Bummer

"Sorry I hit your bummer"? Anyway, nice of the worker to leave a note with a phone number and his license plate... Would have been too easy to simply drive away, leaving behind a dented bumper. Spotted on East 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C today by Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C.

Attention East 5th Street neighbors: 'We will never be a bar!'

On East Fifth Street, Risotteria Melotti is taking over the short-lived Ballaro Bakery near the 9th Precinct, as we first reported. And they are on this month's CB3/SLA docket for a beer-wine license.

Ahead of that, this sign appeared on its front window earlier last week... (Unfortunately, we never saw it before the Block Association meeting Thursday night...)


[Photo courtesy of Goggla]

The sign reads, in part:

"We, their managers and chef, applied for wine/beer only license because we would like to be able to serve a glass of wine with our risottos.

We will never be a bar! No people screaming outside! We live in the East Village and we would never expose our neighbors to such things!"

Ah, the old "we would like to be able to serve a glass of wine with our risottos" line, eh?

Ha, just kidding!

This is the first American outpost for the Melotti family, who live in Isola della Scala, in the south of Verona, and who has always produced, processed and sold their rice in Italy. (As we cut-n-paste from their website.) They opened a restaurant near Verona in 2002. (Read their story here.) You can find a menu and see photos of the food here.

So ... Are such notes/signs necessary today in a neighborhood where the thought of a new place serving alcohol sometimes brings about unmitigated hysteria?

Noted

Spotted on the McDonald's this morning on Third Avenue. Lovin' it?

Noted

Spotted outside Alumni Hall, Third Avenue and East Ninth Street...

Please return their cat

Dave on 7th spotted this sign this morning on Avenue A and East 12th Street.

Noted

Spotted outside 100 Avenue A yesterday by Bobby Williams.

Management is really earning its money now

A front door somewhere along East 11th Street.

An EV Grieve Election 2012 update

Noted on Second Avenue.

In case you are looking to buy a pug French bulldog

You're in luck! Spotted these flyers around Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place this weekend...

Flyer campaign targets CB3 district manager 'for assault on our civil liberties'

You may have seen these flyers around the neighborhood the past day or two... @bacondevil spotted this one on Second Avenue at East Fifth Street...

There was also one spotted on East 14th Street at Second Avenue... Per the flyer, someone is accusing Community Board 3 District Manager Susan Stetzer as being an "assassin of New York's creativity" who is "wanted for assault on our civil liberties."

The Lo-Down, who first reported on the flyers yesterday, spoke with Stetzer. She said that she doesn't know why anyone why would have done this ... "but she believes they could be related to liquor license applications."

Speaking as a resident during a CB3/SLA meeting last summer, Stetzer did publicly oppose the restaurant-bar-music venue project in the works for 34 Avenue A. CB3 ultimately rejected all the proposals for the former Aces & Eights space, and it will soon be home to Ruff Club, "a social club for dogs."

Last December, Stetzer was one of the many city officials tweaked in the annual holiday invite from activist Allen Roskoff. According to Scoopy's Notebook, Stetzer was depicted "as a sexy pole dancer because ... she's a foe of bars and clubs."

(Some residents also criticized Stetzer in the fall of 2010 for her role to possibly limit the number of concerts in Tompkins Square Park. You can read that background here.)

As far as these types of flyers go, this one seems rather mild by comparison. Back in the spring, a few flyers appeared around the neighborhood about developer Ben Shaoul. As reported by The New York Times in July, they read, in part: "I pledge to rape the East Village of every last vestige of creativity," and concluded: "You gotta problem wit dat?"

Curve your enthusiasm

"Rat poison. Curve your dog." East Fourth Street near Avenue C.

Photo via EVG reader Steven.

Desperately Seeking 'Real People'

Spotted on Second Avenue near East 14th Street. If you call, could you please find out what the free gifts are?

Thanks!

[Updated] Perhaps the greatest missing bike flyer ever

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East 10th Street and Third Avenue last night via the Bagel Guy.

Per the sign, possibly a fake but still entertaining — "no reward."

"I don't even want this bike back. I just made these flyers to tell you that I hate you, bike thief. I hope you ride my bike without a helmet and get hit by a monster truck. I hope my bike takes you straight to Hell."

Updated:

Ah, so the sign is old... but apparently people are still putting them up... perhaps to help sell these T-shirts. Per the comments, the flyer is the work of David Shrigley.

'Desperately seeking a dog'

Spotted these flyers around this past weekend...

Bobby Williams took a photo of this one today on Avenue B at Ninth Street.

Noted

Multiple readers have reported this sign on East Sixth Street and Avenue A. Have you seen others?

How you can mend a broken heart

Dave on 7th spotted this on Second Street and Avenue B...

Dog etiquette signs are getting more colorful, trees weirder

Just noting this sign on East Fifth Street across from the 9th Precinct...

...and adding to the collection that includes this one ... this one ... definitely this one ...

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Tree asks, Don't pee on me

Forget the location... East Fourth Street? Photo by Bobby Williams.

Noted

EVG regular William Klayer spotted these flyers plastered all along Avenue A this evening... we called the number, but no one answered...

2 reasons to try Hot Kitchen, probably

Dave on 7th passes along this sign that he spotted on Seventh Street and Second Avenue... We're unsure if this is supposed to be for or against Hot Kitchen, the Sichuan restaurant that opened last September on Second Avenue near Sixth Street.

In the end, we think this is supposed to be for the place, because their chef doesn't cook and smoke at the same time... and the delivery people don't nibble on your food...

Regardless, Hot Kitchen is a good spot that we like ... and they also like it at New York magazine and the Voice... the NYC Food Guy ...