Monday, May 6, 2013

RIP Joey McGibbon

We heard the sad news this past weekend that longtime East Village resident Joey McGibbon has passed away. He was 54.

While we didn't know him personally, he is someone we saw often in the neighborhood. And we featured him last Aug. 29 in Out and About in the East Village.

I moved down here by accident. I was in love with this girl and we were in the throws of breaking up. I grew up in Queens. I had no intentions of moving down here, especially back then when this neighborhood was the way it was. But she moved here and I followed her. I thought maybe we’d get back together but it never happened and I ended up staying.

Here's an obituary, which notes:

His gentle spirit and kind way will be missed dearly.

[Thanks to Bill the Libertarian Anarchist for letting us know about Joey]
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1 comment:

  1. EVQPMay 7, 2013 at 12:42 PM

    Very sad to hear this. Joey was a friend from back in the mid-80s, and was indeed a gentle spirit. (He also worked as a security guard at the Forbes Gallery on Fifth Avenue in the late 90s/early 2000s.)

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