EV Grieve correspondent samo notes the news trucks on the scene on Avenue A to capture the memorial for Monica Shay. Per samo: "nice to see how we as a community are banning together. just wish it didn't need to happen out of sadness."
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Monica Shay media coverage on Avenue A
EV Grieve correspondent samo notes the news trucks on the scene on Avenue A to capture the memorial for Monica Shay. Per samo: "nice to see how we as a community are banning together. just wish it didn't need to happen out of sadness."
Reminders tonight: Memorial in Tompkins Square Park for Monica Shay
Monica Shay died on Thursday after being shot last weekend at the Pennsylvania country home she shared with her husband Paul. She was 58. Tonight at 8, her friends and loved ones will gather in Tompkins Square Park for a memorial vigil.
As The Villager noted, she and her husband Paul, who is expected to recover, were prominent neighborhood activists. "They helped the East Village squatters who took over city-owned buildings in the 1980s. They also supported the encampment that homeless people set up in Tompkins Square Park."
The memorial will be held at Seventh Street and Avenue A at the entrance to the Park.
[Photo of Monica Shay from 1990 by Clayton Patterson via The Villager]
Love blossoms at the Tompkins Square Park dog run?
EV Grieve reader Caiti notes that her mutt puppy Jagger and Butter the English mastiff were making friendly over the fence between the little dog run and the big dog run today... Nice that we can all get along...
Reminders today: Free concert in Tompkins Square Park
And the lineup...
2:10 - 2:30: Lance Blisters
2:35 - 3:05: Jennifer Blowdryer and band
3:10 - 3:40: David Peel
3:45 - 4:15: FLY with Zero Content
4:20 - 4:45: The Drunkard's Wife
4:50 - 5:15: Chink Floyd
5:20 - 6:00: High Teen Boogie
East Village crusties go national thanks to The Huffington Post
Thanks to the readers who sent along the link to a Huffington Post, um, post on Steven Hirsch's Crustypunks site.
Although the site is in the HuffPo's New York section, the piece is featured on the main page...
Aren't you proud?
Although the site is in the HuffPo's New York section, the piece is featured on the main page...
Aren't you proud?
A new era for composting?
On East 12th Street. Taking chairs now? If so, then I have some mattresses in front of my building that I can drag over...
Remembering Barnacle Bill yesterday in Tompkins Square Park
Yesterday, William Scott — better known as Barnacle Bill — would have turned 46. Bill passed away in 2009. In his honor, someone set up a makeshift memorial for him along Crusty Row in Tompkins Square Park...
As Lorcan Otway wrote for The Villager in May 2009:
You can read more about Barnacle Bill here.
Photos by Bobby Williams.
As Lorcan Otway wrote for The Villager in May 2009:
“Barnacle” was well known in the East Village as a gentleman and a gentle man, in spite of his hardscrabble looks. Bill wore a nose ring, and had a large, upturned scar on the left side of his mouth, giving him the look of a pirate, but that was the farthest from the reality of this man.
You can read more about Barnacle Bill here.
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Friday, July 8, 2011
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