As noted yesterday, the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar rose out of the ashes of the former Black Rose on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A... it was a short-lived operation that the NYPD and Sanitation Department shut down after 24 hours or so...
And there is video of both the (fake) bar in all its glory and, starting at the 10-minute mark of the first video, the arrival of the NYPD...
H/T to the reader who forwarded the video to us...
Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI loved watching Amy stroll by at 10:30 and knowing that she wanted to clock all those crazy fools.
ReplyDeleteSee ya later Lebowski.
Beautiful art, destroyed by repressive force. Commercialized spaces everywhere, but the little creativity from the grassroots they wipe out... sad.
ReplyDeleteV Bar St. Marks has been closed the last 2 nights.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the deal there?
What a parody of the bland homogenization of the East village and every other area in the 5 boroughs inundated with bar-staurants and pseudo-dive bars. Great usage of the annoying chalkboard that are usually obstructing the sidewalk too. It's ironic that fake bar was not even in the way of passerby as 80 percent of restaurants I see with their al-fresco set ups blocking 60% of the sidewalk, even during inclement weather
ReplyDeleteThis is/was the genuine vibrancy that is being bastardized and exploited for obscene, expensive real estate speculation.
The ending of the exhibit was nauseating on all parts. The behavior of the curators was weird with that guy calling that lady an informant, the so-called anarchist that bailed instead of standing up for his friends and free expression, but most of all the tax-paying waste of money and time that went into the surveillance. Was it really necessary for that patrol car to drive in the park? How is that suppose to insure and promote safety for civilians? That precinct doesn't have any bikes? (I rarely see NYPD bikes anymore) And a low flying chopper too? This is what the NYPD is priortizing their days around? For a silly parody of a douche poser bar?
You know what I find interesting is that a lot of parks in the past 3 years have concession stands that serve booze. Go to rockaway beach and there are douche bars and overpriced foodie bullshit restaurants up and down the boardwalk. There's even a stand on the median by madison square park that is practically a bar. There's a lot of double and triple standards going on in this unfair and unaffordable city.
I guess it's an exhibit if you call Jerry and others cursing and yelling vulgarities while children walk by. I am all for artistic expression, but that's not what this was. This was a disconnection with reality. There are over 65k people living in the EV. Have some consideration for your neighbors. Good riddance.
ReplyDeleteThat's what the neighb needs - bars trucks!!! Just like food trucks, only, you know, serving drinks.
ReplyDeleteWhoah, I thought the struggle was real, man? Where was the resistance to this jackbooted fascism? Your potty "art" bar folded like a cheap suit as soon as five-oh flatfooted on the scene, didn't it? Resist! If you don't fight for your rights to be classless bums who will?
ReplyDeleteNo one asked for this crap. This is not some great expression of creativity trying to rise up like a green stem between the cracks of concretized corporate conformity. Now get off my lawn.