Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

It’s been two years since the frat-friendly Señor Swanky’s shuttered its Village location at 142 Bleecker Street.  In that timeframe, the space suffered from neglect of the highest order.  The yellow brick became a magnet for graffiti, while the interior languished behind windows caked with gunk.  But as of yesterday, there is movement anew.

After capturing some indoor and outdoor scenes around East Fourth Street on Monday, it looks like Curb Your Enthusiasm is in the neighborhood again today.  There are now filming signs posted along Mulberry Street, north of East Houston, indicating the production as “C-Y-E.”  Covert.

The perennial Greenwich Village frat-dive, Town Tavern, is now under new management.  Yellow signs in the windows announce this fact, as does the brown paper obscuring shots of the interior.

In honor of the new A-Team feature-film remake, which debuted at the box office this past weekend, it seems apropos to flashback to the 1983 episode entitled “The Out-of-Towners.” In this particular episode, the fearless foursome of John “Hannibal” Smith, “Howling Mad” Murdock, B.A. Baracus, and Templeton “Faceman” Peck mobilize to save Delancey Street shopkeepers [...]

Yesterday afternoon, the in-production crime thriller Son of No One was filming inside Caffe Dante at 79 MacDougal Street.  Lead star Al Pacino sat in a director’s chair curbside for a good amount of time, drawing stares (and cameras) from giddy passersby.  This production was last seen on Grand Street back in mid-April.

Longtime Greenwich Village favorite Suzie’s Restaurant at 163 Bleecker Street is currently under the knife.  The 38-year-old Chinese eatery will remain closed for a two-week period of renovations.  Work on the interior began yesterday and should last until the end of May.