This evening's double rainbow

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Well that was one helluva thunderstorm... and then the double rainbow on this Pride Sunday. Lauren of 7th Street shared the top photo...

And EVG reader Danny shared this from Ninth Street...



Another another photo via @cecilscheib...

Week in Grieview

[Photo on Avenue A by Vinny & O]

Posts from this past week included...

• How Henry Street Settlement is helping neighbors in need during the COVID-19 crisis (Tuesday)

• East Village Postal's raffle raised more than $20,000 for BLM-related charities (Monday)

• A letter about racial profiling and harassment in a residential building on 14th Street (Tuesday)

• A masked ball: At the start of the 2020 Drag March in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

• A second look at Phase II dining in the East Village (Thursday) Also: Now entering Phase II (Monday)

• Checking in on Blanche’s Lucy’s Tavern (Friday)

• St. Mark's Place at 3rd Avenue promises to be a hot construction mess for the next few years (Monday)

• This week's NY See panel (Thursday)

• Fireworks-related roof fires (Sunday... Friday)

• Activity at the former Eleven Consignment Boutique (Thursday)

• Checking in on Anwar Grocery (Wednesday)

• Primary Day with Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street (Tuesday)

• Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen is open this summer (Thursday)

• Nomad, the great restaurant on 2nd Avenue that has everything but the interest of food writers (Friday) Also: Cucina Di Pesce returns as a pop up at Nomad on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

• Today is the last day for the Essex Card Shop before a move up the block (Wednesday)

• First Lamb Shabu has closed on 14th Street (Monday)

• For those who survived remote learning (Friday)

... and it was a tough night for SUVs. Aside from the parked SUV that went into the sinkhole on Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue last night... two parked along Avenue A had their back windows smashed in...




[SUV pics by Vinny & O]

... and The Long-Lost Intern of EV Grieve points out that someone probably nabbed the last of the Cellino & Barnes ads...


[14th Street at 3rd Avenue]

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(A return of the?) Dumpster of the day

For our 2-3* dumpster of the day fans. As seen on Bleecker at the Bowery.

*estimated

Noted

As seen on Sixth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Photo can also be used as a motivational screensaver for aspiring writers.

Sinkhole nearly swallows SUV on 2nd Street

Shortly after 1 a.m., a sinkhole opened on Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... nearly swallowing an SUV that had been parked on the south side of the roadway...



According to a report on the Citizen app, firefighters at the scene stated that the SUV was resting on a gas line.

As of this morning, the van had been removed... Con Ed and DEP workers have the street blocked off as repairs are underway...



Updated 12:30 p.m.

Per the Daily News:

Neighbors nearby complained that sinkhole was caused by an ongoing sewage problem. A few basements nearby the incident were flooded and still had standing water in them on Sunday morning.

“I’m telling everyone in our building not to flush their toilets because it backs up into our basement,” said John von Hartz, 87, who lives nearby and woke up to city workers trying to access the sewage line in his basement.

There wasn't any immediate cause for the sinkhole, per the DEP.

Thank you to our friends at Il Posto Accanto for the top photo!

A masked ball: At the start of the 2020 Drag March in Tompkins Square Park

The 26th annual Drag March took place last evening ... starting, as always, in Tompkins Square Park before participants made their way over along Ninth Street to Sheridan Square and then the Stonewall Inn... marking the start of Pride Weekend.

It was a much smaller, and more organic gathering this summer... there was social distancing and outfits incorporating face coverings (including a gas mask or two) as well plenty of support for Black Lives Matter ... EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos...

LinkNYC kiosks continue to transform

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Third Avenue at Ninth Street.

What a beautiful feeling

Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad released this cover of "Crimson and Clover" last Friday on Juneteenth ... with proceeds going to For The Gworls Medical Fund. (The Bandcamp sales went to the NAACP legal fund.)

Here's what she had to say about the track via Instagram:

This marks the first song we’ve released that I produced all by myself (!!!) and both the song and video were made completely in quarantine. This year would have been my first Pride as an ‘out’ person. It took me a long time to come to terms with my identity in a true and honest way, but I am proud to meet myself where I am now. This year, the idea of walking down a street proudly, in my queerness and in my brown skin, feels particularly difficult for a multitude of obvious reasons, but this song is my small celebration of the scary, complicated, empowering process of owning my black, queer identity. Hope you love it.

Another reader report of a fireworks-related roof fire on Avenue C

The FDNY responded to a report of a fire last night around 9:45 on the southwest corner of Fifth Street and Avenue C... a nearby resident shared these photos...



The cause of the fire is unknown, though the resident suspects it was related to the ongoing illegal firework displays nearby... the reader points out the remains of fireworks in the lights of the fire truck in the photo below...



There wasn't any word of damage to the building, which houses 69 Avenue C Laundromat...



Last Saturday night, people setting off fireworks along Avenue C and neighboring buildings caused a fire on a building rooftop on Fourth Street.

Fireworks-related complaints to 311 and 911 topped 20,000 in 2020, "an unprecedented increase over previous years," Gothamist reported.

The NYPD has started making arrests...

These fireworks won't be set off in your neighborhood thanks to the Intelligence Bureau. Their precise work has led to several arrests and the confiscation of these fireworks.

Not only is this a quality of life issue, fireworks are illegal. pic.twitter.com/iaJpDEA6DC

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) June 26, 2020