All someone wants for Christmas...

An EVG reader spotted this on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street... a flyer campaign noting that SantaCon, scheduled for Saturday, has been cancelled... which means, according to the sign:

• NO congregating in Santa costumes
• NO throwing up on the sides of buildings
• NO public sex acts
• NO excessive drunkenness

(What about the rest of the year?)

Anyway, SantaCon hasn't been cancelled... the list of participating bars will be released later tonight.

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Letter for Santa from residents of this East Ninth Street building... hoping the hot water issues doesn't continue...

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An EVG reader spotted this last evening at the Cemusa bus shelter on First Avenue near Fourth Street ... the reader said that it's "taped up paper that was under the glass."

RIP Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo.

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An EVG reader shared a photo of this sign spotted on Avenue A and Second Street. It reads:

Beware!!!

There is a couple in the LES with and grey and white pit bull they're sicking on random victims.

The woman is about 5 feet tall with brown hair and the man is about 6'2" with a cloudy eye. These people are predators!!!

Be careful and call the police!!

There's more of a sense of urgency with getting a flu shot at Duane Reade this flu season

Spotted by @edenbrower outside Duane Reade on Third Avenue and 10th Street...don't put it off!

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Spotted on a front door on Seventh Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...

Thanks to EVG reader Jill Hennessy for the photo!

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East Third Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

The cost of giving stuff away has gone up

Avenue A near Third Street. Unfortunately, all the "stuff" was gone. [Sad-face emoji here]

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Spotted on Avenue B near Second Street. We appreciate the honest assessment of this discarded Shark Pet Perfect Hand Vacuum.

Also, we looked up this product and learned something about people who buy the Shark Pet Perfect Hand Vacuum via Amazon... they have excellent taste in films...

Neighborhood alert for the 3rd Street Rose Snipper

These are flyers up on Third Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... for an alleged flower thief.

Thanks to EVG reader Marjorie for the photo

[Updated] Neighbors ask Con Ed to water this tree 'dying of thirst'

Someone has placed a homemade sign in this dusty tree pit outside the Con Ed substation on Sixth Street at Avenue A...

"Dear Con Ed,

I am dying of thirst

Please... when you get a chance"

Updated 11:39 am

@evgrieve Hello. It might be a good idea to reach out to either the Parks Department or 311. ~RO

— Con Edison (@ConEdison) June 24, 2016

Flyers call out convicted rapist Brock Turner

Slum Goddess passes along word that the above flyers, like this one on Second Avenue near East Houston, are starting to show up around the neighborhood.

Brock Turner, a former Stanford student and member of the swim team, was sentenced earlier this month to six months in jail for raping an intoxicated and unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a fraternity party in January 2015. Turner faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison.

The story has prompted outrage for many reasons, including the lenient sentence handed down by Judge Aaron Persky, who said he feared a longer term behind bars would have a "severe impact" on Turner.

Last Wednesday night, Grlcvlt, described as a national secret society, held a "Fuck Rape Culture" event in East Williamsburg to unseat Persky.

Gothamist has coverage from the event here. A similar Brock Turner rapist flyer was spotted outside the venue, Holyrad Studio.

Report: NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force investigating fake Donald Trump sign

[Photo on Avenue from Monday by Karts]

That fake sign declaring that "Muslims Must Wear Identity Jackets At All Times" and signed by "Donald J. Trump, President of the United States" lasted about two days on Avenue A near East Ninth Street before someone removed it.

There was also one on Orchard Street, per The Lo-Down ... as well as other parts of the city.

Last night, WABC 7 reported the following:

The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating a potential ant-Muslim harassment case after an outrageous sign was discovered on the Upper East Side.

Police are looking for the suspect who hung the sign that read, "Muslims must wear identity jackets at all times," and placed a yellow jacket next to it.

The sign was found near the ambassador of Yemen's residence.

Police have canvassed the area with signs asking for any help identifying who put that sign there.

Added: H/T to anonymous commenter on the previous post!

If you don't like movie posters of En Sabah Nur strangling Mystique, then move to...

Kidding!

However, as this photo from EVG reader Michael shows, someone did take exception with the poster for "X-Men: Apocalypse" at First Avenue and 14th Street.

Someone took the time to leave an eight-pieces-of-paper message: "This violence in my kid's face is not OK."



On that topic, what character is most likely to die in the film out on May 27?

Beast? Psylocke? Moira MacTaggert? Magneto?

