This past summer, we posted 1,036, uh, posts.
Here are just a few of them.
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]
Grieve, that's some blog-posting-rampage you just went on! Love it!
ReplyDeletevery nice wrap-up!
ReplyDeleteand i love Autumn in New York best of all.
I really liked the montage. thanks! yay fall!
ReplyDeleteEVG--and we survived it all!!Nice round-up Grieve! Nice photographic work Bobby!
ReplyDeleteah summer, we hardly knew ye...
ReplyDeleteGreat wrap-up! Summer really went by in a flash, it was fun to relive it here. Thanks for putting this together!
ReplyDeleteBobby Williams - The photo of the TSP Pop-Up Piano with an older woman and man dancing ... Is the woman Michelin, a French ex-pat?
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