Saturday's opening shot

Who's your favorite moose? Sixth and A...

The annual JAPAN Fes New York is TODAY on 4th Avenue

Day 1 of the two-day JAPAN Fes New York takes place today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Fourth Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street. (Day 2 tomorrow is on the Upper West Side.) 

Festivities include a noodle contest, which you can read more about here.

Oh, and the usual street fair stuff is happening on Fourth Avenue up to 14th Street.

The Parks Department looks to be lighting up the 7th and A entrance to Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Stacie Joy

Earlier today, the Parks Department placed solar-powered lights on Seventh Street and Avenue A at the entrance to Tompkins Square Park... this comes a day after a delivery man was slashed in the face during an attack yesterday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. 

As of around 8 p.m., the lights weren't on...

Also today, the Parks Enforcement Patrol and the Department of Sanitation cleaned up the area around the chess tables ... though it still seemed to be business as usual later in the afternoon.

Miss you

 

Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile, the debut album from Pretty Sick, is out now ... the new video here is for the track "Self Fulfilling Prophecy." 

The band, with local roots, will be at Bowery Ballroom on Nov. 21. 

Read our Q&A with vocalist-bassist Sabrina Fuentes from last December right here.

P.S.

Today is Bandcamp Friday, where the platform waives its revenue share, and all earnings go to the artists.

Thursday to Friday on 5th and A

Workers spent a good part of the day yesterday powerwashing the graffiti off of the Con Ed substation on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street...

And by this morning... (pic by Stacie Joy) ...

Before yesterday's big scrub...

Noted

Photo by Garrett Rosso 

Following a slashing at the entrance to Tompkins Square Park on Seventh Street and Avenue A yesterday afternoon... someone has created a crime scene with an outline of a victim and fake blood... an artist's rendering of what took place.

According to police, an Uber delivery man on a bicycle was slashed. It's not known what led to the attack around 3:30 p.m.   

The beat goes on with new plaque honoring Ginsberg and Burroughs on 7th Street

Photos by Stacie Joy 

Last evening, Village Preservation unveiled a plaque outside the former residence of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at 206 E. Seventh St. between Avenue B and Avenue C, where the two lived in a third-floor apartment in the early 1950s. 

According to NYU's Grey Art Gallery, "Ginsberg took some of his best-known photographs of the Beats in this apartment, on the building's roof, and on the fire escape."

Speakers included downtown poet Bob Holman, Ginsberg memoirist and playwright Bob Rosenthal, and filmmaker and culture critic Regina Weinreich.

Here's Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman... 

... and the new plaque... 

A 1982 view of St. Mark's Place at 3rd Avenue

Looking east on St Mark's Place at Third Avenue circa 1982... with a view of Tompkins Square Park in the distance ... photo by Peter Bennett. 

Check out more of Peter's work here. We previously posted some of Peter's EV photos from the 1980s at this link.

Thursday's parting shot

Moon pic from Seventh Street at (almost) Avenue A...

Police: Delivery man slashed in face at 7th Street and Avenue A entrance to Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Stacie Joy

An Uber Eats bicycle delivery man was slashed in the face this afternoon around 3:30 on Seventh Street and Avenue A, police sources said. 

The injured man was taken to hospital, but his condition is not life-threatening, sources confirmed.

It's not immediately clear what led to the slashing, which an EVG reader said occurred right inside the park entrance. 

Police have once again closed off the area around the chess tables steps away from this entrance to Tompkins, something which has happened multiple times in recent years. There have been numerous reader reports about drug use, stolen property and fights in this space.