[Photo at The Library on Avenue A by Ricky Knapp]
CB3 problems loom large in chairperson race (The Villager)
Some love for Big Bar on East Seventh Street (The New York Times)
East Village Radio's sendoff (The New Yorker)
3 LES community centers in danger with city budget shortfall (The Lo-Down)
This East Village co-op comes with a home recording studio (Curbed)
Video feature about Donostia on Avenue B (Vimeo)
Not an episode of Portlandia: The long lines at Shake Shake for a truffle-topped burger (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Video from 2008: Thurston Moore on the No Wave scene (Dangerous Minds)
Rising real-estate prices force longtime LES fencing school to close (DNAinfo)
Parking garage on Kenmare boarded up to make way for luxury housing (BoweryBoogie)
A look at the legendary BC Studio in Gowanus (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Williamsburg is turning into a high-end mall (The Wall Street Journal, sub. may be required)
And … here's another video from East Village resident Stephen Nangeroni … who did the lovely "Snow Day" last year. His latest is "One Day in New York City," and was made for the "One Day on Earth" filmmaking initiative. The aim of the piece was to capture the ebb and flow of activity on a lively, spring day in the city, and it was largely filmed in and around East River Park.
dang it's hard enough to get a booth at big bar without everybody else knowing about it!!
ReplyDelete" has a master’s degree in film studies from N.Y.U. " For some reason, this cracked me up.
ReplyDeleteI really can't stand this place Donostia. Yunnies all the way.
ReplyDelete"She always loved the baccala with the cod"
Nice pretentious video. Moves my heart.
Damn, Big Bar, recognized for the cool laidback place it's always been. Hope the NYTimes coverage doesn't kill it!
ReplyDeleteDonstia was approved by CB 3 for a license over the objections of residents, because a significant percentage of the "store" as the owners called it was going to be a market. A place that you go into and purchase much needed "basque" products. Anyone see a market in this video. This is a tapas bar, no if ands or buts. These people are part of the never-ending parade of the entitled class who want to tell us what we need in the neighborhood. We don't need mousse made with fish - we need places to buy the things we need to take care of the places we live, take care of ourselves, take care of our kids, our parents, our pets etc. Did we really need to replace a small family-run Pet Shop with this place? Oh and last but not least the stink from their convection-oven (because they don't have a kitchen) is driving the people who live in the building nuts.
ReplyDeleteDonostia has a wall that sells the marketed products. I was surprised that there were a bunch of groceries over my head as I was eating. It was kinda weird. But they do sell the products, as promised. Jorge is a sweet man who has been in the neighborhood for ages. It's not my kind of food, so it's not my kinda place. But the couple of times that I've been in there, it's been a very nice and mellow vibe.
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