For every East Village business that’s opening or closing, dozens are quietly making it. Here’s one of them: Pink Olive.

The latest olfactory journal maintained by a neighbor if IHOP.

That band has taken its toll.

Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong are sifting through their voluminous archive of punk-era concert footage as it’s digitized for the Downtown Collection at N.Y.U.’s Fales Library. Here’s this week’s trip down memory lane, starting with a word form Jeff Magnum, bassist for the Dead Boys.

If it were up to him, Felton Davis would install a 75-foot dome atop the communal shelter where he has lived for 25 years. But the Catholic Worker doesn’t have that kind of money, so he uses a simple telescope to show his fellow Maryhouse residents the wonders of the universe.

The Local’s daily roundup of East Village news from around the web.

Some blocks north of William S. Burroughs’s “bunker” on the Bowery, The Standard, East Village is paying tribute to the neighborhood’s literary past by opening a throwback lobby newsstand stocked with the likes of Kesey, Kerouac, and Corso.

Preservationists came out in force on Tuesday to support a proposed historic district that would encompass a large chunk of the East Village, and ran into familiar anger from religious groups.

Some hot dog news to chew on.

Cue “Return of the Rat” – the furry fiends are back on First Street.

The tequila may have to stop flowing in a few months at Diablo Royale Este. The embattled Mexican restaurant won’t have a liquor license come September unless its owner, Jason Hennings, files a special proceeding against New York State, according to a State Liquor Authority spokesperson.

Some morbid models vamped it up on the jungle gym at Tompkins Square Park this afternoon.

NY1 reporter Mari Fagel on leaving the East Village, and New York.

Yesterday the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Andrew Berman, shared the history of six buildings that may soon be part of the proposed East Village-Lower East Side Historic District. Before this afternoon’s critical hearing, he’s delving into the history of six others.

The Local’s daily roundup of East Village news from around the web, including a look at ABC No Rio’s future digs, Community Board 2’s new chair, a walk down Stuyvesant Street, movies in the park, and more.

Yesterday in Union Square Park and at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, dancers celebrated Inti Raymi, the “festival of the sun” that has traditionally marked the winter solstice in the Andean region.

A woman injured in a stairwell collapse was not seriously injured.

Life Cafe is once again undone by its landlord, and Mama’s Food Shop has packed up in Williamsburg.

On the eve a public hearing about a proposed historic district, Andrew Berman shares 12 of the more compelling building’s in the footprint.