Saturday, November 7, 2020
Biden wins, and Village View reacts
Avenue A responds to the news of @JoeBiden’s election pic.twitter.com/evRJl641ND
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) November 7, 2020
Today at La Sirena
And ICYMI: Roger Clark featured Dina Leor's shop on NY1 back on Oct. 19.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Some kind of 'Wonderful'
Baltimore's War On Women released a new LP last week titled Wonderful Hell ... the video here is for the title track...
Free (and cool?) stuff alert
So here we are — it's outside 741 E. Ninth St., home of the Frank Alexander studio, an NYC event designer...
The event business is certainly hurting right now. Via a Frank Alexander Instagram post from Sept. 2:
Make no mistake our industry is on Red Alert — I stand in solidarity with thousands in the event/entertainment/hospitality industry who are out of work at no fault of their own. Most of us have spent our lives getting to a point where we can make a living doing what we love to do.
We have spent years building our business from the ground up. Time, money, more time, more money and constant grinding has brought us here. While we have survived recessions, stock market collapses, housing crises and natural disasters, this is something new and unexpected… being told you can't do large events at all. Period.
RIP Pastor Diane
The Rev. Diane Dunne, who helped feed the homeless in the East Village since the late 1980s, died in her sleep last Friday night at her Long Island home. She was 66.
Pastor Diane, as she was known, could be seen in Tompkins Square Park giving out free food on Wednesdays and Saturdays to those in need. “Tough love” is how one Park regular described her.
In her 20s, she worked as a regional sales manager for a cosmetics company, a job that she found unfulfilling. In 1982, she enrolled at World Challenge Ministries and later embarked on a life of street ministry. A Long Island resident, she first came to Tompkins Square Park in 1987.
She was the founder of Hope For the Future Ministries, based in Farmingdale, Long Island. In November 2009, a fire, suspected to be arson, heavily damaged the facility's food pantry, though she was able to regroup. The organization was said to serve 300,000 hot meals and pantry bags per year to people in need on Long Island and in New York City.
Funeral arrangements are pending. There is a memorial scheduled to honor her tomorrow afternoon at 4 along Avenue A at Tompkins Square Park.
The East Village Community Fridge can use some fresh-food donations
The East Village Community Fridge, up and running these past few weeks outside S’MAC on 12th Street and First Avenue, is in need of donations.
Available 24/7, the fridge — and the adjacent pantry — provides food for anyone in need of a meal.
The volunteer group East Village Neighbors posted this on Instagram yesterday:
Our pantry is full but we had very little food for the fridge today. Question for other community fridges — how do you keep fresh food in the fridge 24/7? Are there any distributors or vendors we could get a steady supply of donations from? The need is SO great in the East Village that our food goes in an hour or two.
If anyone would like to donate so we can buy more food you can at bit.ly/EVNFunds.
This service is a group effort that began when S’MAC owners Sarita and Caesar Ekya saw a post in East Village Neighbors Facebook group about setting up a fresh-foods community fridge.
East Village Neighbors is also in need of reliable volunteers to help manage, stock and clean the fridge, and purveyors, supermarkets, and local restaurants that may be able to help with weekly food and goods drop-offs. If you can help, please contact the group via email, here: EastVillageNeighbors@gmail.com.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Thursday, November 5, 2020
You rebel scum
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