Scenes of the season, lately

A few holiday scenes as seen the last two weeks (or so)... a happy holiday season one and all!

Monday's parting shot

The annual holiday lights at 327 E. Fifth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Thursday's parting shot

Photo by Steven 

The Mudspot Family Christmas Wreath is now outside (as of yesterday) the cafe at 307 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Wednesday's parting shot

Photo by Steven 

The Mudspot Family Christmas Wreath is now outside the cafe at 307 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Tuesday's parting shot

Photo by Steven 

The Mudspot Family Christmas Wreath went up outside the cafe at 307 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue. 

Meanwhile, the usual holiday lights aren't expected on this block this year... word is the lighting company wanted to charge too much — more than the store owners could reasonably pay...

14th Street wishes you an early happy holiday season

Workers were out this morning putting up the festive holiday lighting on this Oct. 28 along the always-festive stretch of 14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

We spotted the illumination(s) crew one block to the west...

Happy Halloween Weekend...

Wednesday's parting shot

The holiday lights have arrived along Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... thanks to Steven for the photo...

A tradition like no other returns this holiday season on 9th Street

OK, maybe that headline is overselling it a bit. 

The Christmas holiday lights went up today on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, as Steven points out... 

As we've said, it's always festive on this block during the holidays. This year shall be no different.

And new stores joining your familiar faves on the block in 2021 include A Sustainable Village... Art+Ray ... Pillow-Cat Books... Spooksvilla ...  and a new home for Duo NYC.

And for those keeping tabs of such things, the lights are not early — they arrived on Nov. 1 last year.

Updated: 

A few evening-time photos here by Steven...

Holidays on ice

Workers this morning are removing the Christmas lights from Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, as Grant Shaffer notes. 

They arrived back on Nov. 1 ... we've seen them stay up as late as Feb. 15 (happy Valentine's Day!).

Now that Halloween is over with...

The Christmas holiday lights are going up on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue this morning, as these photos via Steven show...

A little early this year, as we've seen them arrive as late as Dec. 5 in the past...

Anyway, it's always festive on this block during the holidays... and if we've ever needed some holiday cheer, the time is now... 

Updated 7:50 p.m. 

Steven shared a few photos of how the lights look tonight...

The holiday lights are already up along 14th Street

You may have noticed that the holiday lights have already arrived on 14th Street at First Avenue ... all the way west to around Union Square... this is the earliet that we can recall seeing them by about three weeks... perhaps in a bid to just hurry us through the rest of 2020...

Previously on EV Grieve: • Holiday lights make you momentarily forget how horrible the intersection of 14th and 1st is

Yet another reminder that February is nearly over

Workers removed the holiday lights today on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, as these photos by EVG Ninth Street Holiday Lights Correspondent Steven show... the lights had been up since Dec. 5 ...

The holiday lights on 9th Street

Earlier today, workers arrived on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second to hang the holiday lights... as in previous years... EVG Ninth Street Holiday Lights Correspondent Steven shared these photos...


[There's a little knot here]



... and by tonight... the block was aglow...



... you hardly noticed the recyclables on the curb...

Tuesday's parting shot

The holiday lights are up (inside and out) at 7B/the Horseshoe Bar/Vazac's on the corner of Seventh and B...

9th Street lights

Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue is usually one of the more festive blocks during the holiday season... on Friday, workers started putting up the lights...



... and by last evening...





Thanks to Steven for the photos...

Previously

An early start on the holidays on St. Mark's Place

These went up yesterday (Halloween!) on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...





These seems about three weeks earlier than usual...