Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.31.11 – 8.6.11, East Edition

The Short Life of the Tompkins Square Park Walk Man (EV Grieve)
The End of a Bar & Its Surprisingly Artistic Life (City Room)
Aziz Ansari’s East Village Crawl (NY Magazine)
New Bakery Puts a Fresh Spin on Sweets (DNAinfo)
Bleecker Businesses Say Subway Construction is a Summer Bummer (The Local East Village)
The Flaming Cactus Installation at Astor Place (EV Grieve)
How to be Alone in McSorley’s (Lost City)
Friday Afternoon at Mars Bar (The Gog Log)
Before Mars Bar (EV Grieve)
Mars Bar was Down & Dirty, But it was Real (Villager)
East Village Man Dies After Being Left Alone in Van (NBC News)
Upstate is Shuckin’ Oysters & Slingin’ Beers in the East Village (Grub Street)
A First Look at Karl Fischer’s Design for 12th Street (The Local East Village)
Inside BMW Guggenheim’s Thinky East Village Pavilion (Curbed)
Veselka Bowery Now Staffing (Eater)
Rent is Too Damn High on St. Marks Place (NY Post)