Wednesday, December 10, 2014

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition


[Avenue A in the rain via Grant Shaffer]

NYCHA selling stake in some public housing, including at Campos Plaza, to developers (Curbed)

Despite Board of Ed ban, some students and parents from East Side Community High School on East 12th Street marched in protest yesterday of Eric Garner decision (The New York Times)

More about plans to keep Jim Power's mosaic light poles in the new Astor Place (DNAinfo)

Former hacker Sabu, aka Hector Xavier Monsegur who lived on Avenue D, tells his story (CBS This Morning)

DA files homicide charges in hit-and-run on the Bowery (Streetsblog)

Educational Alliance reopening Community Art School at Manny Cantor Center (BoweryBoogie)

The original Barnes & Noble flagship store on Fifth Avenue becoming a Banana Republic (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Graffiti complaints on the rise in NYC (amNY)

Remembering hardcore nights in the East Village (The Village Voice)

Sale of Bialystoker Building under review (The Lo-Down)

A rainy day on Astor Place in 1945 (Ephemeral New York)

The Primitives, featuring a pre-Velvet Underground Lou Reed (Dangerous Minds)
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2014 at 12:08 PM

    I love this photo, Grant.
    Melanie
    East Village Corner

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  2. Laura Goggin PhotographyDecember 10, 2014 at 1:10 PM

    Wonderful puddle shot!

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  3. AnonymousDecember 10, 2014 at 1:50 PM

    Not so sure this is Astor Place. It looks like there's a statue above or very near the subway stop. I could be mistaken but I don't think there was one there at that time.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM

    great photo!!!

    I-)

    ReplyDelete

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