3rd & B'zaar's new market will feature the work of women-owned businesses

Photo by Stacie Joy 

After two-and-a-half years of hosting seasonal markets, art shows and other special events, the folks at 3rd & B'zaar are introducing a more long-term concept. 

Based on customer feedback, organizers Maegan Hayward, Sara Ann Rutherford and Delphine Le Goff will host — starting today — the next market for an entire year at 191 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. 

Here's more: 

Everyone loves our vintage and locally designed clothing options, along with our funky art and accessories. We've hand-selected some of our favorite vendors to keep us stocked with all these goodies year-round. And guess what? All of our vendors are women-owned businesses. What a great way to kick off the year and celebrate Women's History Month. 

In the photo above (from the left): Selina Gladys (Everything's Fine Vintage), Stephanie Fleck (Grandmother Goods), Rutherford, Marie Suchan (Miss Frizz Dazzle Vintage), Hayward (East Village Vintage Collective), Le Goff (Display by Delphine) and Jaclyn Snook (Rat Resale Clothing). 

And the complete list of participating vendors/businesses (in alphabetical order):

• Autumn's Fun House @autumnsfunhouse 

• The Champagne Diet @thechampagnediet 

• Cira Vintage Finds @ciravintagefinds 

• Delphine Le Goff @displaybydelphine 

• East Village Vintage Collective @evvintagecollective 

• Everything's Fine Vintage @everythingsfinevintage 

• Grandmother Goods @grandmothergoods 

• Greenwell Goods @greenwellgoods 

• Lui & Lui @luiandluinyc 

• Messy Jessy Vintage @messyjessyvtg 

• Miss Frizz Dazzle Vintage @missfrizzdazzlevintage 

• New Lines @newlinesny 

• Rat Resale @ratresaleclothing 

• Star 666tyseven @star666tyseven 

• Taracotta Vintage @taracottavintage 

The market is open Wednesday-Friday from 1-7 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. Keep up to date via Instagram.

3rd & B'Zaar debuted in late 2020 with a month-long Holiday Market.

This is a public service announcement: International Clash Day is Tuesday

This Tuesday (Feb. 7), Seattle's KEXP is hosting its 11th annual International Clash Day. 

The KEXP holiday's 11th annual celebration will be a day of on-air programming all about The Clash, with an exploration of present-day human rights issues that underscore the seminal track's ["Know Your Rights"] relevance over 40 years later. 

You can tune in to the station here from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET. All sessions are archived for two weeks here.

Top photo from 2009 shows Ezo's Clash-inspired (and long-gone) mural on Third Street between Avenue B. It was on the wall outside the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

2023 — the year 'Neo Punk' broke

 

Iggy Pop's 19th studio album, Every Loser, is out today. 

The record, which features backing musicians Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and a posthumous appearance from Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, is enjoying some pretty solid reviews to date. 

There are a bunch of audio clips from the record on YouTube... such as the one above for "Neo Punk."

As previously noted, East Village resident John Holmstrom, the co-founder, editor and illustrator of Punk Magazine, created a new issue that's only available with a purchase of Every Loser.

Previously on EV Grieve:

• A Punk Magazine-Iggy Pop holiday 'Loser' extravaganza at Metropolis

• Go on a tour of Iggy Pop's East Village in 1993  

Why you might need to change your New York's Eve plans

Tough news for anyone who was planning to ring in 2023 at Key Food at the strike of midnight. 

ICYMI: Management for the grocery on Avenue A and Fourth posted (with festive signage!) their holiday hours earlier this week... noting a 10 closure tonight, New Year's Eve...

Otherwise, Key is back to its 24/7 schedule. 

Meanwhile, see you in Times Square!

Icicle works: Frozen pipes cause damage to several East Village businesses

Photos by Stacie Joy 

Several East Village business owners returned to work yesterday to discover an unwelcome gift after the frigid holiday weekend. 

We heard that frozen pipes burst in a handful of storefronts, causing damage at Moge Tee on Cooper Square between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place (above) and Gama Lounge, the comedy club in the basement of 50 Avenue B between Third Street and Fourth Street (below) among other establishments...

Other businesses that suffered water damage include Flower Power at 406 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... and Via Della Scrofa, the Italian specialty shop at 60 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery. 

