The long short history of the Smurfs in the East Village

The new "Smurfs" animated movie (20% on Rotten Tomatoes) is out today... as you may have noticed from the ads for it around Tompkins Square Park and other parts of NYC in recent weeks...

This is a reboot of the previous Smurfs film series. 

In a cinematic event that shook the East Village to its whimsical core, the spring of 2010 saw the Smurfs take Manhattan with our very own streets transformed into a blue-hued Hollywood backlot for the first movie. Or something.

And that led to a whole series of jokey EVG posts about Smurfs running rampant in the neighborhood during that time.

A flashback to our 2010 PhotoShop skillz...