Bernie meme goes offline in the East Village

The ubiquitous bemittened Bernie meme is now a wheatpaste... as seen above on 13th Street at Avenue A... and here on Bleecker and the Bowery...

... and outside Overthrow, the boxing gym on Bleecker near the Bowery... Bernie is wearing boxing gloves instead of hand-knitted mittens...

Art by @zui_nyc

We can now project that the polls have closed

[Voting at the Theater for the New City via Grant Shaffer]

It's just after 9, and the polls are now closed on this primary day.

Readers reported mostly problem-free trips to the polling places.

So while we hand count the votes, here are a few random primary-related photos ...


[Bernie at the Bean via Nicolina]








[Photo via @milanos_bar_nyc]

Hey, it's Primary day

The polls opened this morning at 6 for the New York primary today... (and they are open until 9 p.m.)

There have been some registration issues... which, combined with the interest in the races, "could cause long lines and major confusion at the polls," as Gothamist noted.

Anyone have any reports from the neighborhood polling places? Are the voting machines working? Any new dessert places open while you were in line?

Anyway, as noted earlier, you may watch the primary results tonight at La Plaza Cultural.

Hillary Clinton makes a campaign ice cream stop at Mikey Likes It on Avenue A

[Photo by dwg]

This afternoon, Hillary Clinton's NYC campaign trail took her to Mikey Likes It, the ice cream shop on Avenue A between East 12th Street and East 13th Street...

.@HillaryClinton tries a sundae (called "Victory") that Mikey created for her @MikeyLikesItNY: pic.twitter.com/PkrB76D69W

— Hannah Chanpong (@hannahfc) April 18, 2016

Updated 5:30

Meanwhile... EVG reader John Iz shares this photo of some young adults canvassing for Bernie Sanders on East 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...