A few scenes from fall (earnest edition)

Meaning, there won't be a gag photo at the end of some dude throwing up on my front door in an Octoberfest hat or anything...

2 windows on 13th Street

Between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Of course! Douchebag Q and A

Heh. Yeah, I know that it's the movie... still, this gave me a chuckle...




And I like "The Town Douchebag" all together....

Get your pet wolf blessed today

It could be a dog, but I think it's wolf. Good dog clipart is hard to find.

Brainiacs

I give the edge to the Daily News today for evoking a 1950s B-movie quality. In any event, an awful story.

Scene from a sidewalk sale

Your chance to see two films on the gentrification in East Harlem and on the Lower East Side

From the EV Grieve inbox...includes an offer for you

Tuesday, October 5, 6:30 PM

In Danger of Extinction: Gentrification in East Harlem and on the Lower East Side

Residents of these two diverse, vibrant neighborhoods have long dealt with the pressures of gentrification and have struggled for affordability. Their story is told in two recent documentaries. Join the filmmakers for a screening and discussion of "The Lower East Side: An Endangered Place" by Robert Weber and "Whose Barrio?" by Ed Morales and Laura Rivera, with opening remarks by The Honorable Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York City Council, District 8.

Co-sponsored by the office of the New York City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito and East Harlem Preservation. This program is presented as part of the ongoing series The Urban Forum: New York Neighborhoods, Preservation and Development

Reservations required: 917-492-3395 or programs@mcny.org

$6 Museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 non-members

$6 when you mention E.V. Grieve

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street

And a trailer for you.... (we had an item on the film in June 2009)



And the ticket price is double if you yell Woo!

Firefighter subdues cellphone thief on Second Street

I've heard reports of a rash of cellphone thefts of late around the neighborhood... (including Slum Goddess.)

The Post has this story today:

A firefighter leaped into crime-fighter mode in the East Village last night -- helping a damsel in distress whose cellphone was snatched by a sticky-fingered thief, authorities said.

Vinny Brennan, 34, who also is a Marine Corps reservist, heard a cry for help near his Ladder 11 firehouse on East 2nd Street around 7:30 p.m.

"I saw a man running towards us on the sidewalk and my Marine intuition kicked in and I decided this one has got to be stopped," he said.

Brennan, who has served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, tackled the suspect and his fellow firefighters helped hold him until cops arrived.

Steven Varkony, 32, of The Bronx, was booked for robbery, cops said.

Despite hearing about so many cellphone thefts, NO ONE has tried to take mine...

The Blake Lively photos that I could have taken yesterday in the East Village if....

...I had a really BIG lens and hung out with the paparazzi for hours ...or vice versa!




On 10th Street and Avenue A yesterday....

[Photos via Just Jared]

Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Taylor Momsen

Woo! Go Search Engines!

OK, OK... the "Gossip Girl" filming continued at 10th Street and Avenue A this evening...



...a Halloween scene, so everyone wore masks... so you couldn't even tell the difference between, say, Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley, though I think his calves are smoother...




...and even the presence of a "Gossip Girl" truck didn't make Table 12's sidewalk cafe any more appealing...