At the 9th Street Block Party

[Photo by Steven]

The annual block party on Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue took place yesterday ... here are a few photos from the day via Derek Berg...























The people I talked with who attended the Block Party really enjoyed the festivities, which featured a good mix of businesses on the block, such as Love Gang, Enchantments, Tacos Morales, Superiority Burger and Confectionery (pictured below) ...


[Photo by Steven]

... outside vendors such as Ford Vintage ...


[Photo via @fordvintage]

... and residents selling their stuff on the stoops or street...


[Photo by Grant Shaffer]

Village View's semi-annual tag sale is today

The action is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Village View playground — enter at Fifth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Previously

A Jurassic Tompkins Square Park

I have no idea what this was about.

Photos by Bobby Williams...













Updated

And thanks to Grant Shaffer for a snippet of the action on Avenue A...

Clean around the fountain

From 4 to 5 p.m. today, local conceptual artist Kate Conroy created this project called "Clean Drinking Water" at the Temperance Fountain in Tompkins Square Park...(she had a permit to do this)... she spent the time cleaning the fountain...

Photos by Steven...

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day at Zaragoza tonight

[Image via Facebook]

Thanks to EVG reader Charles Hutchinson for this info on Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery, the small food shop at 215 Avenue A between 13th Street and 14th Street.

Five years ago, Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery, run by the ever-hospitable Martinez Family (Pompeyo, Maria and son Ruben), lost their license to sell beer.

This week, against all odds, they got it back. Please join them tonight when they celebrate Mexican Independence Day from 6 to 9 PM, with music by Mariachi Infante and singer Selene Muñoz, plus refreshments galore.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Making the case for Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery to serve beer

1st LinkNYC kiosk arrives on St. Mark's Place

This blessed event happened yesterday just west of Second Avenue near the former 7-Eleven.

Previously

Major design flaw of the early Macintosh finally revealed

They do not fit into city trash cans...



Fifth Street at the Bowery this morning.

Also, can someone please ID this model?

Updated 10:20 am

Thank you Richard! (See comments.)

This is an Apple Multiple Scan 15AV CRT monitor from 1996.

Gorillas in the mist (on the Bowery)

... and making music at Second Street... photo by Lola Saenz...

The power of 'One'

Hüsker Dü from 1987 with "Could You Be the One?"

RIP Grant Hart.

So long Cher, the willow tree of La Plaza Cultural

Workers arrived this morning at La Plaza Cultural to remove the willow tree in the southwest corner of the community garden here on Avenue C and Ninth Street.

The tree, nicknamed Cher, was in bad shape, as this shot of the rotting trunk shows...



EVG correspondent Steven shared these photos...











... and later via Bobby Williams...



Previously on EV Grieve:
A wake for the last willow trees at La Plaza Cultural

At the Weeping Willow Wake