Sunday, September 8, 2013

Noted



Steven Hirsch notes this vandalism this morning on East 10th Street and Avenue A... Someone punctured/flattened three of the van's four tires...

Zoltar seeks higher power to boost fortunes



Done on the down-low too...

Saturday, September 7, 2013

A wedding proposal under the Hare Krishna Tree in Tompkins Square Park


[Bobby Williams]

Word is that she said yes.



Proposal photo via Steven Hirsch.

Sundays this fall: 'No 7-Eleven' rallies on Avenue A



Via the No 7-Eleven blog.

The heartbreaking reality of Rite Aid's former Photo Department



The last vestige of the Photo Department. Replaced by a display of beer and toilet paper. Discarded on East Fifth Street. It just wants to process film. Dream over.

(Digital?) Photo by EVG reader Blake C.

Area blogger finally realizes dream held since School of Journalism



Byline in The Globe!



OK, so it's a "photo courtesy." It's still cause for an Arrowbration.



Previously.

Today's lost and found



East Houston and Chrystie Street.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Reader report: Roof fire on East 11th Street



Per EVG reader Joe... the FDNY was on the scene on East 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C around 9:40 and quickly extinguished the flames... no word on damages at the moment... Another reader put the fire at 167 Avenue B near East 11th Street... either way, the fire is out...

More details when they are available...

...and from the @FDNY

The golden age...



Photo by Bobby Williams

The long shadows of summer...





Photos late this afternoon/early evening via EVG contributor peter radley...

Packing up the Cold Stone-Tim Hortons combo on East Houston



A tipster passes along this photo from this afternoon on East Houston near Ludlow... where workers are cleaning out the the Cold Stone-Tim Hortons combo that recently closed.

Wonder how many businesses have come and gone these past 125 years next door to Katz's...

Presentations: history of social revolt around Tompkins Square Park


[Tompkins Square Riot of 1874 via Wikipedia]

From the EVG inbox...

World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, in his role as neighborhood organic historian on New York's Lower East Side, will speak Saturday Sept. 7 at the Tompkins Square Library on the history of social revolt around the legendary Tompkins Square Park. Highlights will include the 1857 unemployed riots, the 1863 draft riots, the 1874 depression riots, the 1877 rally in support of the national railroad strike, the city's destruction of the park to convert it into a drill ground for state militia, and the successful neighborhood campaign for the Park's restoration in the 1880s. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of how this cycle continued into the 20th century, with the riots 1967, 1988 and 1991.

Saturday, Sept. 7, 2 – 4 PM

Tompkins Square Library
331 E 10th St.

Sponsored by the New York Nineteenth Century Society