Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2022

'Summer in the City' with East Village writer Jennie Willink

Photos by Stacie Joy

Longtime East Village resident Jennie Willink, pictured above with her "muse and canine inspiration," Cosmo, is now a first-time middle grade novelist. 

Her book, "The Peonies: Summer in the City" (with Alix Sloane) was released earlier this month by DiAngelo Publications.

"The book all takes place in and around the East Village and celebrates our neighborhood, friendship and community with honesty, humor and lots of dogs," she told us.
And the plot:
The novel follows the story of Poppy and Esme (aka The Peonies) two 11-year-old best friends who live in the same apartment building in New York City’s East Village where they share a lively, non-traditional "friend-family" and are practically inseparable. But on the last day of fifth grade, the girls’ parents drop a bomb: Esme and her family are moving to California. 
After the shock wears off, the tweens set out to earn enough money to purchase two very special, very expensive, matching friendship necklaces. They start a dog walking business, Peony's Prancing Pups, and the adventure begins.
And, importantly, she noted that a neighborhood blog, "East Village Update," plays a major role in the success of the young protagonists. 

Today (Saturday) from 6-8 p.m. marks the official launch at Boris & Horton, the dog cafe on Avenue A at 12th Street. On July 12, she's also doing an event at P&T Knitwear on Orchard Street.

Friday, April 1, 2022

Discarding an oversized photo of yourself: A cautionary tale

Photo for illustrative purposes only

I upload dozens of random photos from around the neighborhood on the EVG Instagram Stories. 

Several months ago, I came across a poster-size photo of a couple (mid- to late 20s?) placed atop a mound of trash bags on a block along Fifth Street. I wondered why this poster ended up here. And why would anyone have a poster-size photo of themselves? 

This shot, which I deleted from my iPhone a while ago, was among some photos shared on Stories. 

The couple in the photo recently reached out to me. Let's call them G & M.

"A few months ago, you posted a photo in your Instagram Stories, which was a large poster of my fiance and me that we threw out while moving — because having a large picture of oneself is weird — and ended up just very prominently in the trash pile," G wrote. 

Oh!

"A friend from Seattle actually sent me the picture asking, 'Hey, is everything OK' when he saw it." 

G was OK with me asking a few questions about all this. 

"You can definitely write it up if you want to — it might serve as a cautionary tale for other people who have an oversized picture of themselves they don't know what to do with." 

For starters, everything is all good with G & M! 

OK, so why did they have this wall-size photo of themselves? 

"The photo was used as a centerpiece on a table at our engagement party in November 2020, and then we were given it to take home. It sat in the corner of a room with stuff piled on it until we discarded it when we moved out," G explained. "It was a pretty stressful move, so as a large object we were tossing out, we just left it — I think on the basement or the trash room."

The couple moved from the East Village to Brooklyn in April 2021. The big pic sat somewhere in their former apartment building until late last year. Months! So they never knew the photo's fate until their friend from Seattle sent the message after seeing the EVG Story. 

G & M thought they had rid themselves of large photos of themselves. Turned out that another acquaintance saw the picture on the trash pile and documented it. 

And this past Christmas during an annual "Secret Satan" exchange with friends — where you give someone a gift making fun of them. The person who had M took the photo of their picture in the trash and had it blown up to approximately the size of the original one and framed. 

"So we're right back to having a strangely large picture of our faces at home," G said, "but we are planning on keeping it because it's a bit too funny not to."

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

The year in East Village photos, 2012

Happy 2013. Before moving forward, let's take a quick look back at a few of the photos (not in chronological order) from the more than 3,300 EV Grieve posts circa 2012... thank you to everyone who shared photos from last year ... Happy 2013 to you...


Via EV Grieve regular jdx on Jan. 24.

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Via Stacie Joy from June 3...

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Via Bobby Williams from Dec. 8...

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Via EVG from Oct. 31...

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Via James Maher from January.

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Via EVG from Jan. 7. ...

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Via Dave on 7th from Feb. 27 ...

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Via Paul DeRienzo from Aug. 5 ...

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Via Paul Kostabi from Oct. 18 ...

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Via peter radley from May 19...

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Via Eddie Huang from Aug. 13 ...

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Via Bobby Williams from July 27...

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Via @michalmeer1 from May 18 ...

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Via Tenacious C from July 23...

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Via Goggla from Nov. 12...

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Via Gudren Georges from Nov. 4...

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Via Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C from Nov. 12...

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Via ‏@stevemotts from Nov. 1 ...

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Via EVG from Nov. 1...

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Via @RDevro from April 10 ...

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Via James and Karla Murray from June 3...

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Via EVG reader Alex from Feb. 15 ...

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Via Jose Garcia from March 22...

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Via peter radley from April 6...

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Via EVG from July 16...

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Via Shawn Chittle from Jan. 23 ...

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Via EVG from Nov. 15...

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Via Shawn Chittle. from Jan. 6 ...

Find more East Village photos from 2012 here.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

16 photos from the EV Grieve archives for no reason whatsoever

A time-consuming project. I have thousands and thousands of photos from the time with this website (as well as many more spanning the years). They're all safely backed up and what not (in the cloud, man!).

However, the photos aren't organized. So I've been indexing the photos by subjects ("Abandoned toilets in the trash" or, say, "Woo.")

During all this, I found a few photos from the EVG archives that I like for one reason or another. I've posted a few of these. Others are new to the site.

[Second Avenue near 11th Street]

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[3rd Street between Avenue A and First Avenue]

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[Avenue B near 13th Street]

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[Avenue A near East 10th Street]

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[The Bowery near East Houston]

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[First Avenue near East Fifth Street]

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[East Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue]

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[East 14th Street looking east]

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[The former Cooper Square Hotel]

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[East Houston and the Bowery]

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[Avenue B at East Houston]

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[East Eighth Street near Avenue C]

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[Mars Bar]
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[Second Avenue near East 13th Street]
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[Avenue A at East Fourth Street]

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[East Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue]