EV Grieve

I watched Alphabet City the other night for the first time in about, oh, 15 years. I wanted to like the movie more than I did. It's def...

According to this YouTube description: "vernal igloo! living on the streets of nyc for a month, i sometimes slept outside. a perfect sp...

According to the Observer , in a piece posted last night: “Basically, he’s not really a partner,” confessed Bowery Wine Company co-owner Chr...

So the Times debuted its Social Q's column in the Sunday Styles section this past, er, Sunday. Written by Philip Galanes, the column a...

I recently posted the May 28, 1984, New York magazine cover story titled "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood." WELL...

A few excerpts from a Times article from Oct. 6, 1985, titled "If you're thinking of living in: The East Village:" PROSPECTI...

Outside Monique Skin Care on 9th Street near 1st Avenue Previously on EV Grieve: Signs of the times My shopping list today includes rum, vod...

St. Mark's Place, between 1st Avenue and Avenue A.

Well, at least when we get this darn truck working again...

Good news, as the Times reports : Confusion and discord gave way to handshakes on Sunday as Gov. David A. Paterson and Mayor Michael R. Bloo...

Catching up on some reading...saw this discouraging item in Scoopy's Notebook in The Villager this week: Sign of the times: A decades-...

Page Six Magazine , which is FREE every Sunday in the New York Post -- you just have to pay $1 for the paper! -- has several doozies today....

Here are a few photos from last night's protest that started in front of the Bowery Wine Co. I was only able to stay for the first leg o...

Here are a few videos from the Bowery Wine Company protest tonight . (Apologies if they look as shaky and grainy as Cloverfield . Still lear...

Alex at Flaming Pablum passed along this music meme to, uh, me. Here's the deal: "List seven songs you are into right now. No mat...

Someone said something about a gas leak. Didn't seem too serious.

Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is, of course , the most realistic film ever made about New York City. As the review on Al...

[ Photo of 216 E. 7th St. in 1979 by Marlis Momber ] My obsession with the East Village in the 1970s and early 1980s continues. In November...

Outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Liberty Street, 11:20 a.m., June 12. Bonus (Or, perhaps, Punishment): Jeremy Irons rips off...

I came across this Cloder sign on Ann Street, which runs parallel to Fulton near the Financial District. I did a little digging and couldn...

Finally made it past the cover of the July Vanity Fair . Recommended reading, this piece by Christopher Hitchens : Last Call, Bohemia Every...

Lysandra Ohrstrom at the Observer checks in with some OTB regulars, including "the God of Gambling." It's a brief slice-of-li...

New York City during the 1970s was a beautiful, ravaged slag — impoverished and neglected after suffering from decades of abuse and battery....

Saw the following item in BizBash yesterday about Grand Opening's expansion away from its current digs on Norfolk Street: The folks at...

According to NY1 : A day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the end is near for the city's Off-Track Betting Corporation, Governor David...

How do I know this? Because I went to the site yesterday and started making stupid nightlife recommendations as part of the NYC & Compa...

The Library of Congress has a photostream at Flickr that includes archival photos of Manhattan. Given the diabolical heat of late, these se...

So what is this? According to the YouTube description: "New York Hot Tracks visits the popular FunHouse Disco on 26th St. in Manhattan ...

(For no reason. Just an appreciation .)

During my walk around the neighborhood Saturday, I came across a rummage sale in one of the community gardens on East 8th Street. (They seem...

On 14th Street just east of First Avenue.

I walked by the soon-to-open shop at 153 Second Ave., situated between Ryan's and the Thirsty Scholar, that will sell self-service froz...

I have no idea when Link Restaurant and the adjacent cafe space closed on 15th Street and Irving Place. I went to Link once for a beer bef...

Every year I'm offered to tickets to go to the Belmont Stakes, every year I politely decline. And every year I'm so happy that I dec...

That's Florent Morellet, owner of the soon-to-close Florent , in a Q-and-A in today's Post . An excerpt: Some people blame "Se...

Today's high: 94 Meanwhile, just 12 days until summer! Let's celebrate.

I kind of dread the day I hear that and the (presumably young and dumb) person isn't referring to Bob.