In an Instagram post, the folks at Via Della Scrofa said they'd be closed for the remainder of the year. 

One EV super told EVG contributor Stacie Joy that there were reports of broken pipes "all over the place."

Sunday's parting shot

Holiday hydrant ... photo Derek Berg...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo from the Theater for the New City yesterday by Lola Sáenz) 

• Man found dead with a slash wound to his neck on Avenue A (Monday) ... NYPD release wanted poster in connection with Avenue A homicide (Thursday) 

• Moroccan specialty shop Timbuktu being forced out after 20 years on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• Hamilton Fish Park Library reopens for limited service starting (Monday) 

• A Punk Magazine-Iggy Pop holiday 'Loser' extravaganza at Metropolis (Thursday) 

• Storefront renovations and reveals on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place (Monday) 

• When Santa Claus came to the Lower East Side — with an assist from the FDNY (Thursday) 

• Season's Supermarket Greetings (Friday) 

• No new trees for these 2 East Village spots (Thursday) • Dunkin' debuts on East Houston (Thursday) 

• An EVG 15-year anniversary (Wednesday) 

• The East Village Sauce outpost shutters for now on 12th Street (Monday)

• Jell & Chill peacing out on 7th Street (Friday) 

• Signage alert: Caleta on Avenue A, with a Jan. 7 debut (Tuesday)

• FULL reveal at 14 2nd Ave. (Monday) 

... and a scene from the New York School of Burlesque student showcase last weekend at Drom on Avenue A (photo by Stacie Joy)  ...

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Saturday's parting shot

A montage of holiday windows on St. Mark’s Place... featuring the Sock Man... Fun City and Porto Rico ...

EVG Etc.: East Village shroom bust; rent history insights

Photo by Derek Berg 

• The DA's office has charged 33-year-old Kenwood Allen with two counts of second-degree murder, three counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, one count of second-degree robbery, and two counts of second-degree assault for causing fatal overdoses of two people Allen robbed in venues on Seventh Street and Ludlow Street (The Post ... Gay City News ... press release from DA's office) 

• Police arrest four people during an investigation into the sale of magic mushrooms at East Village stores Come Back Daily on 11th Street and City Clouds on Seventh Street (PIX11 ... 

• The holiday season with a broken boiler at the Baruch Houses (CBS 2 ... The City) 

• More about Kōbo by Nai, now open on Avenue A (The New York Times... previously on EVG) 

• How to get your rent history in NYC (The City) 

• Revisiting the great Veniero's on 11th Street (Eater) 

• Adam Zhu on the enduring creative stamina of New York (Document Journal ... previously on EVG) 

• Latke time at Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery (NY1) 

• Remembering filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.'s influence on the LES (The Daily Heller) 

• Winter memories in the East Village (Laura Goggin Photography) 

• Riding with the Citi Bike Boyz in Tompkins Square Park (Curbed)

• An oral history of the Pyramid Club on Avenue A (Document Journal) What's next for the space? (EVG) 

• The most borrowed books from NYC’s public libraries this year (Gothamist) 

• Yo La Tengo pays tribute to the Ramones with Marky Ramone at the Bowery Ballroom (Brooklyn Vegan) 

• Recent EV arrival Anna Delvey, still under house arrest, has made $300,000 this year selling her art online (Artnet) 

• How the Lower East Side has changed since 1988's "Crossing Delancey" (New York Jewish Week)

Season's Supermarket Greetings

Photos by Stacie Joy 

While out and about this holiday season, EVG contributor Stacie Joy starting keeping tabs on the neighborhood's grocery stores (such as Associated on Avenue C above) to see how the markets were decorating for the season. 

Many places were on the bah-humbug-y side, perhaps with just a few cashier-area holiday tinsel-y ornaments. 

These were the groceries putting in the holiday décor effort, starting with Pioneer/Met Fresh on Avenue D between Eighth Street and Ninth Street ...

... Union Market on Houston and Avenue A...

... H-Mart on Third Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street ...

...New Yorkers Food Market on Second Avenue between Seventh Street and Sixth Street...

... Whole Foods Market® Bowery ...

... and the clear winner in the grocery holiday games — Key Food on Avenue A and Fourth Street,

Key was also the only shop with any Hanukkah signage and opting for the traditional Chanukah spelling...

