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As seen this morning on Avenue A at the Ninth Street entrance to Tompkins Square Park... this is latest in a series of messages posted around Tompkins that someone modeled after the "Keep This Far Apart" social distancing signs that the Parks Department unveiled in early April ... other messages have included "Stop Killing Black People" and "Justice for Breonna."

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As seen on the front door of a building on Ninth Street... a "Notice to all Residents" about new legislation "that mandates that every resident of the Upper West Side born before July 23, 1996 is now required to listen to a minimum of 200 hours of Fiona Apple before the end of 2020 and every year afterwards."

And the photo is of Emmy Rossum, who used to play a character named Fiona Gallagher on Showtime's "Shameless."

🤔

Photo by William Klayer.

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And ICYMI... spotted at the Neighborhood Deli at 185 Avenue C between 11th Street and 12th Street... Eden tweeted it last Sunday and it went viral (dwarfing the Kardashianism singage tweet!)... the sign has also been spotted in other cities (and boroughs) these past few months...

Signs of the times

The sign reading "End Toxic Masculinity" is now hanging on Avenue A at the St. Mark's Place entrance to Tompkins Square Park... this is the latest in a series of topical messages seen in and around the Park this summer...







The unknown artist modeled these after the "Keep This Far Apart" social distancing signs that the Parks Department unveiled in early April ...


[Image via NYC Parks]

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A piece of cardboard with a message spotted along the Bowery near First Street:

New York City: The Home of the Nosiest People Worldwide!

And some detail, courtesy of EV Arrow (who is still here!)...

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And from the Notes in the Lobby: After Hours Edition... this note in an East Village lobby is a little NSFW, so...

To the thieves in this building.

I will find out who you are.

Where I come from BITCH

we cut your fucking hands off

and mail it to your family.

You like stealing from hardworking people, huh?

The one who took less than 20 mins to take

my package, I hope you enjoy wearing my underwear.

[Etc. Etc. Etc.]

I WILL FIND YOU Degenerate.

I curse your hands and your blood line.

Thanks to Mark White for the photo! I think!

Urine in trouble if you pee here?

Dave on 7th notes new signage on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B:

Any person urinating in public will be prosecuted

Area under surveillance

(Don't tell anyone, but it's a fake sign. Urinating in public is a misdemeanor. Per Administrative Code Section 16-118 — Public Urination are eligible to plead guilty and pay a $50 fine by mail. This program is available to persons charged with this petty offense only, and only if no other summonses are issued to the individual at the same time.)

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From the EVG tipline: Spotted on the fence along the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

PLEASE
RESPECT the
Neighborhood
You Doing
Your drugs!!
CLEAN UP!!!
RESPECT!!!

Calling out a plant thief on 7th Street

Someone is understandably upset about the plant theft in this tree well on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... EVG reader Robert Miner shares photos of the messages left at the scene...

"Cutting out my plants. You are worse than rats. You are very sick person." (Above!)

And: "Cutting my plants. Breaking my grill. You're a sick person. You need to see a doctor."

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...