Janko Puls

Good morning, East Village.

As we emerge from a weekend of costumes and revelry, we find the New York Post focused on an East 11th Street co-op where the exceptionally low priced units are currently owned by women only, including local political figures Rosie Mendez and Margarita Lopez.

Bowery Boogie has a post describing new graffiti activity at the Barry McGee mural at Bowery and Houston. So far the random alterations are nothing as destructive as those which afflicted the Shepard Fairey mural at the same location.

Ephemeral New York takes a look back at East Village art of an earlier time, reproducing an East Village Eye cutting from 1983 about the art gallery (and party) scene on Avenue B.

Gloria Chung

Good morning, East Village.

Congratulations to the Lower East Side Girls Club which will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony this morning for its new building, under construction on Avenue D. EV Grieve has some pictures of progress.

NYU spokesperson John Beckman, interviewed for our article on the University’s expansion plans, gets a platform at The Villager to make his case.

Would you believe that an important East Village Halloween ritual survives in Pennsylvania? You haven’t been able to get tricked out and vamped up in psychedelic gothery on Second Avenue since the store Love Saves the Day closed in early 2009 after a run of over 30 years. Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York reminds us that its out-of-town branch survives in New Hope, Pa., and will doubtless be doing big business over this weekend.

And speaking of transitions involving local icons, Neighborhoodr has a report about the fate of what may the most notorious vehicle in the East Village.

Adrian Mihai

Good morning, East Village.

After a week of bad news, a rainbow over the East Village on Wednesday evening was a welcome sight. We came close to having another grim report today. According to Gothamist, a bid to abduct a 4-year-old boy on East Sixth Street yesterday was foiled by the child’s nanny. ABC has the story too, with video.

Before the current craze for Tiki cocktails and pu-pu platters, there was Otto’s Shrunken Head on East 14th, serving strong potions with little paper umbrellas since 2002. Then there very nearly wasn’t Otto’s any more as a nasty fire raged through the interior at the weekend. EV Grieve has pictures. Amazingly, there are hopes of re-opening tomorrow night.

Speaking of umbrellas (…ellas), the latest excuse for bright lights and sidewalk obstruction? Rihanna, everyone tweets, is shooting a music video at East Seventh Street and First Avenue. Anyone else see that?

Rachel Wise

Good morning, East Village.

Reporting by dnainfo on the arrest of Jairo Pastoressa as a suspect in the East 7th Street stabbing describes him as an assistant to well-known East Village muralist Antonio “Chico” Garcia. A video, “Termanology-Circulate,” posted on several websites including YouTube is described as a video showing Pastoressa working on a painting with Garcia.

Turning to robberies, EV Grieve has a story on a police command post established near Tompkins Square Park, apparently in a response to a recent spike in muggings.

Finally, knowing what it’s like to be editors, we sympathize with the author of this MTA poster whose grammatical error is posted up and down Second Avenue and reproduced here by Bowery Boogie.

Gloria Chung

Good morning, East Village.

The ongoing debate over bike lanes in the neighborhood took a new twist this week when Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lehr, the head of the Ninth Precinct, announced that his officers were stepping up efforts to ticket cyclists who flout traffic laws. The Times reports today on a similar effort by police across the city.

In other neighborhood news, we’d like to remind you, courtesy of Neighborhoodr, that Saturday will feature the 20th annual Halloween Dog Parade at Tompkins Square Park starting at noon. The Halloween Parade prompts us to tell you about our recurring feature, Beyond The Dog Run, in which we display photos of neighborhood pets here on The Local. If you’d like to contribute your photos, please join our Flickr Group.

While on the subject of photos from the neighborhood, we’d also like to tell you about a new feature on The Local’s photo contributors. Later today, we will showcase the work of Gloria Chung, who contributed the image above and whose work has often been featured here in our morning roundup.

And this morning the Village Voice posted an item from its archives about Sammy’s on the Bowery, the bar and music hall on the Bowery at East Third, which closed its doors in 1970 after 36 years.

Michelle Rick

Good morning, East Village.

Start the day by casting envious eyes in the direction of Jimmy McMillan, the “Rent is Too Damn High” gubernatorial candidate who – according to Gothamist – is renting an East Village apartment for his son at a cost of only $900 per month.

In other news, like the rest of the city we can’t help noticing that the CMJ Music Marathon is underway with over 1,200 live performances, mainly in downtown New York and Brooklyn. Lit Lounge and the Bowery Poetry Club are among the East Village venues hosting performances, but the musicians and fans are everywhere. The festival runs through Saturday, so there’s still time to catch a few dozen shows.

Speaking of music, especially of the loud variety, EV Grieve updates on us on the planned Halloween protest against pressure from Community Board 3 to reduce the quantity and volume on live music in Tompkins Square Park. We plan to be there.

Finally, a striking piece of visual history. It’s easy to walk by Alphabet Café on the corner of East 14th and Avenue B without giving the building a second thought. Vanishing New York has photographic evidence today that it has survived as a one-story structure for decades. How did the developers not notice this? And does anyone have an idea how old that first photo is?

Michelle Rick

Good morning, East Village.

NYU Local has photos of the rapper Lil’ Jon and the actor Gary Busey selling pizzas Tuesday afternoon at Eighth Street and Broadway. Neighborhoodr has a post about a new exhibit by the photographer Cary Conover. (While you’re at Neighborhoodr these images are worth checking out, too.) Nice photograph here over at EV Grieve. The Villager offers up a story about one man’s theory on those explosives that were found in a cemetery earlier this month. And I Love East Village has a Halloween-themed sketch by the artist Terry Galmitz.

Gloria Chung

Good morning, East Village.

On Monday, The Local’s Kim Davis wrote about NYU’s expansion plan. This morning, the Washington Square News describes the debate a bit west of our neighborhood where many residents questioned the plan at a Community Board 2 meeting Monday night.

Another one of our Monday posts offered a patron’s perspective on the closing of the Sin Sin lounge. EV Grieve reports on another sign that the end is near for Sin Sin: the club’s website is down. (Grieve also has a humorous item demonstrating that concerns about noisy students are hardly a new development.) And Bowery Boogie has a post about the neighborhood’s star turn in a new Samsung commercial.

Gloria Chung

Good morning, East Village.

Here’s a brief roundup of reads in the local blogosphere: Bowery Boogie has a post about a spontaneous shrine that has emerged near a mural on East Houston Street. EV Grieve has a quick riff about a feature on The Mars Bar in The Wall Street Journal. Over at City Room there’s a nice piece on the Central Art Supply. And The Local Fort Greene-Clinton Hill has a post about the death of a Brooklyn woman who worked at an Orchard Street jewelry shop. Sara Campbell, who was 34, collapsed while she was jogging in July and officials were puzzled about what caused her death until earlier this week.