EV Grieve
Crowdfunding effort moves to guard a tree around Tompkins Square Park
Construction watch: 231 Bowery
Openings: Mag New York City on Avenue A
Did you know? There’s a Pizza Hut on the Lower East Side now
Tuesday's parting shot
Noted
The East River shows off a rare winter look
Virtual meeting set for Tompkins mini-pool and basketball courts redesign
Sunday's parting shot
An early close for Key Food
Sunday, snow day
Week in Grieview
Sunday's opening shot
Tompkins Square Greenmarket CANCELLED for tomorrow
Report of a fire last night at 325 E. 12th St.
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting line shots
Today in gushers on 1st Avenue at 14th Street
Line 'Item'
The Village East marquee goes full Oscar mode (plus some $5 seats)
D.A. Bragg announces guilty plea in fatal East Village stabbing spree on 14th Street
Thursday's parting shot
'The Big Johnson' brings an East Village legend to the Quad
New construction remains paused at 88 E. 2nd St.
ICYMI: Wayne & Sons has left the East Village for Williamsburg
Kissaki has closed on the Bowery
Signage alert: NYC Convenience on Avenue A
Wednesday's parting shots
A visit to Afterword Bookshop on 6th Street
Signage alert: Baba Doner on Avenue A
We're still wondering about the brief, mysterious reopening of Burgers on B
Tuesday's parting shot
Paulie Gee tells us more about his slice shop opening on 1st Avenue in the East Village
The 2nd Avenue/2nd Street lot saga may have a new chapter
Reaching the top of the parking-garage-replacing condoplex on 9th Street
Signage alert: SKWR on 1st Avenue
Noted
Most Holy Redeemer hit with DOB 'failure to maintain' violation
Sunday's parting shots
Week in Grieview
Passengers now have leaning rails at these East Village bus stops
Most Holy Redeemer briefly reopens for Mass honoring longtime parishioner
Saturday's parting shot
A 'cleanup only' operation on 11th Street and 1st Avenue
Saturday's opening shot
Start me up
Friday's opening shots
Thursday's parting shot
ICYMI: Tom Verlaine’s Downtown legacy enters the New York Public Library
Signage alert: Drāvida Indian Diaspora by Chef Aarthi Sampath
Saba Candy & Grocery comes and goes on Avenue B
Signage alert: Mag New York City on Avenue A
Wednesday's parting shot
A look inside the sidewalk stations that test the East Village’s drinking water
Petition seeks to rename Tompkins Square Park skate area for Harold Hunter
D.A.'s office announces indictment in fatal hit-and-run last month on Clinton and Stanton
Tuesday's parting crime report
Community gathers at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery for a 'Vigil of Lament and Hope'
Inside the film 'Irregular,' a love letter to Sophie’s
Paulie Gee’s appears headed for former Dunkin’ space on 1st Avenue
Emmy Squared is now temporarily closed for a construction 'glow-up'
Monday's parting shot
This morning on 14th Street: Vehicle fire, no injuries
From Katinka to a back entrance on 9th Street
Original 16 Handles outpost closes ahead of move to new 2nd Avenue home
Signage alert: Visit Sicily NYC on 7th Street
$1 slice Pizza Hub up next at 59 First Ave.
Taverna East Village has been closed now for 13 months
Sunday's parting shot
Week in Grieview
OK, this is the first EVG newsletter plug of 2026
At Mulchapalooza 2026
Sole focus: At the opening night of 'Feet Pics' at Ruby/Dakota on 2nd Street
Feeling the 'Need'
The Parks Department will be mulch obliged if you bring your Christmas tree to Tompkins this weekend
Vigil and planned for Renee Nicole Good at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
Noted
Punjabi Grocery and Deli Is back, serving on 1st Street
Bowery Electric space to reopen as the Bowery Palace; Jesse Malin up first in new theater
After raids, fines and silence, is Green Line finally done on Avenue B?
Punjabi Deli and Grocery reopens TODAY
Activity at a historic 2nd Avenue address
Ahead of its opening, Lazy Bulldog brings Turkish coffee to this 6th Street stoop
'50 Years of PUNK' this January
Veselka looks to add full liquor license at longtime East Village home
What will be the 12th establishment in 12 years for 334 Bowery?
