And the blows they keep on coming, this time in the East Village, where it looks like longtime Cajun-Creole restaurant Great Jones Cafe may be closing. EV Grieve, often the harbinger of sad news, heard from "multiple tipsters" that tonight would be the last night for gumbo and cornbread at the Cafe, which opened its funky doors 34 years ago.

The unofficial word is that the lease was up at the space, but Gothamist was unable to confirm the shutter; an email to the restaurant went unanswered and nobody picked up the phone this morning.

Though it served a rotating menu of gumbo, jambalayas and fried oyster dishes, the cafe was known as a popular watering hole where one could sip an Abita underneath the Mardi Gras beads while Elvis watched over. Most notable about the cafe: its jukebox. The juke was repeatedly named best in the city by this website and others for its unique selection and its rarity as one of the city's last to spin vinyl.

EV Grieve reports that the jukebox was unplugged during a visit in April, which may be the result of in-fighting between ownership and longtime GM Bill Judkins, who says he was "ambushed" and "forced out" in March after disagreeing about the direction of the restaurant. According to an email Judkins sent in March, ownership wanted to cater to the "'new' neighborhood," while Judkins felt it should remain a bastion of unconventionality in the ever-increasing creep of banality enveloping the neighborhood.

I've run the numbers and I've had 3 significant, 5 moderately significant and 10 uneventful nights at Great Jones Cafe. RIP pie & catfish. — Sloane Crosley (@askanyone) July 26, 2017

We'll update this story if we hear back from ownership about what will happen after tonight, if the cafe does end up closing.

Ironically, Samuel Jones, for whom the street and the cafe were both named, was born on this day in 1734.

Update: An unnamed employee at Great Jones Cafe told the Daily News it's not certain yet that the restaurant will close. The restaurant will be closed for a week of "clean-up" before ownership decides whether or not to reopen. "It's a possibility, but nothing has been decided yet," the News attributes to one "long time employee."