Please note that Key closes at 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve (tomorrow) and will be closed all day on Christmas. So plan ahead. (Sidenote: We finally found where they stock the mustard now — aisle 1, which doesn't make sense, after the Great Key Reorganization. Stayed tuned for the next investigative series on mustard presentation.)

A Punk Magazine-Iggy Pop holiday 'Loser' extravaganza at Metropolis

Photos by Stacie Joy 

Iggy Pop recently announced that he has a new record, Every Loser, (his 19th studio album) coming out next month. 

As part of this release, there's also a new edition of Punk Magazine (No. 22 for those of you keeping track) — 47 years after the very first issue. This edition is available along with the record via Iggy's website. 

Ahead of this release, East Village resident John Holmstrom (above), the co-founder, editor and illustrator of Punk Magazine, provided a sneak preview of the edition on Saturday night at Metropolis Vintage on Broadway and 11th Street.

The party included some Punk fans and contributors, such as illustrator Bruce Carleton and East Village-based photographer Godlis...

In a recent newsletter, Holmstrom provided the back story on how this Every Loser issue of Punk came together. 

It started with a text this past July from the record's producer, Andrew Watt, who is a Punk fan (especially Mutant Monster Beach Party in issue No. 15). 

This guy, Andrew Watt, said he wanted me to devote an entirely new issue of Punk to Iggy's new album. He wanted it to be an authentic Punk magazine, with the whole scraggly, hand-lettered mess of photos and comic strips we usually came up with. 

"What was your last issue number?" he once asked.

"Twenty-one," I replied. (Our CBGB Tribute!) 

"Then this will be Punk magazine Number Twenty-two," Andrew said. (And to be honest? He stuck to this promise all the way through. This is an authentic Punk Magazine. I enjoyed complete creative control throughout.) An entire issue devoted to Iggy Pop… Great idea, right? How could I say "No!"? So I agreed to do it. What could go wrong? 

And... 

Andrew told me how he was sure I would like the new Iggy LP. I have to admit I was skeptical at first. You know: "That’s what they all say." A few weeks later, he sent me the tracks, and I was blown away. "Best Iggy Pop solo LP!" I gladly told him. By now, I would have killed an army of Nazi Disco Zombies to produce this new issue of Punk Magazine that details Iggy's amazing career and highlights his amazing new album! 

To me, Iggy was the first "Punk." He started it all, the most important person in the history of punk rock, best musician, most influential, etc. Once I heard this amazing new Iggy LP I started putting ideas together and researching everything about Iggy I could find on the Internet. I have to admit I hadn't kept up with all of the intimate details of Iggy's career since the 1970s, but he was always there. I always noticed that he was up to this or that. 

There's a lot about Iggy Pop on the internet, but most of it refers to The Stooges and Iggy's drug years before he cleaned up his act in the early 1980s. Well, yeah, these are all interesting stories, but mostly old and retold many times over. 

So rather than tell the same old dismal stories about "The Depths of Drug Addiction" or track down the many photos where he cut himself on stage, I decided to focus on Iggy's amazing creative career and his work: a bunch of great studios LPs, lots of quotable Iggy quotes, a massive number of film roles, (too many music videos to list), etc. So I got started on putting together the magazine.

This issue of Punk can only be purchased through the official Iggy Pop website. 

You can subscribe to Holmstrom's newsletter here. 

Previously on EV Grieve:

• Q-and-A with John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk Magazine

• A visit to Metropolis Vintage on Broadway

• Go on a tour of Iggy Pop's East Village in 1993

Anniversaries: 15 years ago today

The very first post arrived on this site on Dec. 21, 2007. It was an item from Page Six (!!!???) about the possible sale of Sophie's and Mona's, two longtime favorite East Village bars.

The site went by — not joking! — Sophie's Bar Blog for a brief period. (And why not Mona's Bar Blog?) After a few weeks of handwringing, it turned out that the bars would stay in the family and remain pretty much the same to this day 15 years later. (I explain the site's evolution from Sophie's Bar Blog to EVG here.)

Anyway, taking this moment to thank you for reading the site for however long it has been these past 15 years and 38,546 posts, and for sharing in the adventures of living in this neighborhood — for better or worse. And thank you for sharing tips, photos, anecdotes, observations, complaints, and perspectives on day-to-day life here, past and present.

