This weekend: Tompkins Square Halloween Punk Concert

From the EV Grieve inbox...

Join us for a two-day Halloween festival on Saturday + Sunday, from 2 pm - 6 pm. Lots of bands, poetry and performers ...

Here's the latest line-up for Saturday, from 2 pm - 6 pm:

• The Purple Hearts (home-grown rockers, fronted by Joff Wilson)
• Gabriel Don (kick ass poetess with her poet posse)
• Rucjus Interruptus (old school LES rockers)
• Blue Berry High Heels (female rockers)
• Crusty P (female punk rapper)
• The Cynz (female punkers)
• And, we've got NICO (formerly of Leftover Crack + Star Fucking Hipsters)

Brought to you by The Shadow...

Last Unicorn tonight at the Pyramid

The third installment of Last Unicorn, an "artisanal dance night." (And maybe it will be the last with Sandy on the way...doom!)

Why yes — you can buy a $600,000 ticket to see the Rolling Stones in New Jersey

As you may have heard, The Rolling Stones — a popular music combo from England — are playing two dates in December at The Prudential Center in New Jersey. Tickets went on sale today at noon.

We talked to one EVG reader who was shut out of the sales.

But! Don't fret! There are plenty of tickets available on StubHub...

...where you can pay $600,000 for one General Admission seat.

Or, you could buy this cute little one-bedroom co-op on East Fifth Street with a private garden for $589,000...

Tough call?

Kitty almost kornered

We've noted the cat who has been living/hanging out in Tompkins Square... (here and here)...

Anyway, yesterday, two women attempted to lure the cat into a have-a-heart trap...

Bobby Williams, who took the photos, notes that the pair was not successful.

Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen facing eviction again on St. Mark's Place

Scoopy brings the troubling news in his column at The Villager this week: Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen on St. Mark’s Place is facing eviction.

Owner-baker Peter Silvestri told Scoopy that business was down this past summer. And so, he fell behind in rent. The landlord sent him an eviction letter two weeks ago.

Part of the cause?:

It doesn’t help matters that the block is now lined with bars, 14 between Avenue A and First Ave., said Silvestri. “It changed the block. People come here for the bars now,” he said.

EVG favorite Whole Earth Bakery has faced eviction several times before. You can read the back story in this article from The Villager from 2007. Whole Earth has been at 130 St. Mark's Place since 1991. How much longer, unfortunately, seems in doubt.

Memorial grows for Christine Ebel outside Arcane on Avenue C

Here's the scene outside Arcane early this morning outside Arcane at 111 Avenue C. Arcane co-owner Christine Ebel reportedly died Tuesday night after falling from a balcony adjacent to the restaurant that she ran with her brother, Benjamin Alter.

Previous posts here ... and here.

3 views of Tompkins Square Park from a $5,900 apartment in the Christodora

A two-bedroom apartment in the Christodora House hit the market yesterday — $5,900. (Hurry, won't last!)

You can read about the apartment here. I just like the photos of the fall views of the Park/city that accompany the listing...

Rent for one year in this apartment is $70,800. As you may recall, the city sold the entire (bombed-out) building to a developer during a public auction in 1975 for $62,500.

Bonus look: Rooftop addition at 315 E. 10th St.!

Tompkins Square Park playground closed for repair for some reason

The playground on Avenue A and East Ninth Street in Tompkins Square Park has been closed all week for repairs...

[Bobby Williams]

[Steven Matthews]

[SM]

The sandbox has been closed for months here. (As previously noted, the Parks Department had closed the sandbox because of a recurring problem — the sharp lip is exposed when the sand level gets too low ... kids are apparently removing the sand for various reasons...)

We asked Chad Marlow, who helped launch the Tompkins Square Park & Playgrounds Parents' Association (TSP3A) in 2011, if he knew what was happening with the repairs.

"My hope is that, in addition to adding sand to the sandbox, they are trying to correct the structural flaw that regularly allows sand to clog the sprinklers," Marlow said. "When I passed by the other day it appeared the work was focused on major repairs/rennovations under the surface area between the sandbox and sprinklers."

The playground was closed for 11 months, reopening in July 2009, for a $1.5 million renovation.

Art house

Our friend THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N. sends along this photo noting a few recent art additions at the long-vacant 222 E. 13th St.

Some day, though, this will become the Bea Arthur Residence, providing housing for up to 18 homeless LGBT youth.

Today's sign of the apocalypse

A reader noted this scene earlier in the week:

I was walking on Ave C between 3rd and 4th St, there were two guys standing with a giant Brother Jimmy’s sign, leaning on the storefront about where Bedlam is. I should’ve taken a picture but didn’t think to at the time. Anyone know anything about a Bro J’s opening around here??

Perhaps the fellows were just going to going to work at the Union Square location on East 16th Street? We haven't heard this one. Seems possible, though not probable. Anyone hear anything about a BroJi's Brother Jimmy's opening around here?