Ivories on pop-up piano in Tompkins Square Park ready for tickling

Today, the nonprofit organization Sing for Hope officially unveils the piano in Tompkins Square Park, one of 88 that you can find around the city...

This morning, Allen Semanco photographed Jordan Bailey tuning up the piano...

Meanwhile, Bobby Williams noted it last night as it sits near the ping-pong table.

So! What will be the first song that someone plays? This is my guess. Sounds pretty good on a piano...



Uh, anyway. A few other facts. The artist Nicolina did the art for this piano, dubbed "Piano of Magical Merriment."

And go here for the official list of activities at this piano.

Houston and Chrystie, 10:11 am., June 18

Previously.

Another tree comes down at the Tompkins Square Park dog run

As we pointed out on Monday, workers removed a tree after a storm knocked out a branch near the Tompkins Square Park dog run...

Allen Semanco sends us this photo, noting that workers had to remove another tree after Thursday night's storm took out a branch...

And the DEP catch of the day is...

Second Avenue at 10th Street.

Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!

Setting up this morning... traffic is cut off at Sixth Street... how far north does this goes, I have no idea...

Meanwhile, in Murray Hill

Well, outside our usual coverage area... But, a tipster sent along these photos from 4 a.m. outside Tonic East on Third Avenue at 29th Street, a three-level behemoth that Eater described as "a loudmouth bar."

We have no idea what happened. A fight? A fall?

Anyway, aren't you glad that we don't have bars like this in the East Village? Oh, wait...

[Updated: The tipster said that this was the result of a fistfight... this fellow got the worst of it, obviously]

In the spotlight

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band from 1972.

After the rain in Tompkins Square Park

Photo by Meredith Battjer.

Southern Manhattan, 2:45 p.m., June 17

Photo by Bobby Williams.

The Gil Scott-Heron mural on 12th Street

Earlier, we posted some photos of Chico working on a memorial for Gil Scott-Heron on East 12th Street at Avenue C...

Dave on 7th has a photo of the final mural...

NYPD closes deli on Avenue C and Fourth Street

Several readers reported a major police presence last night at the deli on the corner of Fourth Street and Avenue C.

Dave on 7th walked by this morning and found that the NYPD has closed the deli.

The sign says for "the criminal sale or possession of controlled substances SA." One reader believes it was for "discounted" cigarettes.

Today's sign of the apocalypse: Chase-Starbucks combo opening on Second Avenue and 10th Street?

A concerned tipster notes the following signs at the now-shuttered Cafe Centosette on Second Avenue and 10th Street... the tipster notes, "I was utterly heartbroken to find this sign posted on the corner of my block."

Well, first, we wouldn't be shocked by this. Still. Clearly a hoax. The sign is taped to the outside of the window. Plus! You recall the sign that appeared here this past Sunday.

In any event, not bad... but not quite as good as the jokesters who put this up at the former Second Avenue Deli across the way several years back...



Of course, that turned out to be a Chase branch...Joke's on us.