A subcommittee of Community Board 3 endorsed a plan for the creation of a historic district in the neighborhood even as the debate over the proposal continued to heat up.

Monica Shay, 58, of the East Village, died today after being in the head last weekend at her country home in Bechtelsville, Pa.

The photography of Michelle Rick.

News that 94 St. Marks Place was up for sale stoked fears in the East Village theater scene that a much-loved space would be lost. But Horse Trade has an ambitious plan to buy out the building for itself.

An ambitious plan developed by Frank Lloyd Wright would have changed the face of East 10th Street in the 1920s. But politics and money conspired so that the striking buildings would never materialize.

The summer lunch program that provides free meals to children throughout the city has six distribution locations in the East Village including local pools, schools, and low income housing developments. And this year school officials hope to distribute more meals than ever.

A roundup of news articles and blogposts related to the East Village

The photography of Roey Ahram

The Local’s Kim Davis on the plight of St. Mark’s Bookshop. “You can’t browse online,” one of the store’s owners tells Mr. Davis. “People don’t make the connection that, if the store didn’t exist, they wouldn’t know about the books.”

James Traub dines at B Bar where “there is a very complex, and very charming, interplay between ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors.'”

Two leaders of local houses of worship express their displeasure with a proposed historic district in the East Village.

A roundup of news articles and blogposts related to the East Village, including items about a new People’s Pop location on First Avenue and a report that Fu Sushi continued to operate after being closed by the Health Department.

Old friends, neighbors and passerby gathered by the front stoop of 263 East 10th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A for an evening vigil at the house of Monica and Paul Shay, the East Village couple who were both shot in the head Saturday night at their country house in Bechtelsville, Pa.

Share your memories of Ray Deter, the owner of d.b.a bar who died Sunday.

The photography of Tim Schreier.

Ray Deter, the owner of d.b.a bar on First Avenue, died Sunday of injuries that he sustained when he was struck by a car while cycling June 27.

A roundup of news articles and blogposts related to the East Village.

The photography of C. Ceres Merry.

The suspect in the fatal shooting of an East Village man and a 2-year-old boy in Pennsylvania Saturday was killed in a standoff with the police earlier today just outside Philadelphia.