The R&S Strauss signs are gone

Last Monday we noted that R&S Strauss on 14th Street and Avenue C had been sold... And now, the signs have been removed...

There's no such thing as a free lunch....

OK, so I looked. Based on this ad on East Seventh Street at First Avenue, went to NBC's new New York Locals Only Web site.



Anyway, while there, you can vote on the city's "best 'old' bar," McSorley's or Old Town.

Coming soon on Avenue B: "Exclusive Smoke Shop and Deli Corp."

The Tibetan specialty shop Lhasa Boutique on Avenue B near Fourth Street closed up in February. Replacing it: Looks like another convenience store.




This addition will bring the empty storefronts total down to 21.

New Armani Exchange campaign captures exactly the mood of how we look, feel, live

What lies beneath?

Have you taken the interactive tour of the Seward Park/LES area yet? A good spring activity. The Villager did a piece on the project last October. Dunno, though, if Kicking over the Traces ask this question: Why hasn't the largest tract of vacant city-owned property below 96th Street been touched in decades?

The woman who "captured graffiti’s golden and assaultive years"

The Times has a feature on Martha Cooper, the photographer who captured the prolific NYC graffiti artists of the 1970s-1980s. As the paper notes, her 1984 book “Subway Art,” created with Henry Chalfant, a photographer and filmmaker, "captured graffiti’s golden and assaultive years."

The above photo from 1980 by Cooper at the East 180th Street subway platform in the Bronx.

Dueling Easter egg hunts

Some chicks and a bunny on Avenue A

At Lucy's.

To your Easter

Something for the 33-and-under crowd this Easter

At the New Museum, 235 Bowery. The Younger than Jesus exhibit started last Wednesday.

Related reading:
Department of Bad Exhibition Titles: "Younger Than Jesus" at the New Museum

Happy "Gang Initiation Day"

"A violent Easter ritual has Times Square businesses beefing up security as they brace for a surge in post-Auto Show gang activity this weekend. Easter Sunday -- which has become known as "Gang Initiation Day" because of the parade of hoods wearing Bloods colors who swarm the area -- has scared tourists and store owners alike." (New York Post)

Noted

Doing yoga with your dog. (The New York Times)

[Photo: Michael Nagle for The New York Times]