Saturday, April 15, 2023
Cafe Mogador turns 40
2023 wisteria watch
A reader shared this thought on the jigsaw-puzzle-inspiring wisteria: "I know there were fears the plant wasn’t doing well but it has survived the winter and hopefully will soon thrive!"
Saturday's opening shot
Photo by Derek Berg
Flashback to yesterday morning in Tompkins Square Park, where a Parks employee created a photogenic dust bowl ...
Friday, April 14, 2023
RIP Vivian Trimble
Using this Friday-at-5-video post to remember Vivian Trimble, a keyboardist and vocalist from Luscious Jackson. She died on April 4 of cancer treatment complications. She was 59.
The video for "Citysong" is from the band's debut release from 1994.
In recent years Trimble lived in New Hampshire with her husband and two sons. However, she was active in this community during her time in NYC, which Performance Space New York on First Avenue and Ninth Street acknowledged in a tribute on Instagram....
When the city gives you a sidewalk bridge...
The sidewalk (and indoor) thrifting will occur from noon to 6 p.m.
Radio daze: This 1941 Zenith — featuring microstatic FM reception — needs a home
Photos by Stacie Joy
It still works, and receives broadcast AM, "microstatic FM reception," and two shortwave bands all in an attractive spinet cabinet. But there's a but: it "smokes when you turn it on." (Who doesn't tbh?)
Take a look at this beauty ... and imagine cranking up the Glenn Miller... 
It's currently sitting in a bar on Avenue C while looking for a new home... drop us a line if you have a (serious) interest...
Found this...
FULL storefront reveal of the future Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on 14th and A
As we noted in August 2022, this space is the future home of a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.
No word on an opening date.
This makes the second EV Popeyes: an outpost opened in October 2020 at 39 First Ave. between Second Street and Third Street.
The new Popeyes combined two storefronts — the Lower East Side Coffee Shop, which closed here after 13 years in February 2021 ... and New Herbal World, which offered a variety of herbs, teas and tonics, and acupuncture, moved to Lafayette Street in September 2019.
Dim Sum Go Go signage arrives on 1st Avenue
As we reported back in July 2021, this will be their second NYC location outside the flagship space at 5 E. Broadway in Chinatown. We reached out about details on an opening date. (Update: In a message, Dim Sum said they hope within the next few months.)
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Thursday's parting shot
Spring fever
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