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News about the East Village of NYC
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
"No Reservations" at Sophie's
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A tipster tells me that globetrotting chef Anthony Bourdain filmed a segment of his show "No Reservations" at Sophie's this ...
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Financially strapped automakers cutting corners on design
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On Avenue C near 14th Street.
What's new on Lard Street?
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Was on Dessert Row the other...er, Seventh Street...the Butter Lane Cupcakes store is now open for business. Some good news: The historic &...
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Cinematic facelift
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Seeing this gave me pause...then I realized they are just doing some minor renovations. (Or at least that's what I was told by one of th...
Monday, November 24, 2008
CBGB lives...in a warehouse in Williamsburg
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From the Times today: Despite what Neil Young says (“Hey, hey, my, my”), rock ’n’ roll not only dies — sometimes it is crated into boxes an...
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Seventh Street, 3:15 p.m., Nov. 23
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Noted
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From the wire: NY public toilets feature TVs, tuxedoed attendants NEW YORK (AP) -- What a relief! The free public restrooms operated by the ...
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EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
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Walk on Times Square circa 1986 with some drag queens ( Stupefaction ) A historic restaurant that's now a Duane Reade ( Greenwich Villag...
Hudson's sign fading away on East 13th Street
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Seems as if the on-again, off-again construction at 103 E. Third Ave. at 13th Street has been going on forever . I forgot now what's e...
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'Tis the season for keeping ConEd in business: The holiday lights are up at Rolf's
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One of my favorite NYC holiday traditions. The over-the-top holiday lights -- some 70,000 light bulbs in total -- and Victorian-era tchochke...
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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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