Friday, September 23, 2011

A look back: East Village Summer 2011

Today is the first day of fall. Or, if you wish, autumn. But fall really sounds less pretentious.

This past summer, we posted 1,036, uh, posts.

Here are just a few of them.

JUNE: (311 posts)

At the Howl Festival...


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Three weeks with a pop-up piano in Tompkins Square Park...

[Bobby Williams]

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Another summer of free concerts in Tompkins Square Park ...

[High Teen Boogie, by Bobby Williams]

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First word viaThe Villager that the St. Mark's Bookshop was struggling...

[JVNY]

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We learned about the doorshitter...


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Famed camouflager Liu Bolin camouflaged himself in Kenny Scharf's mural on the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall ...

[Photo by Samdarko Eltosam]

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A June afternoon outside the Mars Bar...

[Photo Bobby Williams]

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The former 35 Cooper Square on June 3 — mission accomplished!

[Bobby Williams]

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The travelers/crusties returned...

[Bobby Williams]

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Open Road Park closed ... and reopened ...


JULY: (316 posts)

Introducing the Flaming Cactus of Astor Place...

[Bobby Williams]

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Walk Man quickly came and went...


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Redrum went missing... and was found...


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How hot was it...?

[EV Grieve reader Rita]

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Longtime bartender John Leeper retired from the Grassroots Tavern ...


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It was (is!) the TSP Ratstravaganza...


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Did we mention that it was hot?


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We somehow survived Smurfs Week ...


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A-ten-hut! ...

[Bobby Williams]

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Banjo Jim's closed ...


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Farewell, Mars Bar ...

[Goggla]

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Celebrating the life of d.b.a. owner Ray Deter, who died July 3 following a bicycle accident...

[jdx]

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A memorial for Monica Shay ... who was shot and killed at the Pennsylvania country home she shared with her husband Paul.

[Bobby Williams]

AUGUST: (409 posts)

The BMW Guggenheim Lab opened, think tanking ensued.

[Photo by Bob Arihood]

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At the 'Let Them Eat Cake/Eat the Rich/ No Comfort Zone street party' ...

[Photo by Gil Robichaud]

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The NYPD went all out to find the people who beat up Gavin DeGraw ...


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Cooper Union chopped down some trees at 51 Astor Place...


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Earthquake...

[AC]

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Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc in the aisles at Key Food...


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..and, much worse, neighborhood parks and community gardens...

[Dave on 7th]

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7-Eleven began its Slurpeevasion on the Bowery...


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See you next summer ...

[Bobby Williams]

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Grieve, that's some blog-posting-rampage you just went on! Love it!

Jeremiah Moss said...

very nice wrap-up!

and i love Autumn in New York best of all.

Jenny adams said...

I really liked the montage. thanks! yay fall!

Melanie said...

EVG--and we survived it all!!Nice round-up Grieve! Nice photographic work Bobby!

randall said...

ah summer, we hardly knew ye...

Marty Wombacher said...

Great wrap-up! Summer really went by in a flash, it was fun to relive it here. Thanks for putting this together!

Tom said...

Bobby Williams - The photo of the TSP Pop-Up Piano with an older woman and man dancing ... Is the woman Michelin, a French ex-pat?