Friday, November 1, 2013
Reader mailbag: What was that rooftop concert about last night on East 13th Street?
We've heard now from a few readers who want to know:
Another resident said that it was a band playing atop a building on East 13th Street.
Not that it was all bad.
Anyone know what this was all about?
Any intel on what that concert was last night around 11:30? I'm on 13th between A and B and it sounded like it was coming from everywhere. Louder than anything I typically hear from Tompkins Square.
Another resident said that it was a band playing atop a building on East 13th Street.
"Heard blaring music start at like 1130ish and on for easily 20-30 mins. I heard several other people from other buildings yelling shit at them but the band played on...
Not that it was all bad.
"Good music but I was super surprised the cops didn't show up...or if they did it took em a while."
Anyone know what this was all about?
No biscuits from Empire Biscuit until Sunday
Empire Biscuit opened for business Wednesday. And business was apparently good.
A sign on the door yesterday noted that they'd be back at it today.
But! There's a new sign noting that they won't return until Sunday...
[Via Facebook]
Per the sign, they'll need these extra days "to hire and train additional staff and ramp up production." The 24-hour schedule will then go into effect Tuesday.
Eater has more on the opening here ...and as Eater said about this: "Apparently owners Yonadav Tsuna and Jonathan Price were just not prepared for the white hot frenzy that biscuits can incur."
A sign on the door yesterday noted that they'd be back at it today.
But! There's a new sign noting that they won't return until Sunday...
[Via Facebook]
Per the sign, they'll need these extra days "to hire and train additional staff and ramp up production." The 24-hour schedule will then go into effect Tuesday.
Eater has more on the opening here ...and as Eater said about this: "Apparently owners Yonadav Tsuna and Jonathan Price were just not prepared for the white hot frenzy that biscuits can incur."
Mid-afternoon Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black break
Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black perform "Alaska," live at The Bowery Electric, for Halloween 2013.
Video by Walter Wlodarczyk. Find photos from the night here. (Slightly NSFW)
Take a load out tomorrow
Via the EVG inbox...
Tomorrow (November 2, 2013) Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) will host its seventh Load OUT! — a twice yearly "riot" of repurposing and recycling activities. FABnyc will gather gently used materials from arts organizations and other donors throughout the East Village/Lower East Side for this one-of-a-kind extravaganza, taking place at 11 East 3rd Street from 12-3PM.
Load OUT! is specially designed to showcase creative thinking about sustainability and the arts. Artists and art students are welcome to take home any of the costumes, props, and furniture they need for their artistic endeavors, free of charge.
Community members and non-artists can also attend Load OUT! for a small entrance fee of $5 and may take away materials free of charge. Everything remaining will be repurposed or recycled responsibly by GrowNYC, Wearable Collections, The Lower East Side Ecology Center, Film Biz Recycling, and the NYC Department of Sanitation.
Additionally, Load OUT! includes clothing, textile, and e-waste community collections — open and free for everyone 12-3PM. FABnyc will collect e-waste, and GrowNYC
will collect clothing and textiles. A list of accepted donations is available here.
Load OUT! will also feature "Latch/Attach," a growing hook-rug project that turns old t-shirts into yarn, producing a colorful, patchwork made from these up-cycled materials. This activity is designed to engage individuals of all ages in a shared conversation about consumption while creatively making art from recycled materials.
FREE admission for artists/art students
$5 admission for the general public
FREE drop off for e-waste & textile collection by GrowNYC & The Lower East Side Ecology Center
Location: 11 East 3rd Street, between Bowery & 2nd Avenue
Image via FABnyc
Banksy's Nazi-doctored landscape raises big bucks for Housing Works
As you may have seen, Banksy donated a thrift-store-style painting to the Housing Works store on East 23rd Street ... it was a painting that he apparently purchased earlier for $50. But he added the Nazi solider sitting on the bench ... and titled it "The banality of the banality of evil" (an homage to the writer/philosopher Hannah Arendt).
For their part, Housing Works, which has operated scatter-site housing, harm reduction services and a supportive residence and primary care clinic for homeless NYers with HIV/AIDS since 1991, put the work up for auction.
The auction ended last night. The winning bid? $615,000.
"100 percent of the proceeds will go to provide housing, health care and other life saving services to homeless NYers living with HIV/AIDS," East Village resident Andrew Coamey, senior vice president for Housing Development and Chief Financial Officer at Housing Works, told me.
Meanwhile, Banksy Month in NYC is over. The Vulture ranks all his work during his street residency.
Noted
Mrs Claus says: pull out the ole' sled & lets do it all over again on Dec 14! http://t.co/TWEBlkROLL http://t.co/9RSNY5AcVZ Happy Halloween
— santacon (@santacon) October 31, 2013
In case you missed the announcement this week... your favorite day of the year is now scheduled!
On Oct. 1, DNAinfo reported that a group of concerned Hell's Kitchen residents reached out to the event's anonymous organizers asking them to avoid their neighborhood ... and the SantaConners responded: "As far as us coming to Hell's Kitchen this year, you don't have anything to worry about."
