MTV looking for Lower East Side residents with "SERIOUS roommate issues"

Per Craigslist:

TRUE LIFE: I Have Roommate Issues

Has your living situation become a nightmare? Are you fighting ALL the time?? Got some SERIOUS roommate issues??


Email us DIRECTLY at:
--- roommate@mtvn.com ---

Tell us as much about your situation as possible. Also, please be sure to include your name, location, PHONE NUMBER, and photo.

Please note that it would help if you had ripped abs, big boobs and are incredibly stupid.

TV pilot now filming in the Tompkins Square Park dog run

In case you're wondering what's going on there now...

We are shooting a television pilot in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and we are looking for dogs and their owners for a scene in a dog park. We are shooting early tomorrow morning, February 15, 2010, so please respond ASAP with a picture of the dog, and any other relevant details.
There is no pay, but there will be FREE FOOD!!
You must provide your own leash, and it would probably be a good idea to bring a water bowl, as the filming will last until sundown.

That's the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots.

Oh. And watch the ice!

Valentine's Day cheese and bacon recap

Avenue A loses some shade

You know that nice tree on Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street, roughly in front of San Loco? This one:



It's gone. A resident who lives in one of these buildings said the tree was seemingly healthy. Then one day last week: There's a "guy in a cherrypicker outside my window with a chainsaw taking the tree apart."





And notice how much else has changed on Avenue A... that Google streetview shot is from spring 2009...

Noted

On Avenue C and Seventh Street.

Tagging trends

One more photo and we have enough for a trend! Your move, dickchicken!

The Bowery, 10:22 a.m., Feb. 15

Bowery and First Street likely not ready to blow up

I bravely walked again on First Street near the Bowery... where all those fire trucks were the other day. It looks as if ConEd is on it.



The problem should be fixed by the fall. Of 2011.

The Big Black Bus on Avenue A

Earlier today I spotted this parked along Avenue A...





Looked up that Web site and found that it's country singer Kelli Lidell. This vehicle is called The Big Black Bus. I have no idea why it's parked here. Anyway, I read more of her bio... and as a kid she liked Dave Dudley and Jimmy Dean, among others.

All I have to say: Dave Dudley knew.

Avenue B entrance to Tompkins Square Park still locked up...

While out for a walk around Tompkins Square Park a few minutes ago this morning...I noticed...




The entrance to the Park is still locked up on Avenue B and Eighth Street at roughly 11 a.m. I'd say maybe the Park folks were all busy deicing the eastern approach to the dog run...but it's still a solid sheet of ice.

Eastern approach to Tompkins Square Park still treacherous

There's some improvement here from yesterday. But it's still treacherous... solid ice with no clear pathway.

Noted

In front of the Redhead, 13th Street near First Avenue.