A sidewalk shed arrives outside Vazac's

On Friday evening, workers arrived to start putting up a sidewalk shed around the perimeter of the Horseshoe Bar/Vazac's/7B here on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue B...

There aren't any permits on file via the DOB website just yet... so we don't know what type of work will be done here...

[Matt LES_Miserable from yesterday]

Dave on 7th, who took the photo below, thought that the Seventh Street side of the shed might be a little crooked...

And the main topic of conversation... Depending on what's happening here ... perhaps this is the end of what's left of the four-story Peter Jarema Funeral Home ad ... ("air conditioned chapels") with its old exchange "OR4-2568."

[EVG]

As Ephemeral New York points out, Peter Jarema opened in 1906, and the copy on the wall says that they've been in business for more than 60 years, which dates the ad to the 1960s... in any event, we always hate to see little pieces of history like this wiped away...

Wall art

Remnants of the circa-1900 building at 76 Third Ave. providing an interesting tapestry. A follow-up from last Monday's post.

Previously.

Piola gives way to Ribalta

A little off the usual course... over on East 12th Street just off Broadway... that pizza place Piola closed back in February...

According to a post dated Feb. 25 on the Piola New York Facebook page:

To our valued customers: the restaurant is undergoing reconstruction. The new restaurant will reopen in mid march in the same place. Thank you very much for your continued support, we are looking forward to seeing you soon!

The new place is now open... something called Ribalta, and its apparently the first U.S. branch of an Italian chain of sorts...

Grub Street had the place by the numbers on Friday: "[T]here are 90 seats, 25 different pizzas, three ovens (for three various styles), two highly decorated master pizzaioli ... and one on-premises pizza school, plus antipasti, pasta, and Stumptown-enhanced tiramisu for dessert."

EV Grieve eatery etc.: Artichoke Pizza sporting neon; Mile End hiring

A few other restuarant-related items that we never got around to posting last week ... Artichoke on East 14th Street now has a new neon sign...

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Apparently popular Boerum Hill-based Mile End Sandwich looks closer to opening on Bond Street...

... and they're hiring...

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Kotobuki is opening soon on Third Avenue near East 10th Street... the Japanese restaurant has a few locations on Long Island... (They are also hiring...)

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Progress at incoming falafel eatery Sahara Citi on East 13th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue...

SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH: The Saloon Stigmata Edition

On Saturday night, The Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling celebrated (and skewered) Easter and Passover with SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH: The Saloon Stigmata Edition at the Double Down Saloon on Avenue A... Among those present for this sports satire: Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, Referee Mike SOS (SOS, Seizure Crypt), Shesus Christ, Challah Back Girl, The Angel of Death and The Gorgeous LADS of Bloodwrestling ...

Stacie Joy was there to capture the good times ... and fake blood...

CUT!

A film crew in Tompkins Square Park today didn't appreciate photographers standing around this public space...

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Earlier today on East Third Street

Perhaps part of the Easter egg hunt/pub crawl?

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[10th Street at Fourth Avenue]

New owners for Joe's Bar (Thursday)

316 E. Third St. has been demolished (Wednesday)

The Life Cafe trademark is for sale (Tuesday)

Former East Village resident releases new record (Monday)

Another message for the landlord at 35 Cooper Square (Tuesday)

A spring 2011-2012 now and then (Tuesday)

More about renting the Patricia Field boutique on the Bowery (Monday)

A new phone for the World Famous Pee Phone (Friday)

At the Coney Island USA Spring Gala at Webster Hall (Monday)

A Bleecker Bob's Update (Wednesday)

[Updated] Not an April Fool's gag: 'The Carrie Diaries' filming on the Bowery and Bond today

So... "Sex and the City" prequel "The Carrie Diaries" follows Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and subsequent move to New York... And it will be a series on the CW... and today, crews are on the Bowery and Bond Street to film scenes for the show... [Updated: Crews are also on Astor Place and Lafayette]

...and the crew brought in some early 80s classics for the shoot...

And did Ian Schrager OK these clunkers to be parked so close to 40 Bond?

Updated 3:01 p.m.

Cars aren't the only retro parts of the shoot... here are extras on Lafayette that Organizing the Soup spotted...

At least we think they're extras.

Noted

Comedian Jim Gaffigan does the "My New York" feature in today's Post.

And here's his comment on Tompkins Square Park:

“Taking your kid to Tompkins Square Park is hysterical, because you’re trying to explain to your 5-year-old why the heroin addict is sleeping on the bench in such a precise manner. My son will be like, ‘Why is that guy sleeping?’ And I’ll be like, ‘He was tired.’”

Hysterical?

'Imagine you're a deer...'

Tompkins Square Park.

Headline: C-

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Lake Mars

Second Avenue and First Street this morning.

Leftover from the water used yesterday for the bendy thing working at 11-17 Second Ave.?

Bottom photos by Bobby Williams.

Breaking: EV Grieve did not win the Mega Millions

Of course, we never even bought any tickets. Still, you never know. The winning tickets for the $640-million jackpot were from Maryland, Kansas and Illinois. (Just think: $640 million is roughly 3 percent of Mayor Bloomberg's $22 billion net worth!)

In any event, we did enjoy some of the homemade signs with updates during the Mega-Millions frenzy

And, here on Second Street and Avenue A, the Penistrator, or a clever imitator, did this last week...

[Via Matt LES_Miserable]

And, to telegraph it...

No Powerball jokes, please.

Does your son have what it takes to play Kristen Wiig's son?

[Click to enlarge]

As we noted yesterday, Ben Stiller's remake of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is filming around here next week. The movie co-stars Kristen Wiig. There are flyers up in Tompkins Square Parks seeking boys. (These signs always seem creepy.)

Per the sign, Wiig's character's son Rich "is good-natured, a native New Yorker and loves to skate."

"Must be able to skateboard. Tricks like Ollies and kickflips a plus."

Subway, 108 First Ave., 8:37 p.m., March 30

Today on the Tompkins Square Park ping pong table

Photos by Bobby Williams.