EV Grieve

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Live team coverage of NYU Move-in day starts NOW

Here on Third Avenue and NYU earlier today, the Big Move In begins.... relatively calm so far...

...regardless, NYU officials are prepared for the worst .... with an all-terrain golf cart vehicle thing on stand-by.

Adding some stress to the day... workers have a chunk of Third Avenue shut down right in front of several key move-in zones...Great planning!

...and a smash-up at 14th Street and Third Avenue.... clogging up another key corrider....

My advice: Start drinking heavily.

I think it's also Move-In Day at the Cooper Square Hotel

Branching out at Lucky Cheng's

A large branch now rests in front of Lucky Cheng's on First Avenue near Second Street....

Not sure if it simply fell... or was torn... or was clipped by the M15... but here's where it came from... just a few feet away...

Sure would be a lot easier with a permanent bandshell

Workers setting up a stage this morning in Tompkins Square Park for the Charlie Parker Festival this afternoon.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Tompkins Square Park is way past due for a new bandshell

Tropical weather

A rather tropical feel in Tompkins Square Park early this morning while workers watered some plants and what not....

All being down under the watchful eye of the NYPD...

Avenue A and 11th Street, 8:51 a.m., Aug. 29

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Week-end self-serve

I'm not one for weeks in review and what not ... but it did seem to be a busy week... As always,thank you for your comments... and news tips

So! A quick recap of a few of the posts....

• We looked at Allen Ginsberg's former apartment

• We called for a new bandshell for Tompkins Square Park.

• We watched Ray featured on CNNmoney.com.

• We discovered that "Party Girls" who like to be victim's of "sexy humor" were needed.

• We looked at night-time photos of the Copper Building (31 comments)

• We watched a video of the "underground" grilled cheese peddler (18 comments)

• We looked back at Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston and the Bowery

• We helped The East Side Community School compete for $500,000

• We learned that Red Mango closed

• We took pity on a sick Barney

• We met the former East Village "hipster" who may or may not owe the IRS big bucks

Our friends in the local blogging community have been busy posting on the viral/littering ad campaign on our streets by Zygna, a San Francisco game developer based with investment from the locally owned Union Square Ventures. I'm sure you've seen those fake dollar bills plastered on sidewalks and other surfaces, particularly on Second Avenue

East Village Feed has been contacting Zygna and Union Square Ventures... Also, NYC the Blog has contacted the city about this. Per NYC the Tumblr:

Just got off the phone with the Sanitation department. They were not pleased to hear about the latest advertising campaign in Manhattan for Mafia Wars, by Union Square Venture backed Zygna.

In addition to requesting the locations of the illegal ads, (I gave them two I was sure of) Sanitation wanted the name and number of the company responsible.

Anyway, East Village Feed reports now that Zynga’s agency, Davis Elen, has responded and has committed to clean up the Mafia Wars campaign within a week.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Behind the East Village "blog mafia" joke

[Photo via East Village Feed]