Meanwhile, on Oct. 17, State Sen. Brad Hoylman sent the following letter to SantaCon organizers:
I am writing to express my concerns regarding SantaCon and the effects it has on the communities it visits. Each year local elected officials, community boards and local precincts are besieged by complaints as SantaCon passes through their neighborhoods.
While SantaCon may be a short-term boon to a select group of local businesses, the many adverse impacts it wreaks, such as vomiting in the streets, public urination, vandalism and littering, disrupt community members’ quality of life. I recognize that at any large event, a few bad actors may disrupt an otherwise orderly affair, but at previous SantaCons bad actors have hardly been the exception. As such, significantly more must be done to combat the neighborhood scourge SantaCon has become.
Further, no matter the behavior of the participants, the event has grown large enough to completely overwhelm sidewalks and public spaces, creating a public safety hazard for all.
I strongly urge you to work with the New York City Police Department in order to come up with a strong and effective plan to combat public intoxication and to ensure all participants are respectful of the neighborhoods they visit, as well as handling the overwhelming crowds associated with an event this size. In addition, I urge you make this plan available to the affected local Community Boards well in advance of your event so that they have time to comment and help shape it.
Sincerely, Brad Hoylman
CC: Community Boards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Precincts 1, 6, 9, 10, 13, 17, 20, Midtown South, and Midtown North
Word out of Community Board 3 is that no one from this neighborhood called 311 to complain about SantaCon. Hard to believe.
Previously on EV Grieve:
How was your SantaCon?
A few scenes from SantaCon 2012: Scourge of the city or good time had by all?
Sushi Lounge has closed
Workers cleared out the Sushi Lounge space on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place yesterday afternoon... a manager told EVG regular @salim that the space was "too expensive."
No word on what might be next for this prime piece of East Village real estate. (Bring back Alcatraz?)
Collection continues for Stromboli Pizza worker killed in a cycling accident
[Photo by EVG reader Aizaz]
As we reported on Wednesday, Cesar, a long time employee of Stromboli Pizza on First Avenue and St. Mark's Place, died from injuries he suffered bicycling home from work on Oct. 21.
A resident who has lived near Stromboli since 1985 has set up a crowdfunding campaign, which we added to the post later. So in case you missed that:
Cesar was always a smiling, sunny face behind the counter at Stromboli's Pizza, where he worked for 17 years. While biking home to Brooklyn after a shift on Oct. 21, he was struck by a delivery truck and sustained multiple injuries. He lapsed into a coma at Bellevue hospital and succumbed to his injuries on Oct. 30. This fund is to help with hospital expenses and funeral costs. Cesar was 34 years old and leaves behind a wife and three small children. Stromboli's owner, Joezef, will accompany the body back to Mexico for burial.
Find the GiveForward link here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Updated: Stromboli Pizza worker killed cycling home from work
Tonight at MoRUS: Conversations on creating change with East Village resident Maggie Wrigley
Via the EVG inbox... another cool program at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space...
MUSEUM OF RECLAIMED URBAN SPACE to celebrate release of: THE ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE: BUILDING A BETTER WORLD.
"The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World" is a collection of essays and photos demonstrating how people from all walks of life and every socioeconomic level can create real change in their communities and beyond. These are people who refused to accept that things couldn’t change, who saw the possibility of making something better, and didn’t hesitate to act.
Bullet Space, a housing and art collective founded in the East Village in 1986, has blossomed into a “battlefield of ideas” for the global arts and activist communities. The building, its history and residents are among real-world examples found in the newly released book, which addresses issues of innovative housing, neighborhood reclamation, community empowerment, racism, aging, gentrification, displacement, and the power of social networks.
Maggie Wrigley, an East Village resident who contributed the essay and photos on Bullet Space, also serves as co-editor along with Jerilou Hammett, editor and co-founder, with Kingsley Hammett, of DESIGNER/builder: A Journal of The Human Environment, an independent and nontraditional journal that brought issues of social justice and equity to the debate over the built and human environment.
Wrigley, a familiar face on the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space’s (MoRUS) weekend walking tours, will celebrate the release of the book at MoRUS with a slide show and reading tonight at 7.
Refreshments will be served and admission is free, but a $5 suggested donation is always appreciated. MoRUS is located at 155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets
There is apparently only 1 amenity worth mentioning for this E. 7th St. studio
Here's a fine looking studio now for rent ($1,750) at 17 E. Seventh St. Close to Cooper Union. The Astor Place subway entrance. McSorley's. And there are likely things about the studio to tout. Freshly buffed floors? But per the listing... there's only one thing apparently worth noting...
Immaculate studio in the heart of Greenwich Village. 2 Blocks from Astor Place and subway. CitiBike station right across the street. Available for Dec. 1st but an earlier move in can be accommodated. $50 application fee. 15% broker fee.
But "in the heart of Greenwich Village"? Haha! Fools! Everyone knows that this is Midtown South!
A skateboard shop for East 4th Street?
The rumor on East Fourth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D is that the long-defunct Brazilian tea shop will soon house a skateboard shop ... run by the tea shop owner's son.
H/T Steven Matthews
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