Heart n’ Soul opened on East Third Street last week, which only triggered more nostalgia for the restaurant it replaced, Mama’s Food Shop.

Samantha Balaban When it opens next week, Mentaikou will have something to distinguish it from the ramen joint a couple of doors down, and every other ramen joint in the East Village. Four words: Build Your Own Roll. Wilson Fu, the restaurant’s owner, says diners will be able to think outside the bento box and […]

Phillip Kalantzis Cope Good Morning, East Village 11,000 old pay phones will become digital kiosks. |Hyperallergic| Jennifer Esposito, known for her work in Blue Bloods and gluten free baked goods, plans to shoot her new reality series, “Playing With Fire,” in the East Village. |DNA.info] Yuji Ramen is coming soon to Smorgasburg at Whole Foods […]

Ray LeMoine It’s party time at Zaragoza tonight. The Mexican deli on Avenue A turned 13 tonight – on March 13, ’13. There’s free cake all night, and a rabbit in green mole sauce special. And Reuben Martinez, 28, says beer is coming back soon. Mr. Martinez and his mom and dad say thank you […]

Anthony Pappalardo Hell-o! A punk-rock pioneer celebrating the release of his memoir at a place called the Bourgeois Pig? Last night at the lounge that’s just a short walk from his East Village apartment, Richard Hell greeted guests with a glass of wine in hand, wearing a minimalist sweater-and-jeans combo. His hair was cut short […]

Hot dog! Papaya King, the Upper East Side institution, is set to open on St. Marks Place. And the mystery of the big box is solved: the storefront at 3 St. Marks Place will be the 80-year-old hotdog shop’s second Manhattan location, not including the 14th Street outpost that closed in 2009. Workers said they had been building out […]

Daniel Maurer FAB Cafe The new iteration of the Bowery Poetry Club isn’t the only recent change in the neighborhood’s cultural landscape. Shakeups are also in store for the homes of The Living Theatre, FAB Cafe, and Red Room. Monday, at a meeting of Community Board 3’s liquor licensing committee, Stephen Michael Rondel, founder of […]

Andrew Cote Andrew Cote’s Bee Bus When a bee buzzes in your window, you’ll all but crash your car to get it out. Not so with Andrew Cote: the beekeeper bought a school bus for the express purpose of filling it with bees. The Bee Bus will be a mobile classroom for teaching kids about honeybees […]

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Fatima Malik Babul Das. Fatima Malik Royal Bangladesh has flickered back to life. The fate of the Curry Row long-timer seemed uncertain when it was cleared out about a month ago, but Babul Das, a member of the waitstaff, said the owners merely put in new carpeting and renovated the ceiling. And if you can believe […]

Kelsey Kudak Kelsey Kudak A fresh coat of paint is still drying on the facade of the Bowery Poetry Club, but last week patrons slipped through the side door of 308 Bowery and entered another era. The club now shares a space with Duane Park, the well-known burlesque joint formerly in Tribeca. Chandeliers from the 1920s […]

Samantha Balaban The developers of a building that would go up next to the historic Merchant’s House Museum managed to quiet critics of the proposed project today, but stopped short of scoring a decisive victory at a meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. After more than an hour of discussion about the nine-story building proposed […]

Will the building that houses the Gracefully supermarket soon be home to a gym?

Kelsey Kudak “I think this is exactly what the East Village deserves,” said Roberto Deiaco, who opened East 12th Osterial last week. “There are all these beautiful people here, and they can be in a beautiful rustic, Italian-inspired place and eat the best quality food and wines.” The former executive chef of Armani Ristoranate — […]

Lila Selim Mark Birnbaum addresses the board. Residents of 199 Bowery again sparred with the owners of Bow, Finale and The General at a meeting of Community Board 3’s liquor licensing committee meeting last night. Over a dozen people spoke out against excessive noise and sidewalk congestion at the club/restaurant hybrid, which is seeking to […]

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At downtown’s nightlife destinations, phone theft has become a fixture just like bespoke cocktails and blase hipsters.

Mel Bailey Pierre Pierrot, in sweater. Mel Bailey A three-day yard sale kicked off at the Evelyn & Louis A. Green residence today. The building’s elderly tenants are selling donated items from the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, with proceeds going toward their holiday party. Pierre Pierrot, a French-born sweater maker, is one of the East […]

In the wake of a lawsuit and ahead of a community board meeting tonight, the operators of Bow have parted ways with a promoter who threw controversial parties in the basement space.