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 ...
Thanks for being there, EV Grieve. Blog on!
ReplyDeleteGreat roundup Grieve...and we made it through. Best for the New Year. Keep on truckin...
ReplyDeleteThanks for making my day-gig a lil' less hateful.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Great Bob Arihood left us to watch it all on our own.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is for sure: the East Village is not boring.
ReplyDeleteWonderful wrap-up, EV! Thanks for being our very own Town Crier of sorts.
ReplyDeleteGreat 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.
ReplyDeleteWhat an exhausting year.
ReplyDeleteGreat review of a very difficult year. Perfect ending with Bobby Williams' beautiful photograph.
ReplyDelete3,652 stories this year? That's an average of 10+ posts a day! I am very impressed, Grieve.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone! All the best to you in 2012...
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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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