Trash treasures

Someone tossed a huge box of magazines out on the curb the other day. On top, the June 2001 issue of GQ featuring Heath Ledger on the cover.



Could have been easy money for someone...the issue is going for a starting price of $14.99 on eBay...

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition

The formula that killed Wall Street (Wired)

Remembering Candy Darling (The New York Times)

A record shop will stay in the Etherea space (Stupefaction)

Western Union at the Ludlow (BoweryBoogie)

Washington Square Park Blog turns one tomorrow! (Washington Square Park)

The story behind the Two Boots artwork (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

More economic malaise street stickers (Slap you in Public)

The way we ate then (Hunter-Gatherer)

Plays for 37 cents each (East Village Podcasts)

Hmmm...the Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery (Greenwich Village Daily Photo)

While Lucy is on holiday (temporarily, we hope!) revisit some of her past with this short feature from 2004 in the Voice.

"Sophie's...remains a good place to stop time"

I finally watched the "Disappearing Manhattan" episode of "No Reservations" (this after blabbering away about it the last three months!). It debuted Monday night, and will air several more times. Grub Street yesterday provided a nice synopsis of what the episode covered.

In particular, I was interested in the last segment, in which Anthony Bourdain shoots the shit with Nick Tosches at Sophie's. It was all of about three minutes (and the shoot at Sophie's took nearly three hours, I was told).

Here's most of what transpired at Sophie's....

Signs of the times: Mass for employment

On the fourth Wednesday of each month (such as today!), the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on East Third Street near Avenue A has the following special service...

Fun with dialogue balloons

Someone placed dialogue balloon stickers on ads around the neighborhood...readymade for some good old-fashioned defacing!



So far...

Who wants to go for a ride in the cellulite reduction treatment car?

On Spring and Mulberry. And it just fits by a hair in that parking spot.

Ice capades at Cooper Square Hotel

The last, oh, three or four times that I've walked by this service entrance to the Cooper Square Hotel...there are bags of ice just sitting there...melting.

When an enormous town house just won't do

From the Times today:

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s town house at 17 East 79th Street is the epitome of Upper East Side elegance: five stories of flawless Beaux-Arts limestone with 7,500 square feet of exquisite living space, all within steps of Central Park.

But for the mayor, it seems, the house has been a bit cramped.

Over the past two decades, in transactions that have gone all but unnoticed, Mr. Bloomberg has been buying up space in the building next door, knocking down walls and combining two entire floors along the way. He now owns four of the six apartments at 19 East 79th Street, a white 1880 neo-Grec co-op town house.

Blood for coffee

Measuring Tempo

So there are new ads on the bus shelter at Third Avenue between 13th Street and 14th Street for this HIGH-TECH wonder of a living space, Tempo. Interestingly enough, these ads are almost right outside the kind-of-stodgy-now-by-comparison One Ten 3rd high rise by the Toll Brothers...



Here's what the residence would look like if you had a photo of it on your knock-off iPod...




Anyway, a little later I was on 23rd Street and Second Avenue...For some reason I thought Tempo was a little further along...




P.S. An image from the Tempo Web site....

A work permit at Ryan's Irish Pub

There's now a work permit in the window of Ryan's Irish Pub on Second Avenue near Ninth Street. (One wasn't visible when the place first closed earlier this month.) I had been told by a reliable source that this closure was only temporary. You can click on the photo for a better view...looks as if they're remodeling the restrooms and reconfiguring the stairs. No change of occupancy.



Previously on EV Grieve:
Ryan's Irish Pub (temporarily) closed

Noted

Along East Ninth Street.