EV Grieve

Monday, January 25, 2016

Alumni Day: Cycle 19 of the Centre-fuge Public Art Project is underway

Work has started on the next round for the rotating outdoor gallery/construction trailer here along East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Here's more info via the Centre-Fuge website:

Cycle 19 is a collaborative effort by 10 artists, all of whom participated in a cycle on the trailer during 2015.

Artists represented in Cycle 19 are Andy Golub, Below Key, Hiss, Key Detail & Yu-Baba, Leon Rainbow, Pawn, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Rez Shoalin, Smurfo, Vince Ballentine & Zero Productivity.

Established in 2012, Centre-fuge Public Art Project has re-purposed the DOT trailer into a rotating street gallery. Anyone has the opportunity to submit a mural proposal, in the form of a sketch, for an upcoming Cycle to be selected by our curators.

The goal of Centre-fuge is not only to re-beautify an incredible city, but also to encourage the community to express itself in a public forum, to alleviate and inspire, to express and reclaim. The project is dedicated in memory of friend, creator and Lower East Side neighbor, Mike Hamm. A recreation of Mike Hamm’s work is permanently installed on the eastern face of the trailer.

Once complete (the snow threw off their schedule), this will be on view through late April.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Week in Grieview

[East 4th Street this morning via Vinny & O]

Suspect in custody for East Sixth Street slashing (Thursday)

Where the empty storefronts are (Tuesday)

John Holmstrom's Punk playlist (Saturday)

Closing portraits at The Sock Man (Thursday)

A sign of hope for St. Mark's Bookshop (Wednesday)

The new owner of Nonna's Pizza on Avenue A says hello (Wednesday)

NYPD patrol tower arrives on Avenue C and East 12th Street (Monday)

When the Megalopolitan Blizzard hit the East Village (and NYC) in February 1983 (Friday)

Lucy's is back open on Avenue A (Thursday)

Honoring folk legend Lead Belly on East 10th Street (Wednesday)

Plans in the works to convert 650 E. Sixth St. to condos (Friday)

Muggings on East Ninth Street and East 10th Street (Wednesday)

Out and About in the East Village with Spike Polite, Part 2 (Thursday)

Here's the first season of programming for the Lower East Side's newest movie theater (Thursday)

Tatyana Boutique is closing on the Bowery (Wednesday)

Raw food celebrity chef Matthew Kenney bringing vegan pizza to Second Avenue (Thursday, 31 comments)

Wi-Fi kiosks on Third Avenue ready for Internet action and smartphone charging (Tuesday)

Landlord Raphael Toledano's criminal past (Thursday)

It snowed (Saturday ... Sunday)

Here's what's left of the block of University Place that once housed Bowlmor Lanes (Friday)

The Patricia Field storefront is for rent on the Bowery (Thursday)

North Star Tattoo has closed on East Seventh Street (Tuesday)

... and if you missed the blizzard, a friend of EVG shared this video...

Noted

Very special EVG correspondent Christine Champagne spotted this on East Fourth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... wonder if this vehicle is an import...

The morning after the day of the blizzard

[2nd Avenue at East 10th]

Just a few early morning photos... as people and machines continue to dig out from yesterday's snow "event." According to The New York Times, Central Park counted 26.8 inches of snow, the second-highest total ever recorded.

I do not know how much snow fell in Tompkins Square Park. What I was going to use as a gauge has been destroyed or stolen. Anyway. Enjoy the day. And it's really slippery out. As you might expect.

[East 1st Street near 1st Avenue]

[Avenue A near East 12th]

[Outside Gem Spa, duh]

[Tompkins Square Park]

[St. Mark's Place between 2nd and 3rd]

[2nd Avenue at East 1st]

[Door handle ice dagger at the Standard East Village]

[Tompkins Square Park]

Breaking: Penis snow sculpture down by dawn in Tompkins Square Park

The 5-foot snow sculpture of a penis erected during the height of yesterday's blizzard in Tompkins Square Park is gone, as these photos from about 7:20 a.m. today show...

As several observers noted, it doesn't appear as it was knocked down as much as removed. Penis sculpture watchers in the Park this morning note that there weren't many snow chunks lying around the base here closest to the Avenue A and East Ninth Street entrance.

There are a few detailed remains, which show the great care and attention that went into this monument of [whatever you think of sculptured snow penises].

A last look...

[Photo via ‏@sandispino]

Of course this wasn't the first (scroll down) sculpture of a snow penis in Tompkins Square Park ... and it won't be the last. [#profound]