Friday, March 17, 2023
Friday's parting shot
Sweet 'Sixteen'
Out now (as of March 10): Love As Projection, the latest solo album from New York-based singer-songwriter Frankie Rose ... formerly of Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts/Dum Dum Girls.
The video is for the track "Sixteen Ways."
Revisiting a transformative Sunday on Avenue A
Photos by Stacie Joy
Last weekend, Con Ed and its contractors — Bay Crane, Five Boroughs Flagging Corp. — closed off parts of Avenue A to install a new transformer at the substation between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Meanwhile, there's word this process will happen all over again with another transformer delivery this fall.
Report: The Astor Place cube will be ready for a spin once more this summer
The Astor Place cube (aka Alamo), out of commission with structural damage since late 2021 (first noted here), will reportedly by spin-worthy again by July 17.
According to The City, there's a proposal from the Department of Transportation in the works.
The plan, which is slated to go before the city's Public Design Commission on Monday for approval, would see the 1,800-pound cube temporarily removed next month and shipped to Bethany, Conn., for restoration by Versteeg Art Fabricators — a firm that also did restorative work to the cube in 2005.Their proposal calls for fixing the spinning mechanism and reinforcing and repairing the base of the East Village piece by early July.
The barricades first arrived around the cube in December 2021, before the city removed them in late April 2022. At the time, we were told that the spinning mechanism for the cube, which manually rotates around a pole hidden in its center, was not working. A DOT spokesperson previously told us that they didn't have a timeline for repairing the spinning component.
Friday's opening shot (so to speak)
Photo by Steven
A look-in at McSorley's on Seventh Street around 8 a.m. on this St. Patrick's Day... we were told that some folks started lining up at 6 a.m.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
May the farce be with you: 'The Empire Strips Back' is next up at the Orpheum Theatre
Starting on May 10, "The Empire Strips Back" begins a limited run at the theater between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.
Per the official description: "The classic 'Star Wars' characters are dropped into the world of burlesque. Comedy and striptease, loving detail and hilarious parody… Let us deliver you to the dark side."
Originally from Australia, this "Empire" has been touring around the globe since it first opened in 2011
Tickets go on sale Tuesday at noon. Sign up for info here.
Jabba pic via the "The Empire Strips Back" site
"Stomp" ended its 29-year run at the Orpheum in early January.
According to Cinema Treasures: "The site on which the Orpheum stands is alleged to have been a concert garden as early as the 1880s and, as such, to be one of the oldest continuously operating places of gathering for entertainment events in New York City."
In the 1980s, the Orpheum was well-known for Off-Broadway productions such as "Little Shop of Horrors" in 1982, Sandra Bernhard's "Without You I'm Nothing" in 1988, Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" in 1990, John Leguizamo's "Mambo Mouth" in 1991, and David Mamet's "Oleanna" in 1992.
First sign of Raising Cane's on Astor Place
Photo by Steven
As reported in April 2022, the Louisiana-based company signed a 20-year lease for 4,300 square feet of space on the ground floor.
The quick-serve Raising Cane's has more than 600 restaurants in 32 states.
No. 10 was, until August 2020, a Walgreens.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Ghost signage on 7th Street
Photo by Steven
A crew today removed the signage and added a new rolldown gate on the western storefront at 120 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue, where the barber shop the Cut had been... in the process, the workers uncovered some ghost signage for piljo, which I'm sure some people on the block will recall. (Please tell!)
The barber shop has been here since around 2012, and it had been Medusa Tattoo before...
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