EVG Etc.: Emmy Squared signage; Prune vacation; Artichoke flags

Emmy Squared looks nearly ready to open on the corner of Fifth Street and First Avenue in the former Three of Cups space... no official opening date just yet for the pizzeria-burger joint ...





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On First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... Prune closed after service Friday for a mid-summer break... back Pruning on July 9...





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And an EVG reader wondered if the flags outside Artichoke on 14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue were really necessary...

Week in Grieview

[Photo from 4th Street by Derek Berg]

Stories posted on EVG this past week included...

RIP George Cameron (Wednesday)

Cars to give way to a bus-only corridor most hours on 14th Street during the L-train shutdown (Tuesday) Citi Bike will expand ahead of L-mageddon time (Thursday)

City Planning Commission OKs tech hub for Union Square (Thursday)

Judy talks about her apartment of 40 years (Thursday)

City pools open (Wednesday)

B&H Dairy has new-look menus (Tuesday)

Rose and Basil has gone out of business (Friday)

9th Street's Zucker Bakery closing after 7 years in business (Tuesday)

This week's NY See strip (Thursday)

Moxy East Village opening date now set for late 2019 on 11th Street (Monday)

Giant alligator false alarm (Friday)

Christo and Amelia's kids are growing and growing... (Monday)

Final vote from the Rent Guidelines Board (Tuesday)

Korilla BBQ has closed on 3rd Avenue (Thursday)

Openings and closings on this block of 2nd Avenue (Wednesday)

The 411 on 886 (Monday)

The new Westside Market on 3rd Avenue opens (Thursday)

Ippudo closed for renovations through July 17 (Monday)

In Tompkins Square Park, we lost a piano but gained, for now, a wicker vanity table (Tuesday)

The Neighbors move out early at First Street Green Art Park (Tuesday)

Cheers Cut has not been open lately on St. Mark's Place (Monday)

... workers removed the sidewalk bridge from outside 86 E. 10th St. between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue this past week ... which had been there since an apartment fire on Feb. 7. In case you forgot what the Black & White looked like...



... and the heatwave is drying up the perpetual puddle/pool at the M14 stop on Avenue A near Ninth Street...



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'The Deuce' is back in town

Crews for the HBO series "The Deuce" are setting up shop today for filming tomorrow... look for trucks, equipment and cast members along Avenue A between Houston and Fourth Street (and various side streets) and Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...



The series, now in its second season, chronicles "the birth of the modern pornography business in New York City in the early 1970s," as Variety put it.

"The Deuce" has filmed around the neighbor in the past ... here and here, for instance.

Saturday's parting shot

From the #FamiliesBelongTogether march today... spotted on First Avenue and 12th Street by Lola Sáenz...

Bus stop

The Abracadabra Field Trip Mobile music jam bus was back on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place late this afternoon... EVG reader Aaron Wilson shared these first two photos...



... and via Derek Berg...

Escape to Houston Street

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After nearly a week of work, Tristan Eaton is wrapping up at the Bowery Mural Wall... even spraying in the rain...

A post shared by Martha Cooper (@marthacoopergram) on Jun 29, 2018 at 11:50am PDT

And for a closer look at the mural... at least part of it is apparently inspired by the 1968 classic "The Green Slime" ...





Updated 7/3

An addition...

From the Bake News Media

Photo outside Gem Spa this morning... and the temps may hit 120 inside Zoltar's cabinet...

Pet lizard on a lease prompts 911 call

Over on Broadway and 13th Street this afternoon, the sight of a lizard on a leash prompted a 911 call.

As the Daily News reported, the caller "reported a vicious 'alligator or lizard' to authorities."

A user of the Citizen app captured some video.

"You can pet him," says the voice, presumably of the lizard’s owner.

One brave young man saunters up to the lizard to give it a little pat on the head — then promptly rubs sanitizer on his hands from a bottle conveniently placed beside the beast.

Anyway, as history shows again and again...

Forever your 'Girl'

Chromatics recently released a new single ... a Bang Bang Bar-friendly track titled "Blue Girl." The Portland, Ore.-based quartet's new record, Dear Tommy, is due out this fall.

An extra hour to swim this weekend at city pools

[Hamilton Fish Pool pic from Sunday]

The NYC Department of Parks & Rec announced today that, due to the excessive heat expected, general swim hours for outdoor pools are extended by an hour through 8 p.m. today, tomorrow and Sunday.

So around here, that means extra time at Hamilton Fish Pool on Pitt and Houston ... and the Dry Dock Pool on Avenue D and 10th Street.

City pools opened for the season back on Wednesday.

EVG Etc.: Examining the L-train shutdown plan for 14th Street; watching '2001' at Village East

[St. Mark's is bed]

City cooling centers are open (Official site)

A look at how the East Village became the city's "hippest Chinese dining destination" (Eater)

Examinging "the Soft Underbelly" of the DOT’s L Train shutdown plan for 14th Street (Streetsblog ... previously)

A review of the first exhibition at the Swiss Institute on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place (The New York Times... ARTnews ... previously)

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, whose district includes part of the East Village, was victorious in Tuesday's primary election (The Lo-Down) Meanwhile, her challenger, Suraj Patel, reportedly handed out branded condoms before the primary (The Post)

The best seats to watch "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm at the City Cinemas Village East (Filmmaker Magazine)

A Gus Van Sant retrospective through the weekend (Metrograph)

More photos from the Drag March leaving Tompkins Square Park (Slum Goddess ... previously)

And EVG reader Brucie shared this photo earlier in the week from Avenue B near 10th Street ... sources say that it is not the first LinkNYC kiosk for Avenue B or a modified Big Belly trash can...

Rose and Basil has gone out of business

Rose and Basil, the nearly two-year-old cafe, has closed at 104 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.

There's a sign out front, noting everything must go — plates, glasses, chairs, etc.



We don't know the reason behind the closure at the moment. The Rose and Basil website and Facebook page are no longer active, and their phone has been disconnected.

The cafe, which specialized in homemade desserts, recently added dinner service offering healthy menu items. Rose and Basil was owned by Ioana Holt, who launched the business with her college friend William Wang in July 2016.

Thanks to Steven for the photos

Previously on EV Grieve:
At the grand opening of Rose and Basil