In fact, the zeppole contest joins meatball and cannoli eating competitions already established at the festival.
A warning about sitting on these tree guard railings on 5th Street
An update on the ongoing campaign to keep people and squirrels from upsetting the eco-system of this planter on Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
The Urban Tree Guard Etiquette Sign asks that people refrain from sitting on the tree guard railings ... because the tree guards are coated with grease to keep squirrels from digging in the planters.
In response, someone placed a "More Humanity Towards [sic] Animals" sticker on the sign...
It's not immediately clear if the sticker is in direct response to the sign... or perhaps just randomly placed. (A "More Humanity Toward Pants" sticker might be appropriate. Grease stains are tough, though not impossible, to remove.)
As previously reported, this tree guard is within the East Fifth St. Tree Committee boundaries.
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