Friday's parting shot

Photo by Andrew Jacobs 

Happy Valentine's Day from 10th Street between B and C to one and all...

Friday's opening shot

Happy Valentine's Day from Key Food (and Little Debbie) on Avenue A...

Thursday's parting shot

Photo by Francine Lange 

Pre-Valentine's Day eve at Sunny's Florist, Second Avenue at Sixth Street...

The Bloom Bloom-Book Club mashup returns this Valentine's Day (today!)

If you need a gift this Valentine's Day (TODAY), Book Club is once again hosting the East Village-based Bloom Bloom floral design studio at the shop-cafe on Third Street.

From 11 a.m. to whenever the flowers are gone, Bloom Bloom is selling grab-and-go wrapped bouquets and custom floral arrangements. 

Book Club is at 197 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. 

This is the third year for the Feb. 14 collaboration between the two businesses. 

Tuesday's parting shot

Valentine's Day evening on St. Mark's Place... photo by Derek Berg...

Monday's parting shot

Photo on Second Avenue today by Derek Berg...

A Bloom Bloom-Book Club mashup for Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day tomorrow, Book Club hosts the East Village-based Bloom Bloom floral design studio in store. 

Starting at 11 a.m. to whenever the flowers are gone, Bloom Bloom is selling grab-and-go wrapped bouquets and custom floral arrangements. 

Book Club is at 197 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B. 

Bloom Bloom is a studio-based florist. Founder Tasha Muresan recently moved to the East Village from Greenpoint.

Sunday's parting shot

Photo today by Derek Berg...

Noted

ICYMI: Someone turned the fixed bollards on Houston at Orchard into Hershey Kisses for Valentine's Day...





I recall this happening here in previous years as well...

'Queers of Noise: Love Stinks' set for Valentine's night at the Bowery Electric

Katrina del Mar and Wendigo Productions have teamed up for “Queers of Noise: Love Stinks” Friday evening (Valentine's!) from 7:30 to 11 at the Bowery Electric.

Here are some details about the event via the EVG inbox (and find the Facebook Event Page at this link) ...

... this celebratory concert’s lineup features mostly female-fronted bands with trans, dyke, and straight allies, including Tracy City, Monte, Grace Bergere, DJ MzzzMullett and the Queers of Noise Supergroup fronted by very special guests Eileen Myles, Pamela Sneed, Cristy C Road, Reuben Butchart, Michael Love Michael and more.

Modern love can be complicated. For all the shallow screentime spent glazing your eyes bending your over _personals / Lex / grindr /tindr / her / okCupid it’s time to balance out, give your hard candy life a chance to crack open and gush. Join us for a live music night of punk, riot grrrl, radical queer poets and female-led rock bands!

The Bowery Electric is at 327 Bowery at Second Street (aka Joey Ramone Place). Tickets are $15 and available online here or at the door.

And Tracy City, featuring del Mar on vocals, has a new video out... feel the power retro pop of "Love"...

Wednesday's parting shot

Happy early Valentine's Day from Union Square ... photo by Derek Berg.

Thursday's parting shot

A late-afternoon look this Valentine's Day at Sunny's Florist, the best flower shop around... photo on Second Avenue at Sixth Street by Lola Sáenz ...

A new window display for Blue Door Video on Valentine's Day

Eden shares this photo of the new-look front window display at the XXX video and DVD store on First Avenue between Fifth Street and Sixth Street... in recent years, the window display seemed to be a forgotten part of the store, with two cardboard ads for Swiss Navy personal lubricants and a corset-skirt combo that looked more like a lost and found.

Planning ahead for 2019 (and beyond?)

Goggla shares these photos from the Rite Aid on First Avenue at Fifth Street, noting: "In case anyone meets The One at the stroke of midnight tonight, Rite Aid is stocked for V-Day."



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Wednesday's parting shot

A heartfelt delivery on First Avenue and Seventh Street this Valentine's Day via Derek Berg...

Red & White

Previously by peter radley

Happy Valentine's Day from Rite Aid on 1st Avenue

If you're stuck on a last-minute Valentine's Day gift, the Rite Aid on First Avenue at Fifth Street has an outside-the-box suggestion — Tide pods.

Thanks to Marjorie Ingall for the photo!

Valentine's Day Eve

The scene at Sunny's on Second Avenue and Sixth Street... the best place around for flowers... thanks to Goggla for the photo!

And earlier today via Eden B...

Valentine's night at Sunny's

[Photo by @EdenBrower]

Sunny's Florist, operated by Sun "Sunny" Ja Hwang and her son Edward, on Sixth Street at Second Avenue is arguably the best place to buy flowers in this or any neighborhood ... no surprise then that there is always a line on Valentine's Day or Mother's Day for quality bouquets that start at $10.

A mid-afternoon Valentine's break

Photo in Tompkins Square Park by Steven...