Reader report: This sign on East 13th Street is full of crap

An EVG reader, a self-described dutiful pooper scooper, felt compelled to fact check a fake, meant-to-look-official flyer on East 13th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue.

As the Official Website of New York notes:

The City enforces the Pooper Scooper Law and accepts reports of places where dog walkers regularly fail to pick up after their dogs. These locations include streets, sidewalks, and other areas such as open front yards next to the public sidewalk. A City agent must see the crime taking place in order to give a ticket. The Pooper Scooper Law does not apply to guide dogs or service dogs walking with people who have disabilities.

It's perhaps tricky business, though, for the city to hand out a ticket. Per a 2008 article in The New York Times: "To issue a summons, the agent must witness the dog doing its business and the owner walking away."

As for the reader's annoyance with the sign: The fine for failing to clean up after your dog is $250. New York bumped up the penalty from $100 in 2008. (The Canine Waste Law was enacted in 1978.)

So the reader wonders why the sign maker didn't put the correct $250 amount on the flyer. Perhaps the reader needs to make new flyers [someone will suggest].

For further reading:
The Consequences Of No One Picking Up Their Dog’s Poop Are Horrifying (FiveThirtyEight)

Do you have what it takes to take this free Team Hot Wheels backpack?

Spotted on East Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue earlier today... with a sign "This backpack comes with immense responsibility."

Possibly the work of the East Fifth Street Tree Committee?

Photo by Derek Berg

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File under #BuckWild along Avenue A...

Updated 6:31 p.m.

Oh, OK... also on Avenue A...

How about some help to rescue Lucy

Here on East Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...



There's a sign dated yesterday on the gate about a cat named Lucy living back here somewhere...



The person who wrote the sign would like to rescue Lucy, who, in the aftermath of the last week's blizzard, "was not able to eat for 5 days. She was very weak and meowing a lot..."

The gate is between the newish residential building at No. 532 and No. 536 (where Minca Ramen Factory remains closed for repairs). Anyone know who oversees this space? Is it part of No. 532 or 536?

The Force is strong, etc., etc., with this Dark Side poster campaign

By now, you've likely seen these Dark Side posters plastered just about everywhere around the neighborhood (and elsewhere). As far as we can tell, they arrived Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. (About the the time that @DarkSide_NYC started following us — and vice versa.)

Here are some other samplings of the Dark Side...

#DARKSIDENYC #BRUNCH pic.twitter.com/dp99igpTWM

— Dark Side NYC (@DarkSide_NYC) December 17, 2015

#DARKSIDENYC pic.twitter.com/Fm9KxBRMOy

— Dark Side NYC (@DarkSide_NYC) December 17, 2015

#DARKSIDENYC pic.twitter.com/LoFk3cuMoG

— Dark Side NYC (@DarkSide_NYC) December 16, 2015

Spotted- 2nd Ave & 9th St East Village, NYC. #darksidenyc #streetartnyc @evgrieve #starbucks pic.twitter.com/MiT1Ten2Z8

— Ian Archbold (@Iandarchbold) December 16, 2015

...and so on...

Nicole Levy at DNAinfo checked in with a story on the Dark Side... an excerpt:

A campaign calling itself Dark Side NYC — launching just as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in local theaters — is taking aim at expensive coffee, crowded subway stations, juice cleanses, drunken brunches, online dating and other stressors of New York City life with posters such as the one above and social media accounts featuring a Death Star avatar.

"We seek to bring balance to New York," said the enigmatic figures behind the campaign in an email to DNAinfo. "And with the Force fresh on everyone's minds, we feel it prudent to reveal how New York City truly is the Empire State," they added, referring to the oppressive Galactic Empire of George Lucas' cinematic sci-fi saga.

As any true Star Wars fan knows, the posters take their inspiration from the wisdom of Jedi master Yoda: "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering," he tells Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," admonishing him to steer clear of the path taken by his father, the evil Darth Vader.

Oh. Well, so much for our theory that this campaign was a tribute to John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band's hit song "On the Dark Side" from "Eddie & the Cruisers."

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EVG reader Trevor Ristow spotted this on Avenue A and East Sixth Street last evening ... a friendly invitation to hang out for the evening. The arrow points to a drawing of someone holding a burning cigarette of some sort. (Above the "provide good" is an assurance for the NYPD that this is a cigarette.)

Also, groups welcome! Not sure if this was a one-night-only event or if the sign leaver will be back for a return engagement.