Showing posts with label street fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street fair. Show all posts

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Dragon Fest is coming to a street near you, starting today

Dragon Fest, the Chinese food and culture festival, returns TODAY (Saturday!). 

Per the EVG inbox: 
This year, visitors can expect over 100 varieties of traditional, popular, and rare Chinese foods, including soup dumplings, dragon's beard candy, lotus root sandwiches, sugar-coated chestnuts, grilled cold noodles, iron plate tofu, fried skewers, milk cap tea, among others. 
The local lineup includes:
• April 6 — Broadway, 12th-13th Street
• April 21 — Second Avenue, 9th-10th Street 
• May 25 — Astor Place

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

Photos by Steven 

In case you had forgotten! The first Street Fair in two years is now underway on Second Avenue...
EVG reader Terry Howell provided a quickie assessment: 
The Second Avenue Street Fair extends from Seventh Street to 11th Street, unless there's an afternoon shift later. Mainly the same traveling band of commercial sellers with stuff and tchotchkes (crystals, bonsai, baskets, bowls, rugs, jewelry, etc.) that clogged the former street fairs. If you're looking for new food experiences or any local vendors, you will be disappointed, as was I. I searched in vain for "The Pickle Guy." Sad, but it's a start. 
Yes! Welcome back... and maybe THIS will be the year you buy the "Scarface" poster you've been eyeing for the past 15 years...

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Sunday and the street meat will be sizzlin': 1st street fair since 2019 slated for 2nd Avenue

Photo by Steven

After a two-year pandemic hiatus, a street fair is returning to our local, um, streets ... Sunday (tomorrow!) sees the Second Avenue "EV" Festival between Fourth Street and 14th Street... and it's an opportunity to make up for lost time by buying a lot of tube socks, fake pashminas, NY ❤️ me tank tops, funnel cakes, turkey drumsticks, corn dogs, Italian sausage and ... 

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Now on lower 2nd Avenue: The Lower 2nd Avenue Summer Festival



The Lower Second Avenue Summer Festival is underway... until 6 p.m. on Second Avenue between 14th Street and Ninth Street.

EVG Lower Second Avenue Summer Festival correspondent Steven notes a fairly generic assemblage of street festival vendors and food...



Not to mention the Jerk Off the Grill station...

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!



The VERY FIRST street fair of 2019 — aka the Astor Place Festival — is underway now on Astor Place between Lafayette and Broadway... all your favorites are here, from mozzarella sticks to Bob Marley "One Love" silk posters ...



Thanks to Vinny & O for the photos!

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Today, on 3rd Avenue, a street festival



Indeed. From 14th Street to Sixth Street.

At this hour, belts were the only thing available for purchase...



Other vendors were still setting up the tents and putting together the mannequins...



... and firing up the deep fryers...



The Cooper Square Committee is today's street festival (avenue festival?) host.

And as far as street festivals go, this is one of the better ones...

Friday, May 4, 2018

A 2nd Avenue Street fair tomorrow



In case you didn't see the posted No Parking signs, um, posted along Second Avenue this week... tomorrow (Saturday!) marks one of the better street festivals around... sponsored by the Middle Collegiate Church.

Per their website:

Join us for our annual Second Avenue Street Fair from 12-5pm! Children and families can enjoy activities like a bounce-house, tie-dye t-shirt making, sidewalk chalk, bubble station, art projects, and more! From 1-5pm, hear live music on the Middle Church stage featuring celebrated East Village musicians, including the Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir and Village Chorus for Children & Youth. Voter registration and election information will also be available on our block. It’s an all-day party with Middle Church, filled with art, justice, and music — you won’t want to miss it!

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Today in street-closure planning



The Fourth Avenue Festival is happening now (Street fair!) ... and the Avenue is closed from Ninth Street to 14th Street ... coinciding with NYU's Move-In Day.

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!


[Photo by Vinny & O]

The Lower 2nd Avenue Spring Festival is underway, from 14th Street to 10th Street... bring your dollars...