Monday, July 18, 2011

The Marshal seizes the shuttered Bowery Wine Company

Last weekend, as we reported, the Bowery Wine Company called it quits on East First Street... On Friday, the Marshal served the now-vacant restaurant with a seizure notice.


As we've noted, August Cardona, owner of dell'Anima, L'Artusi and Anfora, will take over the space ... and expanding into the empty storefronts to the east.

Pulino's enters Bowery sidewalk cafe garden party; DBGB put on notice

Three months after DBGB installed a garden oasis on the Bowery, corner mate Pulino's has retaliated with its own urban greenery...



Check mate, Boulud!

Extra Place is still Extra Place, for now



Previously.

A sidewalk shed for Something Sweet

Blue Glass notes the arrival of a sidewalk shed outside Something Sweet, the homespun bakery on the corner of First Avenue and East 11th Street...


Per the DOB: Workers will replace the "joists, window lintels and stucco."

As long as no one gets any funny ideas about painting over the Russo's mural on the 11th Street side...


[2nd Russo's image via]

Sunday, July 17, 2011

A red-tailed hawk, back in Tompkins Square Park




...and with a rat dinner...


Photos by Bobby Williams.

Next time


Seventh Street and Avenue B. Photo by Bobby Williams.

I have no idea if this had anything to do with the women's World Cup final today... but it was a helluva game...

Week in Grieview

[Photo by James Maher. See more of his work here]

RIP Dominic Philbert (Monday)

A Second Line march for Ray Deter (Monday)

A lot of photos of the double rainbow (Wednesday)

No sleepwalking in this loft for sale on the Bowery (Thursday)

Fu Sushi reopened (Tuesday)

Rent the old Le Souk space for 25K (Wednesday)

The willow tree of Eighth Street is looking good again (Wednesday)

Grabbing health by the nuts, and other ad slogans (Friday)

Changes in the works for Banjo Jim's (Thursday)

Santa Monica-based Euphoria Loves Rawvolution opening an outpost on East 12th Street (Monday)

And no one commented on this post about water interruption! (Tuesday)

CNN will report live from Zum Schneider during the women's World Cup final


Doors opened at 1 for the championship game at 2:45 between the United States and Japan. A CNN truck in parked out front... to bring live reports during the game...

And if the U.S. team wins, then we're taking the fire truck!

From the EV Grieve archives: Looking at 1980s New York via network television

Originally posted on July 17, 2008....

Rolando at Urbanite brought back a memory for me with a post on The Equalizer from 1985. As he notes, The Equalizer shows Times Square in all its pre-Giuliani glory. (Via Jeremiah)

Here's a clip I found from the show's opening (New York looks so SCARY!):



And where was the Olde Garden, which you see at the 21-second spot?

Oh, and all this makes me think of Cagney & Lacey from 1982 (and what happened to Meg Foster?):


Still, I prefer the gritty realism of other shows. (ACID RAIN in MANHATTAN! @ the 2:26 spot)

Love is in the air in Tompkins Square Park, and stuff

Earlier today...


Which reminds me... Bobby Williams noted this couple getting married in the Park last week...

This afternoon in the 6th and B Garden


Per the 6th and B Garden website:

The Vagabond Velonators
Long time Local Musician, John Campo, has concentrated on writing music, lyrics, and arrangements that are centered around methods long lost in music, that can live again in his post Bop R&B Triplet Feel. Currently playing with Tom Ryan, rhythm guitarist, they will play arrangements, and sound that falls somewhere in between New Orleans and Harlem traditions, and more.