Puke Island this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

Via the EV Grieve inbox...

This Sunday... Tompkins Square Park will host the 2012 edition of “Puke Island”, an afternoon of FREE punk/rock/metal music. The outdoor all-ages event will be from 2-6 PM. Scheduled to perform (with set-times):

Lynch Pigs (2 PM)
Miscegenator (2:40 PM)
(A)Truth – (3:20 PM)
Mongrel Bitch (4 PM)
Truth In Needles (4:40 PM)
Alekhine’s Gun (5:20 PM)

Updated: Memorial for murder victim on East Fifth Street

There is a memorial on East Fifth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D near the site of Friday night's fatal stabbing. CBS New York has more details on what transpired. A "nasty fight" broke out between a boyfriend and girlfriend. That's when 31-year-old Corey Capers, a relative of the woman, intervened. The boyfriend then allegedly stabbed Capers to death and fled the scene.

According to CBS, "Police have identified the boyfriend and said that they are close to an arrest."

Meanwhile, a reader sent along the above photo, noting one of the inscriptions - "you lost your life trying to save another."

Updated 2 p.m.

The Post reports that the woman was the aunt of Capers; the Daily News says that the woman was his grandmother. Gothamist posted a photo of Capers (left) and the suspect, who police identified as 47-year-old Carl Knox, aka Abdul Hakim ...



Capers reportedly has a 5-year-old son and was engaged to be married.

Updated 6:01 am. June 11:

The Daily News reports that Knox has been in and out of state prison since 1986. "His rap sheet lists more than 25 arrests, including for such serious charges as rape, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said."

Previously.

Today in Tompkins Square Park

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Noted

The Post today cites Department of Transportation records that show there were 754 bike-car collisions in the five boroughs during the last three months of 2011.

Brooklyn had the most collisions of any borough with 285 crashes while Manhattan had 229. Per the paper: "The highest concentration of bike-car crashes in all of the city was on the Upper East Side, which had 26. The West Villlage had 21 crashes, and the East Village and Midtown East, each had 19."

[Updated] Report: 31-year-old man stabbed to death on East Fifth Street

[Reader submitted]

Multiple readers have noted that the NYPD has continued to block off parts of Avenue C this morning. According to Gothamist, a 31-year-old man was stabbed to death. "[T]he incident happened before 3 A.M. in front of 737 East 5th Street. Police found the 30-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive with a stab wound to the chest."

The address is between Avenue C and Avenue D.

More information to follow as it become available.

Gothamist reported that the stabbing is being treated as a homicide. This will mark the first homicide in the 9th Precinct in 2012. According to CompStat, there was one homicide in the 9th Precinct in 2011. (Most current CompStat report is here — PDF)

Updated 10:40 a.m.:
Avenue C and East Fourth Street and Fifth Street are back open, EVG reader AC points out...



AC said that detectives are going door to door now on Avenue C.

A crime scene unit remains on the scene.





Updated 6:51 p.m.:

FOX News is reporting this:

Police said the victim was part of a dispute between his aunt and her boyfriend.

According to authorities, the boyfriend fled the scene after the stabbing and are looking for him.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Tompkins Square Middle School carnival is today

Celebrating the 10th year of the school...

Fireflies!

We spotted the 1st fireflies of summer in Tompkins Square Park last night. Visit your local park this weekend to see them while u still can!

— New Yorkers 4 Parks (@NY4P) June 8, 2012

Yes. Before the BEES get them!

A song for you to roller skate to this weekend

Secret Service with "Oh, Susie" from 1979.

Dead tree removal in Tompkins Square Park today

Here's how the once-majestic elm in Tompkins Square Park looked at the end of the day yesterday... after workers took down the majority of the diseased tree...


[Bobby Williams]

Workers removed the rest of the tree today...


[Robert Miner]







Top three photos by Bobby Williams.

The CBGB biopic will have authentic toilets

A few more details today about the CBGB biopic via the Savannah Morning News ...

• Crews are continuing to build the set that will replicate CBGB in a Savannah studio. "The actual bar — and toilets — of iconic club CBGB will be flown here and installed." (Ed note: And where have the toilets been in recent years...?)

• "There's also a lowered area where producers will shoot false exteriors of the Bowery, with virtual New York looking north across Louisville Road, west of downtown Savannah."

• "The open extras call for “CBGB” is 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday at Meddin Studios, 2315 Louisville Road. Producers are looking for music lovers, musicians, motorcyclists, 1970s car owners and people with an overall ’70s look."

Read the whole article here.

[Photo: Getty images via New York]

About Max Fish in Asbury Park

The Post has a feature today on the Asbury Park branch of Max Fish... which includes this "tale of the tape" ...



The article quotes Deb O'Nair, one-time keyboardist for the Fuzztones who now spends time in Asbury Park.

"The days I was hanging out in [Manhattan’s] Max Fish, it was all artists and musicians. Now that neighborhood feels like a big NYU dormitory."

Meanwhile, Max Fish owner Uli Rimkus doesn't have much to say on the future of the original bar on Ludlow Street.

"Right now, I'm surviving day by day," she says. But at least she isn't worried that her new neighbors will call in complaints to 311 this summer. Pointing toward the ocean, she says, "They're fish."

Previously on EV Grieve:
The art evolution of Ulli Rimkus and Max Fish

From Tin Pan Alley to Max Fish

Angel Ortiz decking out T-shirts on East 11th Street

Shawn Chittle came across graffiti artist Angel Ortiz aka LA 11 last night on East 11th Street near Avenue B...









He told Shawn that the T-shirt(s) will be part of an exhibit opening tonight titled Who's on Deck?

Per the Sacred Gallery website:

Who's on Deck? A Graffed out skate deck art show. Two NY street artists take old skateboard decks which have been ridden on the streets of NYC & left discarded and bring them back to life for all to see. There will also be a small photographic exhibition from Erica Reade. Exhibition opens Friday 8-11pm

The exhibit will be up through June at the Sacred Gallery NYC, 424 Broadway (second floor) between Canal and Howard.