Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Friends with Benefits is coming to the neighborhood.  Indeed, between 7 am and 5 pm tomorrow, a substantial swath of Nolita will be monopolized for the film shoot.  According to flyers in the immediate vicinity, filming is centered on Prince Street between Mulberry and Bowery; also, Elizabeth Street between Prince and East Houston.

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 under-the-radar, yet popular East Boat Lobster Restaurant recently vacated 72 Kenmare Street. It no longer fits in with the glitz. Deemed New York’s “weirdest eatery” by the Post back in 2001, the decades-old banquet hall now adorns a ginormous “for rent” sign over its classic green signage. But, rest easy, all is not lost.

Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, would be extremely happy with the grammar vigilante who marked up this flyer at the southeast corner of East Houston and Mulberry Street.  It’s all well and good, order has been restored to the universe.

To capitalize on World Cup fever this summer, a new soccer-themed pop-up shop will open at the 201 Mulberry event space on June 6. And judging by the description, it promises to be quite an experience.