Friday, June 20, 2008

Alphabet City...it heats up when the sun goes down!

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I watched Alphabet City the other night for the first time in about, oh, 15 years. I wanted to like the movie more than I did. It's def...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Department of Health is really cracking down

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The vernal igloo of Tompkins Square Park

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According to this YouTube description: "vernal igloo! living on the streets of nyc for a month, i sometimes slept outside. a perfect sp...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Claim: Bruce Willis doesn't own any part of the Bowery Wine Co.

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According to the Observer , in a piece posted last night: “Basically, he’s not really a partner,” confessed Bowery Wine Company co-owner Chr...
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Raising the bar

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So the Times debuted its Social Q's column in the Sunday Styles section this past, er, Sunday. Written by Philip Galanes, the column a...
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The Lower East Side/East Village: The neighborhood continues to go (AGAIN AND AGAIN AND...)

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I recently posted the May 28, 1984, New York magazine cover story titled "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood." WELL...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

If you're thinking of living in: The East Village

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A few excerpts from a Times article from Oct. 6, 1985, titled "If you're thinking of living in: The East Village:" PROSPECTI...
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Things that I do not want to know about

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Outside Monique Skin Care on 9th Street near 1st Avenue Previously on EV Grieve: Signs of the times My shopping list today includes rum, vod...

Dumpster of the Day

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St. Mark's Place, between 1st Avenue and Avenue A.
Monday, June 16, 2008

On it!

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Well, at least when we get this darn truck working again...

OTBs will stay open

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Good news, as the Times reports : Confusion and discord gave way to handshakes on Sunday as Gov. David A. Paterson and Mayor Michael R. Bloo...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

More Yunnies out to destroy the past

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Catching up on some reading...saw this discouraging item in Scoopy's Notebook in The Villager this week: Sign of the times: A decades-...
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Post scribe thinks turmoil in Africa is so trendy in the news right now!

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Page Six Magazine , which is FREE every Sunday in the New York Post -- you just have to pay $1 for the paper! -- has several doozies today....
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

At the Bowery Wine Co. protest Friday night -- in pictures

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Here are a few photos from last night's protest that started in front of the Bowery Wine Co. I was only able to stay for the first leg o...
Friday, June 13, 2008

At the Bowery Wine Co. protest Friday night

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Here are a few videos from the Bowery Wine Company protest tonight . (Apologies if they look as shaky and grainy as Cloverfield . Still lear...
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For the weekend: Seven songs

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Alex at Flaming Pablum passed along this music meme to, uh, me. Here's the deal: "List seven songs you are into right now. No mat...
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Fire trucks on St. Mark's Place

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Someone said something about a gas leak. Didn't seem too serious.

Appreciating the classics

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Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is, of course , the most realistic film ever made about New York City. As the review on Al...

"The neighborhood was desolate, so underpopulated that landlords would give you a month's free rent just for signing a lease"

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[ Photo of 216 E. 7th St. in 1979 by Marlis Momber ] My obsession with the East Village in the 1970s and early 1980s continues. In November...
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Things are getting really tough at the Fed

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Outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Liberty Street, 11:20 a.m., June 12. Bonus (Or, perhaps, Punishment): Jeremy Irons rips off...