EV Grieve

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Dueling Tompkins Square Park signs on Avenue B at East 10th Street

Earlier today at Union Square

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Shredding it on East 12th Street

Spotted by Shawn Chittle on East 12th Street between Avenue B and C this afternoon.

We have collected all of the paper, and will put it back together to see what it was. Before completion in 2017, any guesses what these documents were? (No serious replies please.)

Chico's Healthy Choice gates

Chico is keeping busy... fresh off the former Nice Guy Eddie's plywood project ... today, several readers spotted him at work on the incoming New York Healthy Choice market at Avenue C and East 11th Street....

[By Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C]

[EVG reader David]

The last tenant, the Monk Thrift Shop, closed in December 2010. At the time, neighbors heard that a bank branch would open here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Monk Thrift Shop is closing — but, it remains open for now

2 signs of summer on East 12th Street

Near Avenue B.

East Village Radio celebrates Johnny Thunders, who would have been 60 today

Via our friends at East Village Radio ... this afternoon at 4, "Jesse Malin will be celebrating the life and legacy of Johnny Thunders. Malin will be playing the music of Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. on July 15, 1952, as well as the artists and sounds that inspired the Queens-born singer and songwriter."

Thunders, an original member of the New York Dolls, died in 1991.

Find more info (and videos) here at East Village Radio.

If you want more Johnny Thunders, then you can check out the annual Johnny Thunders birthday bash tonight at Bowery Electric.

Lick it up

East First Street at Avenue A.

Previously.

Headline h/t via

Tonight: 'NYU and the Destruction of New York'

From the EV Grieve inbox from McNally Jackson Books...

NYU and the Destruction of New York
Tonight at 7, Peter Carey, Fran Lebowitz, Kevin Baker, Joseph McElroy and Jefferson Mays will all be in the store to protest NYU’s Sexton Plan.

The Sexton Plan may not be familiar to those of you who don’t live in the Greenwich Village or are affiliated with NYU, but it should. This is a proposal that anyone who cares about New York should know about, and be concerned about.

NYU’s expansion plan, as proposed, will erect up to 2.5 million square feet of new building space in the Greenwich Village. In the process, they will destroy three acres of green space. That includes the Sasaki Gardens, the Mercer Street Dog Run, the Key Park Playground and a beautiful grove of trees. It also will require 20 years of continuous construction, without any delay, to begin this August.

The replacement? A number of NYU buildings, including eventually, a pedestrian mall slung between two skyscrapers. This is not the Greenwich Village you think of when you think of Dylan Thomas and James Baldwin and Jackson Pollock and John Cage living in its streets and making art. It’s not even the Greenwich Village you think of now, full of young people and old, dogs and stragglers, tourists and long-time residents. Imagine Washington Square Park. Now imagine it in the shadow of a 48-story hotel tower.

Peter Carey, Fran Lebowitz, Kevin Baker, Joseph McElroy and Jefferson Mays (reading the work of Eileen Myles) will all be present to speak against the plan, and refreshments (wine) will be provided.

They’re mad. We’re mad. And you should be too.

McNally Jackson Books is at 52 Prince Street between Lafayette and Mulberry.

[Image via Curbed]

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Reel around the Fountain

Tompkins Square Park today... photo by Bobby Williams.