EV Grieve

Sunday, May 12, 2013

On the ground and in the air today

Tompkins Square Park and the downtown skyline via Bobby Williams...

All in all a good day?

Week in Grieview

[Photo on Avenue A by Michael Sean Edwards]

RIP Taylor Mead (Thursday)

Students take the president's office at Cooper Union (Wednesday)

Landmarks Preservation Commission asks to see modified plans for the former PS 64 (Wednesday)

Papaya King opens on St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

The great Block Drugs adding vision care next door (Monday)

Looking at punk nostalgia (Tuesday)

Sigmund Pretzel Shop closing to reopen as a restaurant on Avenue B (Monday)

The Christodora House receives Cultural Medallion (Tuesday)

Small fire at incoming Pride and Joy BBQ (Wednesday)

Chopping down trees on Third Avenue ... and St. Mark's Place

Open-air shops closing on Broadway to make way for condos (Thursday)

Restoring the Mosaic Trail (Friday)

"I was kind of the blue-collar harm reduction superstar junkie" (Wednesday)

Local 269 space back on market (Tuesday)

A Little Free Library on Extra Place (Monday)

... and by far the most-viewed post of the week: Amanda Bynes enshrined in the East Village (Monday)

Which made worldwide news...

[In which EVG learns about SEO...]

For the Love of Taylor Mead (1924-2013)

Via the EV Grieve inbox...

For the Love of Taylor Mead (1924-2013)
Bowery Poetry, 308 Bowery
Monday, May 13, 6-9 p.m.

Come celebrate the oft-storied life and "brilliant downtown zen" poetry of this quintessential New York figure. Facebook event page is here.

Mead died Wednesday night after suffering a stroke. He was 88.

Photo of Taylor from 2012 by Hughbert Burckhardt.

Reader mailbag: Is it legal to park next to a docking station before the Citi Bikes arrive?

This weekend, several readers sent us photos of vehicles parked next to the new docking station on East Sixth Street at Avenue B...

[EVG reader Mark]

[Dave on 7th]

[EVG reader John]

The actual Citi Bikes will likely arrive on or just before the expected May 27 launch date... Once the bikes arrive, parking next to a docking station won't be possible. (Well, we'll see.)

Anyway, a reader, who wanted to be clear that he wasn't complaining about Citi Bikes, simply asked if it is legal to park next to an unoccupied docking station. Because he has a car, temporarily, and it can be tough to find a place to park around here. (And why would he have a car? To make it easier to visit his mother who's in a nursing home in a place not convenient to public transportation.)

There aren't street signs pointing to any offense by parking next to the docking station ... Along here, there's just the alternate side parking sign ...

Anyone know? Is this a parking offense that deserves a ticket?

Bending elm looks safe for now in Tompkins Square Park

Workers arrived and cordoned off the area surrounding the great bending elm in the center of Tompkins Square Park last Monday...

[Photo via MoRUS]

One of the tree's support cables came off during Sandy ... and the other cable was looking on the frayed side.

But! The tree is back open to the public (not sure about squirrels)...