A reminder about maintaining social distance and wearing a mask on 9th Street

These signs arrived a little earlier in the week on Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue ... courtesy of the 9th Street A-1 Block Association...







Thanks to William Klayer for the photos!

Asshole steals bike that belongs to COVID-19 ICU nurse; neighbors offer to help; 'sad for humanity'

A conversation is evolving through several notes on this sidewalk bridge on 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. (Thanks to Katherine Rusch for sharing the photo!)

The first note is addressed "to whomever stole my bike from this location."

It reads:

You stole it from a nurse who's been working in a COVID ICU for the past 2.5 months. This was my only way of getting to work without contaminating other people. PLEASE return it if you have a heart.

P.S. I hope you disinfected it...

A second note offers to help fundraise for a new bike for the nurse.

A third note arrived from someone else who had his-her bike stolen here.

I'm working from home and it was my only way of exercising. I can't believe these people are stealing from people who need their things right now.

It makes me sad for humanity but then I think about people like you. You risk your life daily for others. This is the biggest service to humanity. Thank you.

This letter writer also offers to chip in for a bike for the ICU nurse.

More signs

More homemade signs spotted around the neighborhood... Vinny & O shared these photos from outside Tompkins Square Park on Avenue B at Ninth Street...



The top one reads: "The virus is you. Mask up."

The other sign: "The virus is US. Mask up!"

A warning for 'selfish joggers' on 1st Avenue

Another COVID-19 Urban Etiquette Sign... this one on First Avenue between First Street and Second Street...



The sign's author writes:

Selfish joggers

who jog on this

block without

masks be warned —

We value the

lives of our

elderly

neighbors and

will throw stuff

on you from our

windows!!!

1st Avenue thank yous

Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk...

Things to do on the Bowery this weekend

On the Bowery at Fourth Street...

Throw your phone at this sign as hard as you possibly can.

See don't you feel better now?

Photo by Vinny & O, who did not throw their phones at the sign.

Sublet of the day

EVG reader Jackflashnyc shares this photo... showing a spacious sublet — 6 square feet — available on Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. Price: a modest $3,750.

It likely won't be on the market long — Rainer Turim reports that there's already plenty of interest in the space...

Today in free fennel on Avenue A

EVG reader Kate spotted this note and stash of what is believed to be fennel on Avenue A near 10th Street...

Whoops!

Thought this was dill ... it's fennel!

Please take! (Organic)

Desperately Seeking Bonnie

By now you've likely seen one of these flyers around — they're everywhere a la Guy Looking for a Girlfriend.

Anyway, if any budding Bonnies out there want to possibly be part of a "Bonnie and Clyde" remake. I do not know if this flyer, spotted on First Street, is legit. However, I feel obligated to pass this along – much like I did for Faye Dunaway many years earlier.

Someone has renounced the throne on 3rd Street

EVG regular Salim shared this photo from Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... the sign on the discarded chair reads: "Treat yourself like the royalty you are with this FREE throne."

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Spotted on 11th and A today...

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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.