Monday, June 24, 2013

Hawa Smoothies opening on East 14th Street



Signs are up now on a previously vacant storefront at 422 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Avenue A for Hawa Smoothies ...



There was also a Hawa location on East Broadway, though that is now closed ... the shop is reportedly named for owner Michael Wang's native Hawaii...

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Sun, Moon



Above via EVG reader David...

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...and from last night via Bobby Williams...




Today in photos of bouncy castles



Earlier today out back of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer ... on the East Fourth Street side ... wish I would have known about their festival earlier... good time.

Week in Grieview


[Waiting for the M9 on Avenue C]

Alleged drunken driver causes mayhem on Second Avenue, injures 4 (Wednesday, 62 comments)

Campaign launched to raise money for gravely injured East Village Farm and Grocery worker (Friday)

Demolition continues at Mary Help of Christians (Saturday)

Permits filed to demolish 100 Avenue A (Tuesday)

51 Astor Places opens its public plaza (Friday)

Out and About with Yadi Maria (Wednesday)

LaVie has finally closed; neighbors rejoice (Friday)

Tour the East Village with Iggy Pop in 1993 (Monday)

The Halal Guys are coming to the East Village (Tuesday)

David Lynch doesn't want you to litter (Monday)

Minnie, 10-month-old blind dog, is missing (Wednesday)

Jillery is moving to 7th and B (Friday)

Mars Bar replacement now leasing at Jupiter 21 (Tuesday)

Kembra Pfahler and The Girls of Karen Black perform at Participant Inc. (Monday)

Davey's Ice Cream opening soon on First Avenue (Wednesday)

New chain-link fence outside La Estate de Schwimmer (Friday)

Noted



Seemed inevitable that someone would do something like this... Shawn Chittle spotted this on Avenue A today...

Reminders: Motor City Bar will be burning today (and tonight)

Here's a reminder about Motor City Bar's closing-night party that we first mentioned back on April 30...



From the EV Grieve inbox...

The once vibrantly creative and bohemian Lower East Side is a thing of the past, with the final nail in the coffin coming next month, when Motor City Bar closes its doors for the last time. The bar is open over the next few weeks, so make sure you stop by for a few cocktails in the meantime.

On Sunday, June 23rd, come and celebrate 17 years of sex, drugs and rock n roll with some of the best people you'd ever care to meet. Come and give a long kiss goodbye to the amazing owners, bartenders, dancers, DJs, Detroit memorabilia, and those infamous bathrooms!

A big thank you to all those who have lived, loved, laughed, cried, danced, yelled, fallen down, met future partners, found jobs, been inspired, or just generally had a great time in this wonderful establishment these past two decades. To say it will be sorely missed would be an understatement. RIP.

Note: The bar will remain open until midnight on the 30th of June, when the keys are finally handed over.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Reader report: Motor City Bar is closing on Ludlow Street

Motor City Bar to remain open through June

Suspicion



Spotted on East Seventh Street and Avenue C this morning... a chunk of rock suspiciously lying in the middle of the street near what appears to be the remains of a car window...

Art Around the Park



Spotted this morning in Tompkins Square Park.

Flea market at St. Nicholas today



From 11 to 4. Entrance on East 10th Street at Avenue A...



... and please return the L and T ...

The New York Punk & Underground Record Fair is today at the Beauty Bar



Crap. Meant to post this earlier in the week. Anyway. Today!

What: NYC Punk & Underground Record Fair
Where: Beauty Bar 231 E. 14th St.
Show Hours – 11 am-6pm
Admission – $3

Verizon's freshly painted brown wall nearly lasts the weekend



We almost thought that Verizon had given up on painting over the graffiti along East 13th Street at Second Avenue ... been nearly a year ... but workers did just paint over all the tags... and this arrived during the weekend...



Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Verizon is going to blow the budget on brown paint

Reminders: There is a 'No 7-Eleven' rally this afternoon


[On the plywood on 11th and A]

As posted Thursday...

Today in Tompkins Square Park



You may have seen the flyers around for the Tompkins Square Greenmarket's Strawberry Shortcake Eating Contest... today at 1. Prizes include for the messiest, cleanest and fastest eaters...

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Ask and...



East 11th Street today. Photo by Shawn Chittle.

Man with last name of Gomillion tried to rob East Village bank



The NYPD Daily Blotter in the Post today notes a botched robbery attempt at the Chase branch on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place. A man named Jerry Gomillion, 63, passed a "demand note" to a teller on May 23.

To the Post.

But when the teller, instead of cooperating, showed the note to a co-worker, Gomillion abruptly turned around and fled, perhaps forgetting about the bank’s video cameras.

He was later arrested.

A little 'Soul' returns to the East Village tonight



From the EV Grieve inbox... from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m. at Otto's...

Come join us for the launch of our Monthly Mod/Soul Dance Party. Let's bring some Soul back to the East Village! So tailor your mohair, and get your 2 stroke smokin', we'll be spinning all the grooves that will make you move!

Spinning nothing but the best of 60s Soul/Motown/Mod/Beat/Grooves/FrenchPop/Yé-Yé

Courtesy of DJ HeavySoul, who told us that many people have been for something like this since the end of Subway Soul at Rififi on East 11th Street.

Continuing to chip away at Mary Help of Christians



The sidewalk shed arrived outside the the Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church and rectory on East 12th Street yesterday... today, we spotted a few workers atop the church ... this one had some kind of hammer and was banging away on foundation holding up the cross in the center...







Developer Douglas Steiner bought the property last fall for an unspecified residential complex.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Permits filed to demolish Mary Help of Christians church, school and rectory

Preservationists call for archeological review of former cemetery at Mary Help of Christians site

Report: Driver in East Village Farm and Grocery crash asked cops if he was dead


[Photo via @kiwi1978]

DNAinfo has an update on the horrific crash that injured four people early Wednesday morning on Second Avenue and East Fourth Street:

The drunk and drugged-up driver who slammed into several pedestrians and a Citi biker this week had PCP in his sock and was so out of it repeatedly asked cops "Am I dead," prosecutors said.

Shaun Martin, a 32-year-old Bayside, Queens resident, is being held on $100,000 bail. He is due back in court Monday, per DNAinfo.

Read the DNAinfo piece here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Car smashes into East Village Farm & Grocery on Second Avenue; 6 reported injured (62 comments)

Campaign launched to raise money for gravely injured East Village Farm and Grocery worker

Today in Best Sidewalk Sale evers

Promising you the Super Moon





Bobby Williams took these photos (of the moon) around 2:35 a.m. ... almost time for the Super Moon tomorrow morning! The biggest and brightest full moon of the year!

Let's just lazily cut-n-paste this from The Washington Post:

The upcoming perigee occurs within minutes of the official full moon (but after the moon will have set for the day and not visible in that particular time window). Make some toast and pour your coffee, since on Sunday, June 23 perigee is at 7:11 a.m. eastern, when the Earth and moon will be about 356,991 kilometers, or 221,894 miles apart, according to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. A mere 22 minutes later – at 7:33 a.m. – the moon becomes full, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.

The moon will appear 14 percent larger than normal, or more depending on how much you drink.

Meanwhile, we'll need to check in with Felton Davis.