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News about the East Village of NYC
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Countdown to the Ukrainian Festival
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Ah, yes -- one of my favorite neighborhood traditions kicks off this Friday afternoon on 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. (Been saving...
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Scotch fans, perhaps?
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to deface these hideous ads for Rum. Not bad, people. Oh, why do you know they're sel...
Friday, May 9, 2008
EV Grieve Etc.: Looking at The Observer
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Lots of good stuff in The Observer this week. (And why does my copy arrive Thursday or sometimes Friday? I know I can read it every day on...
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The 2008 Siren Festival, and one more summer at Coney Island as we kind of remember it?
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[ Photos of Coney Island courtesy of Mrs. Grieve ] Stereogum (and several other sites, actually) had the news yesterday about the 2008 Vill...
Posts that I never got around to posting: What could have been!
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Heh.
It has begun
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Looks as if street festival season has started up again...Third Avenue between 14th Street and, I'm guessing, 23rd Street was closed off...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Revisiting an old favorite
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In a bit of a lousy mood for various reasons. (The whole city is going to hell -- more than usual, anyway!) So! In times like these, I watch...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
"This is one of the last vestiges of the anarchistic, crazy Lower East Side"
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Jeremiah has the scoop that the Tower of Toys is coming down at the community garden at Sixth Street and Avenue B. This, of course, is the ...
This is exactly the reason why we'll never get a Wal-Mart in this town
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Ha on that headline. Anyway, for whatever reasons, the editors at Time Out New York thought it would be a good idea to ask New Yorkers to s...
Flour power: "If you're a city slicker like Pam Foster, you come from Waterloo, Iowa. You learn fast..."
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That headline is from the intro voiceover in the first video here, a spot for Gold Medal flour from the early 1960s. (What can we take away ...
Shocker: Rents are probably going up
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From the Times : The board that regulates rents for New York City’s one million rent-stabilized apartments proposed a tentative range of inc...
Monday, May 5, 2008
Dumpster of the week
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Along First Avenue north of 7th Street. Hmmmmmm...Take a big, deep breath, kids.
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Articles that I won't be reading this week
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From New York , a profile of Taavo Somer, proprietor of Freemans, etc. The sub-head alone is enough to scare anyone off: Coolhunted For tho...
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Deal of the week
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Hip and Happening East Greenwich Village! Open living room with hideaway bed! Almost floor to ceiling wall-to-wall windows! Just steps to st...
Scenes from a Derby day
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Had more. But not feeling all that festive . [At the OTB on Delancey] Back at the OTB on Delancey. Not all that thrilling. But a tiny slice ...
Saturday, May 3, 2008
So long, OTB (and happy Derby day)
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The Kentucky Derby is today. And in the EV Grieve household (aka, apartment), it's a national holiday. There are screenings of The Lemo...
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My shopping list today includes rum, vodka, Grand Theft Auto IV, underwear...and I'll start watching Gossip Girl
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Are advertisers even trying anymore? I saw all this in a two-block stretch. [Nice grasshopper, so to speak] Related: More vanity .
East Ninth Street between First and Second Avenue, 7:46, May 3
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Friday, May 2, 2008
“It’s a corporation, and it’s run like that"
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Nice piece of reporting in this week's issue of New York Press . Apparently the Strand is a horrible place to work, with allegations of...
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New York City subway films of the 1970s
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So I've been yammering away about the remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. It has made for some nice conversation at the bar....
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