EV Grieve
Week in Review, Feb. 15-22
• Indictment announced in January rape in Stuyvesant Town (Feb. 19)
• The Bowery Palace debuts with Jesse Malin’s “Silver Manhattan” (Feb. 18)
• More Pride at the Stonewall National Monument (Feb. 15)
• A visit to The Shrimp (Feb. 19)
• Good news: Chomp Chomp is open again (Feb. 15)
• Your Richard Hell reader (Feb. 20)
• ICYMI: Underground Railroad safe house found at the Merchant’s House Museum (Feb. 16)
• This East Village ‘Bunny’ is now streaming on Netflix (Feb. 15)
• Watching the East Village in ‘Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’ (Feb. 16)
• Thanks to ‘John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette,’ Panna II is reportedly busy again (Feb. 21)
• Lucky Cafe brewing up a mid-March opening on Avenue A (Feb. 17)
• Village East honors Catherine O’Hara with ‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘Best in Show’ screenings (Feb. 18)
• The Onion Tree Pizza Co. is closing on 1st Avenue (Feb. 20)
• Rep. Goldman announces $250K for East Village nonprofit Avenues for Justice (Feb. 20)
• A band playing New Colossus Festival: Lucid Express (Feb. 20)
• Chef Tan is closed for now on St. Mark’s Place (Feb. 17)
• Signage alert: Sweetie’s adds candy to the First Avenue mix (Feb. 17) … Fujisan Japanese Mart on 2nd Avenue (Feb. 17)
• Avenue B market reopens as Miami Convenience (Feb. 16)
• What’s happening at 166 First Ave.? Think Southern buffet. (Feb. 18)
• It’s a Small Village Deli after all (Feb. 16)
… and with the blizzard/bomb cyclone/nor’easter upon us, some counter programming to a 2025 Showbrain-sponsored summer show in Tompkins Square Park featuring Skorts (photo by Stacie Joy)



