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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Update on the Blarney Stone: Still closed
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Following up on my earlier post on the Blarney Stone on Fulton Street. Uh-oh — it's still closed as of around noon today. Not a good si...
Another Anne Frank tag
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I did a post this past Friday on an Anne Frank tag that I saw on a building on West 35th Street between Ninth Avenue and Eighth Avenue. It ...
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From tiki to minimalistic Marfa
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It looks as if the former Waikiki Wally's space on Second Street is ready for action...It's Marfa, which is either taken from Dosto...
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Why was the venerable Blarney Stone on Fulton Street closed last night?
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They're an 8 a.m.-4 a.m. place. No sign on the door...and no one answered their phone. This on the heels of getting a sterile new sign.
Phone-y art
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On Houston near Allen. Took these photos Sunday...wonder how long this will remain intact...
Ta-da: It's Tonda
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Signage appears at the recently shuttered E.U. on East Fourth Street near Avenue B. As Eater noted , Tonda will be an Italian trattoria and...
Love for sale
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After Love Saves the Day closed for good on Jan. 18 , I wondered how long it would take for the LSD signage to come down... It was there Sat...
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Unlucky dog?
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As Alex noted Sunday , the pooch who kept watch over the now-shuttered Spots' Cafe and Good Dog on St. Mark's Place is no longer on ...
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Noted
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A new (yes, right?) Neighborhood News feature in New York magazine included the following...
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Remembering the Jones Diner
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I couldn't let my previous post on the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones pass without an appreciation of the former occupant of the s...
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It's not your imagination
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From the Times .
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Another corner still primed to fall in NoHo
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The Meineke Car Care Center on the southwest corner of Lafayette and Great Jones is still for sale. Haven't been by this corner for some...
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Meanwhile, farther east on Great Jones...
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Given the changes this area has seen of late, I wonder how much longer great little corner lots such as this one on Great Jones and the Bowe...
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Faced with a lack of snow, the Penistrator uses a different canvas to showcase his work
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On Avenue B near Sixth Street.
Seeing more of Seymour (er, Butcher Bay)
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The plastic and plywood came down at the former Seymour Burton location -- now called Butcher Bay -- on 511 E. Fifth St. this past week. Gi...
Chipping away at Kim's
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Workers continue to dismantle the former Mondo Kim's on St. Mark's... Friday: Saturday: Sunday: Wonder how much longer the cover ar...
Looking at 131 E. Seventh St.
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Last November, we did a post on the former Italian cafe Affettati at 131 E. Seventh St. ... which was to become the East Village Pie Lounge...
By the way, the Christmas tree is still on in Tompkins Square Park
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Does it seem odd to anyone else that the Christmas tree was still lit up as of last night in Tompkins Square Park? Maybe someone just forgot...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Noted
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From the Post : If you've ever made an exhibition of yourself by falling asleep on the job, we might have the perfect employer for you. ...
In search of cheesy (ballsy?) Super Bowl promos
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I understand that NBC has a big Bruce Springsteen informercial planned for this evening. To coincide with the release of his new record, the...
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Recession causing retail landlords to be sort of nice and humane
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To the Times ! Back in the mid-1990s, when a stretch of Ludlow Street in Manhattan was dominated by boarded-up buildings and wholesale fruit...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Bring your skates...
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...if you want to walk on the north side of East Second Street today...
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On the bright side, Brandon Jacobs thinks the Giants will be in the Super Bowl next year
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Ouch. From the Post : "You can only get so much blood out of a stone" with budget cuts and other measures, the mayor said. He prop...
George Schneeman, 74
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From the Times : Painting, playing poker till dawn and boiling up pots of midnight pasta for friends in his apartment in an East Village ten...
Oh HENRY
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Item : "Wall Street bonuses were more than $18 billion last year — roughly what they were in the fatty, solvent days of 2004." “My...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Glenn Branca: Structure (1981 The Ascension no wave noise)
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A homemade video by suburbanbatherson .
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Mid-morning musical interlude
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"Strange Powers" by the Magnetic Fields from 1992. Just take in that Coney Island sun. (Oops...I had embedded the wrong video ear...
At the Holland Bar yesterday afternoon
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Uh, still not open yet . And the gate was down. On Tuesday, the Times ran a feature saying the Ninth Avenue dive might be open as soon as ...
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