Over the past week, we remembered longtime downtown music-scene fixture Chet Mazur, checked in on the future of St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, and documented the remarkably brief earthly existence of Holy Ride in Tompkins Square Park.
• Remembering Chet Mazur (Aug. 12)
• Tompkins Square Library branch books a temporary closure (Aug. 10)
• St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery looks to the air for its future (Aug. 10)
• Rabbit Books and Bar ready for its grand opening on Avenue A (Aug. 14)
• At Ecce, come for the pizza, stay for the Herman Melville tribute (Aug. 13)
• The wisteria house sells for $3.65 million on Stuyvesant Street (Aug. 13)
• A come-to-Jesus moment on the TF at Tompkins Square Park (Aug. 13) ... Holy Ride meets its maker in Tompkins Square Park (Aug. 14)
Photo by Stacie Joy
• Art and ecology meet in this East Village community garden (Aug. 14)
• Partial solar eclipse! (Aug. 12)
• Openings: Bellanova on 9th Street (Aug. 12)
• For lease: the former Francis Kite Club space on Avenue C (Aug. 11)
• At the National Night Out Against Crime, 5th Street edition (Aug. 9)
• A Petite Maison pop-up on Avenue B (Aug. 11)
• Sunday afternoon with the booyah! kids in Tompkins Square Park (Aug. 11)
Photo by Stacie Joy
And thanks to the New York Groove for this Q&A with EVG! (Link)