[Tompkins Square Park the other day via Bobby Williams]
State: Airbnb listings mostly illegal (The New York Times)
HVAC Units at relocated Dunkin' Donuts on East 14th Street driving neighbors crazy (BoweryBoogie)
East Sixth Street between First and Second Avenues will be named Miriam Friedman Way (DNAinfo)
Jeremiah Moss on the two marble cemeteries of the East Village (Metro)
In her new showing opening Sunday at Joe's Pub, Penny Arcade confronts a gentrified New York (The New York Times)
Court gives NYU OK on $6 billion neighborhood-gobbling expansion (Capital New York)
So what is the Lowline, and who is it for? (The Lo-Down)
What happened to the Jewish supply stores of Essex Street? (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Christo lets a good meal get away (Gog in NYC)
Support for Siempre Verde Garden on the LES (The Villager)
Hearth and Proletariat teaming up for an Oktoberfest meal Sunday (Details here)
Looking at the former stables in the Village (Off the Grid)
Restaurant apparently not returning to Union Square pavilion (A Walk in the Park via Eater)
"Shadows & Blood," an exhibition of works by the New York artist Richard Hambleton, continues through Nov. 9 at Dorian Grey Gallery, 437 E. Ninth St. (Details here.)
...and we only heard about this crowdsourcing campaign yesterday... longtime East Village residents Adam Alexander and Leslie Sternbergh Alexander are trying to raise money by selling some of their art collection in return for money to pay for rent... (The income challenges followed Leslie's bout with colon cancer.)
Find their IndieGoGo page here.
airbnb is great, you get to let rapists and crominals into your building, and let them copy your keys and let them install secret video systems in your apartment. Yup, its a winner.
ReplyDeleteSo glad Le Pavilion is getting the boot. Shameful that Bloomblasio even allowed it to open in the first place, but he has become the Italian version of his predecessor far faster than I could ever have imagined.
ReplyDeleteI went to Adam and Leslie's Indiegogo page but can't afford to buy any of the art they are selling. Is there a way to make a donation to them? I would love to know more about them. Are they artists? They seem to have quite an art collection.
ReplyDeleteFor Adam and Leslie I think you can do a donation of any amount...I went to the page and noticed donations for $20.00 etc.
ReplyDeleteI went to Adam and Leslie's page and it looks like you can donate any amount...I saw some donations for $20.00 etc. There is only 13 hours left though.
ReplyDeleteThe Pavilion is for those with self-illusion of selectivity.
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Most people who want to help probably can't afford to buy a piece of art for $1,000. They ought to find a dealer to sell the art through or maybe even try eBay.
ReplyDelete"[The Pavillon] had erected a seven-foot, ivy-covered barrier to prevent children in the adjacent playground from seeing drunken adults behave like idiots. ... Aside from a few tourists, the clientele mostly seemed to consist of commuters craving the sauce before the long ride home... Men in slim jackets, jeans and fedoras stood by the bar holding cocktails in mason jars. Women sat on stools, sipping pastel drinks from martini glasses, pretending not to notice them. The beautiful hostess in all black stood at the top of the stairs, a stiletto’d sentry sizing up those who walked in or stumbled out. ... It was a party on the inside, but from where I stood at the stairs to the subway station, the columns looked like prison bars, not keeping the revelers in but keeping the public out of what is rightfully theirs.
ReplyDeleteAirBnB, a startup about 'sharing' and helping the neighborhood but whose community manager doesn't want to share a public park and doesn't give a shit and care about a neighborhood. https://www.facebook.com/Vanishingsf/posts/306765649515248
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