EV Grieve

What's going on at the former location of the A. Fontana Shoe Repair on 10th Street past Second Avenue? The shop, there for 45 years , ...

From today's Post : A state housing official from Brooklyn was busted for selling lists of rent-regulated tenants to builders so they co...

In case you have 28 spare minutes today...here's a video of a post-Cheap Trick concert party from 1978 at the Palladium . Susan Blond i...

A perfect song for a summer Friday. Or any day. Or season.

Following up on the post yesterday on the landlord accused of harassing tenants...Curbed has more here . Meanwhile, Jill from Blah Blog Bla...

Sid and Nancy and Stiv Bators and Cynthia Ross of the B Girls in 1978....

At the Subway on Maiden Lane in the Financial District.

Two documentaries by Richard Sandler, Brave New York and Sway, are playing tonight in the community garden at Sixth Street and Avenue B. (...

Just in case you missed the piece in the Times on the wind farmers of East 11th Street from Aug. 4, the Post did their own version of it t...

I'm continuing to take in all parts of the Bowery. An appreciation of sorts. As Forgotten New York has noted , Extra Place has been a de...

Ugh. On 10th Street. Near Second Avenue.

From the City Room this afternoon: A group of tenant advocates has accused a landlord that acquired 17 rent-regulated buildings on the Lowe...

[ Photo Lorcan Otway/The Villager ] The Villager profiles East Village photographer Lorcan Otway this week. Otway’s photos capture everyt...

I hope there's a reward! Found on Sixth Street near First Avenue.

Do I hear $16 per man, per truck, per hour?

During my guest stint at Curbed last week, I wrote a post on 20 Pine , the big-ass condo conversion that's been taking a looooooong time...

Over at Fortune , Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large, weighs in with the next big financial crisis: "We made it through the bursting...

Let's take a quick trip back 55 years to August 1953. An article in that month's Mechanix Illustrated highlights ill-fated inventio...

The John Varvatos fall 2008 fall campaign finds Perry Farrell on the Bowery . According to the John Varvatos Web site , the ads were shot ...

So I've been having fun with Alex at Flaming Pablum posting music videos featuring NYC as a backdrop. (He had some real blasts from the...

East Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

I'm not sure what's going on here at this prime slab of East Village real estate at 95 Avenue A at Sixth Street. There was no one ar...

Whenever we start reading about old-school joints such as Frankie and Johnnie's facing the wrecking ball , it makes us appreciate the c...

Interesting post by Manhattan-based real-estate attorney Joseph Ferrara about " serial evictees " at the sellsius blog yesterday ....

We've been having some fun of late finding cheeseball 80s videos shot in New York. Alex at Flaming Pablum has found a few more doozies...

I managed to miss the news back in late May of artist Dan Witz adding his own touches to the luxury housing popping up everywhere from here...

Please allow this quick diversion away from EV Grieve's usual topics...where we visit the pages of Page Six Magazine for The Ivana-logu...

According to the Global Urban Competitiveness Project (as reported in The Economist ), New York is the most competitive city in the world . ...

The Post has a feature today on the richies who have paid more than $45 million for their Manhattan digs. You know, the $45 Million Club. ...

Christ, what's next, photos at dusk ?

The Times looks at The German Dispensary and adjacent library on Second Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets today. (You know, the Stuyvesan...

Yesterday, reader Eric E. sent along the link for Sade's "Is it a Crime" video showing some delicious Times Square pornage li...

Holy shit. Hmm, what's on the news? And why am I sitting in front of a computer at this hour? Seeking shelter?

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Thanks to reader Eric E. for bringing this music video to my attention (via the previous post)... Just stumbled upon this music video by Sad...

Wrapping up the end of week No. 2 over at Curbed . It has been fun, though I wish they wouldn't leave the front door open while the AC ...

In an entertaining and thorough post this morning on the state of egg creams, Jeremiah delivers a comforting passage after an interview wit...

Mott and Houston.

An update on the HOWL! Festival. Get to know the new CB3 president. And a fucked-up crime from Downtown Express : A Lower Manhattan man wh...