Free charge outside the men's room at Tompkins Square Park... photo by Bobby Williams.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Shocking report: Rich people are coming below 14th Street
The photo caption that appears with the main photo sums it up this way: "Uptown denizens who once thought Harry Cipriani on 59th Street was the southern border for gracious living are discovering new condos and restaurants downtown."
It's not necessarily about the East Village, but downtown in general. Examples in the article cite a UES couple who are buying apartments for their high-school age children in — gasp! — Battery Park City ...the article also mentions new developments on Charles Street and Leonard Street....
A few excerpts, because you don't really want to read the whole piece:
“Downtown is livelier — we feel as though we have been in Milan for the weekend,” said Brooke Garber Neidich, a chairwoman of the Whitney Museum.
(We believe this is a reference to Milan, Italy, and not Milan, Ohio, birthplace of Thomas Edison.)
And!
Such a rarefied perspective may particularly rankle longtime downtowners, and portend the end of Manhattan’s few remaining bastions of bohemia. But just as flocks of young New Yorkers who might once have lived in the East Village are now in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Williamsburg, and those who had once lived in Williamsburg have moved on to Bushwick, it is perhaps inevitable that gaggles of Muffys and Thurstons wearing Lilly Pulitzer are invading neighborhoods below 14th Street. The cool crowd has long been on a southward migration.
And!
“You are seeing people ask themselves: Do I have an affair, get a divorce or get a downtown apartment?” said Michele Kleier, the president and chairwoman of Kleier Residential.
Rite Aid is turning blue on First Avenue
More exciting news to report from the World of Rite Aid on First Avenue and East Fifth Street... first, they cleaned up the inside and ditched the carpet...
Now, workers are painting the exterior, as the headline likely tipped you off... Goggla shared this from yesterday afternoon...
Perhaps they will consider bringing back the armpit tanning banner for the front window...
Now, workers are painting the exterior, as the headline likely tipped you off... Goggla shared this from yesterday afternoon...
Perhaps they will consider bringing back the armpit tanning banner for the front window...
Friday, July 5, 2013
Evening tweets
Tompkins Square Park is packed for the French film tonight. pic.twitter.com/llC5bEo21m
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) July 6, 2013
The lawn is filling up too... tough to read the subtitles from there...
Tompkins Square Park still without a gate at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place
Last Thursday, a man driving a station wagon crashed through the front gate of Tompkins Square Park on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place ... sections of the damaged gate were sitting there for several days... now they're gone... with some orange tape in place for the time being...
White lines
East Seventh Street near Avenue C above and below...
Unrelated from the other week. East Third Street and First Avenue.
Unrelated but always good to hear.
And related.
Zoltar's cozy new arrangement
Well, what do we have here outside Gem Spa...? A New York Lottery "Play Center" is now stationed directly next to Zoltar... picking lottery numbers adjacent to the Great One who tells fortunes and accurately predicts the future? We're guessing Zoltar's daily income is about to go through the box.
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