Showing posts with label East Village streetscenes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Village streetscenes. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Travels of a cello
Derek Berg first spotted the man with a cello on Fourth Street just west of Second Avenue ... the man eventually made his way to Second Avenue...
On Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, the man offered to sell the cello, which was missing its strings and in need of repairs, to a passerby who had made eye contact with him...
They agreed on $5...
The cello's new owner then continued on his way north along Second Avenue...
Monday, April 20, 2020
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Spring break
Spring inside the tree guard made out of skateboard decks here on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... TY Skateboard Gardener!
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020
This week in East Village street scenes
[By Ben Lebovitz]
Second Avenue (above) ...
St. Mark's Place...
[By Christopher Pelham]
East River Park...
[Photo by Stacie Joy]
C-Town on Avenue C...
[By Dave on 7th]
First Avenue at Seventh Street...
[By Robert Miner]
The Bowery at Fourth Street...
[By Derek Berg]
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Friday night from 3rd and B
EVG reader Aaron Wilson shared these photos from Avenue B and Third Street last night before midnight... showing how quiet the usually bustling (at this hour) corridor was...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Wednesday's parting shot
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Sunday, March 15
EVG contributor Stacie Joy took a walk through the neighborhood on this spring-like day today... as more and more businesses were temporarily closing during this novel coronavirus outbreak... here are a few snapshots of the day...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Sunday's parting shot
Monday, February 24, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
Friday's parting shot
Discarded Mannequin Butt
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Chairnobyl
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Friday, January 17, 2020
Mysteries: Who placed these pink gumball machines along Avenue A?
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Updated below
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You may have seen these pink gumball machines fastened to light poles along Avenue A... there are at least two — one at 13th Street and one at Seventh Street...
As far as anyone can recall, they showed up some time between Saturday night and Tuesday morning, though no one seems to know for sure.
And the machines accept quarters (thank you Jason Charles for lending me a quarter!) ... and for that price, the machine dispenses one pink gumball (I remember when these were a nickel!) ...
[Gumball or palm not actual size]
Not immediately trusting of mysterious pink gumball machines dispensing pink gumballs, a careful analysis was conducted of the sphere...
Preliminary results show that this is, indeed, a ball of chewing gum in a candied shell.
No word just at the moment who might have placed these here... and, more important, why.
Updated 1/18
Thanks to tbar in the comments... turns this is a promo related to Machinegum, a new side project from Fab Moretti of the Strokes. (It's a good record BTW.)
More from the press release about the machines:
Pink gumball machines have been distributed throughout the city hung on lampposts, the color and multiplicity of which will symbolize the saccharine, lustful quality of commercialism. A single machine is also included in an unceremonious corner of a Sotheby's gallery during an exhibit of old master paintings. The machines dispense either bubblegum or clear capsules carrying pink painted quarters, depending on the luck of the draw. These capsules will also include a QR code that when scanned will direct the user to a security footage webpage that will give them exclusive content from machinegum.
There's also an art opening related to all this on Jan. 28.
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