Saturday, February 18, 2023

EVG Etc.: Landlords challenge NYC rent laws; city seeks next Nightlife Mayor

Photo yesterday on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg 

• Some landlords want the Supreme Court to overturn NYC's rent regulation laws (Gothamist) 

• It is Community Board application season (The City) 

• At the ribbon-cutting for the renovated new home of La MaMa (PIX11 ... previously on EVG) 

• Ya-Ting Liu, a former transit advocate, will become New York City’s director of the public realms (Streetsblog)

• Ariel Palitz, the current founding director of the Office of Nightlife, is officially stepping down from her role at the end of April (Time Out) 

• A visit to SOS Chefs on Avenue B (Eater)

• With Mary Ellen Mark's "Streetwise" as the blueprint, a young photographer captures teens who gravitated to Tompkins Square Park (i-D Magazine) 

• See "Citizen Kane" on a big screen this weekend (Anthology Film Archives) 

• Three chances to see David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" on a big screen (Metrograph) 

• The artists resisting the gentrification of Chinatown (Hyperallergic) 

• "Raw Power" turns 50 (The Wall Street Journal)
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2023 at 6:56 PM

    1) Can anyone point to anything that Ariel Patitz actually DID in her tenure?

    2) 50 years?!? I saw the Raw Power tour in 1973 but my brain would not let me do the math to realize that was half a century ago! Holy crap!

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    1. PatFebruary 20, 2023 at 12:08 AM

      I vote for Flaco for Nightlife Mayor!

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    2. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2023 at 11:16 AM

      I guess you can say that For Many Of These Politicians and Celebrities
      Too.
      RCJLEO 🦁♌

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