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News about the East Village of NYC
Monday, February 2, 2009
Faced with a lack of snow, the Penistrator uses a different canvas to showcase his work
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On Avenue B near Sixth Street.
Seeing more of Seymour (er, Butcher Bay)
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The plastic and plywood came down at the former Seymour Burton location -- now called Butcher Bay -- on 511 E. Fifth St. this past week. Gi...
Chipping away at Kim's
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Workers continue to dismantle the former Mondo Kim's on St. Mark's... Friday: Saturday: Sunday: Wonder how much longer the cover ar...
Looking at 131 E. Seventh St.
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Last November, we did a post on the former Italian cafe Affettati at 131 E. Seventh St. ... which was to become the East Village Pie Lounge...
By the way, the Christmas tree is still on in Tompkins Square Park
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Does it seem odd to anyone else that the Christmas tree was still lit up as of last night in Tompkins Square Park? Maybe someone just forgot...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Noted
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From the Post : If you've ever made an exhibition of yourself by falling asleep on the job, we might have the perfect employer for you. ...
In search of cheesy (ballsy?) Super Bowl promos
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I understand that NBC has a big Bruce Springsteen informercial planned for this evening. To coincide with the release of his new record, the...
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Recession causing retail landlords to be sort of nice and humane
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To the Times ! Back in the mid-1990s, when a stretch of Ludlow Street in Manhattan was dominated by boarded-up buildings and wholesale fruit...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Bring your skates...
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...if you want to walk on the north side of East Second Street today...
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On the bright side, Brandon Jacobs thinks the Giants will be in the Super Bowl next year
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Ouch. From the Post : "You can only get so much blood out of a stone" with budget cuts and other measures, the mayor said. He prop...
George Schneeman, 74
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From the Times : Painting, playing poker till dawn and boiling up pots of midnight pasta for friends in his apartment in an East Village ten...
Oh HENRY
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Item : "Wall Street bonuses were more than $18 billion last year — roughly what they were in the fatty, solvent days of 2004." “My...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Glenn Branca: Structure (1981 The Ascension no wave noise)
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A homemade video by suburbanbatherson .
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Mid-morning musical interlude
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"Strange Powers" by the Magnetic Fields from 1992. Just take in that Coney Island sun. (Oops...I had embedded the wrong video ear...
At the Holland Bar yesterday afternoon
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Uh, still not open yet . And the gate was down. On Tuesday, the Times ran a feature saying the Ninth Avenue dive might be open as soon as ...
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An unusual tag
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After leaving the Holland yesterday , I walked on West 35th Street ... where on the door to this rather abandoned-looking building, I spotte...
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Noted
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Ah, Bruce... brings back some memories ....
Danger: Swamp Ass Area
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On Cooper Square. Meanwhile a little farther north...At the under-construction Cooper Union building at Cooper Square between Seventh Street...
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Chloe Sevigny dig promptly lands St. Mark's retailer Daily News feature story
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From the Daily News today: He doesn't like being called grumpy, but if the sock fits ... The East Village sock salesman deemed the &quo...
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The Villager remembers "the father of bicycles"
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Emey Hoffman , who ran several shops through the years, most recently Busy Bee Bicycles on East Sixth Street near First Avenue, died on Jan....
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
New York Sun paper holders still being put to good use
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Somewhere in Midtown today.
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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Meet the man behind Stogo ( New York Observer ) The end of the NYC yunnie? ( Jeremiah's Vanishing NY ) The hipster rent boys of NYC ( N...
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The Trump SoHo feature: All is well here!
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The New York Post 's real estate section today has a cover story titled "Rock, Hudson!: TRUMP'S NEW TOWER SHAKES UP SLEEPY HUD...
The survey asks: So how are we feeling New York?
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To the press release!: Each year, the Citizens Committee for New York City conducts Speak Out New York, a citywide survey to find out how N...
Sure, the Hotel Carter may be the dirtiest hotel in America, but it sure is photogenic!
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Been meaning to pay a visit to the Hotel Carter on West 43rd Street in Times Square. Yesterday, Gothamist had the roundup on the Carter bei...
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A few signs from the recession
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Three shots that I took Sunday... DeRobertis Caffe on First Avenue in the East Village... Uh, some men's shop on...uh, Sixth Avenue near...
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The Really Really Free Market may need a new home
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For the past four years, the Really Really Free Market has held their monthly exchanges at the St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery on East 10th ...
Save the date/reminder...And the Archdiocese now has half of the money to restore St. Brigid's
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Meanwhile, Edwin Torres, chairman of the Committee to Save St. Brigid’s Church, had the following news to report : This year will bring a lo...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Ugh: Etherea Records is closing
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Karate Boogaloo brings us the awful news this afternoon at Stupefaction : After 13 years, Etherea Records is closing shop on Avenue A next ...
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Snow job: The Penistrator fails to rear his ugly head
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Given the international attention the Penistrator has received, we figured this snow fiend would strike again at the first sign of the wh...
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The East Village Penistrator finally gaining attention of the international community
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Thanks to the good people at the River blog for reporting on this news that deserves global coverage, especially overseas. Anyway, my Ital...
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This week's sign of the apocalypse
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Daniel Boulud's new beer and burger joint opening on the Bowery is tentatively titled DBGB . ( New York Post , via Grub Street ) Updated...
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