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News about the East Village of NYC
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
New New York bands get glitzy package in the glossies
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Picked up the most recent issues of Spin and Rolling Stone to help pass the time on a recent trip. First, there was Spin , a magazine I...
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Rock band looking for singer who is able to sing
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Dunno how well you can read this blurry thing...Click on the image to enlarge...A few details: Must be 28 years old or younger (call HR! Tha...
Things are falling at AIG HQ
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Noted
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
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All Dolled up again: New New York Dolls record coming in May ( Hunter-Gatherer ) Free 40th anniversary Woodstock shows this summer...one sm...
No more "Life on Mars"
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Variety (via NY Mag's Vulture ) has the news: ABC has decided to end the show after a single year -- but in an unusual move, the net wi...
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The last American Virgins to close
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You probably saw the news last Friday that the two Virgin Megastores in New York (Union Square, Times Square) will close in the coming mont...
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Speaking of record stores...
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The former Bondy's on Park Row still sits vacant...it closed in early 2007, as I recall. (Love that they had "Walkmans" on the...
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What do Kermit the Frog and Lou Reed now have in common?
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Meanwhile, Supreme unveiled its latest model last week....Here's Lou on some plywood on East Seventh Street near First Avenue..... [Ker...
Top that, Kermit
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Plywood at St. Brigid's taken over by new (healthy!) fast-food restaurant posters
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On the Avenue B side.... And on the Eighth Street side....
Today's time sucker: PadMapper
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I was reading about PadMapper on LifeHacker ...and started playing around with it for no good reason. (Oh, what's PadMapper? As Adam ex...
Two signs of the Christmas holiday even though it was actually March 2
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J&R on Park Row... At 10th Street and Avenue A...
Monday, March 2, 2009
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
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Former LES resident Richard Boes , a regular in the early films of Jim Jarmusch, died on Feb. 21. In recent years he had self-published seve...
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Bar with no name opens in former Mo Pitkin's space
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We were surprised to find the former Mo Pitkin's space reopened as a bar this past weekend. We knew something was in the works for the ...
A REAL bad sign: The Jagerettes at the Holiday
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1) I understand the fact that the beloved Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Mark's Place needs to make money to stay open...so why not attr...
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Signs from the recession: At Angelina Cafe
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Avenue A near Third Street.
The shroud of WaMu: The Bowery loses a bank
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The Washington Mutual closed up shop on Bowery and Bond ... WaMuers need to head over to the next closest WaMu location at St. Mark's ...
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Noted
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Our old friend Esquared passed along information about the Modern Day Depression-Era Fundraiser at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg ...L...
Sunday, March 1, 2009
New Port Authority plan could wipe out a dozen Midtown properties (including two good bars)
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From the Post : An $8.75 billion plan to build another train tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan may wipe out a dozen Manhattan properti...
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Trend stories we very likely won't read
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But you can ...
As hard as they tried, the Times couldn't find anyone to say Yes
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Hasn't this story been done already?....From the Times today: As Hard Times Loom, Will New York’s Streets Get Meaner? Uh-oh! If a shr...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The latest on Etherea
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Karate Boogaloo has the latest today on Etherea : It's officially closed, but employee DJ Brion hopes to get the lease and reopen/rebra...
The Times profiles a "community citizen"
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The Times profiles Robert Lesko today...here are a few passages from the piece : When he’s not working, there’s a good chance that Mr. Lesk...
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Sort of good news from the East Village of Des Moines!
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An update from the Des Moines Register : A classic 1930s service station in the East Village has been saved, for now. Historic East Village...
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Friday, February 27, 2009
"New Rose" x two
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A remake that I don't hate..."New Rose" by the (underappreciated?) Gumball and Mr. Don Fleming ... And the original...
Scraping by
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The other day, the Fresh Direct truck pulled in front of St. Brigid's between Seventh Street and Eighth Street to park...in doing so, th...
Noteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
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Off Broadway in the 20s.
Spanky and our gang?
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Three teens, maybe 15 or 16, were walking along Tompkins Square Park. Teen 1: "I'm not gonna get married 'till I'm 34."...
A sign that I like
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On Third Avenue in the 20s.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
"The high cost of living has hit the Bowery"
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From the caption that accompanied this archival AP photo: A prospective customer grumbles under his breath at the prices scribbled on the wi...
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Steamed hot dogs?
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Near the New York Stock Exchange.
Old and broken and new and shiny on the Bowery
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