All wet?: More about Molecule and the healing properties of water

On Monday, we noted that Molecule, aka the Water Café, was now open on East 10th Street. Serena Solomon at DNAinfo went to check it out for a feature yesterday .... the store here between First Avenue and Avenue A has a custom-made, $20,000 filtering machine to remove the city water "heavy with chlorine, fluoride and compound metals" and returns it to its purest form.

Co-owner Adam Ruhf said that he "knows first hand the healing properties of purified water, claiming that drinking it regularly helped eased the pain caused brought on by two serious car accidents that left him without a spleen and a leg held together with metal pins."

Aside from selling single servings of the water in the shop (16 ounces for $2), the store will also have a delivery service for East Village residents seeking 3 or 5 gallons of purified water for the home.

Read the whole article here.

Meanwhile, this morning. The Wall Street Journal features the store as well, pointing out that water quality has long been a source of pride for New York City. However, Ruhf, described as "a former world champion boomerang player, musician and self-described social-justice activist" who moved here from California a year ago, countered that the water in NYC is "terrible."

"I don't want chemicals in my water. I don't even want chlorine in my water. Chlorine is like bleach. Do you want to drink bleach?"

Anyway, per the article:

To counteract critics, Molecule is planning a weekly naming ceremony to imbue its water with personality and Sunday blessings involving religious figures from all faiths, including Tibetan monks and pagan worshipers.

Finally, the Molecule media tour continues this morning with a scathing review by Steve Cuozzo in a Post piece titled "Molecule bottled water is ‘pure’ nonsense."

My editors asked me to turn my famously infallible palate loose on a blind-tasting of Molecule, three popular bottled waters and ordinary, unimproved tap water.

Guess what? Molecule was the only one I didn’t like.

The Post also had a video feature...



[Image of Adam Ruhf by Serena Solomn]

Free tonight in Tompkins Square Park: 'Summer of Sam'

The Films in Tompkins series continues tonight with Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam," with pre-movie music by The Debonairs and Brendan O’Hara...

The trailer...



And as we'll cut-n-paste all summer long:

Free. Gates Open at 6 p.m. Music Starts ½ Hour before the Start of the Film (sundown)

July 26 — Goldfinger, Music by The Luddites

Aug. 2 — Donnie Darko, Music by The Rad Trads
A Two Boots 25th Anniversary Event with Free Pizza!

Aug. 9 — The Big Lebowski, Music by Main Squeeze Orchestra
A Two Boots 25th Anniversary Event with Free Pizza!

Aug. 16 — Poltergeist, Music by Timbila

Dates subject to Rain Delays.

Films In Tompkins is sponsored by Ella, The Blind Barber, Two Boots, Grolsch, GalleryBar, Tower Brokerage and NYC& Company.

Dead pigeon on East Sixth Street AC unit still dead

So, we did that post back in February titled "How long before this pigeon decomposes?"

Flashback!

Well, Suz on Sixth, who took the photo, has an update for us.

I thought that you may be interested to know that the dead pigeon is a) still dead, b) still outside of my window, and c) not at all pleased with the soaring temperatures — its feathers are all a-jumble! Of course, that could also be due to the exploding bacterial colony where its gut used to be and the oddly curious pigeon bretheren that visit, and preen, on occasion. But, I digress.

Mmmmm.

Efforts have been made to get the tenant across the shaftway to do something about the poor dead bird. But the tenant does nothing.

So how long before this pigeon decomposes?

Said tourist back in February: "Before full decomposition you will have three more Subway sandwich shops in your neighborhood."

Close!

Anxious moments at Yankee Deli on Avenue C

Xris Spider sent along the above photo from 1:22 a.m. on Avenue C at East 11th Street ... where there was a large FDNY and NYPD presence at Yankee Deli ... An employee said later that a customer had a stroke inside the store. The stroke victim's condition is not known at this time...

After the storm: One downed branch in Tompkins Square Park

Given the severity of the the late afternoon storm (torrential rain! chunky hail! thousands of lightning strikes! Instagram madness!), we expected to find more damage in the neighborhood... Bobby Williams spotted one downed branch in Tompkins Square Park...

Anyone else notice any other damage, particularly related to the storm?

Trash can fire in Tompkins Square Park

Been awhile since we've seen a good trash can fire... oh, anyway...

Per a reader here at Seventh Street and Avenue A:

Maybe not newsworthy, but a cool sight. Most people didn't care but of course some corny suburban chick and her friend called 311 or whatever, with a smug "I'm doing what's right" look on their face. Fire truck soon came and easily put it out.

Ben & Jerry's back in the East Village, for one night only

The Ben & Jerry's store closed on Third Avenue and NYU back in September 2010, as Jeremiah first noted... (And the space is still for lease...)

Anyway, EVG regular peter radley notes the arrival of a Ben & Jerry's truck on East Fifth Street at Second Avenue...

Turns out to be a one-night-only thing... Free Greek Yogurt, per @kikaeats ...

Storm in the summertime

Photo late this afternoon by Bobby Williams.

Checking out the East 11th Street waterfall

Courtesy of @fashionbyhe ...

It's so hot out that...

... someone is cooling off this dumpster on Seventh Street...

Dumpster Sprinkler!

Photo by Bobby Williams.