With the help of over $14,000 in rent that she withheld from the New York City Housing Authority because, she said, it didn’t make repairs to her apartment in the Two Bridges complex, a lifelong New Yorker has left the city’s public housing for suburbia. Now, instead of complaining about rodents, Patricia James is dodging ducks in her parking lot. She even has a fireplace.

Chico’s latest is at Arena Eco-Friendly Salon on Orchard Street.

The presentation to the Landmarks Preservation Commission is postponed until at least July 10.

A tribute to the Holiday Cocktail Lounge following yesterday’s discovery of a Prohibition-era mural.

Opera and a street festival are on tap for tomorrow.

A round up of today’s news from the neighborhood.

The photography of Ria Chung.

A dispute over noise escalates after the owner of a deli cuts off power to an entire building.

Barbara Sibley, the owner of La Palapa who in February took over the adjacent Holiday Cocktail Lounge space, tells The Local she plans to preserve elements of the iconic dive, including the awning and the horseshoe bar. Not only that, but she’s restoring elements of the cocktail lounge that came before it.

Michael White, the oft-lauded chef-owner of three-star seafood palace Marea, fine-dining Italian spot Ai Fiori, and SoHo’s Osteria Morini, will open Nicoletta, his first pizzeria, for dinner tomorrow, and the pies may be a touch different from the ones at all those other East Village parlors. (A Midwestern touch, to be exact.)

The Bean finally opened its outpost at First Avenue and Ninth Street this morning. When The Local stopped in, manager Guy Puglia was busy setting up the WiFi and co-owner Ike Escava was anticipating a shipment of outdoor benches.

After serving as an after-hours club for one film and then a church in the Bronx for another, Mary Help of Christians is now being taken back to 1920s Little Italy, for a scene in “Boardwalk Empire.”

A roundup of this morning’s news, including Phil Hartman’s musician daughter, East Village Dance Project’s annual concert, cheap eats around St. Marks Place, and a couple of religious moments.

Outside of NY Tofu House on St. Marks Place.

After opening in September, Krust Pizzeria has reduced the price of its slices from $2.50 to $1 for the next month, and likely for good.

Local nightlife impresario Ravi DeRossi’s latest venture is a Victorian and Steampunk-themed bar, and it’s set to open at 6 p.m. tonight. Have a look inside, and at the menu.

There’s a pork bun bonanza in the East Village this summer, with Baohaus now located on East 14th Street, and newcomer Jum Mum joining the gua bao stakes on St Marks Place. Kim Davis set out to compare these aspirants with Momofuku’s gold standard product, and ended up satisfied, sticky-fingered, and not too much lighter in the wallet.

Metropolitan Klezmer performs in the heart of the old Jewish Rialto this weekend.

At 6 p.m., Anthology’s New Filmmakers’ Fest kicks off with “Donkey Love,” about men in the north coast of Colombia who have sex with donkeys. We asked the director if it’s real.