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Monday, May 10, 2010

Passing the torch?: The Rent on Kent truck parks next to the Christodora House

I saw the Rent on Kent truck tool around Tompkins Square Park yesterday... perhaps scouting for some "arty, young Lower East Side-type professionals" ... and, in a nice touch, the truck later parked on Ninth Street at Avenue B next to the Christodora House...

A Rip Con production on the Bowery

I continue to ~~obsess over~~ watch the retail space in 52E4, the 15 stories of condo on the Bowery near Fourth Street... more lease/rent/buy/anything! signs went up Friday...

...Looking at the new signs, I think this space would give me some pause...if you want to read into it... Rip Con? Rip Co?

Of course, I still pay my ConEd bill every month.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at 52E4's commercial space, and that cake no one ate

Boutique on Bowery possibly opening today; new lease signs appear at 52E4

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Two minutes on 11th Street and Second Avenue

Russell Simmons arriving in his chauffeured ride for a stop at Liquitera...

...and an exuberant Chelsea fan drinking a pint... part of a crowd moving from Nevada Smith's to Lunasa...

Early word on Mast

The used book store opened yesterday on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Fourth Street...

And the store is not called (regretfully?) THINGS WITH WORDS AND PICTURES IN THEM THAT ARE NOT GLOWING RECTANGLES or Off Track Books or Better Books Than Those Sold By That Crazy Sassmonster In Front Of The Old Methadone Clinic Down The Street Who Threatened My Girlfriend After She Laughed At His Sea Shell Chandelier...

Anyway, people who shopped here yesterday have good things to say...
EV Grieve reader BaHa said, "Not just art and photography, good selection of fiction. Picked up an Edith Wharton I had wanted for 30% off cover. Nice people, too."

And from another reader:

I bought an hp lovecraft book and "all the pretty horses." They were around $6 each. Curated I think in this case means "classics" or well known or essential reading. Which is kind of nice as long as they have more of a more recently published selection. I asked them what the store was called and they said "mast."

Previously on EV Grieve:
More on the Avenue A used bookstore

Paul Richard sign removed from Shepard Fairey mural

Yesterday!

Today!

Previously on EV Grieve:
Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural

The problems with selling stuff out of converted bread trucks

The Daily News today has a piece on NY artist Marco who is now selling his wares from a refurbished bread truck:

"[T]hings don't always go smoothly.

On a recent night, Marco parked his truck on the lower East Side, drawing quite a bit of unwanted attention.

Hordes of drunken revelers stopped by, expecting to order food.

"They wanted shawarma, falafel," Marco said. "They want meat patties and pizzas."

Jack Kerouac on Seventh Street

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Mykola "Mick" Dementiuk for sending along this link to Book Patrol... As you may know, there's an exhibition of Allen Ginsberg photos now on display at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. titled "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg."

Here's one of the photos...

The caption reads:

Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter – Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.

The exhibit runs through Sept. 6.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural

Per an EV Grieve reader:

There's a Paul Richard tag on the Fairey mural. It's one of those Paul Richard gallery label tags, a larger one than usual, more a warning size sign. Perhaps located near the earlier hole in the Fairey mural. It says, IIRC, "Please do not graffiti the mural."

No Leviticus posters, yet.