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Tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 17) at noon, the city unveils new street blades for Adela Fargas Way on Fifth Street and Avenue C. Fargas was the founder and namesake of the popular Puerto Rican restaurant Casa Adela on the block. Fargas, who ran Casa Adela here for decades, died in J … | Continue reading
For the first time since 2019, the 9th Street A-1 Block Association Block Party — one of the best around — is back in action... happening tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 17) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Both residents and merchants along the block — Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Av … | Continue reading
There's a tag sale at Village View tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 17) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ... it's on the Fifth Street basketball court between Avenue A and First Avenue... as we've noted before: We've found (bought) some pretty good stuff here through the years. | Continue reading
Photo by Derek Berg Some folks from PingPod were at the ping-pong table in the center of Tompkins Square Park today... offering $10 for anyone who could return one of three serves from one of their table-tennis pros. The fellow in the above photo returned all three — AND WITH A G … | Continue reading
The LGBTQ History Project, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of LGBTQ activists and pioneers, is hosting its first fundraiser ... happening Sunday (4-8 p.m.) at Nowhere Bar, 322 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.Here are details via the E … | Continue reading
An early morning dispatch from Felton Davis of the Second Avenue Star Watchers ... the top photo of the waning Moon was taken from Third Street ... with another shot with some of the Moon's features... Per Felton: "The waning moon is weird in the early morning, all flipped o … | Continue reading
Images and text by Daniel Efram The 6&B Garden Kids Cooking Workshop series continued on Aug. 21 with Gallo Pinto Collard Green Wraps on the menu, a recipe shared by one of the community garden's members from Costa Rica. This program for kids (ages 5 and up!) has been running … | Continue reading
Compilation Coffee debuted last week at 102 St. Marks Place between Avenue A and First Avenue. (We first reported on this pending arrival in June.)Industry vet Noah Jashinski, who has worked with brands like Intelligentsia, Blue Bottle and Stumptown, is the founder. The busines … | Continue reading
We've talked with several readers/residents dismayed by the current state of 8-14 Stuyvesant St. ... the once-vibrant corridor with four popular businesses here between Third Avenue and Ninth Street. Today (photos from Tuesday), the storefronts sit empty and continue to attr … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie JoyLate last week, the state seized Sestina, the pasta restaurant at 67 Second Ave. for "nonpayment of taxes," according to the legal documents affixed to the storefront here at Fourth Street... Plant-based celebrity chef Matthew Kenney opened Sestina in the fall … | Continue reading
A J. Crew men's shop is opening at 316 Bowery on Sept. 13... the location arrived over the weekend on the brand's website... As previously reported, renovations have been quickly taking place inside the former restaurant space in recent weeks.A Bowery Boogie informant fir … | Continue reading
Several East Village streets are scheduled for nighttime milling and paving this coming week. (H/T Steven!) On the schedule (see the website here): • First Avenue between 12th Street and 15th Street (Tuesday) • Seventh Street from Avenue D to Cooper Square (Tuesday and Wednesd … | Continue reading
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Photos and interview by Stacie Joy We’re hearing from some neighborhood residents about how much they enjoy the free summer concerts in Tompkins Square Park and the joy they bring. In an ongoing series looking at musicians busking, we focus on InCircles, who have been providing, … | Continue reading
Photo on Avenue A from last fall ICYMI: Several EVG readers passed along this piece from the Times last week titled "It's Not Just You — Blank Street Coffee Is Suddenly Inescapable." Four outposts (Avenue A, First Avenue, Third Avenue and the Bowery Market) have arrived in th … | Continue reading
Posts this past week included ... (with a photo Thursday on Seventh Street by Derek Berg) ... • Two local deadly shootings on Thursday: 26-year-old man outside 3 Haven Plaza ... 25-year-old woman on 14th Street and Irving Place • Report: Unsafe levels of arsenic found in the dri … | Continue reading
ICYMI: Journalist Katerina Barton filed a good piece for Gothamist on Theatre 80 owners Lorcan and Genie Otway and the legal battle to save the historic Theatre 80 on St. Mark’s Place. An excerpt: When the March 2020 pandemic lockdowns shuttered entertainment and hospitality ind … | Continue reading
Many people weighed in about this discarded wood carving found on First Avenue and 14th Street yesterday. These are among the many responses to who was immortalized (then abandoned!) on this slab of wood... • Ben Franklin • Daniel Boone • Christopher Columbus • St. Thomas Moore … | Continue reading
The NYCHA has said it has found traces of arsenic in the tap water at the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D. Signs in circulation around the complex between Sixth Street and 13th Street starting last night warned residents not to drink the water or use it for cooking indefinitely. A … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy Yesterday marked the first day of Key Food's celebration of the renovated grocery on Avenue A and Fourth Street.EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by for a look at the festivities, which included a variety of samples and giveaways... Rocco Mileo, direc … | Continue reading
After a late-summer hiatus, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are back with Earth Church services tomorrow (Sunday!) at 36 Avenue C at Third Street (at the former Capital One space). Chris Smalls, who helped unionize Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island... and es … | Continue reading
Another summer comes to a close at the Tompkins Square Park mini pool. (And yes — Tompkins Square Park has a mini pool for children and their guardians...) According to the Parks Department, the city's mini pools "will close on Labor Day." We're not sure if that means th … | Continue reading
Inexplicably discarded at your favorite intersection, 14th Street and First Avenue. And trying to figure out who this is... Benjamin Franklin? "Lethal Weapon"-era Mel Gibson? The person you always thought was hiding under your bed as a kid? Polling open until 9 p.m. | Continue reading
