Noted

New art installation in Tompkins Square Park courtesy of Jerry Foust (former proprietor of the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar).

Thanks to Goggla for the photo!

Updated 3/11

Someone vandalized the sculpture overnight...

A moment in Tompkins Square Park today

Would have been a nice addition to the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar ...

Photo by Steven

Parks Department clears corner of 7th Street and Avenue A

Around noon, four officers from the Parks Enforcement Patrol, garbage truck in tow, arrived at Seventh Street and Avenue A to oversee the removal of Jerry's art work and other items that had been gathered/assembled this summer here at the entrance to Tompkins Square Park.

EVG regular Bayou shared these photos...





There's no immediate word if the mannequin survived the purge.

Back in April, the NYPD and the Sanitation Department chucked the short-lived Tompkins Square Park Art Bar here.

Updated

What survived is now across the street...

The short life of the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar captured on video

As noted yesterday, the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar rose out of the ashes of the former Black Rose on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A... it was a short-lived operation that the NYPD and Sanitation Department shut down after 24 hours or so...

And there is video of both the (fake) bar in all its glory and, starting at the 10-minute mark of the first video, the arrival of the NYPD...





H/T to the reader who forwarded the video to us...

City shuts down the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar after 1 day

[Yesterday!]

Well, after one day, the Tompkins Square Park Art Bar (aka the remnants of the now-closed Black Rose) is no more... EVG regular Daniel reports that a city sanitation crew stopped by the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A and took away the bar and most everyone else that Jerry and Co. had assembled from the cleared-out space at 117 Avenue A...





Just some of Jerry's paintings and his shoes — and the Black Rose's Jimmy Page Monolithic Riff — remain...