No lines

[Bobby Williams]

At Joseph C. Sauer Park on East 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...

Tompkins Square Park still without a gate at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place

Last Thursday, a man driving a station wagon crashed through the front gate of Tompkins Square Park on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place ... sections of the damaged gate were sitting there for several days... now they're gone... with some orange tape in place for the time being...

White lines

East Seventh Street near Avenue C above and below...





Unrelated from the other week. East Third Street and First Avenue.



Unrelated but always good to hear.



And related.

Zoltar's cozy new arrangement

Well, what do we have here outside Gem Spa...? A New York Lottery "Play Center" is now stationed directly next to Zoltar... picking lottery numbers adjacent to the Great One who tells fortunes and accurately predicts the future? We're guessing Zoltar's daily income is about to go through the box.

An East Village snow day

Grégoire Alessandrini let us know that he just added more images to his blog — New York in the 1990's Photo Archives. We featured some of his work back in May.

Some background: As a student here in the early-to-mid 1990s, he always carried a camera around with him ... and he has been uploading the photos from that time to his blog. He lives in Paris these days.

Anyway, given the temps outside today ... East Village blizzard pics from 1995 seemed fitting...

Second Avenue looking north...



First Avenue looking north ...



Avenue A looking south ...



Indian Larry...



You may now spend your holiday weekend rooting through his photo archives here.

El Jardín del Paraíso loses its prized tree

[Photo by Annalee Sinclair via Facebook]

Ugh. The largest tree at El Jardín del Paraíso had to come down earlier this week... The tree in the community garden that spans the block of East Fourth Street to East Fifth Street between C and D was leaning, and some people worried that it could come down during a storm... Here's the scene yesterday via Goggla...

Chico finishes his Ramones mural at Croxley Ales

As we first noted last Saturday, Chico was creating a mural of the Ramones on the gate at Croxley Ales...he wrapped his work earlier this week on Avenue B...

A French 'Heartbreaker' tonight in Tompkins Square Park

Tonight in Tompkins Square Park... Films on the Green presents another free French, uh, film... French DJ’s from WNYU will spin music before the screening, which starts around sunset (approx. 8:30) ...

Tonight — "Heartbreaker"

A description!

Pascal Chaumeil's new film "Heartbreaker" starring Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis. It's a French romantic comedy, kind of the opposite of Hitch, about a guy who breaks up relationships for a living and falls into one in the process ... Chaumeil is also a protégé of Luc Besson, having work as second unit director on a few of his films.

July 4th on Union Square — 1876

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A Centennial celebration, followed by epic lines for the restrooms at the nearby Starbucks.

From the NYPL Digital Gallery.

A scene on Second Avenue this morning

Two readers described this scene this morning on Second Avenue by the steps of the Ottendorfer Library. Two older men are passed out on the sidewalk. Two other men come by and try to rouse them. Or so it seems.

A passerby on the other side of the street starts screaming at the men standing. Residents in an apartment across the way also yell at the men. There's shouting back and forth.

From the witnesses, it appears that one of the men took money from the two on the ground. The man in the red shirt declares his innocence. He walks into Second Avenue yelling. He comes back to the men on the sidewalk and explains he was actually helping by hiding the money on their bodies. He says that it was too easy to take.

There's more standing and the two finally walk away, still declaring their innocence. They placed the money into the crack of the man's ass.

Someone else walking by promises to call an ambulance. Others pass by walking on the Avenue.