Thanks to Luna Park for letting us repost these... She has more shots on her Flickr page.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Bombing the Domino Sugar Refinery
The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) passed along a link from north of the Williamsburg Bridge... As The Street Spot noted this past Friday, the Domino Sugar Refinery was bombed last week in epic fashion...
Thanks to Luna Park for letting us repost these... She has more shots on her Flickr page.
Thanks to Luna Park for letting us repost these... She has more shots on her Flickr page.
Pot/pregnant wife etiquette sign already spoofed
On Friday, we posted this apartment etiquette sign from The Luxury Spot...
It was quickly spoofed at Barstool New York...
It was quickly spoofed at Barstool New York...
Etiquette sign season continues
Spotted on Third Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue...
Apparently a few folks from the Renewal on Bowery shelter across the street are congregating here...
Apparently a few folks from the Renewal on Bowery shelter across the street are congregating here...
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Meatball bubble gum and other scenes from Easter
Oh, and free samples of frosting from Butter Lane Cupcakes on Seventh Street....
Why Pulino's chef Nate Appleman was arrested
According to Page Six today:
Nate Appleman, chef at Keith McNally's new Bowery hotspot Pulino's, got arrested Wednesday afternoon in the East Village. Appleman, who is covered in tattoos but stands barely 5-foot-8, was heading home from the pizza restaurant between shifts when cops spotted a chain running from his belt into a pocket. "It's a pocket knife that's two inches long that I used to cut boxes at work," Appleman told us. "I've collected knives since I was a kid. My mother gives me a knife every year on my birthday. This knife is the one she got me this year." After three police cars surrounded him, Appleman was taken to the 9th Precinct and charged with weapons possession. He was released two hours later and is due in court on April 27.
[Photo via BoweryBoogie]
Baseball tonight: Yankees-Red Sox rivalry brewing on Second Avenue?
As baseball fans gear up for the season opener tonight between the Yankees and Red Sox... Finnerty's on Second Avenue near 14th Street put up a large Yankees logo Friday...
...which is next door to the EV home of the Red Sox, Professor Thom's...
We asked Chris at Professor Thom's if they would let this stand...
"I saw that Friday when they were painting it. Rather big, huh? We won't be going that far -- our rep is very public already. But, look for a line down the sidewalk dividing the two fan bases."
...which is next door to the EV home of the Red Sox, Professor Thom's...
We asked Chris at Professor Thom's if they would let this stand...
"I saw that Friday when they were painting it. Rather big, huh? We won't be going that far -- our rep is very public already. But, look for a line down the sidewalk dividing the two fan bases."
You'll need to get your ham burrito elsewhere today
Chipotle on Union Square is closed... and they're very sorry about this.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Pillow talk
From the EV Grieve inbox...maybe more of a warning...
New York City's 5th annual, and the world's 3rd annual Pillow Fight Day!
Pillows fly and teddies soar as you converge for a giant urban pillow fight! Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding assailants. Bring a soft pillow and wait for the signal. Pillow fight!
Rules: Please follow these guidelines to ensure a safe and fun pillow fight for everybody!
+ Soft, feather-free pillows only!
+ Swing lightly, many people will be swinging at once.
+ Do not swing at people without pillows or with cameras.
+ Remove glasses beforehand!
+ Deposit pillows in donation boxes or take them with you.
+ Pajamas welcome.
Cleanup: Please eliminate your use of feathers. As the pillow fight grows in size, so does the mess. By participating, you are pledging to clean up twice the mess you made :)
This year, pillows will be collected and donated to a midtown no-kill animal shelter to make bedding for rescued dogs and cats.
According to Facebook, "This event has 16,844 confirmed guests." I hope this is worldwide and not just NYC...
[Image via]
Street fair!
On Cooper Square today... oh, how I missed the naked mannequins and charbroiled sizzlin' chicken...
And Cooper Square Hotel guests get this street fair as an added bonus for staying here this weekend...
If you're away, then don't fret... the same vendors will be here 458 more times by summer's end...
And Cooper Square Hotel guests get this street fair as an added bonus for staying here this weekend...
If you're away, then don't fret... the same vendors will be here 458 more times by summer's end...
You always take pictures of a crane
As I've said. This crew on Avenue B near Fourth Street was there to load a new AC unit for Tompkins Square Middle School...
