Sunday, April 13, 2014

King Tut evicted from tomb on East 8th Street



An EVG reader spotted this in the De Colores Community Yard & Cultural Center on East Eighth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C…

Word here is that his tomb is being converted into a 3-bedroom apartment with roof deck. Per the Streeteasy listing, the apartment will feature "high-hat lighting, exposed brick and old world charm."

6 comments:

  1. First Schwimmer and now Steve Martin?!? The last thing this neighborhood needs is another "wild and craaaaazy guy!"

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  2. THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.April 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM

    So long as the Viking stove is so huge it makes the rest of the kitchen unusable.

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  3. "He's my favorite honky."

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  4. Based on the comments below, I feel like I'm missing out on some major (pop) cultural reference here.

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  5. @Anon. 8:51, refs 1 and 3 are to the 1970s Steve Martin song "King Tut". Ref 2, no idea, sorry!

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  6. Glad to see my creation has been reincarnated on EV Grieve. I painted this sarcophagus for the haunted Egyptian pyramid we built in De Colores Community Yard for Halloween 2012, a few days before Hurricane Sandy hit and foiled our plans. This past Sunday during a garden cleanup I found poor Tut in pieces, like Osiris after Seth got through with him. That's the downside of community gardening - when someone dismantles something you've created in a collective space. I didn't say anything until now, though. Nobody wants to be a scold. Thank you, EV Grieve, for re-membering Tut and documenting my art.

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