Showing posts with label New York City Marble Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City Marble Cemetery. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Today in (unsexy) photo shoots in New York City Marble Cemetery

Well! This is more like it! For those of you who were offended by the photos from the shoot on St. Mark's Place earlier today... EV Grieve reader Spike passes along shots from the New York City Marble Cemetery on East Second Street...





It's a photo shoot for the new Arcade Fire side project. Kidding! The old-timey photographer is Hal Hirshorn. All the people are from the Merchant House Museum.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Today at the New York City Marble Cemetery

[Photo by Bobby Williams]


[Dave on 7th]

Previously.

New York City Marble Cemetery is open today

Today on Second Street ... New York City Marble Cemetery opens its doors to the public for the afternoon...


This past week, EV Grieve contributor Bobby Williams noted some workers tending to the grounds...


Read more about the cemetery here.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Demolition Smurf, apparently



EV Grieve readers are helping to crack this case: who is responsible for leaving the C-4 here? And everyone here seems to be taking this rather seriously:

East Village Eats said...
Insurgent (by which I mean B&T) dead drop from one of those pesky helicopters that were around all summer.

LiberationNYC said...
Hipsters. They were half way through building their bombs and suddenly lost interest. They were all like, whatevs, shrugged their shoulders, and walked away.

dmh said...
Zombies!

EV Grieve said...
Hipster zombies!

glamma said...
i thnk it was those crazy teabaggers.

Lori E. Seid said...
I think Angelina Jolie stashed them after filming Salt!

pinhead said...
Demolition Smurf.

Anonymous said...
Leftover from when cheap shots made truck bombs.

Marty Wombacher said...
I think it was EV Lambo. Dumped the junk from her trunk and vroom, off she sailed. Notice how she's been keeping a low profile lately?

Anonymous said...
benign nothingness madeover into newzzzzzz

Anonymous said...
Sarah Connor left it there in hopes that her son, John, could use it to fight the machines in the future.

There were also some actual plausible explanations there too.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

C-4 is old, likely stolen

The Times has the latest on yesterday's big hey-we-found-a-bag-of-C-4 story:

The mysterious military-grade explosives that were found in an East Village cemetery over the weekend are more than a dozen years old and were most likely stolen from a military base, the police said Tuesday.

Bomb experts with the New York Police Department found that the eight bricks of C-4 explosive, totaling about 10 pounds, lacked identifying markers known as taggants, which manufacturers were required to include in the puttylike compound beginning in 1997, said Paul J. Browne, the department’s chief spokesman.


Meanwhile, EV Grieve readers are trying help the police solve the mystery here.

So how did the C-4 end up in the cemetery?



Following up on yesterday's explosive discover at The New York City Marble Cemetery...From the Times:

Now the quaint old cemetery in the East Village is the site of another mystery, this one still unfolding, after a volunteer on Sunday discovered a decaying garbage bag filled with 10 pounds of military-grade C-4 explosives, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Monday.

Mr. Kelly said he did not believe the aging explosives were linked to a terrorism plot. No ignition devices or primers needed to detonate the C-4 were found. But how the explosives ended up interred near a 19th-century vault is still anybody’s guess.


Right! So! What is YOUR guess?

Friday, May 1, 2009

Open, uh, house on Sunday at the New York City Marble Cemetery

The New York City Marble Cemetery will be open on Sunday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The cemetery, on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, opened in 1831. This Times piece has more on the history. Or go to the Marble Web site.

It's only usually open to the masses twice a year...so... Here are some photos from previous years...







By the way, do not confuse the New York City Marble Cemetery with the New York Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue. That one now has the lovely view of Avalon Bowery Place: