Directed toward the Mamma Mia! crowd, obviously

At thew Loews Village 7, 11th Street and Third Avenue.

Save the date: August 2

Morningwood this afternoon

Morningwood is playing a free show today at 1:30 at Stanton and Orchard. (Bring a fan.)
And I still like their video for "Nth Degree," which you can see here.

Is this the leakiest (drippiest?) AC in the EV?

Oh, probably not. But don't be surprised if a car wash opens for business here outside the Christodora.

Why EV Grieve could never be in advertising

Because my tagline for these ads would be, "Hey, it's your colon."

A short history of subtle butt-in-the-air billboards downtown

The owl and the pig

Near 12th Street and Second Avenue.

Dumpster of the day

On 10th Street and Second Avenue, near the soon-to-be-departed Mill Quality Cleaners.

Random piece of movie dialogue about New York City of the day

"I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York will kill ya. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings. The kids can't leave the house. You gotta walk 'em to school. But in Amity, one man can make a difference. In 25 years, there's never been a shooting or a murder in this town." -- Amity Police Chief Martin Brody, Jaws (1975)

Another day, another direction

Is it me, or is that crane hovering over Cooper Union move around by the minute? Particularly on weekends, when no one is working...



See some of my previous photos of the crane here.

New York TV party today

Inspired by a post by Rolando at Urbanite, I started revisiting some TV shows of yesteryear that were set in New York. Posted a few yesterday. EV Grieve commenter Eric suggested Bosom Buddies. As he wrote, "Pretending to be a woman to have an apt. in NYC, now that's gritty." Indeed! (Sidenote: It's too bad that both leads from Bosom Buddies faded into obscurity!)

Anyway, here are the intros to a handful of TV shows from the 1970s and 1980s that show some NYC scenery. I missed a lot. Feel free to offer any suggestions. (Oh, and I couldn't find McCLoud...)









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This includes the opening scene of Bridget Loves Bernie, one of my favorites -- a wealthy Catholic woman marries a Jewish cab driver. Ran for one year, 1973-74. Lead actor David Birney went on the play the lead in the understandably short-lived Serpico TV series.









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Distrubing trend of the day: Golf clubs on the bus

My bus passes through the heart of the newish condo country on the LES. And, with greater frequency this summer, I see more young sporty sports getting on the bus Friday mornings toting golf clubs. Didn't see this many even, say, two years ago. Either these fellows are a year or two away from car-service privileges at the firm or gratuitous use of such car services have been chopped from the company budget. Whatever. Just don't take up three seats guys, OK?