From 2014, here's the seasonal "Summer Ends" via the underappreciated Danish band the Raveonettes ... | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy We saw Jade Tourniquet play live several times this summer... short, high-intensity sets in Tompkins Square Park... a handful of songs with a heavy metal-cum-gutter-punk sound. (Their Instagram describes them as "haze gaze punk rock-n-rollers," which also wor … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy The flags are flying. The bunting is in place. Today is Day 1 of the six-day, two-weekend-long grand reopening ("RE-GRAND Opening" on some signage) at Key Food on Avenue A and Fourth Street. The six dates: Sept. 2-4 and Sept. 9-11.As previously reported, the … | Continue reading
Photos by Garrett RossoPolice are investigating the shooting death of a 26-year-old man this afternoon outside 3 Haven Plaza between Avenue C and Avenue D. According to witnesses, the victim was on a Citi Bike at the time of the shooting around 1:30 p.m. in the area near 12th Str … | Continue reading
Post updated below. Photo from 9/3 at the scene of the shooting. Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old woman early this morning on 14th Street at Irving Place. According to published reports and police sources, the shooting occurred just after 5 a.m. on th … | Continue reading
News arrived last week that Meadow Partners is the new owner of 305 E. 11th St. and 310 E. 12th St. (above), adjacent multifamily residential buildings between First Avenue and Second Avenue. The deal for the 89-unit buildings, owned by the Chissick family since the late 1960s, … | Continue reading
If you've walked by the NE corner of Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place recently, then you've likely noticed that construction has restarted on the future 9-story office building (with retail!) for the lot. Workers are digging into the pit ... there's an excavator … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy Signage went up yesterday for East Village Exotics on the SE corner of Avenue B and Fourth Street. The owners also run East Village Finest Deli right across B... (and they plan to keep both businesses). Aside from the usual smoke-shoppy stuff, there will be s … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy The incoming Panda Express (first mentioned in January) has seemingly been in a holding pattern here on the SW corner of First Avenue and 14th Street in recent weeks. It looks ready to go (mostly!), with workers milling about inside (though not in the photo b … | Continue reading
A mini month in review (with a photo of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on Aug. 28 by Dan Scheffey)... • The next iteration of the Knitting Factory coming to the East Village (Aug. 24) • Another day, another car drives into Tompkins Square Park (Aug. 16) • Watch the Nissan Sent … | Continue reading
Photo from 5th Street • Remembering East Village-based art writer Charlie Finch (Artnet) ... Police say Finch jumped from his East 12th Street apartment (The Post) • The leaders of Yoga to the People, once housed on St. Mark's Place, arrested for tax fraud (The Cut ... "Down … | Continue reading
Jimmy Ly and Yen Vo, the owners of 10th Street hit Madame Vo, are opening Monsieur Vo at 104 Second Ave. at Sixth Street on Sept. 14. In an Instagram post, they describe Monsieur Vo as "a new Vietnamese restaurant that spotlights modern, creative takes on meat and seafood, stree … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy A new-name era is underway at Yoli Restaurant ... which is now going by Leon's Cafe over at 274 E. Third St. between Avenue C and Avenue D.However, not much else is different at the inexpensive quick-serve restaurant specializing in homestyle Dominican cu … | Continue reading
Crews were out today on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... setting up some establishing shots and one doorway-entering scene for season five of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (MMM5 on film notices) ... photos by Derek Berg... | Continue reading
A stump is all that's left of a 50-plus-year-old flowering Callery pear tree outside 339 E. Fifth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.According to a member of the East Fifth St. Block Association Tree Committee, the group hired (at a cost of $500) an arborist who prun … | Continue reading
As mentioned yesterday, Assemblymember Harvey Epstein has organized a volunteer cleanup day in Tompkins Square Park for tomorrow. Details: What: Tompkins Square Park Cleanup DayWho: Assemblymember Harvey Epstein and neighbors When: Sunday, Aug. 21 at 10 a.m. Where: Tompkins Sq … | Continue reading
Trash pickup in Tompkins Square Park has been a popular topic in recent days... So on this topic. Several readers have pointed out that someone used insulating spray foam to seal shut an easy-open trash bin in the middle of the Park. (Eden first pointed this out about two weeks … | Continue reading
OK, for starters: the above photo IS NOT an early 1960s look at the SW corner of 14th Street and Avenue A. It is an early morning Aug. 20 look at the SW corner of 14th Street and Avenue A. Anyway, yesterday, Bayou shared the photo of the ghost signage for "Appetizers" on what wa … | Continue reading
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"Smithereens," the dark comedy from 1982 filmed in part in the East Village, makes a return engagement this weekend (and next week) to the Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St. between Hester and Canal.The film, which marked Susan Seidelman's directorial debut, is set in the East Village … | Continue reading
West Coast-based surf-noir outfit La Luz will be at the Bowery Ballroom next Friday (Aug. 26). Ahead of that, here's a video for their single, "Metal Man." | Continue reading
Interview by Clare Gemima Photos of the Artists: Shoshana Soleyn; all other photos courtesy of EVGallery There is absolutely ZERO way that any form of digital consumption of "Anaphoric Fractures" could compete with an in-person viewing experience. This intelligent and ambitious s … | Continue reading
Workers today uncovered ghost signage at 442 E. 14th St. at Avenue A... a sign for "Appetizers" on what was most recently New Herbal World. (Thanks to Bayou for sharing this photo!) Some time/day we'll dig into the NYPL Digital Collections to see what this business may have … | Continue reading
Photos by Allie Ryan More than 30 residents (and one rat and one superhero) turned out late yesterday afternoon to help pick up litter around Tompkins Square Park. As previously reported, Jonothon Lyons, creator of Buddy the Rat, and NYC entrepreneur Michael Quinn launched a com … | Continue reading