Saturday's parting shot

A familiar holiday scene on Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Noted

A dead rat sculpture on Avenue A near Ninth Street... artist unknown at the moment. 

Pic by Derek Berg.

Sunday's parting shot

Oscar season on St. Mark's Place today... photo by Derek Berg...

[UPDATED] Tuesday's parting shot

As seen on Sixth Street today... photo by Derek Berg... 

Updated 12/1 

Derek reports the headless skeleton found some friends on Avenue A...

Monday's parting shot

Preliminary work taking place today for a new tree well (and tree!) on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... photo by Derek Berg...

Saturday's opening shot

Morning view from Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place...

Noted

As seen on Seventh Street near Cooper Square. 

And first spotted last evening by @StandingsNYC...

Thursday's parting shot

We're not into the paparazzi scene here (or anywhere!) ... however, we do like Laura Dern and appreciate her body of work ("Blue Velvet," "Rambling Rose," "Wild at Heart," "Inland Empire," etc.) Seen on Avenue A at Third Street today by Derek Berg.

Monday's parting shots

As seen in recent days on First Avenue at Ninth Street ... not sure who this is... (thanks to Steven for the photos...)

Wednesday's parting shot

As seen on Sixth Street and Second Avenue today (a shoot, we're told, for Madewell)... photo of a photoshoot by Derek Berg...

Thursday's parting shots

A moment on First Avenue and Ninth Street... thanks to Grant Shaffer for the pics...

Con Ed puts more energy into power washing its substation on Avenue A

Con Ed deployed another early morning power-washing crew to buff the graffiti-filled substation along Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street. 

This was the second time in less than two weeks in which Con Ed decided to scrub the building, maybe about 80 percent effective as the tags are still visible. (And they missed the POTATO that was sprayed on here over the weekend.) 

After the last washing, the graffiti returned within 24 hours...

This isn't quite reminiscent of the brown paint wars that dominated local headlines from 2012-2014 at the Verizon building on 13th Street and Second Avenue. Tags would fill up the wall. Someone would cover them with brown paint. The tags would return. So did the brown paint. And so on. Eventually, Verizon just gave up.

Sunday's opening shots

Tompkins Square Park ⬆️ ... and Avenue A near Ninth Street ⬇️

Thursday's parting shot

An EVG reader shared this photo from early this morning ... 4:50 a.m. to be exact when Con Ed had two workers spend two hours or so power washing the graffiti-filled substation along Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street... 

Updated 10/1 

About 12 tags arrived less than 24 hours later... a sampling...

Sunday's parting shot

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Snowplow practice today on Avenue A and Ninth Street... thanks (maybe!) to Derek Berg for the photo...

Sunday's parting shot

Hello from Avenue A today. 

Photo by Derek Berg.

Saturday's parting shot

A "Hamlet"-esque moment on Avenue A today via Derek Berg...

Thursday's parting shot

BYOD (Bring Your Own Dinner) outside your favorite empty lot at 89 First Ave. this evening... 

(Back story: The tables were from one of the Indian restaurants, where it looked like some students were filming something or another... thanks Goggla!)

Friday's parting shot

The lights of Off Broadway on Fourth Street today... photo by Derek Berg...

Waiting for the Sunday papers

As seen on First Avenue this morning... 

 With a partial H/T to Joe Jackson.