First signs of retail (Sephora) life at 1 St. Mark’s Place
Monday's parting shot
An update on Evelyn, the East Village restaurant worker arrested by ICE agents on Christmas Eve
Punjabi Grocery and Deli hasn't been open in weeks, and people are starting to worry
The classic Japanese restaurant Beron Beron has closed on 1st Avenue
The retail space at 95 2nd Ave. is for rent
Sunday's parting shot
Noted
CBGB audio doc gets another spin on WBAI
Week in Grieview
Reading the signs: An art show opens at Psychic Readings on 5th Street
Saturday's parting shot
A look at 2nd and B in 1986
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting shot
The killing moon
Bands we like: Homade
Openings: Justin's Salt Bread on 2nd Avenue
Jan. 1's parting shot
Jan. 1's opening shot
The most-viewed EVG stories of 2025
Metro Acres Market confirmed for former East Village Rite Aid
6 posts from December
Stocking up for New Year's Eve
Hazy shade of winter
Stella of Ray’s Candy Store, remembered by the neighborhood
Openings: Moon Coffee Lab on 1st Street
Week in Grieview
Saturday's parting shot
At play in the fields of the snow
Saturday's opening shots
It's a sin
Stella Soltowska, a fixture at Ray’s Candy Store since 1977, has died
A ghostly parade for long-lost local music venues
ICYMI: Fire disrupts operations at Norwich Meadows Farm, a Tompkins Greenmarket regular
Scenes of the season, lately
Dec. 24
On Christmas Eve morning, ICE agents take East Village restaurant worker into custody on 7th Street
Noted
Dec. 24's opening shots
Dec. 23's parting shots
NYC retrospective for No Wave filmmaker Amos Poe opens Jan. 3 at Metrograph
RIP Stanislawa 'Anna' Sulkowska
Remembering Joe Strummer
NYPD searching for the hit-and-run driver who killed pedestrian on Clinton and Stanton
The former Rite Aid is looking more like a grocery store every day
Openings: Barryville General on Avenue A
Openings: Burgerhead on 2nd Avenue
Signage alert: Matcha and coffee for 68 Avenue A
Sunday's parting shot (MulchFest Edition)
Quiz show: NYC Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions taking place at the Brindle Room
Week in Grieview
Santa delivers again at the 9th Precinct’s annual holiday visit
EVG at 18
Friday's parting shot
A very Banshee Christmas
The final Saturdays of Bluestockings
Art where you can find it
Final day of Howliday shop at Howl! Arts
The former Spice Brothers space is for rent on St. Mark's Place
Last days for ‘Cancel This Show!’ at the Clemente
Dec. 18
Wednesday's parting shot
The secret life of Key Food’s holiday decorations
Mark Bittman’s Community Kitchen wraps up Lower East Side pilot
UZ Grill House, in grand-opening mode, has not been opening lately
A coffee shop percolating for 22 St. Mark's Place
Tuesday's parting shot
Timeline for reopening northern section of East River Park pushed to end of 2027
Signage alert: Justin's Salt Bread on 2nd Avenue
Monday's parting shot
Fallen tree blocks sidewalk along Avenue B in Tompkins Square Park
SantaCon 2025 recap: A quieter crawl through the East Village?
Marky Ramone visits ¡Adios Amigos! for Bowery Beat coffee launch
PureGym officially takes over Blink Fitness
Scenes from tonight’s 34th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting
Week in Grieview
Day 1 of the Cookie Walk
Bridge views
Sundays at 11
Sunday's opening shot
Saturday's parting shot
Afterword Bookshop set to debut TODAY
MoRUS celebrates 13 years today
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting shot
Hearing 'Aidan'
About the ‘Vape TY Deposit Box’ on 6th Street
Bluestockings Cooperative hosting final closing sale Saturdays through December
At the Romy & Michele Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance at Club Cumming
Thursday's parting shot
SantaCon 2025 arrives Saturday. Prepare accordingly.
Wednesday's parting shot
Dec. 10
Trinity's SAFH launches winter coat drive
Invader's Lou Reed mosaic was stolen — an East Village resident brought it back as a wheatpaste
La Salle Academy unveils NBA-designed court at its newly dedicated Dan Buckley Memorial Gymnasium
Smashed Express moves into to the Time Out Market
Tuesday's parting shot
Residents push to save historic Most Holy Redeemer church
People keep sending us photos of Afterword Bookshop, opening soon on 6th Street
Lori Jayne moves out of the Time Out Market on 14th Street
Monday's parting shot
East Village venue Drom hopes to keep their beat alive with a 2-night fundraiser
Residents say ‘do not disturb’ to Holiday Inn rooftop bar proposal on the Lower East Side
Soft openings: Himawari Café on 1st Ave.
