Tropical weather

A rather tropical feel in Tompkins Square Park early this morning while workers watered some plants and what not....





All being down under the watchful eye of the NYPD...

Avenue A and 11th Street, 8:51 a.m., Aug. 29

Week-end self-serve

I'm not one for weeks in review and what not ... but it did seem to be a busy week... As always,thank you for your comments... and news tips

So! A quick recap of a few of the posts....

• We looked at Allen Ginsberg's former apartment

• We called for a new bandshell for Tompkins Square Park.

• We watched Ray featured on CNNmoney.com.

• We discovered that "Party Girls" who like to be victim's of "sexy humor" were needed.

• We looked at night-time photos of the Copper Building (31 comments)

• We watched a video of the "underground" grilled cheese peddler (18 comments)

• We looked back at Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston and the Bowery

• We helped The East Side Community School compete for $500,000

• We learned that Red Mango closed

• We took pity on a sick Barney

• We met the former East Village "hipster" who may or may not owe the IRS big bucks

Blog mafia vs. Mafia Wars

Our friends in the local blogging community have been busy posting on the viral/littering ad campaign on our streets by Zygna, a San Francisco game developer based with investment from the locally owned Union Square Ventures. I'm sure you've seen those fake dollar bills plastered on sidewalks and other surfaces, particularly on Second Avenue

East Village Feed has been contacting Zygna and Union Square Ventures... Also, NYC the Blog has contacted the city about this. Per NYC the Tumblr:

Just got off the phone with the Sanitation department. They were not pleased to hear about the latest advertising campaign in Manhattan for Mafia Wars, by Union Square Venture backed Zygna.

In addition to requesting the locations of the illegal ads, (I gave them two I was sure of) Sanitation wanted the name and number of the company responsible.

Anyway, East Village Feed reports now that Zynga’s agency, Davis Elen, has responded and has committed to clean up the Mafia Wars campaign within a week.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Behind the East Village "blog mafia" joke

[Photo via East Village Feed]

Stupid limo sighting of the day (so far!)

On Cooper Square. The baby was moving too.

Why Sunday might be a nice day to finally take that trip to, say, anywhere

The NYU residence halls open for move-in tomorrow.

Avenue A, 8:44 a.m., Aug. 28

Today in Tompkins Square Park

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Just got lucky

Concern for Barney on St. Mark's Place

As this photo from Bob Arihood shows, Barney isn't looking so good now on St. Mark's Place. Gone is that friendly, optimistic attitude that we've all seen. He will still dance, though only for change.