Wednesday's parting shot

Photo by Derek Berg 

Movie signage day on Seventh Street and First Avenue for "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."

Go go Godzilla, yeah!

Baby Kong arrives at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden

Thanks to a Good Stuffed Animal Samaritan, there's now a Baby Kong in the Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden

Back in February we had the story about how Kong, the stuffed animal that longtime East Village resident Nefertiti Jones had as a child, ended up in the Community Garden. (Link to the story is below.) 

Unfortunately, Kong went missing earlier this month. As Jones wrote in an Instagram post, "I am heartbroken my beloved Kong was stolen ... Kong who was loved by so many people and had become a permanent fixture on Avenue B was taken a few days ago. If you have seen him please bring him back."

Now though, someone placed a Baby Kong in the spot with a note...

The note reads in part: "I offer hope and health to all who care for me. Hopefully, mommy and daddy Kong come back to visit. If not, I am here to carry their legacy!"

H/T Briar and the 6th & B team!

Previously on EV Grieve: 

King Kong lives: How a favorite stuffed animal from childhood became part of a community garden

Kong is missing

Back in February we had the story about how Kong, the stuffed animal that longtime East Village resident Nefertiti Jones had as a child, ended up in the Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden. (Link to the story is below.) 

Anyway, as the headline tells you, KONG IS NOW MISSING!

 

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I am heartbroken my beloved Kong was stolen from the 6th Street Community Garden. https://www.facebook.com/6bgarden/ Kong who was loved by so many people and had become a permanent fixture on Avenue B was taken a few days ago. If you have seen him please bring him back.

A post shared by Nefertiti Jones (@nefjones) on Sep 12, 2020 at 9:32am PDT

Previously on EV Grieve: 

King Kong lives: How a favorite stuffed animal from childhood became part of a community garden

King Kong lives: How a favorite stuffed animal from childhood became part of a community garden

The Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden has a new stuffed-animal resident — one with a long history in the East Village.

The stuffed King Kong belonged to Nefertiti Jones, who was born and raised on Sixth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C in the 1970s and 1980s. At age 4, her mother gave her the King Kong stuffed animal. She instantly fell in love with him.


[Image via Instagram]

She recently shared this story on an Instagram post (and with me)...

Kong slept on my bed all through my early childhood and teen years. We would first be parted when I moved to San Francisco in 1994 ... He was in good hands with his grandmother on East Fourth Street.

Upon returning to NYC and settling into my own place, I would move Kong back in with me. Of course, for the next 20 years, I found myself moving from the Upper West Side, to Williamsburg and finally back to East Fourth Street ... Kong was with me.

Last month, she made the difficult decision to part with him. He was falling apart. Jones asked her husband Jimi to dispose of Kong when she was away.

He did. But Jimi had become attached to Kong too, so rather than put him in the trash he put him on top of a recycling bin in the neighborhood hoping someone would take him home.

Last week, she was walking on the Sixth Street side of the Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden when she saw a familiar figure.

I nearly fell over when I saw Kong in a tree in the garden. My beloved Kong found his way back home and is now in the garden hanging in a tree.

Someone patched up his paws and placed a bunch of pussy willows in them.


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"It has taken all of my will power not to take him back home with me," she said, "but I think he is happier in the garden."

King Kong alive on St. Mark's Place

Here's a work-in-progress look at a King Kong mural going up on St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue (adjacent to David's Cafe) ... Steven spotted @moi.ny at work today...



This will be the second King Kong mural for the neighborhood (the other is via Dragon76 on 13th Street at First Avenue)...



He hopes to have the King Kong skyline completed by the end of the day tomorrow. @moi.ny also painted the Wu Tang logo on the other side of David's...

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A post shared by MOI ONE (@moi.ny) on May 26, 2018 at 10:31pm PDT

Updated 10/28

Here's the final work...



Updated 10/30

Someone thought it would be cool to put some dicks on it and vandalize the mural...


[Photo by Steven]

King Kong Lives (on 13th Street)

Been waiting to get a daylight shot of this mural that Dragon76 created this past weekend on 13th Street at First Avenue... Ichibantei next door commissioned the work...



It takes the place of the Godzilla v. Gamera mural that had been here the past three years...

Konged

The 1976 version of "King Kong" is playing on AMC these days. It's fun in that hey-here's-an-awful-movie-playing-now-on-AMC-and-don't-Jessica-Lange-and-Jeff-Bridges-make-a-nice-couple? kind of way.