[Tompkins Square Park this morning via Derek Berg]
OddFellows Ice Cream Co. opens today on East 4th Street (DNAinfo)
Residents living near the Avenue A 7-Eleven now have to put up with employee smoking breaks (No 7-Eleven Blog)
Video of the Bowery from 1934 (BoweryBoogie)
Home with retractable facade sells on East 14th Street (Curbed)
Check out the work of Michel Auder this weekend at Anthology Film Archives (AFA website)
Survey finds that the majority of CitiBike users are men (New York Post)
Video flashback: Pearl Jam and Joey Ramone cover the Dead Boys (Rolling Stone)
And the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) is offering a walking tour led by veteran activist and squatter Jerry the Peddler. "Jerry will provide a narrative of the neighborhood once known as The Dry Dock, beginning from when the area that is now Stuyvesant Town was the site of brothels and risky bars ... to the tumultuous 1980s leading up to the Tompkins Square Riots of 1988. As Jerry asserts that the history of squatting on the Lower East Side begins and ends on 9th Street, his tour is titled 'A Walking Tour of the Republic of 9th Street' and takes place tomorrow and Sunday at 1 pm starting at MoRUS, 155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets." To register, please email MoRUS with the word Republic in the subject line. Admission is $20, which includes a copy of the ‘zine by Frank Morales, "Squatting in New York City."
The majority of Citibike riders are self-absorbed, self-entitled, oblivious narcissists. I have been observing them for a few months now and I am still not inured to the exceptionality of their douchery. That blue bike gives people a real sense of invincibility, judging by the way they cruise through red lights without so much as even a glance towards oncoming traffic, weaving through crowds of pedestrians right-of-way be damned, so smug in their knowledge that the universe will always make way for them. If regular bike riders are all dicks, then Citibikers are superdicks.
ReplyDeletedrop some water on those guys
ReplyDeletecall 311 for noise and smoke conditions
get creative
"self-absorbed, self-entitled, oblivious narcissists" -- the same could be said of smart-box toting pedistrians... and pretty much anyone who comes to this City, and lives here, to make some sort of mark on it. Welcome to nyc, what's your point?
ReplyDeleteI love it when bikers cruise along while looking down at their phones too!
ReplyDeletearen't those "smokers" trespassing? - and a spray bottle of white vinegar would fix things fairly quickly, as well as sterilize the area.
ReplyDeleteThe Bowery Boogie footage is wonderful. A must see! It starts at about 1 min 40 in.
ReplyDeleteCitibike riders are mostly young white guys in suits, who see nothing wrong with advertising one of the most predatory companies that ever existed. Welcome to the NEW East Village.
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