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News about the East Village of NYC
Monday, November 24, 2008
New bar El Dorado opens today in the East Village
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Here's the scoop! Everyone knows that working for the press has it’s advantages. This week I was lucky enough to check out the new El Do...
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Per-man, per-hour moving war takes strange, hunky twist.
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My fascination continues . Spotted on Fourth Avenue: Meanwhile, thanks to the anonymous commenter Friday for some inside information: Anony...
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Mayor Mike's monarchy
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Fred Siegel, senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Civic Innovation, has an opinion piece in today's Post titled &q...
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Greenwich Village Sunday -- 1960 (also, 1944 and 1981)
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The Times examines the ongoing battle for Washington Square Park today. Meanwhile, let's take a look back at the Park and neighborhood...
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Articles that I stopped reading after the first paragraph
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From the real estate section in the Times today: THE duplex five-bedroom apartment on Attorney Street that Daniel Vosovic calls home seems...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Stopping the music
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Last July, I posted the intro to the most deliriously awful movie set in New York, 1980's " Can't Stop the Music " starri...
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Buffalo Exchange ready for action (as soon as the gates go up today that is)
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Buffalo Exchange opens today on 11th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...at the former spot of Rififi/Cinema Classics . How man...
Just three shopping days left until the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NYC Annex opens!
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In case you want another feature story on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, the Post delivers today: It's one for the money, two f...
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More Marzzzz on the way
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From USA Today : Life on Mars got a small new lease on life — four extra episodes — and a big new time slot behind Lost , Wednesdays at 10 ...
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Noted
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Why the frenzy to get into Trader Joe's this morning? Thanksgiving rush?
Friday, November 21, 2008
Waiting for Mary (and the camera guy to show more of Debbie Harry's legs)
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Here's Pere Ubu doing "Waiting for Mary" on "Michelob Presents Night Music," the NBC late-night TV show hosted by Jo...
Just another random photo of a woman who bet that she could eat 10 hot dogs in 20 minutes at Crif Dogs
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On St. Mark's. Via dpstyles at Flickr .
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EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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The Dolls of Avenue B ( East of Bowery ) Debbie Harry: Trailblazer ( Punk Turns 30 ) When lofts were new to NYC ( Runnin' Scared ) On Ne...
Just four shopping days left until the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC opens!
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And The Times has a preview of sorts today. The Clash looked down from a wall-size 1978 photograph at a roomful of workmen sawing, measuri...
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Survival of the independents
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From an editorial in The Villager this week titled "Helping small stores "...a few excerpts: A main victim of the city’s developm...
Brazen entry in the per-man, per-hour moving wars
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This past summer, I -- exclusively -- was on the front lines covering the ugliest battle this neighborhood has seen since the 10 (or so) F...
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Looking at Life (via Google)
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Morning time sucker: Search millions of photographs from the Life magazine archives, from the 1750s to today, thanks to Google . Here are...
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More photo fun: Catching up with Then/Now
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As you may know, Times photograher David W. Dunlap has been revisiting some of the sites he shot for 1978's "The City Observed: Ne...
Can a borough sue?
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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rock-star husband Pete Wentz are now parents. They named their son Bronx Mowgli Wentz . Will he be friends with...
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Noted (and with apologies)
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I don't know why I do this. Anyway, this article seems to be floating around out there in the interwebs -- different sites, different da...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Weather on the 00s: It's not that cold out, OK?
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Was 32 degrees this morning at the usual time. Wind chill made it feel like 27, said the Weather Channel. On the bus, people from the neighb...
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Giving thanks one week early: Port 41 edition
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Thank God that dingy little corners of New York City still exist that house the likes of Port 41. To hear some people describe Port 41, you&...
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The MTA doesn't care how you get to the west side
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The MTA's grim 2009 budget proposal eliminates the M8, the local crosstown route that links the East Village and the West Village. ( Dai...
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This week's sign of the apocalypse
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Gene Simmons rang the Opening Bell at the NYSE yesterday. This after the clown did the honors last Friday. Oh, and the Dow dropped 427 poi...
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EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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"Over the past two years, Frank Bruni, the New York Times' restaurant critic has mentioned the East Village in articles over 35 tim...
Don't laugh: This is how Catherine Zeta-Jones met Michael Douglas
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Have seen these signs several places around the neighborhood. Spotted this one on Stanton Street near Nolfolk in the LES.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I'm so wearing this to Momofuku Bakery and Milk Bar
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There's now a company selling the New York Cheesecake Head for Jets fans. (Or someone who really likes cheesecake.) As a response to th...
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Citysearch gets fancy makeover
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Citysearch busts out a new look . (It's still in beta...) As Cnet reports , "there's a more streamlined and Ajax-y interface, ...
That sinking feeling
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The Post gets into the dive bar spirit today, offering up its listicle of the city's top-10 dives . I can't say there are any surpr...
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What's doing on at the northern end of Avenue B?
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Been keeping my eye on the new development at 215 Avenue B at 13th Street that was once home to The Sylvia del Villard Program of the Robert...
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"In the late 80s and the early 90s everybody could afford to live in the East Village"
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From a Q-and-A with Moby in Black Book : People say they miss the old New York. Do you like it better now? Only the things that I miss. it ...
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A holiday classic
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A little holiday spirit courtesy of the East Village institution DeRobertis Pasticceria & Caffe on First Avenue. Since 1904. Read Jeremi...
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