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News about the East Village of NYC
Friday, February 20, 2009
Why getting around the Financial District is so fun!
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Need to get somewhere in a jiffy? You'll be better off, oh, crawling. Pearl Street! Liberty Street! Maiden Lane! Wall Street! Fulton Str...
Report: In this recession, not even beer is recession-proof
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This chart makes my head hurt. Still! According to FiveThirtyEight.com , who broke this story: As you can see, there has generally not been ...
Note taped to the front door of the week
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Somewhere in the East Village.
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LES dawn... sunrise over Williamsburg
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Here's the latest work from filmmaker Paul Dougherty . He explains the video: "I'm not keen on the new luxury towers cropping u...
Why you won't be seeing some high school productions of "Rent"
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As the Times reports today : Theater directors and students at more than 40 high schools across the country have selected a new show for th...
Dumpster of the day
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East Second Street near Avenue A.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Is Walmart sniffing around Union Square?
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Maybe! Patrick Hedlund has the story in his Mixed Use column this week in The Villager. Best Buy's name has also been floated, he rep...
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"Coney Island will be open for business in 2009"
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I'm reprinting a comment left by Electricia on my Coney Island post from this morning: Your observation that you ran into about 50 peop...
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EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
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Looking back at the murder of Lee Morgan, gunned down at Slug's on Third Street and Avenue C ( This Ain't the Summer of Love ) About...
At Coney Island
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I've been following the development hell that is Coney Island of late. (If you're not up to speed, on Tuesday, the Times had a dece...
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Jim Jarmusch set to test our "Limits"
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Here's an update on the next project by LES resident Jim Jarmsuch , who hasn't made a good film since " Permanent Vacation .&qu...
This week's sign of the apocalypse
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[Via Gothamist ]
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An important update on fast-food mascots
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In the Subway post from yesterday , a commenter mentioned that Quiznos had/has a rat for a mascot. Heh. Well, I dunno . There was the Quizno...
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East Seventh Street, 5:54 p.m., Feb. 18
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McSorley's celebrated its 155th (or 147th) anniversary last night . Not the horror show that I expected (police barricades, barfing in ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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NYU President John Sexton not a supporter of lowering the national drinking age ( Washington Square News ) Coping with the collapse ( Boing...
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The challenges of making the Sex and the City sequel "recession-friendly"
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US Weekly has this press release from Access Hollywood: Sarah Jessica Parker says it's a challenge making the Sex and the City sequel ...
Whatever happened to the Two Boots Restaurant? Plus: NYCHA puts up two prime storefronts on Avenue A for rent
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BoweryBoogie had an update on Two Boots LES (still closed!) yesterday. Meanwhile, I never did get my arms everything that had happened with...
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Nino's is back in business; hearts float over the East Village
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Nino's on Avenue A and St. Mark's was back open yesterday after a temporary closure by the DOH ...(and yes -- the naked Santa is st...
However, the impact it could have on the lines for brunch at Prune has yet to be determined
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A little something to take your mind off the recession. From the City Room : "A report released on Tuesday concluded that the city’s av...
It's Feb. 18, and we've already exceeded our quota for stories on Subway for 2009
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First, sorry! Anyway, we're just admiring the original deals that Blimpie's and Subway have going right now...and, in my estimation...
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The last weekly issue of Page Six Magazine: Meet the "Recession Vultures"
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The last weekly issue of Page Six Magazine didn't fail to disappoint this week. The winner is the story titled "New York's: Re...
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Former Vasmay Lounge space is now the Local 269
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So, when did this pop up...? I swear it wasn't here Friday...The Local 269 was open for business last night at Houston and Suffolk on t...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The bar at Cedar Tavern is moving to Austin, Texas
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Grub Street's Daniel Maurer has the scoop on the fate of the beloved Cedar Tavern on University Place. No surprise. "Longtime owne...
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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Two Boots LES still closed ( BoweryBoogie ) Nino's Pizza on St. Mark's and Avenue A temporarily closed ( Slum Goddess ) A visit to t...
Digging into the archives
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In the last few days, Jill at Blah Blog Blah has posted many photos from her 1980s archives of the East Village/LES, such as the one above ...
Cindy Adams has the lowdown on the toilets (and other things) at the new Yankee Stadium
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It's difficult to say which is more wretchedly excessive... The column today by Cindy Adams in which she secretly tours the new Yankee ...
Happy 155th birthday, McSorley's (or not)
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According to the caption that accompanied the Associated Press archival photo seen below: Regulars and tourists raise mugs of ale to toast a...
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