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Police presence in Tompkins Square Park

Seems to be more police than usual in Tompkins Square Park the last few days... Late Thursday afternoon, there were six police cars on the scene... and the only noticeable offense was a man receiving a ticket for an open container... more police cars were prowling around early Friday morning... asking some questions of a few Park regulars, such as John and Hot Dog...

NYU sets up temporary dorm on Seventh Street

Heh. OK, that was really bad. Just thinking about this story. Anyway, the castle is part of the Yorkiest Block Party on Seventh Street... where there are FREE hot dogs!

Free hot dogs on Seventh Street!

Oh, and The Yorkiest Block Party via CityLight.

A rainbow in Tompkins Square Park

Earlier this morning. And you see the unicorn too right? Right! Tell me that you see the unicorn!

Noted

Avenue A at 10th Street.

The young ones

Sensitive Skin live Sunday at the Bowery Poetry Club

Sensitive Skin magazine has been revived by publisher Bernard Meisler and managing editor Tim Beckett... The print version ran on the Lower East Side in the 1990s, and published such luminaries as Richard Hell, Taylor Mead, Herbert Huncke, Bob Holman (who now runs the Bowery Poetry Club), among others.

And Sensitive Skin is having their first reading since like 1998 at the Bowery Poetry Club this Sunday at 6. There will be readings by Darius James, Christian Hunter, Drew Huebner and Rob Hardin with music by Kurt Wolf (ex-Pussy Galore) and video by Rebecca Gaffney.

Here's the first issue from 1991 ... when it was called 'Peau Sensible' (that's French for sensitive skin...)



For further reading:
Check out Jeremiah's interview with Bernard and Tim at Vanishing New York.

Oh, he's a magic man.....

Per Craigslist:

Magic The Gathering... - m4w - 27 (East Village)

I want you to tap my mana till I'm all tapped out. Be my Exalted Angel, I'll be your Dark Confidant. Take my Rod of Ruin deep into your Karplusan Forest.

Come on, baby. Let's make some magic.

Or!

The Rhong Tiam dilemma: Stay (and remodel) or go

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Grub Street has the official word on what's up with Kurve/Rhong Tiam on Second Avenue and Fifth Street:

"Andy Yang tells us he has closed the East Village outpost of Rhong Tiam. “It was a miscalculation,” he says of its predecessor Kurve, with its infamous Karim Rashid design." (Above!) He's also considering whether to remodel it (bringing the kitchen upstairs) and reopen it with a less off-putting décor, or to simply let go of the space, Grub Street notes.

What do you think? Remodel or let it go?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over