Below 14th is building a map of vacant East Village storefronts that would make good bars. Good timing; an East Village activist is getting ready to sue the State Liquor Authority because there are too many bars in the East Village. According to Anna Sawaryn, "There s violent crime on Avenue A. There s been a lot of stabbings..."

Aside from the assumption that bars = stabbings, which we'll leave to the sociologically-minded to answer, we're mostly just horrified that Ms. Sawaryn is so 2002. Hello? All the good stabbings are happening on Avenue B now.
East Villagers ready to sue over bars [The Villager]
East Village Bar Project [Below 14th]