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News about the East Village of NYC
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Report: A Big Apple coming to 23 Wall Street
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"The Corner" is the iconic former home to JP Morgan & Co. at 23 Wall Street that sits across from the New York Stock Exchange ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
So what's the worst thing to ever happen to the Brooklyn Bridge?
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Being torn down to make way for a floating bank/Starbucks/Duane Reade! Oh, wait. That happens next year. OK, OK...As we celebrate the 125th...
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Let's keep it clean, people
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(Shh! It's a secret!)
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I've said this before. I've seen these posters up around the neighborhood advertising the May 15 hillbilly extravaganza at Madison S...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Reminder!
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There 's an Informal Celebration of the Tower of Toys tonight from 7-9 at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden. The Villager ha...
Dare of the day
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Walk into Nevada Smith's and ask if they'd put on the Mets-Reds game.
A shooting on Avenue A
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Was running a few errands around Union Square yesterday morning. Started talking to one store employee who mentioned that he lived on 6th St...
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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...
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