Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Retail shuffle continues at 250 E. Houston St.; Subway and Dunkin' next to leave
The 13th Street Blick is moving to a familiar art-supply spot on 4th Avenue
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Tuesday's parting shot
The East Village Neighbors Community Fridge is up and running again after vandal strikes
[I]t is disheartening and shocking that someone would vandalize a community fridge. However, we will move forward ... Thanks to ALL for the support. We are in continual need of food/monetary donations to fill the fridge so we would rather the community focus on that. We got the equipment covered.
We've been absolutely floored by the neighborhood's generosity in donating money for food and also in stocking the fridge — but we're almost out of funds. We've been organizing large, weekly deliveries of fresh food in order to make sure residents have a selection of healthy food, but we'll have to stop them in a few weeks if we don't raise more money.
March gallery expanding on Avenue A
Neighborhood Loading Zones, bike lane outlines arrive along Avenue C
A striped awning for the Tile Bar
Monday, August 23, 2021
Monday's parting shot
More details on the East 7th Street fire victims seeking help from their former landlord
[T]wo of Popcorn's tenants, mother and daughter Zwenyslawa and Chrysanna Woroch, are living in a former hotel turned homeless shelter, their lawyer, James Fishman, said."They had no place else to go," Fishman said.The Worochs paid $617 a month for their rent-controlled apartment, which had been in the family since 1957.The pair filed suit in April against Popcorn's LLC, which owned the property, seeking to have Popcorn, or a subsequent owner, "take any and all actions necessary" to restore their occupancy of the apartment and maintain their rent-regulated status.Popcorn argued in legal papers that since there is no building, she had no obligation to do so."If that were true, then any landlord that wanted to terminate rent-controlled or rent-stabilized tenancies could just simply allow the building to either be burned down or not repair it or whatever," Fishman said. "That can't be right."
Duane Reade, fully visible again on Avenue B
Ray gets his day on Humans of New York
Sunday, August 22, 2021
[Updated] Flooding seen in Tompkins Square Park
Week in Grieview
The Tompkins Square Park Greenmarket is CLOSED today
Saturday, August 21, 2021
With Henri approaching, Key Food still stocked with the essentials
Today in photos of random trophies in Tompkins Square Park
Regarding Henri
In NYC, we're under a tropical storm warning... with strong winds and heavy rains arriving overnight...#Henri has strengthened to a hurricane and is headed for Long Island and southern New England. Hurricane and Tropical Storm Warnings have been extended eastward. Here are the 11 am EDT Key Messages. See https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB for details. pic.twitter.com/lRb61AnHaj
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 21, 2021
Gothamist has a nice recap of all this here.We are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Henri. Here’s the latest:
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 21, 2021
-New York City is under a Tropical Storm Warning. We expect strong winds and rain to begin late tonight and last through tomorrow.
Watching the neighborhood like a hawk
As Goggla documented, it was a challenging summer for the pair.
HBD Joe Strummer
Friday, August 20, 2021
Friday's parting DM
The Emu(?) was around all day yesterday but disappeared overnight. I’m intrigued by the fact the it started the day with a Santa hat though. pic.twitter.com/gSWPefjPJ5
— Richard Frank (@Thtguyrich) August 21, 2021
Pace yourself
Rather random Avenue A fruit stand randomly gone
Today in photos of severed stuffed zebra heads on 5th Avenue and 9th Street
Report: Superiority Burger moving into the former Odessa space on Avenue A
"Odessa has always kinda been my dream space," he says. What's so dreamy about it is that besides being big, it comes completely furnished and ready to go. "It's not old and dusty and gross and needing upgrades," he says. "I find it completely beautiful — the soda counter, the satellite bar, the cash register station. I don't plan to change it at all."
Superiority will be making the short move around the corner from Ninth Street in the months ahead:
Headley says that he'll need to order some new kitchen equipment and anticipates that it will take at least five months — probably more, what with supply-chain issues — until the new Superiority opens its doors. The plan is to launch dinner service first and then open for lunch and breakfast (yes, breakfast!). He will likely surrender the ancillary kitchen space he leases on 9th Street but keep the original store for purposes yet to be determined.
Superiority opened in the East Village in June 2015.