"Strange Powers" by the Magnetic Fields from 1992. Just take in that Coney Island sun. (Oops...I had embedded the wrong video earlier...Heh.)
Friday, January 30, 2009
At the Holland Bar yesterday afternoon
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 the next day! Seemed awfully optimistic, especially given the state of the place that I saw the previous week. At that time, two weeks even seemed like a stretch to for the bar to reopen.
In any event, the place will be open again...just don't know when for sure.
An unusual tag
After leaving the Holland yesterday, I walked on West 35th Street ... where on the door to this rather abandoned-looking building, I spotted some ususual graffiti...
Not a tag that you see everyday.
I consulted with The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve. He had never seen such a tag either. More of an intellectual twist on the ubiquitous Baby Dino and Chef Pants. Just one of those interesting, mysterious things that you see around the city, The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve said in a rather intersting, mysterious way.
Not a tag that you see everyday.
I consulted with The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve. He had never seen such a tag either. More of an intellectual twist on the ubiquitous Baby Dino and Chef Pants. Just one of those interesting, mysterious things that you see around the city, The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve said in a rather intersting, mysterious way.
Danger: Swamp Ass Area
On Cooper Square.
Meanwhile a little farther north...At the under-construction Cooper Union building at Cooper Square between Seventh Street and Sixth Street. Charming!
Chloe Sevigny dig promptly lands St. Mark's retailer Daily News feature story
From the Daily News today:
He doesn't like being called grumpy, but if the sock fits ...
The East Village sock salesman deemed the "grumpiest man on Earth" by actress Chloe Sevigny isn't embracing the title -- but he isn't denying it, either.
"I have my moments," acknowledged Marty Rosen, 45, owner of The Sock Man on St. Marks Place. "I'm from New York. We all have our moments."
The Villager remembers "the father of bicycles"
Emey Hoffman, who ran several shops through the years, most recently Busy Bee Bicycles on East Sixth Street near First Avenue, died on Jan. 7. He was 63. “Emey started on bicycles when he was about 10 years old hanging around bike shops on the Lower East Side,” his brother Jon told The Villager. “When I told George, who has a bicycle shop on E. Fourth St., that Emey died, he started to cry and said, ‘The father of bicycles is dead,’”
Thursday, January 29, 2009
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
Meet the man behind Stogo (New York Observer)
The end of the NYC yunnie? (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
The hipster rent boys of NYC (New York Observer)
Fewer fatcats and corporations buying private jets (New York Times)
Apparently there's no salt for the sidewalks in Stuy Town (Lux Living)
East Village to Be Renamed Momofuku Village? (Esquared)
Ride the MTA circa the 1970s (Greenwich Village Daily Photo)
LES skyline keeps on growing and...(BoweryBoogie)
The Yankee Stadium replacement parkland overrun even fatter than CC Sabathia's contract (Washington Square Park)
The Trump SoHo feature: All is well here!
The New York Post's real estate section today has a cover story titled "Rock, Hudson!: TRUMP'S NEW TOWER SHAKES UP SLEEPY HUDSON SQUARE AREA."
I'll say.
The piece is so full of whoppers, it's hard to know where to start. So how about here:
"[Trump SoHo] is a fantastic emblem to have on the corner," says Prudential Douglas Elliman's Frances Katzen, who is selling the Renwick, a condo building set to rise in Hudson Square. "[But] the building has had a lot to overcome."
Despite protests from neighborhood groups and other controversies -- including the discovery of a 19th-century African church burial ground on the site -- Trump is rising quickly.
"We thought there was a place for younger product downtown," says Ivanka Trump.
Phew! Did away with those "controversies!"
All the "Rock, Hudson!" author had to do was pay a visit to Curbed or maybe just read the headline and second deck of Michael Idov's feature on the property last March 30 in New York:
Trump Soho Is Not an Oxymoron
It’s a 46-story skyscraper being built on a graveyard that’s brought together shadowy Russians and a billionaire brand name to attract internationals in a zoning-skirting scheme that’s enraged the neighborhood, sent glass shattering to the street, and killed a construction worker. It’s New York in the aughts, and inside there’s a luxury suite just for you.
The worker's name was Yurly Vanchytsky. He lived in Brooklyn. He died last Jan. 14. According to reports, he fell 42 stories when he was knocked over by a wooden form used to set concrete collapsed as it was being moved by a crane.
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