Tuesday, April 6, 2021

This photogenic East Village wisteria now has its own jigsaw puzzle

The wisteria outside 35 Stuyvesant St. at 10th Street is a thing of beauty each spring... and now it's the backdrop — along with the homes that form Renwick Triangle — for a new (as of March 5) 500-piece jigsaw puzzle...
An EVG reader spotted this at the Barnes & Noble website ($14.99) ... the puzzle — titled 500 Blooming Streets — from Galison Books "features a beautifully illustrated floral NYC street" ... from art by Jay Joy Laforme. 

The real-life wisteria — a favorite on Instagram – should be starting to bloom in a few more weeks. 

EVG photo from May 2020
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 6, 2021 at 9:15 AM

    My favorite plant in all the city! Does anyone know how old it is? Must be at least 100.

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  2. UnknownApril 6, 2021 at 9:20 AM

    Beautiful!!!!

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  3. Felton DavisApril 6, 2021 at 10:13 AM

    Sean Penn ran across the walkway there to rescue Nicole Kidman in Sydney Pollack's "The Interpreter." In the pouring rain, except that it was a beautiful spring evening, and the rain was created with hoses, and the sound of Thunder added in the studio.

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  4. 2ndAveSilverPantherApril 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM

    Felton Davis - I worked for about 40 years as an actor in TV/FILMS, often portraying NYPD. It was a joy to spend a week walking one block from my home to work on that set. As annoying as those film shoots can be, that was an example of money being contributed to our local economy, and I was very grateful.

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  5. KathleenApril 6, 2021 at 6:52 PM

    It looked like this the April I was married across the street in the west yard of St Mark's Church <3

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  6. AnonymousApril 6, 2021 at 8:15 PM

    I passed by today, how come they didn’t blossom yet?

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  7. Jacob FordApril 7, 2021 at 9:00 AM

    Book Club stocks Galison puzzles; pester Nat to order this one. (Galison is an “imprint” of PRH that assigns ISBNs to puzzles to make it easy for bookstores to stock them.)

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  8. AnonymousApril 7, 2021 at 7:43 PM

    Thanks so much for this post, as I live very near this beautiful vine and had no idea that it had been memorialized in puzzle form. A bit more research reveals that the artist is actually called JOY, not Jay, Laforme, and that prints of this scene can be purchased in various sizes on Artfullywalls.com.

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