Images 2016

January

RIP David Bowie...


[First Park]

The great Blizzard of Jan. 23...


[East 10th Street via Peter Brownscombe]

... and the day after...


[East 1st Street near 1st Avenue]

The great snow, oh you know...


[Photo via ‏@sandispino]

DOUBLE RAINBOW...


[Photo by Caz Lulu via Facebook]

Panhandling evolution...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

February

Losing the war against the rats...


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

St. Mark's Bookshop closes...



Another cold, cold night...


[Photo by @georgygirlnyc]

March

One year later...


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

A new era begins...


[Photo by Steven]

April

Here's Johnny...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

You will be missed...



May

So long Yaffa Cafe mural...


[Photo by Allen Semanco]

Saving Air Shaft Rabbit...



At least Chris Christie isn't actually going to be Secretary of the Interior...


[Photo by Karts]

June

Tompkins Square Park's Prince-inspired piano...


[Photo by Steven]

At the annual Drag March...


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

ABC No Rio closes for now...


[Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk]

July

The kids learn to fly...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

A Sunday morning walk on St. Mark's Place...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

Campaigning in Tompkins Square Park...


[Photo by Steven]

Bagging a Rattata ...


[Reader-submitted photo]

August

A hotel in the works for 11th Street...


[Photo by Grant Shaffer]

A sign of progress in the ongoing Astor Place/Cooper Square Reconstruction project...


[Photo by Vinny & O]

September

A new space on Seventh Street for Abraço...


[Photo by Steven]

111 years later...



A fire at Caracas Arepa Bar...


[Photo by EVG reader Joaquin]

A new home for Comrade Lenin...


[Photo by Peter Marciano]

October

Fall in Tompkins Square Park...



A crowd in Tompkins Square Park for Choking Victim ...


[Photo by Goggla]

November

The cube returns to Astor Place at long last...


[Photo by @unitof]

A vote for the neighbor's best restaurant ...


[Photo by Peter Brownscombe]

Another March Against Trump...


[Photo by Steven]

After a brief closure at McSorley's...


[Photo by Steven]

December

The NYPD vs the Hells Angels...


[Photo by Event Photos NYC]

SantaConned again...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

At the 25th annual Tompkins Square Park tree lighting...


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

A look at the future?...


[Photo by Bobby Williams]

The 3 most-viewed EVG posts of 2016

In keeping with the spirit of the listicle season...

1) Report: Man reportedly shot moving orange cones outside Hells Angels HQ on 3rd Street (Dec. 12)

2) The fall of Lenin: Iconic statue removed from Red Square on East Houston Street (Sept. 30)


[Photo by Stacie Joy]

3) Breaking (pretty much!): Target is coming to 14th Street and Avenue A (July 29)

Sunday times

Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression made some year-end listicles for best records of the year... here's "Sunday" from that March release from the former EV resident.

Gone but not forgotten

Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2016...

Stephen Konzen (aka the East Village Magic Man), friend, magician



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Richard Kopperdahl, writer, patient



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Carmen Pabón, community activist, gardener



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Bill Gerstel, father, musician


[Photo from 2014 by James Maher]

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Ernest Russell, father, artist


[Photo by Legacy Russell]

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Adrian Gilboe, store owner, collector



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Brett Kilroe, designer, music lover


[Photo by Dan Winters]

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Lorraine Levine, sophisticated lady, advice giver

Don't freak out, but I died on Sunday. You can now reach me via the Ouija board. Will do hauntings for a buck. ❤️u pic.twitter.com/4x01HWTYGT

— Lorraine Levine (@ask_lorraine) May 23, 2016

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Tom Mulligan, Army veteran, Tompkins Square Park regular


[Photo by Michael Sean Edwards]

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John Farris, poet, mentor

[Photo of John Farris by EVG from 2010]

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Alan Vega, musician, icon


[Image via]

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Roland Legiardi-Laura, poet, director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

[Image via Nuyorican Poets Cafe]

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Al Orensanz, author, director of the Angel Orensanz Center



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Coca Crystal, writer, cable-access star


[Image via Facebook]

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Jim Hayes (aka Cowboy Jim), Tompkins Square Park, St. Mark's Place fixture


[Photo courtesy of John Caldwell]

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