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News about the East Village of NYC
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Revisiting the decline of New York City
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As you can see, the Sept. 17, 1990, issue of Time had this cover story, The Rotting of the Big Apple. Excerpt: Skyrocketing real estate pri...
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Hooters and Red Mango
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This thought crossed my mind when I saw the Red Mango sign in the window of the former CBGB T-shirt shop the other day: What if someone is ...
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If you're thinking about driving on: Beekman Street
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Uh. Good luck. And you may want to throw it in four-wheel drive. (Also, I've always liked the sign for the Beekman, hidden there a bit ...
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Dark Knight is gone
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At least from Houston and the Bowery.
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EV Grieve Etc.
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With less than 18 months left in Mayor Bloomberg's final term, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is in a race against the...
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The Gov. has grim news: get ready for the worst economy in decades
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According to today's Post anyway: Gov. Paterson, convinced the state faces its worst fiscal crisis since the mid-1970s, will deliver th...
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And now for something new and different on St. Mark's
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Alternate headline: You've got to be fucking kidding me . At the site of the old CBGB shop. (Surprised someone isn't calling this yo...
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What's new on Avenue C?
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Bao 111 at 111 Avenue C closed up shop at the end of February because of escalating rents ...(Get this: the owner planned to move to the wes...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Free punk show in Tompkins Square Park Sunday
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More fun to come next Saturday and Sunday . Suzannah B. Troy has much more on the show . Bob Arihood has many excellent photos here .
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EV Grieve FYI
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From the Times : THE Manhattan co-op market has just set a sales record, according to brokers briefed on the sale. Jonathan Tisch, the chair...
The rich want Bloomberg for a third term
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According to today's Post : Big Apple business honchos want four more years of Mayor Bloomberg -- and are preparing to do whatever it ta...
Keeping the spirit alive
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Yesterday afternoon on Fifth Street near Avenue A. Two signs leftover from the "let them eat cake" protest from July 11.
A message for the kids
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On the door at St. Brigid's school.
Is it July 27 yet?
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Oh, good. That means it's time for the start of the second season of Mad Men , the AMC show about advertising in 1960s Manhattan...that...
That sound you hear is EV Grieve scrapping the bottom of the barrel to find mid-1980s footage of Times Square
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It's Huey Lewis! And the News! Howard Johnson's in all it's neon glory at the 38-second point.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Too many people got Carrie-d (groan, sorry) away on the stoop
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According to this week's issue of The Villager (via Jeremiah ): Call it “Stoop and the Groupies.” With the May film release of “Sex and...
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A reminder of artists who lived and worked in the LES
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[ Tom Warren, P.P.O.W. Gallery “Portrait/Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz,” at P.P.O.W.] The Times had a review yesterday of two exhibit...
Newsflash: New York is expensive (aka, we're No. 1!)
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According to Forbes : New York City's got fashionable Fifth Avenue, trendy Tribeca and an oasis in Central Park. To enjoy those perks, ...
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Inside Aubrey O'Day's apartment (for some reason)
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I love when the New York Post takes us inside the homes of really famous celebrities ! In the paper's real-estate section on Thursday, ...
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Time for a drink
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(Actually, I've been drinking for hours!) According to the caption: Unidentified men stand at the bar at the famous old Bowery saloon in...
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Sunday in the Park
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Image via Neither More Nor Less ...Bob has more details on the shows there too.
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Kurtis Blow's anti-heroin public service announcement
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Aired in New York City in the early 1980s, says the person who posted the clip on YouTube. Bonus: Kurtis Blow for Sprite (1986)
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Getting ready to ship out
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According to the caption that accompanied this photo: Residents of a flophouse in New York's Bowery tidy themselves up for a cruise aboa...
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A quick walk on Allen Street
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Walked two blocks, from Delancey to Stanton, the other day...and came across two construction sites. Shocker! I've completely lost trac...
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Whistling and blasting
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I never understand how we are supposed to remember all this. Maybe, "When you hear a blast, duck."
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Team Bride confidential
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Did you see the women in the "team bride" T-shirts in the neighborhood Saturday night? I found a blog post on what this was all ab...
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15 Seconds of window shopping at Pier 17
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The Jason Giambi nutcracker? (At the year-round Christmas in New York store.) If you're not looking for something New York City related,...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Update on the East 7th Street shooting
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The Times has an update on the shooting this morning on East 7th Street and Avenue D: A gunman shot and injured a man on an East Village st...
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Hollywood returning to Tompkins Square Park (for just a mere 18 hours or so)
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Maybe we'll all get to hobnob with David Duchovny, star of Californication ! Sure, sure! Just hope the crew lets people into Ray's ....
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Looking at the current fair housing and anti-gentrification movements
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Politics as Puppetry has an essay today titled New York City Anti-Gentrification Movements - A Catalog of Failure An excerpt: Rising rents i...
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Two good shops
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On tiny Cliff Street, which runs between Fulton and John. And next door, just past the entrance to the parking garage: Meanwhile, if you go ...
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