New Korean–Italian restaurant seeking beer & wine license at former Black Seed bagels space
Another short-lived stint on St. Mark's: Chocolate DIP appears to have closed
Sunday's parting shot
Instagram post of the day
Week in Grieview
Turns out Green Line's latest 'shutdown' on Avenue B was self-inflicted: Witnesses
Saturday's parting shot
A Department Store Christmas at Night Club 101
Neighbors to rally Sunday to protect Most Holy Redeemer Church
First frost fallout on 1st Avenue
Snowfall reports from the last 24 hours
A 'Star' is worn
Holidays at Metrograph
'A Little Bit Fat' takes flight at All Street Gallery tonight
A holiday pop-up sale returns to ILevel on 7th Street
A sauna-and-cold-plunge pop-up returns to La Plaza Cultural this weekend
Friday's opening shots
The annual Sirovich Holiday Art Sale returns today and tomorrow
Thursday's parting shot
Behold the last full moon of 2025, as seen from Tompkins Square Park
Harvey Epstein to be sworn in this morning as City Council District 2 representative
2nd man sentenced for East Village assault spree that included Ray's Candy Store
A new chapter on Avenue A: Café-bookstore proposed for the former 7-Eleven
Surprise Scoop closing on 1st Avenue; skewer concept next?
Supermoon prep
Cookie Walk returns — with a centennial twist
Openings: Godunk on the Bowery
Tuesday's parting shot
Bill Rice’s East Village on view uptown
The Brant Foundation to host major Keith Haring exhibition next spring on 6th Street
Tuesday's opening shot
Noted
When is the tree lighting in Tompkins Square Park this year?
Why neighborhood staple Casa Adela will be closed this week
Top Secret Comedy Club makes its U.S. debut tonight on Avenue A
Game over for 8-Bit Bites on 2nd Avenue
6 posts from November
Week in Grieview
Saturday's parting shot
Catch 'Caught Stealing'.now streaming on Netflix
Saturday's opening shots
Friday's parting shots
To here knows when…
A look at '50 Years of PUNK,' opening tonight at the Ki Smith Gallery
Former Bluestockings space now on the market on Suffolk Street
A benefit concert this evening at Mercury Lounge for ABC No Rio
Poco is now closed for good, though freebies remain
Thanksgiving day view of Tompkins Square Park
Wednesday's parting shot
How to see the world premiere of this 1989 Keith Haring documentary next month
Fresh paint at First Street Green Art Park
Harvey Epstein, Loisaida Center team up for 2,600-meal Thanksgiving giveaway
Evil Katsu announces Dec. 14 closure
Pig & Butter is moving from Avenue B to Montclair, N.J.
Under-renovation former Rite Aid on 1st Avenue now with plywood
City Council weighs big roadway-dining changes; opponents cry bill-burying
A standing-ovation moment: The wild project now owns its longtime East Village home
Signage alert: Tipsy Village on Allen Street
Openings: S&S Bliss on 3rd Street
remedy
Week in Grieview
Poetic justice: 6th Street building calls out a 'package-stealing fuck'
Sunday's opening shot
New menu alert outside Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen on 7th Street
Saturday's opening shot
Your star will shine
Long-delayed Canal Street redesign up for discussion Monday night
Friday's opening shot
Thursday's parting shot
What's next for the Soda Club space on Avenue B
A bar proposal emerges for the former Petco Unleashed space on 2nd Avenue
Openings: Boongs Grab & Go on 3rd Avenue
Thirty Love Sports & Leisure calls game over
Openings: Oddball on Avenue B
Yubu hasn't been opening lately
Cancel This Show!’: Artists take aim at repression in new exhibit at the Clemente
Sophia is missing
Tuesday's parting shots
Green Line busted again on Avenue B — third time since April
Noontime cloud check
At the grand opening of Banshee
The openings, reopenings and temp closures on one stretch of 1st Avenue
Retail condo at former Streit’s site hits the auction block
Monday's parting shot
Opening the Edge: A new green space for residents along Avenue D
Ground-floor retail now leasing at The Houston (on Houston)
Signage alert: Slik, a Copenhagen-inspired candy and soft-serve shop on 12th Street
Sunday's parting shot
Week in Grieview
Saturday's parting shots
The Tacos Nachos truck on 7th and B
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting shot
Gut check
Openings: B-Side on Avenue C
If it's the middle of November, then it must be time for Christmas trees at Whole Foods Market® Bowery
Friday's opening shot
Thursday's parting Instagram post
Glitter, Grover and good stories: Drag Story Hour returns to the Tompkins Square Library
The Marshal takes legal possession of Baar Baar on 1st Street
TikTok-famous dancers up next at the Orpheum Theatre on 2nd Avenue
This evening in news alerts
Today in craft services
About Banshee, the Irish-leaning bar debuting on 1st Avenue
Signage alert: Afterword Bookshop on 6th Street
Getting to know... Daniel D. Tompkins
Group show 'Persevere' featured now at Theater for the New City
Pop-up food market at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery tomorrow amid SNAP uncertainty
Tuesday's opening shot
Monday's parting shots
No water on 7th Street (but plenty of DEP notices from the de Blasio era)
Get Ready for a 'Furious' week on Avenue A
Jazz landmark alert: The Charlie Parker Residence is for sale on Avenue B
About the new development coming to 20 Great Jones St.
