EV Grieve
News about the East Village of NYC
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
John Varvatos saw the light
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The Post has a special commercial real estate section today. (And it's not online.) The cover story is titled "New Lease of Life,&...
Real estate update: "Much of Manhattan continues humming along"
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The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on cities where home prices on holding up. While the housing market may be soft in, say, San Fra...
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Tower of Toys is coming down
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I left work a little early today to swing by the community garden at 6th Street and Avenue B. As Jeremiah noted earlier today, the city sta...
New York Post attempts to relate to the economic struggles of the common family man trying to make a living in New York City
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The Post has a piece today that so many of us can relate to here in the city: Everything is just getting so expensive. YIKES! HIKES HIT $1,...
[Updated] "Artists, filmmakers, movie theaters — we're getting pushed out of Manhattan"
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That's Ray Privett, programmer at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater . In a New York Sun feature today, Privett discusses his latest project...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Looking at "a cozy downtown watering hole with an uptown look"
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In the Sunday Pulse section of the New York Post , we're taken on a cozy tour of the Bowery Wine Company, which Bruce Willis has somethi...
Articles that I won't be reading today (unless I'm aiming to get my blood pressure around 210/140)
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Page Six Magazine , which is FREE every Sunday in the New York Post (even though you pay $1 for the paper), devotes a good portion of the ma...
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14th Street dies a little more
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The scaffolding went up April 22...and the building started to come down last week. From an April 22 post of mine: Meanwhile, came to the co...
They're back!
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Last week, the ads with the bikini-clad rum saleswomen were shredded. Replacement ads went up almost immediately! Someone is hot to sell som...
Dumpster of the Day
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On 11th Street between First and Second Avenue.
Dancing in the Park
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The Dance Parade 2008 started yesterday at 28th and Broadway and winded up at Tompkins Square Park for a DanceFest. Seemed like 500 people w...
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Beautiful day
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Even better when there's construction going on in the building next door all morning. Speaking of which...did anyone see Noise ? Cu...
LES home of the week
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From this week's real estate section in the New York Post . One of the "dream" homes of the week (descriptions are written by...
Is this really fiction?
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The Wall Street Journal yesterday ran an excerpt from the new novel by Julie Salamon titled "Hospital." This passage caught my ...
Friday, May 16, 2008
Reminder! The Ukrainian Festival
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The Ukrainian Festival starts this afternoon on 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. Here's a brief on it from The Villager : Ukraini...
Good news!: New York is not one of Relocate-America's top 100 cities to live in the United States
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How embarrassing would that have been? Here's the whole list . Curious, at least, about the top 10 ? 1. Charlotte, N.C. 2. San Antonio, ...
Another day, another small business closes to make way for condos
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The headline from this feature in the Times says it all: From Metalwork to Luxury Condos: Century-Old SoHo Shop Ends Its Run The shop, whi...
New York Times finds that New Yorkers cuss a lot and don't even really notice
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Clyde Haberman takes a look at "fucking" in the Times today (uh, the word): The reality is that this vulgar word has been tossed ...
There are so many great New York movies
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Though this isn't one of them -- Hercules in New York , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Still, a hoot to watch. At least the highlight r...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Celebrating Arthur Russell
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Happy to see so much press this week for something worthy of the attention — Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, the debut feat...
Checking in on "the dildo of darkness" and other sun-blockers in the neighborhood
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The good people at East Village Podcasts bravely took to the streets this past weekend for a video update on the 2,398 hotels and condos sp...
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The New York Post doesn't take kindly to cussers
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Today's front page, from the arbiters of good taste. So you just watch your mouth, OK? No more swearing people!
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.
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