January
Fire at the East Village Village Farm
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The Great Thunder Blizzard of 2011...
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The Icicle Audi...
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A birthday celebration for Ray ...
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February
The Hells Angels unveil new line of defense for their bench...
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Tompkins Square Park regular Grace Farrell, 35, froze to death while sleeping outside an alcove next to St. Brigid's ...
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Efforts to save historic 35 Cooper Square from demolition...
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March
A lot of fuss about a sign on Avenue A ...
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Photographic evidence of the elusive Pigeon Lady ...
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April
We started getting that bad feeling...
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The MTA v. an East Village artist...
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May
The DOH shutters Ray's for too long...
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We all met the Chillmaster...
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To 186 years of history on Cooper Square ...
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June
Former Burial Society now a hole in the ground on East Fourth Street...
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Howl! came earlier this year...
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July
Introducing the Flaming Cactus of Astor Place...
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Walk Man quickly came and went...
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The TSP Ratstravaganza...
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Farewell, Mars Bar ...
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August
The BMW Guggenheim Lab opened, think tanking ensued.
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The NYPD went all out to find the people who beat up Gavin DeGraw ...
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Earthquake...
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Hurricane Irene wreaks havoc...
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September
After 30 years, Life Cafe closes (for now)...
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The free Willie Nelson catches fire...
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October
The Mystery Lot faces a condo after life...
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The IHOP opened, and people ate there...
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Joe's Bar on East Sixth Street closed, opened and closed again... and the proprietor, Joe Vajda, died in November... we await the fate of the bar...
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November
We waited for President Obama to drive by on East 12th Street ...
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Nevada Smith's closed to relocate, with luxury housing on the way for the corner on Third Avenue and 12th Street...
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One construction positive: The ongoing renovation of St. Brigid's on Avenue B and East Eighth Street ...
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December
The end.
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Well, that's a fucking depressing way to end a year in review ... so to new hopes and beginnings and all that ...
12 comments:
Thanks for being there, EV Grieve. Blog on!
Great roundup Grieve...and we made it through. Best for the New Year. Keep on truckin...
Thanks for making my day-gig a lil' less hateful.
And the Great Bob Arihood left us to watch it all on our own.
One thing is for sure: the East Village is not boring.
Wonderful wrap-up, EV! Thanks for being our very own Town Crier of sorts.
Great wrap-up, EV Grieve and a wonderful Bobby Williams photo to ease the sting of the one above it. Happy New Year to you and everyone, I hope it's a good one for us all.
What an exhausting year.
Great review of a very difficult year. Perfect ending with Bobby Williams' beautiful photograph.
3,652 stories this year? That's an average of 10+ posts a day! I am very impressed, Grieve.
Thanks, everyone! All the best to you in 2012...
@LvV
That is true! Up to 3,657 now....
jesus what a year. thank god its 2012. here's to a turning tide!
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