B&H Barber Shop makes the cut on Avenue A
A cafe for 206 E. 6th St.
The Union Square Holiday Market opens (gulp) this week
Sunday's parting shot
Sunday's other parting shot
Week in Grieview
Smash it up: A post-Halloween tradition in La Plaza Cultural
Today in discarded rat heads
A look at 'Loose Change' at C-Squat
Last night's full moon over 2nd Avenue, plus talk of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Friday's parting shot
Another unlicensed smoke shop shuttered after multiagency raid on Avenue B
Blade runners
2 films to see with East Village conncections — 'Bunny' and 'Peter Hujar's Day'
Friday's opening shot
Thursday's parting shot
Thursday's parting Instagram post
'Loose Change' opens Friday at C-Squat
Another collison on Avenue A: Car slams into 2A
Election Day 2025
Planned Parenthood closes its Manhattan Health Center on Bleecker Street
Cauz for Pawz has opened in its new home on Avenue B
After years of dormancy, activity stirs again at 89 1st Ave.
Ramen by Ra returning with a reservation-only space on 1st Street
Pecking order on St. Mark's Place
Reminders: It's Election Day
Monday's parting shot
A bold Merlot theft on Halloween night with notes of mischief
Guilty plea announced in 2023 assault spree that included attack outside Ray’s Candy Store
ABC No Rio's new building reaches the top on the Lower East Side
Sunday's parting shot
Scenes from the final Show Brain concert of 2025 in Tompkins Square Park
Noted
Week in Grieview
Treat yourself to the weekly EVG newsletter this Halloween weekend
Sunday's opening shot
An East Village Halloween — nighttime edition
An East Village Halloween — daytime edition
Campos Community Garden hosts annual Día de los Muertos celebration this weekend
Dig in: A-1 Record Shop rolls out the records for a weekend sidewalk sale
Saturday's opening shots
Friday's parting shot
In 'Season'
There's a Halloween afternoon show in Tompkins Square Park TODAY
Another look at last night's collision on 4th Street and Avenue A
Friday's opening shot
Thursday's parting shot
A close call on Avenue A as a car jumps the curb at 4th Street
Nai to close on Nov. 8 after 15 years in the East Village
Saba Candy & Grocery opens tomorrow (Friday!) on Avenue B
Signage alert: UZ Grill House on 1st Avenue
Wednesday's parting shot
Splints, Scotch tape, and a very determined sunflower on 1st Avenue
Tis the season at Trash & Vaudeville
Farewell to NYC Convenience Gifts (and the hot nuts)
Today in ads for Chanel on Astor Place
Search & Destroy is still Search & Destroy on St. Mark's Place; plus, free babies
About the cardboard graveyard outside Tompkins Square Park
'Ginger Twinsies' ends its run at the Orpheum Theatre
Monday's parting shot
Spider-Man takes a wall on Avenue A
A look at the new housing for Barrier Free Living on 2nd Street
Closings: Paradis To Go on 4th Avenue
Man indicted for random slashing last October on Astor Place
Signage alert on Avenue A
Sunday's parting shot
The horror! The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in Tompkins Square Park
Week in Grieview
Having a Halloween ball in the schoolyard
Cynthia Nixon and Zohran Mamdani drop by the Meow Mix reunion last night
East Village artist hmac at Orchard Paint Supply
This weekend in free Halloween shows in Tompkins Square Park
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting shot
Night moves
Where to carve and paint pumpkins tomorrow
A voting FYI
Saturday brings fall fairs to 3 East Village schools
Friday's opening shot
All the vendors have left The Bowery Market; future new development in the works?
Free compost giveaway in Tompkins Square Park this Sunday
A Brussels-based nut-butter coffee bar is opening on the Bowery
Meow Mix returns (for a few nights) to the Lower East Side
Giving thanks: A final word on the stranded East River Park squirrels
Great Jones Street co-named in honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Housing lottery underway at 644 E. 14th St.
