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Friday, July 18, 2008
Distrubing trend of the day: Golf clubs on the bus
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My bus passes through the heart of the newish condo country on the LES. And, with greater frequency this summer, I see more young sporty spo...
"First of all, their hair rules"
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That's the MC introducing Nirvana at the Pyramid Club on July 18, 1989. Nirvana made their New York City debut that night as part of the...
EV Grieve Etc. -- Time Out New York edition
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New York City native David "deadpan" Duchovny is out pushing the new X-Files movie and is the subject of the Time Out New York ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Celebrating James Cagney
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EV Grieve favorite James Cagney was born on this date in 1899. According to Wikipedia (oh, c'mon): Cagney was born on the Lower East Sid...
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Almost as effective as any developer or greedy politico
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From Gawker: " Here are clips of the 15 best films featuring New York getting annihilated, curated by Nick McGlynn." Oh, wait -- ...
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Looking at 1980s New York via network television
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Rolando at Urbanite brought back a memory for me with a post on The Equalizer from 1985. As he notes, The Equalize r shows Times Square i...
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Fun figures of the day!
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From the Times today: After more than two decades, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and one of his earliest business partners, Merrill Lynch, are...
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The new world order, at least on the LES
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Do you remember the Iglesia Pentecostal Arca De Salvacion (above) at the corner of Houston and Suffolk? Well, here's all that's left...
Remembering the Revolutionary
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Streets around Tompkins Square Park were blocked off yesterday for the crew to shoot something for that ABC series Cupid. I tried not to pa...
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At the construction site for the Wyndham Garden Hotel
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The L-shaped hotel will wrap around three low-rise buildings that sit on the corner of Maiden Lane and Nassau Street. When I took this photo...
Window shopping on 10th Avenue (for some reason)
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Somehow, these all seem related.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"Sitting through 'Rent' is more painful than a scrotal nick"
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Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic had a short post on Campbell Robertson's "Rent" essay from the Sunday Times that we had dis...
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Elk in the City
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OK, I have to admit I had no idea that there was an Elk Street in Manhattan. Stumbled upon it yesterday. Not much of a street. It starts at...
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Batman Begins tonight in Tompkins Square Park
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An obvious choice given that The Dark Knight opens Friday. This film series is all well and good. I'm all for free things that can brin...
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Gone but not forgotten
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On 10th Avenue at 25th Street.
"Small businesses and low-income New Yorkers keep getting pushed out"
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Juan Gonzalez checks in on the LES rezoning plan in the Daily News today in a piece titled Lower East Side rezone plan another Mike Bloombe...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Why the East Village will be a mess tonight and tomorrow
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Hmm, there's an ABC show called Cupid (rhymes with stupid) in the works. (Get this: It's an update of the short-lived 1998 series ...
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Even rich people can't afford to see the Mets or Yankees next season
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Yesterday I mentioned how expensive tickets were to see the Home Run Derby at Yankees Stadium. That should prepare everyone for what will b...
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The All-Star baseball theme continues: The Roger Clemens edition
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In keeping with this all-baseball theme in honor of tonight's All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium (which I don't plan on watching...)......
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A Public Service Annoucement from EV Grieve
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GOOD GOD, WHATEVER YOU DO, STAY AWAY FROM SIXTH AVENUE BETWEEN 40th STREET AND 58th STREET TODAY! Oh, why? Let me get press release-y : More...
Monday, July 14, 2008
Survey: Yuppies in New York City not quite as upwardly mobile as in the past
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Gawker has this item from UPI : New York's hurting financial sector is causing it to slip as a destination for "yuppies," For...
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Things that I won't be doing tonight
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I keep getting e-mails from my good friends at Ticketmaster saying that seats are still available for tonight's Home Run Derby at Yanke...
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At Apiary: New American and no booze for minors
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Apiary has been described as a "new American" restuarant. Open Table (via Eater ) offered this description: "Apiary fills a...
"White collar funk" on 23rd Street
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This is a video, dubbed "white collar funk," made by Paul Dougherty in the 1970s on 23rd Street. You can read about the project h...
How to sell cologne these days
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At 11th Street and Third Avenue. And what's wrong writing with a pencil or pen and notebook? Regardless, this is horrible. I just don...
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Vasmay Lounge is moving
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[Photo via Twerking Hard in the East Village ] This past Wednesday, I was yammering away about buildings for sale in the neighborhood tha...
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About that hole in the middle of 7th Street and Avenue B
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Uh, it's bigger. Yeah, yeah -- it's funny until someone's Lexus gets swallowed. Then we'll hear about it. Meanwhile, someon...
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Fliers around Tompkins Square Park this morning
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Wonder how long before someone removes these headlines about the Tompkins Square Riots, from Aug. 6-7, 1988. Don't want to upset the yun...
Live like Keith Richards, Russell Simmons, Britney Spears...
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On June 9, Curbed reported on the former Silk Building apartment that, through the years, Keith Richards and Russell Simmons owned. Most r...
The Boston Globe visits the Bowery
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There's a piece in the travel section of The Boston Globe today titled "New art museum in the Bowery attracts galleries -- and ge...
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Noted: Divorces and legends
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Headline in today's Post : ANGUISH OF 'STOCK' SPLITS DIVORCES SURGE AS WALL ST. WOES HIT COUPLES' SHOPPING SPREES & HAM...
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"Why are you bleeding?" -- Iggy Pop on the Tom Snyder Show
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The former Christodora House resident talks with Tom in 1980. Bonus! Iggy chats with Dinah Shore in 1977. (And who is that behind the keyboa...
Saturday, July 12, 2008
The East Village: "Where you can come live on dreams and tofu"
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Campbell Robertson takes a look at the Broadway smasheroo "Rent, " which closes in September after nearly 12 years, in the Times ...
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Friday, July 11, 2008
The 47 E. 3rd St. protest in video
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Here are some short clips from the protest at 47 E. 3rd St. tonight. I was there for the first leg of the protest tour. (UPDATED: Jeremiah ...
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