Lick it up

East First Street at Avenue A.

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Hopping on the Kiss train

We didn't get a chance yesterday to check out the progress of the temporary Kiss mural going up outside the former Nice Guy Eddie's on East First Street at Avenue A ...

So...

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Kiss alive II

Back with an update at 10 p.m. (Kidding! Probably.)

Kiss alive

This morning.

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Plus:
Bowery Boogie
Flaming Pablum

Chico's plywood reservations

Chico's Kiss mural might be going away outside the former Nice Guy Eddie's...

... but it appears he will be painting the plywood during renovations of the new restaurant opening here on Avenue A and East First Street...

Chico's latest ad mural on East 10th Street

On Friday, Bobby Williams spotted Chico creating a new ad on East 10th Street at Avenue C...



...and the finished product for El Camion, the restaurant on Avenue A at East 12th Street...



P.S.

Earlier this month, Chico touched up the murals outside the Nuyorican Poets Café on East Third Street...

How do we feel about the Kiss mural outside Nice Guy Eddie's?

[EVG photos taken on April 8]

Nice Guy Eddie's made their closure public this week on Facebook. The 16-year-old bar's last day is Sunday.

As Eater reported in April, the CB3/SLA committee OK'd the transfer of assets from the David McWater-owned Nice Guy Eddie's on Avenue A at Houston/East First Street to an entity called Downtown Dining LLC led by Darin Rubell of the Gallery Bar. Plans call for a restaurant serving "American comfort food."

An EV Grieve reader who was at the April meeting noted that Rubell was noncommittal about keeping the Kiss mural on the restaurant's south wall along East First Street. (There was something to do with the size of the new windows for the space or something.) It seems rather unlikely that the mural would remain... As Greg at Eater put it, "That sweet, sweet Kiss mural will probably be the first thing to go."

While I like Kiss (well, mostly) and Chico's work, I don't have strong feelings about the mural ... or the bar... was never a place that I went to very often, if at all in the last 10-plus years. Still, I know people who do like it. (The bar and the mural.) Ditto for the burger on the Avenue A side.

If the mural does go... the entry points into the neighborhood have dramatically changed ... 14th Street and Avenue A is, for now, an empty lot ...

[EVG reader Tom]

Astor Place will be a (the?) Death Star...

And Avenue A and Houston with a new restaurant on the northwest corner and the Union Market on the northeast corner...

Chico's Basquiat

Art Around the Park today... Photos by Bobby Williams.

Checking in on Chico

Earlier we noted that Chico was putting up another mural on Houston and Avenue B... Bobby Williams caught up with him later for an update...

New mural for Chico on Houston and Avenue B

Chico (on a break at the moment the photo was taken) and company are painting over this ad on Houston at Avenue B... as you can see, someone has defaced the mural...

Chico creates tribute for Bob Arihood at Ray's Candy Store

Yesterday after, we posted photos of Chico working on a mural for the Ray's Candy Store awning on Avenue A ... Single Linds Reflex, who worked with Chico on the concept, was there to watch it happen ... Here's a sort of Blogger time-lapse with the final work ...

And later... Chico talks with Lucy and Ray...

Chico creating a mural honoring Bob Arihood at Ray's Candy Store

In progress now on Avenue A. We understand that it will be a portrait of Bob on one side... and Ray on the other side. Photo via Single Linds Reflex.

And here are two more in-progress photos... via @biggayicecream ...

Notes from Avenue C

Chico continues to keep busy ... working on the rolldown gate earlier today on Seventh Street and Avenue C... Photo by Bobby Williams.

A royal flush on Houston and Avenue B

This weekend, Chico painted over the Kate-William mural on Houston at Avenue B ...

[Top photo by Bobby Williams]

...for a new Loisaidas ad...

A fake window for Verso on Avenue C

On Monday, EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams noticed that someone had painted a window on the outside wall between two existing windows at Verso, the Italian restaurant that opened last month on Avenue C at Eighth Street... (Chico was on the scene too, though we're unsure if he was there to lend a hand or just passing by...)

...and the final product...

And, as we've said before, that to-go window rumor never materialized here...

Chico in a time-lapse video creating the Gil Scott-Heron tribute

Last Friday, we posted some photos of Chico working on a memorial for Gil Scott-Heron on East 12th Street at Avenue C... Now, here's a time-lapse video of Chico creating on the mural...



Produced by Robert Galinsky and directed by Joey John.

The Gil Scott-Heron mural on 12th Street

Earlier, we posted some photos of Chico working on a memorial for Gil Scott-Heron on East 12th Street at Avenue C...

Dave on 7th has a photo of the final mural...

Chico paints a Gil Scott-Heron tribute

Spotted by Dave on 7th at 12th Street and Avenue C.

Meanwhile, Bobby Williams caught up with Chico working on the front of the building...

And Crazy Eddie checks in with what it looked like right before Chico started...