Friday, April 2, 2010
Potheads asked to put a towel under their door
The Luxury Spot brings us this instant-classic apartment etiquette sign from an East Village apartment...
Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over
Ugh. Woodland Creature brings the news that the Department of Sanitation just painted over all of the cool graffiti on the Verizon building on the 13th Street side leading up to Second Avenue... I know I have more photos of the wall somewhere... Meanwhile, here's what brown can do for you...
And The Sarah Show got this shot before it was too late...
Solex vs. Christina Martinez and Jon Spencer
The TripWire brings us word that the first single from Boss Hog's Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez and Dutch sampling guru Solex is now out... A full record from the trio is due May 18.
Meanwhile, here's "Galaxy Man"
Cliches threaten to implode Collective Hardware
There are likely some cool things going on at the Collective Hardware at 169 Bowery, though you wouldn't know it by reading today's Post, who reduces the whole place to painful cliches.
The piece begins:
The Bowery has played host to CBGB, homeless bums and, more recently, upscale museums, hotels and bars. But now there’s an underground art scene straight out of the debauched ’60s era of Andy Warhol’s Factory.
Collective Hardware, housed in a rundown building between Broome and Delancey streets that used to be Weiss Hardware, has nothing to do with wrenches. Instead, it’s a five-floor party-studio-gallery-music space filled with a never-ending parade of pretty people, downtown artists and hangers-on.
Oh, just read the whole thing:
Last Thursday, at a launch party for the nonprofit Fund Art Now, jazz floated through the first-floor gallery from a rented Steinway. On the second floor, members of the cool set were lounging, either getting a trim from the Astor Place haircutters while sipping a no-brand cocktail from a makeshift bar or participating in a séance — there’s an oversized hand-painted Ouija board on the floor.
“I can give an unknown artist an opportunity to show in a place that consistently attracts tastemakers and patrons of the arts,” says Stuart Braunstein, a self-proclaimed “urban instigator” and deejay who launched the space with his business partner, Rony Rivellini, in 2007. The buzz about their venture has grown ever since.
“Where else can you meet MIT think-tank guys, Astor Place haircutters, beautiful models/actors and high-profile gallerists?”
Warhol’s Factory, the art studio where the pop artist made silk-screens from 1962 to 1968, drew all sorts of artists, actors and celebrities (from Dylan to Factory-made “Superstars” such as Edie Sedgwick), who made music and movies among the druggy scene.
Braunstein never met Warhol but was inspired to create a similar environment by Factory alumnus, artist and friend Ronny Cutrone.
The building’s top three floors (which house offices, artist studios and plenty of hard-partying scenesters) are off-limits unless you’re invited. Now Braunstein has a newly minted liquor license, and says he’s negotiating to open a rooftop restaurant.
Andy Warhol, welcome to 2010.
Perhaps things have changed... But, as Eater reported, the CB3 approved a full liquor license in December for Andy Yang, who is opening a Rhong Tiam on the second floor. (This news is on the Collective Hardware Web site.)
Nation’s Restaurant News, who first reported on Yang's arrival to 169 Bowery last November, also mentions that a rooftop bar is in the works.
The Post also gave Braunstein a new hairdoo...
...and the real Stuart...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York has the history of 169 Bowery here.
[Braunstein image via; 169 image via.]
New York City in photos 1978-1985, take two or three
We posted our first set of photos by Michael Sean Edwards back on Feb. 10... Since then, Michael has been busy uploading more photos to his Flickr account from 1978-1985 (and one from 1988)... and thanks to Michael for letting us repost these...
Times Square subway station 1979:
147 Avenue A from 1984:
Cooper Square from 1980:
Avenue A near St. Mark's from 1984:
Avenue A near St. Mark's Place from 1984:
In a Seventh Street studio from 1978:
From 1988: And Michael could use some help identifying this intersection... he doesn't remember the location...
See his Flickr page here.
Times Square subway station 1979:
147 Avenue A from 1984:
Cooper Square from 1980:
Avenue A near St. Mark's from 1984:
Avenue A near St. Mark's Place from 1984:
In a Seventh Street studio from 1978:
From 1988: And Michael could use some help identifying this intersection... he doesn't remember the location...
See his Flickr page here.
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