A summer scene

Somewhere along Avenue B

Updated: Baoguette Cafe looks rather closed

Over on St. Mark's Place, Michael "Bao" Huynh's Baoguette Cafe near Second Avenue looks rather permanently closed...

However, there is a sign...

Which doesn't exactly explain why the inside looks as if the place was ransacked...

The DOH temporarily closed the Cafe back on the spring... Meanwhile, BaoBQ closed on First Avenue a few weeks ago.

Bao is opening a new restaurant on Greenwich Avenue and says that he is moving back to Vietnam at some point in the future... via Eater ... and Gael Greene.

Updated 9-4 12:15 — Eater gets confirmation that Huynh has closed this location.

Last mass for Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church today

Several residents passed along word that today will mark the last mass for Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church on East 12th Street ... the church will be making way for some sort of yet-specified new development. In May 2007, The New York Times reported that the Roman Catholic church would close as part of a realignment by the Archdiocese of New York. However, the church remained open for mass on Sundays... there is one Spanish-language mass now at 11:30 a.m.

I'm unaware of any ceremonies to mark the closure. In May 2007, parishioners carried a statue of Mary from the church to lead a procession around the block, as The Villager noted.

This is also the last weekend for the flea market in the church's lot.

Previously.

State of Grace

Here on the St. Mark's Place at Avenue A ... outside the Sushi Lounge... Bobby Williams kept tabs on a new ad in the works...

Yes please...

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

In case you couldn't make yesterday's street fair on Fourth Avenue, you're in luck — there's another one today on Broadway between East 14th Street and Waverly Place... same stuff, of course...

... featuring more squeeze Lemonade pushcart races...

And, despite the humidity, you may be interested in trying on one of these...

You can also admire the brand-new signage at this new local business...

Last look at the corner of Avenue A and East 11th Street

As noted earlier today... this is the last weekend for the Mary Help of Christians flea market on Avenue A at East 11th Street ... Some sort of housing is expected to take over this space.

Here are a few photos via Bobby Williams...

Luke, I am your mover

East Seventh Street at Avenue A.

The Mary Help of Christians flea market closes for good this weekend

As you can see from the sign, this is the last weekend for the Mary Help of Christians flea market on Avenue A at East 11th Street... not a surprise — residents and vendors have been talking about this date for months.

We've been following the saga of the Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church and its inevitable, unfortunate, closure to make way for a new development these past five years.

Multiple neighbors/parishioners have said that the church, school and adjacent property have been sold to a developer to make way for some type of housing.

The flea market will be moving over to the Immaculate Conception Church on East 14th Street and First Avenue in October, first noted by The Villager.

I actually missed this article last week, in which Lincoln Anderson talked with Catholic Archdiocese of New York spokesperson Joseph Zwilling.

“There’s no secret that it’s on the market.” Zwilling said he believed what’s being offered is the entire site, including the parking lot, but wasn’t absolutely sure if that’s the case.

I'll have more on all this later.

Previously.

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

Oh, thank fucking god goodness we have one more of these before the summer officially ends! On Fourth Avenue from East 14th Street down to New York Harbor Astor Place.

Street fair highlights include Squeeze Lemonade pushcart races...

... and a pig holding his entrails sausage.

Bonus towing coverage...

...the owner even zipped up before the NYPD rep had the car up...

...got towed anyway...

Updated: Ah! In the comments, Pinhead says there's one tomorrow too on Broadway between Waverly and 14th...

A Kiss mix tape

As we've pointed out, renovations continue at the former Nice Guy Eddie's space on Avenue A at East Houston ... where (maybe!) a gastropub called Boulton & Watt is opening...

Anyway, must be a pain to reassemble Chico's Kiss plywood mural every day...

Before!

Now!

Though we do like the mix-and-match challenge...

Second Avenue, 9:01 a.m., Sept. 1

A summer scene

Photo by Shawn Chittle

Moon shot(s)

Last night via Bobby Williams.

Thank you

Some silly Britpop from the Pale Fountains circa 1982.

And I think to myself
There's no place I'd rather be

First residents moving into 315 E. 10th St.

Jose Garcia noticed that the first tenants are moving into the freshly gut renovated 315 E. 10th St. today... the first listings for the former Education Alliance building hit the market two weeks ago, as we first noted.

As we always cut and paste previously reported, the city OK'd a one-floor rooftop addition here in January hours before the Landmarks Preservation Committee approved the East 10th Street Historic District.

And since then, the building has quickly been turned into residences... a three-bedroom unit is asking $4,895 ... there's also a four-bedroom apartment for $6,500, per Streeteasy.

