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Avenue A and Ninth Street today ... a little 2013 throwback... photo by Steven.

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Spotted at Queen Vic on Second Avenue at Fourth Street... for those of you making plans for the coming week.

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Spotted on 11th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Not sure if the flu story worked. There's also an NYPD relocation sticker on the windshield...



Can't quite make out where the car was relocated from... looks like 37th Street?

H/T @losrambles!

This paper plate might just save you (from something)

Mystery surrounds this paper plate signage that Eden spotted (and shared on The Twitter) ... it's not immediately clear what might happen if one would remove the paper plate ... we would send a team to investigate, though Eden can't quite recall exactly where this is located (roughly Houston and First Avenue). Anyway, regardless of where you are, just leave any suspended paper plate as it is.

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Spotted on the front door of a building on First Street...

If you don't have any

business with Apt. 5 or

deliveries for Apt. 5 STOP

ringing APT. 5 I'm tired of

you FUCKIN' MORONS

bothering me!!!

No word if the occupant of Apt. 5 is speaking for the entire building.

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As you may have heard, the President fired the FBI director the other day.

Anyway, update your LinkedIn profiles! Because there are now "Looking for an FBI Director" flyers on St. Mark's Place.

"I am really looking for an FBI director. This is not a joke! Just trying to drain the swamp and hoping to meet the right person. I am a professional president and have been told 3 times that I am not under investigation. You know who you are. To me each and every person is beautiful. Open to the relationship morphing into something more profound."

No word if interested applicants can drop off résumés at Westminster offices.

Thanks to Goggla for the photo!

The campaign to save the TV series 'Uncle Buck' is underway on Avenue C

This flyer, spotted last evening on Avenue C at Eighth Street, is asking fans of "Uncle Buck" – based on the 1989 film starring John Candy — to sign a petition in an effort to bring the canceled ABC series with Mike Epps back for a second season.

News of that the show's demise was first reported last July.

The petition, also created last year, currently has 264 signatures.

Meanwhile, maybe ABC will bring back "Blood & Oil" starring Don Johnson.

H/T @david_reyer

Seat saved for Merrick Garland on Astor Place

Tonight at 8, President Trump is expected to reveal his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, earlier today... this sign went up in the seating area outside 51 Astor Place/the IBM Watson Building/Death Star...



EVG reader Rosemary shared these photos... showing reserved seating for Merrick Garland, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit...part of a broader #SaveMerrickASeat campaign...



President Obama nominated Garland to the Supreme Court last March to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. However, Garland never had a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As of this evening his seat remained here...


[Photo by Steven]

Another day, another gas-service issue

Another day, another gas-service issue with a building managed by AJ Clarke, this one on Seventh Street, and "just in time for Christmas," per an anonymous reader who shared this notice dated yesterday...



Yesterday, we noted an AJ Clarke building on Ninth Street where tenants were left without gas for cooking. Here, the heat and hot water were also shut off, though management hopes to get it back on "within a day or two." However — "the process to restore the cooking gas service is long and arduous."

Residents in the Ninth Street building were told they would be given credit for the purchase of a hot plate.

And here? "No mention of any hot plate reimbursements, heater reimbursements, takeout stipends, or the like," said the reader.

According to Streeteasy, the average rent in this Seventh Street building is $3,300 a month.

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Spotted on 11th Street and Avenue A... and unrelated to this note, we've heard from several residents about someone stealing packages this holiday season from their lobbies/entryways...because residents either don't close the door behind them or buzz any rando in...

Photo via Shawn Chittle

An explanation about the disruption in gas service

You hear enough stories about gas service for cooking being shut off for months at a time around here (examples here and here and here).

The landlord (AJ Clarke RE) provided residents at this East Ninth Street building (Super Eddie's!) with an explanation of what was happening ... with a timeline when things might be back in service... and why it could take so long:

So, with the gas shut off and the risers not passing the pressure test (most buildings in NYC, unless fairly new, will not pass the test), it is going to be probably several months until the cooking gas is turned back on. This is due to the procedure that has to follow: Proposals have to be given for the re-piping, permits have to be applied for, the actual work has to be done, and the most time consuming part of the puzzle: DOB & Con Edison inspections.

The explanation is more than some residents in other buildings receive (silence) ... some residents I've talked to in the past feel as if landlords need to do more for tenants than provide (or pay for) a hot plate. Maybe a little $$$ for some take out.

H/T Steven

Previously on EV Grieve:
How much of a rent discount for not having gas for cooking?

A note from super Eddie

Welcome home.



Photo on Ninth Street yesterday by Steven.

PS
Because someone will ask — this is not one of the buildings on the block owned by Jared Kushner that have had other reported issues.

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]