Puke Island 2013

In Tompkins Square Park this afternoon... Puke Island 2013... The Minor Cuts...



... and The Graveyard School...





And at the pop-up piano... some mindless bloodletting.



Photos by Bobby Williams.

Goggla has some photos here.

A run for Harold Hunter

In case you were wondering about the people running down St. Mark's Place tonight... then on East 10th Street... it is the 7th annual NYC Bridge Runners "Legends Never Die" run ... "The event pays homage to the late Harold Hunter, one of the city’s most beloved and admired skateboarders/actors/cultural pioneers."

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Catch of the day (night)

EVG Facebook friend Theresa Kimm shared this photo from last night... this fellow caught this (striped bass?) in the East River just south of the Williamsburg Bridge. "He was very happy that people stopped by to look at his prize."

'Witches Night Out' this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

[Damn Broads via @nycfreeconcerts]

Just finding out that there's a free show in Tompkins Square Park this afternoon... wish I had known earlier... Via the Facebook invite:

Call it "The 'Anti' Punk Island", call it A WITCHES' NIGHT OUT takes over Tompkins Square Park, this, the third in an ongoing series of yearly free shows in Tompkins Square Park, this time brings you some of the best female fronted Punk around! BANDS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED!!!

2PM NO MORE VICTIMS
2:40 THE MINOR CUTS
3:20 AGITATOR
4PM DAMN BROADS
4:40 COJOBA
5:20 THE GRAVEYARD SCHOOL

And a report from our special Lawn Correspondent...

Loud punk show causes all sunbathers on grass to pack up and leave the park. Mohawks and wine coolers are not mixing well.
— Eden Brower (@edenbrower) June 9, 2013

Random Sunday afternoon Citi Bike docking station check

Zero bikes available at East 13th Street and Avenue A ... and two on East Ninth Street at Avenue C....

Week in Grieview

[Lafayette and Bond via a reader]

The Blarney Cove closing at the end of the month (Monday)

Workers start dismantling Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church (Wednesday)

Ben Shaoul buys 98 Avenue A (Friday)

Free movies returning to Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Someone keeps vandalizing this Citi Bikes docking station (Wednesday)

A Low Life 7 recap from Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Zoubi, famous East Village cat, needs dental surgery (Monday)

Danny Lama shares stories of the Fillmore East and the Toilet (Wednesday)

Facebook moving to 770 Broadway, aka Midtown South (Tuesday)

Development back in action for 14th and C (Thursday)

Captain America saves Kiehl's (Tuesday)

Church of Scientology members must see "After Earth" a minimum of 3 times (Thursday)

Looking at prices for the luxury apartments at former nursing home (Monday)

Betola Espresso Bar relocates to Brooklyn (Monday)

TREEMAN (Wednesday)

Where did he leave his shoes on Avenue B? (Thursday)

OK, gross (Wednesday)

Supercuts leaving St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)

Peter Stuyvesant Post Office closure all but a done deal (Tuesday)

Former East Village topless advocate now in Philadelphia (Thursday)

... and, sorry, we did NOT have a story about the Nestle Nesquik Mobile parked on East Ninth Street yesterday ...


[William Klayer]

Tompkins Square Park Summer

Photo by Susan Schiffman

Joy awaits you on East Second Street

Hurry!

Spotted outside Le Petit Versailles near Avenue C.

RIP Arturo Vega

[Photo by Curt Hoppe from March 2013]

Arturo Vega, the artistic director for the Ramones who created their iconic logo, has died. He was 65. Legs McNeil first reported the death on his Facebook page:

RIP: ARTURO VEGA: 1948-2013 Sleep gently my dear friend, you were the must optimistic, jubilant and fun pal anyone could wish for. I don’t know what the world will be like without, nor do I want to even imagine it… But I know you will find eternal happiness wherever you end up….I love you Arturo.

No other details are available at the moment.

At least 1 participant in the World Naked Bike Ride took a Citi Bike

So today was the annual World Naked Bike Ride day... and EVG contributor peter radley took a few shots of the riders on Second Avenue ... and at least one pants-clad participant took advantage of the Cite Bikes bike share program for the ride.





Oh, and there's video too... via EVG reader Kevin...