Saturday, January 26, 2013

[Updated] Window smashed at the 7-Eleven on St. Mark's Place

Not sure at this time what happened here at the 7-Eleven on St. Mark's Place... EVG friend Bonnie DeWitt sent these along this evening...



The window here was also smashed last April...

Anyone know what happened here tonight?

Updated 1-27
A clerk said that a "crazy street person" tossed what looked like a small weight or chunk of metal at the window. (The store has the object in its possession now.) No word on what led to the window attack.

Today's hawk




Tompkins Square Park via Bobby Williams

RIP Alan Shenker aka Yossarian

[East Side Book Store, Saint Mark's Place 1972. Photo by Patrick Rosenkranz]

Several readers have passed along word that Alan Shenker, aka Yossarian/Yo, a legendary figure in the underground comics world in the late 1960s and beyond, died on Jan. 14. He was 67.

Among many other endeavors, he created illustrations and comics for the East Village Other, Gothic Blimp Works, The Rat, Kiss and the New York Ace.

He lived on St. Mark's Place the past 35 years.

There are features on his life here at The Comics Journal ... and at The Paris Review.

There is also a new Facebook page for him. Per the description:

A Page dedicated to the spirit of Alan Shenker/Yossarian: Son of Levittown, Revolutionary, Mordant Wit, Illustrator Par Excellence, Imbiber of Spirits, Flâneur, Haircutter, East Villager, Crank, Soul Man & Friend.

You can find an array of his artwork here at Babylon Falling.

[Via Babylon Journal]

From The Comics Journal yesterday:

His friends described his lifestyle as a “flaneur” or a “downtown habituĂ©.” “He did what all New Yorkers do,” said [longtime friend] Maryann. “He complained about everything. He sat around drinking coffee at cafes. He talked to everyone. He was totally righteous and he never sold out.”

Woo-en Commission Report: Snow penis outbreak reaching epidemic proportions in the East Village

All sorts of reports coming in this morning about last night's light snowfall.

Per one reader:

Dicks.. dicks.. every...everywhere.... I can't...Hel...

Then the transmission broke off.

East 13th Street.


East Seventh Street


There are even McSorley's branded snow peepees.


East First Street


East Second Street. Where things just got...ugly.


There are more. But you get the idea.

At some point over the next few months of winter, all of us will entertain our worst fears and concerns. But I can also promise you this. Life will go on. We will prevail.

Otherwise, what a beautiful East Village morning...



...and noted on the EV Grieve Twitter account...



Friday, January 25, 2013

Trench warfare in Tompkins Square Park


Photo today before the snow via Bobby Williams.

The wrath of Khan on East Fifth Street!


Sophie's in the light snow... on East Fifth Street... where it all began. Photo by Dave on 7th.

And is this snowfall part of Khan? And how many "Wrath of Khan" headlines will this spawn? (Aside from this one...)

Here is the Eyewitness News report on the 'No 7-Eleven' campaign

A Touch of greatness



Magazine with "Touch and Go" circa 1978.

We won't have Michael 'Bao' Huynh to blog about anymore

Via Eater, we learn that Michael 'Bao' Huynh is leaving town...

Per Gael Greene:

Serial restaurant dabbler and assassinator Michael “Bao” Huynh has given up on trying to make money after countless diehard efforts and is leaving tonight for Vietnam, the land of opportunity. Bao III, Obao, Mickey’s Burger, Bia, BaoBQ, Bar Bao, Pho Sure. Nothing really worked for Hunyh, at least not for long...

He left behind quite a trail in the East Village. Such as!

• Baoguette Cafe closed for a few hours back in September and never reopened...


• BaoBQ on First Avenue, which closed in August


• The infamous Barbao-DOB 111 whirlwind on St. Mark's Place back in 2010-11...


Then there was always the promise of something new... like the "Old School Style Philly" cheesesteak place called Mikey's Cheese Steak that never materialized at 23 Third Ave. ... or, better, Bao & Buny, the burger, fried chicken and waffles concept for 125 St. Mark's Place with former Playboy bunny Nicole Van Croft ...

And he probably had more fun with all this than we did.

Eyewitness News airing 'No 7-Eleven' segment today



And I imagine the story will be posted online WABC-7 at some point...

Previously.