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And someone placed memorial flyers with a rose at the entrances to Tompkins Square Park… On Sept. 14, 2013, Joel Pakela, aka neighbo...

[ Photo via EVG reader Lilly ] LES Jewels died one year ago today . And there are at least two makeshift memorials dedicated to him — o...

[Photo from 2007 by Bob Arihood ] On Sept. 14, Joel Pakela, aka neighborhood fixture LES Jewels, was found unconscious on Avenue A at Eas...

[December 2011, by Walter Wlodarczyk Photography ] We don't have a lot of specific information... other than it is happening in the P...

Jules Muck, a longtime friend of the late LES Jewels, created this mural on Main Street in Venice Beach, Calif., this week. "I coul...

[ This morning ] Well, we were wondering how long the memorial for LES Jewels would stay up on Avenue A and East Ninth Street... His fri...

[ Avenue A and East 9th Street this morning ] From the EVG inbox... Amy is requesting that anyone who may have seen Jewels between the ...

There are at least four memorials now in the neighborhood for Joel Pakela, aka LES Jewels, who died this morning from what some people ha...

[ Photo from 2011 by Bob Arihood ] Word is circulating in Tompkins Square Park today that LES Jewels, a familiar figure in the neighborho...

At 8:30 or so this morning... LES Jewels is passed out in front of Gem Spa. A man walks up, looks at Jewels and says "It's Harr...

Shawn Chittle spoke with LES Jewels on Avenue A last night. Jewels reports that he has been sober for 123 days, and is getting some suppor...

Those were the words of a chipper EMT upon coming across an unresponsive L.E.S. Jewels on the corner of Avenue A and East Fourth Street. As...

This morning on Seventh Street... under the shelter of the new awning . Photo by @beatsforlyfe . Oh no word yet on an opening date... but...

East Village photographer Steven Hirsch has been adding photos to his Facebook Crustypunks page ... he posted the above shot of LES Jewel...

The FDNY responded to calls tonight at 338 on E. Ninth St. near Avenue A this evening around 7... As a tipster reports, when the FDNY arriv...

The NYPD and FDNY EMTs were called to Ray's where L.E.S. Jewels had collapsed yesterday afternoon around 3, Bob Arihood notes. Witne...

Back in April, Bob Arihood reported that Joel Pakela, a.k.a., L.E.S Jewels, had been arrested and charged for assault... and resisting arre...

Bob Arihood has more information about the following item in the NYPD Daily Blotter from yesterday.... first, here is the item from the Po...