Friday, May 24, 2013

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition


[Bike Week continues... photo by Derek Berg]

Rev Jen on getting fired from the Tenement Museum (BoweryBoogie)

Man accused in East Village assault will not face hate crime charges (NY1)

Jeremiah Moss explores Edward Hopper's New York inspirations (The New Yorker ... find more at Vanishing New York)

Facebook relocating to 770 Broadway? (The Observer)

Some photographs from Slum Goddess (Slum Goddess)

When 12 St. Mark's Place was the German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Ephemeral New York)

Cooper Union students perform leaked transcript of trustee meeting (Runnin' Scared)

Spider-Man shoots hoops in Chinatown (The Lo-Down)

Interview with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols from 1977 (Dangerous Minds)

And the folks at Devorado, the vintage boutique on East Ninth Street, note that some shoplifters left the store with nearly $1,000 of goods on May 17 ... they made flyers ...



... and released this video of the alleged theft in action...

6 comments:

  1. The NY Post's long running facts-be-damned anti-bike crusade is well documented.

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  2. It's really interesting if Facebook is actually looking at 770 Broadway and ignoring Minskoff's shiny new tech magnet across the street...

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  3. Clerk should fired. These two women are the worst actresses. They can't even pretend to window shop. They have shady written all over them.

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  4. This poor woman is simply expressing centuries of repressed rage in a nonviolent manner. It's the shopkeeper's fault for having the temerity to charge such exorbitant prices for clothes......

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  5. the tenement museum does no business. It's a simple matter of economics. I've been there and it's probably one of the worst museums I've ever been to, kind of like seeing the world's largest ball of yarn.

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  6. It is interesting how much sympathy people have for those that work for socially irresponsible entities when they have a personal connection to those people.

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