Avenue B and Sixth Street. (Your move, Brooklyn.)
[Updated]
And just like that... One More Folded Sunset comes across a
Thursday, March 24, 2011
March 24
Avenue B and Sixth Street. (Your move, Brooklyn.)
[Updated]
And just like that... One More Folded Sunset comes across a
EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
East Village photog survived beating, interrogations in Egypt (The Villager)
Looking at Elizabeth Taylor's New York City (City Room)
More on the the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (The Gog Log)
An interesting corner in Chinatown (Lost City)
Girls Prep charter school OK'd for 12th Street move (DNAinfo)
The TSP ping-pong table after its first snowfall (Nadie Se Conoce)
Elsewhere in the Park (East Village Corner)
Thundersleet! (Runnin' Scared)
March 29 — Brian Rose on "Time and Space on the Lower East Side" book (Brian Rose)
Last leg of a Times Square tour (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Inside Obscura on East 10th Street (The Local East Village)
The Delancey Ministers (BoweryBoogie)
Eataly's Huge Rooftop Beer Garden Coming Soon (Eater)
Eden & John's East River String Band namechecked on Page 6 (Page Six, via Slum Goddess)
And one more Supermoon! ... From Stephen Popkin via Third Avenue...
Elusive pigeon lady captured on film, sort of
We've discussed the elusive pigeon lady hereabouts before... she lays down huge bags of bread crumbs on Avenue A near Ninth Street for the rats pigeons. Begin the Pigeocalypse!
Anyway, a reader has sent along this photo moments after one ofher the pigeon lady's morning dumps, so to speak...
The bread crumb trail is getting hotter...
Previously.
Anyway, a reader has sent along this photo moments after one of
The bread crumb trail is getting hotter...
Previously.
Mural fiber
In recent weeks, you've likely seen two murals going up on East Village buildings...
On East Third Street between the Bowery and Second Street...
...and Eighth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...
[Photo by Sara Louise Tucker]
Here's what's going on...
This is part of a nonprofit event titled Artists Work and painted by Overall Murals. Via email, I spoke with Angel Saemai, a partner of Overall Murals.
The Third Street mural is based on an illustration by French artist Jules Julien while the Eighth Street mural is an original work by Spanish illustrator Gary Fernandez.
"The goal of these installations is mainly to bring cool contemporary artworks and enlarge them into mural form — making them accessible to all people and for their and the neighborhood's enjoyment (hopefully!)," she said.
Saemai said they only choose blank walls so not to paint over any existing artwork. So far, she said that feedback from East Village residents has been positive — "both for adding some color and life to the area as well as for the artworks themselves."
And you can watch a time-lapse video of the painting here at Hugo & Marie.
"We hope to make this an annual thing and make murals for different neighborhoods," she said.
[Photo via Overall Murals]
On East Third Street between the Bowery and Second Street...
...and Eighth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...
Here's what's going on...
This is part of a nonprofit event titled Artists Work and painted by Overall Murals. Via email, I spoke with Angel Saemai, a partner of Overall Murals.
The Third Street mural is based on an illustration by French artist Jules Julien while the Eighth Street mural is an original work by Spanish illustrator Gary Fernandez.
"The goal of these installations is mainly to bring cool contemporary artworks and enlarge them into mural form — making them accessible to all people and for their and the neighborhood's enjoyment (hopefully!)," she said.
Saemai said they only choose blank walls so not to paint over any existing artwork. So far, she said that feedback from East Village residents has been positive — "both for adding some color and life to the area as well as for the artworks themselves."
And you can watch a time-lapse video of the painting here at Hugo & Marie.
"We hope to make this an annual thing and make murals for different neighborhoods," she said.
Keep on truckin': Van Leeuwen opening dessert shop on Seventh Street
A reader sent along a link to a post on The Feast from last Friday reporting that popular food truckers Van Leeuwen will be opening their third cafe in the city — this one "at Second Avenue near 7th Street."
Per The Feast:
So, this explains what will be going in here...
As we noted last month, workers at the former City Copies on Seventh Street just east of Second Avenue would be home to "coffee and ice cream."
Previously on EV Grieve:
Coming soon to Seventh Street: coffee and ice cream
Per The Feast:
"[T]his first Manhattan branch will focus on locally-made ice cream, Intelligentsia coffee, and house-made pastries, but will be much larger.
"Expect the space to resemble the newest shop, which the young owners designed themselves with reclaimed wood and custom wallpaper."
So, this explains what will be going in here...
As we noted last month, workers at the former City Copies on Seventh Street just east of Second Avenue would be home to "coffee and ice cream."
Previously on EV Grieve:
Coming soon to Seventh Street: coffee and ice cream
NYC 1983
Thanks to EV Grieve reader Crazy Eddie for sending this link along... Andrew Sullivan posted this yesterday at the Atlantic (via The Daily What)... a stop-action tour of NYC circa 1983... (and look — no cellphones!)
Here's the description:
A five minute film by Rick Liss.
A portrait of New York City circa early 1980s.
Which was an extremely fertile time creatively in New York City. This is a record of the city at that time.
Music principally by Laurie Anderson
[Oops! I didn't realize that Alex had this over at Flaming Pablum on March 15!]
Here's the description:
A five minute film by Rick Liss.
A portrait of New York City circa early 1980s.
Which was an extremely fertile time creatively in New York City. This is a record of the city at that time.
Music principally by Laurie Anderson
[Oops! I didn't realize that Alex had this over at Flaming Pablum on March 15!]
March 23
Spotted by EV Grieve reader David Goodwin, a Third Street resident, last night on Second Avenue next to Heart of India.
Despite the lack of a newspaper cover for authentication purposes, the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring (ICTTS) will allow this tree to enter this year's competition. Why? According to one ICTTS official: "Anyone who stopped in last night's weather to take a photo deserves to be in the running to become America's next last Christmas tree thrown away for the year."
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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