Couldn't do any of this without all of you. 

I'm incredibly grateful to Derek Berg and Steven for their daily contributions... and to Stacie Joy for lending her photography and reporting talents in covering happenings around the neighborhood.

And now, a happy and healthy holiday season to you. (If you have a Christmas tree and need to discard it before leaving town, please place it where we can get a good photo of it!)

 Photoshopped photo from the archives courtesy of EVPinhead. And I give that business six weeks!

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a reader-submitted photo from the Ninth Street Community Garden & Park) ...

• Here's the new, larger residential building planned for 280 E. Houston St. (Monday) 

• The 'Daze' of our lives: Adam Zhu's new photo book chronicles today's downtown youth culture (Wednesday) 

• Renovations underway at the former Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Tuesday) 

• At the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting (Monday) ... Seeing the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree in a whole new light (Saturday) 

• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Harvey L. Silver's 'Changin' Times' (Friday) 

• Bad Brains on the Bowery with Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman (Thursday) 

• The New Museum is collecting coats for the Bowery Mission (Tuesday) 

• Cautionary tales: A song inspired by an East Village move (Friday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: The Commodore aims for Avenue C; an all-day Italian cafe for 12th Street (Monday) 

• The Zero Irving food hall is now OPEN (Thursday) 

• Memphis Seoul announces itself on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Before Dallas BBQ (Tuesday ... Wednesday ... Thursday) 

• Crab Du Jour sleeps with the fishes on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Gen Korean BBQ House drops the plywood for a full reveal on 14th Street and 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Pizza for the former Subway (sandwich shop) on Avenue B (Thursday)

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At the 9th Precinct today

Photos by Derek Berg 

The 9th Precinct's annual holiday party took place this morning on Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. 

The event included a toy giveaway to every child 12 years old and younger in attendance...

Seeing the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree in a whole new light

The Tompkins Square Park holiday tree is officially lit for the season. Again!

After last Sunday's festive ceremony, the tree was dark on Monday night, and it stayed that way until last night. 

Leadership at the Parks Department told EVG contributor Stacie Joy that there were "ongoing circuit issues" that required several requests for repairs. 

So all good for now. "We are pleased the lights are on," per the official.

Holiday wishes for the former Charas/El Bohio Community Center

Two community events are taking place this weekend at the former P.S. 64 at 605 E. Ninth St. between Avenue B and Avenue C. (The above photo was taken from the 10th Street side a few weeks ago.)

Tomorrow (Saturday) at noon, local elected officials, residents and supporters are coming together for a rally to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the eviction of the Charas/El Bohio Community & Cultural Center here. 

The assembled speakers will be asking "the mayor to make our holiday wish come true and return our community center."

This evening starting at 5:30, the activist group Loisaida Guardians is hosting a holiday dinner on the Ninth Street side of the property "to share gifts and food in the spirit of the holidays and work together to reopen Charas for the community of the people of New York City." 

We're told that Two Boots will be providing some pizzas. Find more details on the Facebook event page.

The long-vacant building, owned by Gregg Singer since 1998, fell into foreclosure earlier this year and is reportedly in the hands of lender Madison Realty Capital. 

The five-floor building is being offered for use as medical space or educational-related purposes. Meanwhile, some residents want to see the space used as a community center, as it was during its time as Charas/El Bohio Community Center. Singer evicted the group on Dec. 27, 2001. 

Noted

On Monday night, an EVG reader told us that the lights were off on the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree — 24 hours after the official and festive lighting ceremony. 

They remain off this evening for unknown reasons...

At the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

The Tompkins Square Park holiday tree is officially lit for the season... the grand finale of the annual lighting ceremony late yesterday afternoon. 

Albert Fabozzi (below) planted the much-loved Christmas tree in Tompkins Square Park in 1992 to honor and memorialize his partner, Glenn Barnett, and others who died of AIDS. The tree was 8 feet tall when he planted it. Today, the tree is well over 50 feet.

There's now a new sign noting the tree's significance for the community. (Someone stole the previous plaque.)

Despite the cold, windswept weather, a festive neighborhood crowd turned out for the event that included the Carolers of Olde New York from Theater for the New City and refreshments courtesy of Veselka and C&B Cafe.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos of some of the attendees ...