BBQ balance: Slippy splop warning on Second Avenue

Oh yeah. Waiting for the light on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place... a BBQ splop.



Then! Street cleaner! Jump back!



The street cleaner turned the splop into a nice smooth and very slippery line... within a few minutes, we witnessed three different people nearly slip. Not flip-flop friendly terrain here.

[Updated] 200 East Village ConEd customers without power

We've heard from a few readers around East Sixth Street and Avenue C who lost their power late last night.

According to the ConEd outage map, there's a "manhole problem":



The estimated power return is 11 a.m.

Updated 9:30 a.m.

East Sixth Street between Avenue B and C is currently closed... and there are at least 15-18 ConEd trucks on the scene...





Updated 11:34 a.m.

ConEd is now estimating that the power will be restored by 3 p.m.



Updated 2:30

We're told that ConEd has restored the power.

[Updated] Report: 18-year-old-man shot outside Jacob Riis Houses

An 18-year-old man suffered life-threatening wounds after being shot in the face last night at the Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D, the Post reports.

The man was found in a courtyard at 118 Avenue D around 10:45 p.m. Police said they don't have a motive yet for the shooting.

Police also said that "unruly residents began throwing trash and other objects onto the crime scene below," which required them to call in back-up and emergency services.

Updated 2:27
The Daily News reports that the teen, Deontay Moore, has died.

On a sunny day

Tompkins Square Park today. Photo by Bobby Williams.

Talking about Burning Sensations

Burning Sensations with "Belly of the Whale" circa 1982 in honor of the East River floating pool rendering...

Noted

A familiar sign this time of year on East Sixth Street... Noted this one in previous years on previous posts.

Richard Hell on his East Village apartment

Richard Hell discusses the virtues of his East 12th Street apartment in The Wall Street Journal today. (Subscription required?)

Here's an excerpt:

The apartment is in the back of the building on an upper floor, so it's quiet and full of light, with a great cross breeze. It has a funkiness that you don't find in Manhattan much anymore — worn unvarnished wood floors that groan when you walk on them, cracks in the plaster walls, sagging original moldings. The place only improves with degradation, as long as you don't try to tart it up.

And!

I'm not nostalgic. I don't feel like the apartment matters because it evokes the '70s or something. But it's nice that we've been together for so long and we're still compatible, even handsome, in a battered way.

Hell moved in in 1975, and wrote a lot of his music here, including "Time" and "The Kid with the Replaceable Head."

On the topic of "The Kid with the Replaceable Head," here's an animated cartoon music video created by Washington D.C. kid's show "Pancake Mountain" ...

Rite Aid's enchanted forest

EVG Senior First Avenue Rite Aid Correspondent Goggla checks in with the latest on the mural update on the East Fifth Street side of, uh, Rite Aid... Enchanted?

Indeed, I'm suddenly and strangely compelled to clip a coupon to save 40 percent off my next purchase of Preference by L'Oreal.

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] As the Rite Aid turns (colors)

Will you swim in the floating East River pool?

I haven't been following this story too closely... the architects who campaigned to put a floating pool in the East River exceeded their crowdsourcing campaign to help make this thing a reality... Sooo, if it all does happen, will you take a dip in the +Pool? (Maybe I should ask this in December.)

Also, arguably my most favorite rendering of all time... just for the whale.



Read more about the pool here.

The Tree Chair of East Sixth Street is in full bloom

Photo by Robert Miner. Previously.

Jupiter 21 has a mini Jupiter in its lobby

[June 21]

Oh, over at the new Jupiter 21 residential building... a mini Jupiter hangs in in the lobby... serving as a ceiling lamp...



...which is probably better than, say, a mini Mars...

Revisiting 'Escape from New York'

John Carpenter's 1981 classic "Escape From New York" gets a one-week revival starting tonight at the IFC Center on Sixth Avenue... all your friends are back... Snake Plissken, Cabbie, The Duke, Hauk, Brain — all characters inside a derelict Manhattan that's serves as an unsupervised maximum-security prison. (It was actually filmed in St. Louis.)

The Wall Street Journal published a Q-and-A (subscription required) with Carpenter on Monday...

An excerpt:

Did the film reflect any of your real feelings about New York?

I'm a New Yorker at origin but I grew up in the South. New York was a wonderland for me when I was very young in the middle '50s and visited it for the first time because it had so many movie theaters. I just wanted to go to the movies there because I was in love with the movies at the time and still am. It's huge, it's immense, it's just unlike any other place and it has a vibe to it, especially when you don't live there. A strange vibe.

And now?

Well, the thing about "Escape From New York" is that none of it came true. They cleaned up New York. It's Disneyland now. It has nothing to do with a prison, there's almost no more drugs or X-rated movies in Times Square. It's just completely changed. I miss the old days, I really do. I kind of miss the violence and the scum.

Are you ready for some men's roller derby?

Free Public Roller Derby Exhibition! Tomorrow starting at 11 a.m., the New York Shock Exchange Men's Roller Derby league plays an exhibition in Tompkins Square Park. It's free, as it probably should be. I got $10 on Damage Squad. You?

Il Bagatto closing for summer break after Sunday

From the EVG inbox...



Closing for a summer break a little earlier than usual this summer... Meanwhile, we haven't heard any updates on their longtime future here... a listing for the Il Bagatto space (and that of its sister cafe next door, Il Posto Accanto) at 190-192 E. Second St. near Avenue B, showed up on the RKF site back in January ...

Sigmund Pretzel Shop (soft) reopens today

Back in early May, Sigmund Pretzel Shop on Avenue B closed for renovations... to transform from what they call a place for a "neighborhood snack" to more of a "neighborhood restaurant" ... they (soft) reopen today at 4 p.m. ...

Last night's moon

Meant to post these earlier...





By Bobby Williams.

A summer scene

East 13th Street and Avenue B

This elm is apparently coming down in Tompkins Square Park

After our earlier post today... we've heard from a handful of people who say that this entire Elm needs to be removed in the Park at the entrance on East Ninth Street and Avenue B...



...these photos by Bobby Williams show some hack marks at the base of the tree as well...




[EVG]

Mars Bar closed 2 years ago today

A reader just reminded me of that. Seems longer than two years... (Previously)

Reader report: Limbs coming down in Tompkins Square Park

Several readers have passed along word (and photos) that workers are removing limbs from the great Elm just off Avenue B on at the East Ninth Street entrance of the Park...





No word just yet on why the limbs are coming down... or how much more of the tree will need to be removed...

We'll check in with GammaBlog, who has created the Tompkins Square Park Tree Identification Map...