Friday, July 5, 2013

Evening tweets


The lawn is filling up too... tough to read the subtitles from there...

A summer scene



East Seventh Street and Avenue B. Photo by Bobby Williams.

On the Radio



The Selecter with "On My Radio" circa 1979.

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...