It's a wonderful life now on Avenue A, for several reasons...

Playing at (or outside) 2A ... and no woo-wooers on Avenue A...

Photo by Dave on 7th...

This afternoon with the Bubble Man in Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Bobby Williams...

Hawk vs. crow

At the New York City Marble Cemetery today ... Photos by Bobby Williams...

Chalk vandals targeting Avenue A sidewalks now

Oh, wait... outside Tompkins Square Bagels this afternoon...

[Thanks to Dan on 13th for this shot!]

Dec. 24

14th Street and Avenue A today via EV Grieve reader Tom... very likely not left over from xmas 2010... But a commendable effort nonetheless by Tom...

But, in a shocking reveal from Tom:

The tossed tree was my neighbor's Christmas 2010 tree. Honest to God!

If so, then this is clearly the winner... The previous best was Aug. 23...

Tests are pending. Hold all tickets.

Manny delivers the rock salt

Manny the Peddler was out last night delivering rock salt to businesses along Avenue A using a wheelchair... RyanAvenueA, who took this photo, notes that Manny turns 71 on Jan. 2. He's been selling odds-and-ends down on Avenue A near Second Street for 32 years...

Today in rants: the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office

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Via Craigslist today...

PETER STUYVESANT P.O. WORSE EVER! (East Village)
Date: 2011-12-24, 7:14AM EST

Peter Stuyvesant Post Office has done it again, lost another one of my packages — and they seem not to care in the least. They scanned it delivered last Monday, December 5th and I WAS NOT EVEN HOME. Who did they give it to? They don't know and they don't care. It is appalling that the residents of the East Village must be held hostage by this shoddy Post Office. It has the monopoly and realizes there is nothing we can do about it. I spoke to a temporary Postal Carrier about my lost package, trying to get information, and her response was, "I am just here temporarily. At least I hope so. This is the worst Post Office ever and I am trying desperately to get reassigned." Even their own workers know it sucks. WORST POST OFFICE EVER.

Does anyone like this post office branch on East 14th Street near Avenue A?

In case you still need a tree...

Plenty left around as a quick survey this morning revealed...

At the Hamptons Deli Grocery Marketplace Store place on First Avenue at 13th Street...

On 14th Street at First Avenue...

On Houston near the Bowery...

No sign if the shredders ... just yet...

In case you still need a gift...

At participating Duane Reade stores... I smell another hit song!

Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a ...

St. Mark's and Avenue A today... by Bobby Williams...

And then, depression (and diabetes) set in...

It's open on the Bowery, per @robbyohara ...

Dreaming of a White Christmas

From 1978... I've actually never seen this particular clip of "White Riot," in which Joe Strummer goes down...



And do you know what Kris Kringle's favorite Clash album is?

Santa-nista!

(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)



"Charlie Don't Surf" via Sandinista! from 1982... (and yes, I think I have posted this video before...)