An EVG reader shared these photos from this past week.
Per the signage:
Our commemoration this year is represented by the deaths of Women of Color who encountered violent and fateful interactions with law enforcement, and gun violence in general...
Sunday, April 9, 2023
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery highlights gun violence this Holy Week
Saturday, April 8, 2023
Good Friday at St. Brigid-St. Emeric
Photos by Stacie Joy
Parishioners from St. Brigid-St. Emeric on Avenue B observed Good Friday yesterday with a Stations of the Cross processional that started outside the church...
... and the Way of the Cross procession continued on Eighth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...
... the procession continued along Avenue C and then on Seventh Street...
... before a return inside St. Brigid-St. Emeric...
The many lives of 64 E. 7th St.
He wrote about the circa-1840 building in a widely-shared piece in the Times.
There's now a separate article about No. 64 at Places, the journal of public scholarship on the built environment.
Hajdu writes:
From the first wave of immigration from Europe to lower Manhattan, through the rise of the Beats and avant-garde performance art in the mid-20th century, to the gentrification of recent years, the same building on East 7th Street has encapsulated one era after another after another.
Past occupants of 64 E. Seventh St. include:
• The parsonage for St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church
• The newspaper Russky Golos ("Russian Voice")
• The Les Deux Megots coffeehouse, whose readings featured Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn and Carol Berge
• The Paradox, taking claim to be the world's first macrobiotic restaurant where both Yoko Ono and folksinger Loudon Wainwright III worked
• Books 'N Things
• Tokio 7 (moved across the street)
Both articles are related to the world premiere of The Parsonage, a recorded album about the history of 64 E. Seventh St. Hadju and a group of musicians will perform live on April 27 at the Museum of the City of New York.
Per the MCNY site:
The Parsonage, which takes from the worlds of jazz, classical, and "post-classical" music, makes its debut on April 7 from Sunnyside Records. The song cycle features libretto by cultural historian David Hajdu and music by eight composers: Darcy James Argue, Theo Bleckmann, Regina Carter, Ted Hearne, Kirk Nurock, Renee Rosnes, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Dan Tepfer.
Friday, April 7, 2023
The power of the dog
Last night, Australian sax/drums duo Party Dozen made their first (noisy!) NYC appearance... opening for Algiers at Racket.
Looking forward to hearing more from them.
The video here is for "Macca The Mutt," featuring Nick Cave. (Sadly, Nick was not at Racket last night!)
A visit with Chris Santana, the bookseller of Astor Place
Photos and text by Stacie Joy
When we last checked in with Chris Santana, the bookseller of Astor Place had just released a rousing Christmas song.
It's unseasonably cold out the next time we see him.
"I set up the stand when it's 45 degrees or above and the wind isn't whipping," he says.
He has been at it now for two years at the start of this spring here on the corner of Third Avenue and Astor Place underneath the sidewalk bridge of Cooper Union's Foundation Building.
"Cooper Union has been nice about it, and as you know, my First Amendment rights include selling literature or art without the need of a license," Santana says. "The hardest part of the whole gig is going all over the city digging for books, although there's a certain thrill involved. But the main thrill is making people happy when they get a book that we both think they'll really dig."
There's one constant at his stand.
"I have an ongoing hand in the dissemination of The Urantia Book, and I’ve been at it for 40 years," he says. "It's a very challenging book, and it takes a degree of cool along with enthusiasm to introduce it. The last thing I want to do is come off as proselytizing when it comes to such an important book, and the bookstand has proven the best way I’ve found to introduce as casually as whoever is interested allows."
He also has a copy of his book, "The Drunken Tourist" ...
Santana has no set schedule for the corner nor a social media account with any updates.
Regardless, he's always a welcome presence. "See ya 'round campus," he says.
Report: Jimmy McMillan is back in his East Village apartment
Photo from February 2013 by James Maher
Jimmy McMillan is reportedly back in his longtime East Village apartment.
The last time we heard about McMillan, the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party who made a name for himself by running for a variety of offices, including NYC mayor and New York State governor, he was fighting to keep his apartment of 40 years on St. Mark's Place ... and all while recuperating from an apparent stroke at the Veterans Administration nursing home in Queens.
Gothamist caught up with McMillan, known by his slogan: "The Rent Is Too Damn High." After years-long battles with his landlord, the two sides have apparently resolved the case.
McMillan now uses a wheelchair and walker as he rebuilds his balance and leg strength. He paces the living room of his garden apartment, back and forth from his couch to an exposed brick wall. He also walks along St. Mark's Place with the help of a home health aide who visits for a few hours each day.
And...
"I'm glad he's home,” said his niece Tennille McMillan, a designer who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where rents are spiking. "It's been interesting to see how he saw what was going to happen before it was happening. In 2010, people thought he was exaggerating, but now we're here.'
She said she hopes he continues to speak out, "but he has to pay his rent."
Read the full article here.
Friday's opening shot
Photo by E. James Smith
On Avenue A, Superiority Burger, which opened this past Saturday night as we first reported, is now hiring. Do you have what it takes???
Closers ...
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