Previously on EV Grieve:
A bid to protect the integrity of 315 E. 10th St.

Landmarks Preservation Commission expedites hearing on East 10th Street Historic District

Workers quickly start dismantling roof of historic 315 E. 10th St.

Today in photos of someone sitting in a bathtub on Astor Place

Charles Eshelman has his tub on Astor Place today. Jerry doesn't look so amused.

Photo by Dave on 7th.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

[East 13th Street this morning by Booker & Dax, or is it Dax & Booker?]

The D.L. Cerney boutique is closing on East Seventh Street after 28 years (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

XXX news: New York court overturns zoning law on adult clubs, video stores (Reuters via Curbed)

East Village-based feminist writer Shulamith Firestone dies at 67 (The New York Times)

Nursing Star back to health (DNAinfo)

Guerrilla garden on Stanton Street (East Villager)

The 1966 “Sip In” at Julius’ (Off the Grid)

The latest on the incoming Cocktail Bodega (BoweryBoogie)

CB3 to hear about conversion of the Jarmulowsky Bank building to hotel (The Lo-Down)

... Crap, it wasn't a dream here on First Avenue and East 13th Street...

So long summer...

[Photo by @MeredithBlake]

Summer isn't officially over... just ceremoniously with the arrival of Labor Day Weekend. (Don't worry — according to The Wall Street Journal, you can still wear white jeans past Labor Day.)

So The Summer of Bees™ prediction didn't really pan out.

Anyway, so long Moira ... Katie ... crusties ... storm clouds ... fake human kidney ... (these were all among the most popular EVG posts based on traffic or pageviews or whatever)...

And I've had better summers. You?

Bettie and the Ramones head back to the Bowery

Starting on Sept. 19, the New Museum is paying tribute to the "original artwork, ephemera and performance documentation" by artists who lived and worked on or near the Bowery.

The exhibit is titled "Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989." Per the release:

During these two decades, the Bowery was commonly identified with the furthest extremes of metropolitan decline — municipal neglect, homelessness, and substance abuse. As landlords and civil services abandoned the neighborhood, the subsequent cheap rents and permissive atmosphere drew artists downtown.

The Bowery’s lofts provided a social network where painters, photographers, performance artists, musicians, and filmmakers exchanged ideas and drew inspiration from this concentration of creative activity.

The collection has been assembled from the New Museum's own collection as well as 98 Bowery, the online portal that Marc H. Miller curates. (You can read our Q-and-A with Miller here.)

Miller told us that the Museum will be exhibiting Bettie & the Ramones, which marks the first time that Curt Hoppe's painting has been shown publicly since 1978. (The piece was part of the the Punk Art Exhibition in Washington D.C. in 1978. Read more about that here.)

[Photo by Marc H. Miller & Bettie Ringma]

Miller now owns the painting, and on Wednesday, workers packed it up for the trip from his Brooklyn home to the Bowery....

[Photos courtesy of 98 Bowery via Facebook]

In an interview with us in February 2010, Hoppe shared his favorite Ramones story:

My best memory about the Ramones has got to be when they signed the painting Bettie and the Ramones back in 1978. You can’t imagine the thrill of carrying that big 4’ x 6’ painting down the Bowery and getting the Ramones to specially come over to CBs in the afternoon just to sign it. Tommy was still in the group. They all just stood there staring at it. I think Joey was the only one who really got it.

Dee Dee was all hyper and kept asking their manager Danny Fields if it was OK to sign it. Then Johnny asked, "Who's Bettie?" I replied, "She's every Fan." When we carried that autographed painting back to 98, Marc, Bettie and I were just flying. I love the Ramones.

[Via Curt Hoppe's website, where you can find more of the Ramones]

The Bowery exhibition will include works by Barbara Ess, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Keith Haring, John Holmstrom, Hoppe, Colette Lumiere, Miller, Adrian Piper, Adam Purple, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Marcia Resnick, Bettie Ringma, Christy Rupp, Arleen Schloss, Charles Simonds, Eve Sonneman, Billy Sullivan, Paul Tschinkel, Arturo Vega and Martin Wong.

Read the release about "Come Closer" here.

For further reading on EV Grieve:
Life at 98 Bowery: 1969-1989

Revisiting Punk Art

Q-and-A with Curt Hoppe: Living on the Bowery, finding inspiration and shooting Mr. Softee

The Incredible Hulk (Hogan jacket)

Spotted in the window at Metropolis on Third Avenue near East 10th Street. It's $150. Perhaps a small price to pay to wear Mr. Nanny on your back?