Noted

Matt LES_Miserable spotted this along Tompkins Square Park near St. Mark's Place this morning... No word on any free samples.

The Dark Knight Razzes

East Houston near Chrystie.

Noted

Last Saturday!

Today!

Fourth Avenue at East 10th Street.

How you can mend a broken heart

Dave on 7th spotted this on Second Street and Avenue B...

East 11th Street, 11:01 p.m., July 13

Photo by Shawn Chittle.

A man with both temperance and faith?

Tompkins Square Park today. Headline and photo by peter radley.

A place in the Sun

Blondie. Late 1976/early 1977 with "In the Sun."

Bus stoooooooooooooop

10th Street and Avenue C.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

All Tomorrow's Parties coming to Pier 36 this fall

As you may have heard today, the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival is moving to the Lower East Side this year. (Well, technically, it's "I'll Be Your Mirror" — a series of artist curated music, film and art events launched in 2010 to serve as "sister events" to the ATP Festivals.)

Anyway!

Per Ben Sisario at The New York Times, the festival takes place from Sept. 21-23 at Pier 36 between the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge. Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs is the programmer this year. Other headliners include Philip Glass with Tyondai Braxton, the Roots, the Make-Up, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Dirty Three and Chavez, among others.

The official site is here with ticket information and all that.

Report: Cop arrested in 9th Precinct gun theft

The NYPD arrested a fellow cop last night on charges that he was breaking into lockers at the 9th Precinct on East Fifth Street and stealing guns that were sold on the street, the Post reports today.

Alleged gun-trafficking officer Nicholas Mina, 31, boosted four 9mm firearms from the seventh-floor locker room at the Ninth Precinct in the East Village, a law-enforcement source said yesterday.

Mina — a six-year veteran who worked midnight patrol tours — was assigned to guard the lockers as part of a 24-hour security detail created by department brass after the embarrassing thefts began in February.

The NYPD also arrested three civilians involved with the thefts, the Post notes.

Previously.

[Image via New York Songlines]

The best East Village bar that no one goes to

[Photo from Tuesday night by Shawn Chittle]

The Odessa Cafe and Bar at 117 Avenue A. Always a little surprised why more people don't drink here. Or not. It's exactly the kind of bar that people tell me they wish we had more of around here in the era of artisanal cocktails and fratty chicken-wing-fueled woo.

You now have more (warning) time to cross the Bowery

The other day we pointed out that this woman didn't have enough time to cross the Bowery at East Fourth Street... there's a newish 7-second countdown to cross six lanes of traffic... Other readers had raised concerns about this as well...

We heard from a local activist and EV Grieve reader who reported that he contacted the Department of Transportation to implore them to take quick action to have this rectified...

Anyway, last evening, as we were crossing the intersection, we noticed that the Don't Walk countdown began at 20-seconds... so pedestrians now have an additional 13 seconds (if our math is correct!) to make it across ...

Well, the photo shows 16 seconds because we didn't have our camera out in time...

Updated — Good point in the comments:

I would guess the timing of the traffic signals didn't change. You likely don't have more time to cross. Instead of, let's say, a walk signal for 23 seconds with a 7 second countdown there's a 10 second walk signal with a 20 second countdown.