Japan’s Taishoken Ramen opening 1st NYC location at 92 2nd Ave.
Looking for what's next at the former Rite Aid on 1st Avenue
Monday's parting shot
'Samo Lives' in Tompkins today
At the 35th edition of the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
After 16 years, Poco is closing on Avenue B and 3rd Street
‘Jean-Michel Basquiat Way’ to be unveiled on Great Jones Street
Marufuku Ramen closes on 2nd Avenue
Signage alert: Coffee Roastery + Workshop on 14th Street
Sunday's parting shot
Photos along 14th Street from yesterday's 'No Kings' protest
Week in Grieview
About a new art show — at a laundromat on 5th Street
Inspiration from a former 7-Eleven storefront
Sunday's opening shot
A day of Honk NYC at La Plaza Cultural
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting shot
Pour some Sugar on me
Aout the Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House tomorrow
These East Village streets will be closed Sunday for the Halloween Dog Parade
Thursday's parting shot
RIP Spaceman
Stepping into her power: East Village native Laurice Fox brings Big Foot Energy home
The Sabieng Thai won't be reopening; Nounou Noodle Bar on the way
The Bowery gears up for more core work
Wednesday's parting shot
Owner of former P.S. 64 shares first public comments on building’s future
On the CB3 SLA docket in October: A country buffet from the C as in Charlie and Kisa team
Cue the next track: Hi-Note bids farewell (for now) on Avenue B
Signage alert: QQ Nails & Spa on 2nd Avenue
Tuesday's parting shots
Revisiting Britain’s late-night weirdness at Various/Artists on the Lower East Side
CB3 to consider street co-namings honoring Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Jack Kirby
Openings: Shifka on the Bowery
Openings: Zesty Tabbouleh on 2nd Avenue
Monday's parting shot
Work stops, plans change for new building on 1st Avenue and 2nd Street
The last of the East Village Juice Press outposts has closed
Basquiat biopic 'Samo Lives' returns to film in Tompkins Square Park
Former Good Beer space 0n 9th Street may yield a cafe-bar
Signage alerts: More convenience for Avenue B
Week in Grieview
ICYMI: Time Out Market debuts on 14th Street
Saturday's parting shot
Saturday's opening shot
To whom it may 'Concern'
About the annual Garden Party Fundraiser at El Sol Brillante on 12th Street
Thursday's parting shot
Family affair: 30 Years of Exit9 on Avenue A
First wave of artists announced for the 2026 New Colossus Festival
Picture this: A museum devoted to vintage photobooths opening in the Lower East Side
Wednesday's parting shot
New interactive map helps tenants check for lead risks in their buildings
Meet Rhaenys, the new kitty at MJay Convenience
Harvey Epstein seeks feedback on the future of the large dog run in Tompkins Square Park
Signage alert: Jungle Bowls on 6th Street
Here's Jimmy Carter Way
Fundraiser launched for man seriously injured in 9th Street fall
A supermoon warmup
Sixth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D to be co-named Jimmy Carter Way
Workers clear out Chris French Cleaners as demolition looms for corner of 4th Avenue and 9th Street
You’ll hardly recognize the former Crocodile Lounge on 14th Street
Kobano has not been open lately on the Bowery
Sunday's parting shots
Oct. 5
Week in Grieview
Save these election 2025 dates
Saturday's parting shot
Diorama season! Miniature magic returns to the corner of 9th Street and Avenue C
Saturday's opening shot
Friday's parting shot
'Begin' the begin
Harvest Fest returns to 6&B Garden for its 42nd year
Pierogi Day returns to East Village Meat Market on Oct. 11
City Fun expands into new 2-story space on 1st Avenue
Thursday's parting shot
At the Francis Kite Club, an evening of music hosted by Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio
Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade returns for its 35th year on Oct. 19
About a book sale outside the George Jackson Academy on St. Mark’s Place
Worker-stewards push back after Bluestockings’ abrupt closure
Rossy’s Bakery & Café is still open (for now) on 3rd Street
Catching up with Bella McFadden of iGirl
Vendors say goodbye to The Bowery Market
Closings: Chakra on 5th Street
Openings: Seald Cafe on 9th Street
6 posts from September
'Bowies Back' history runs through the East Village
Community meeting on the former P.S. 64/Charas/El Bohio Community Center
Monday's parting shot
Corner Bistro opens East Village outpost TODAY on Avenue A
Surprise! 10-story condo planned at the former home of Chris French Cleaners
Updated: The Starbucks on 1st Avenue and 13th Street has closed
Hubani, we hardly knew ye