[Updated] Today in maybe-strange things hovering in the sky

EVG Roving Photographer Bobby Williams happened to have his camera pointed down Tribeca way… when THIS appeared…



Non-plausible theories welcome.

Updated 2:37 p.m.

Thanks to the several readers who sent along this alert from the NYPD…

A private architecture firm will conduct height surveys of buildings in Manhattan today, Sunday, April 20th, and tomorrow, Monday, April 21st. The architectural height surveys will consist of a large balloon aloft approximately 800 feet today from 11 a.m. until 8:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Chrystie and Stanton Streets, and tomorrow from 7 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. in the vicinity of East 58th Street and Sutton Place.

[Updated] Easter at St. Brigid-St. Emeric

On Friday, workers installed a new sign for St. Brigid-St. Emeric …

Meanwhile, the cross that the church put out here on the corner of Avenue B and East Eighth Street two weeks ago made it through this holy season without being tagged, stolen, etc.



A reader seriously asked us if the plastic casing was bulletproof. We really have no way of checking that.

Updated 10:30 a.m.

Jesus is now inside the plastic casing.

NBA action on Avenue A

[Photo via @fashionbyhe]

Several EVG readers noted that someone was projecting some NBA games/highlights this evening on the side of 220 Avenue A near East 14th Street….

Not the first time that we've seen some NBA action along Avenue A…

Min's Market is closing today

[Photo via @TheWeeklyNabe]

Last call today for Min's Market on the southeast corner of Clinton Street and East Houston. Not surprisingly, a rent hike is to blame for this ouster.

Meanwhile, stuff is mostly on sale…



H/T Mike Brown/@Lot71

Record Store Day is underway

Here's the scene on East Fourth Street outside Other Music… where the line went around the corner on Lafayette … the store opened at 10.

Photo via Vinny and O …

More details on the Day here.

Good Friday on Avenue C

Photos by Bobby Williams

Hey, it's Record Store Day tomorrow

As the headline says, Hey, it's Record Store Day tomorrow.

Here's a list of the special releases/limited editions that will be available (for a price) at participating venues. (Who's going for the Ray Parker Jr. 30th anniversary "Ghostbusters" theme vinyl?)

Among the local record stores taking part…

Kim's, opens at 8 a.m. — details here

Other Music, opens at 10 a.m. — details here

Turntable Lab, opens at 10 a.m. — details here

And at Academy on East 12th Street …

Academy Records East Village store opening 10am for @recordstoreday ! We have tons of RSD merch as well as a killer selection of used recs!!

— Academy Records NYC (@AcademyRecords) April 17, 2014

Find the list of all the local venues here.

As always, we enjoy supporting local record stores year-round…Good Records NYC ... A-1 Records ... Sounds ... Rainbow Music...

This is the 'End'

The Jesus and Mary Chain and "The Living End" from 1985.

That pre-Easter rush

[Photo by William Klayman]

Wow. Here's the line early this afternoon for East Village Meat Market on Second Avenue... where everyone is stocking up for Easter...

The Times featured the shop in the City Room yesterday...

The weeks before Easter are now the market’s busiest time of year, as this vestige of the old community continues to draw customers, many who once lived nearby, or who worshiped at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church. Long departed from the neighborhood, they, or their families, now travel hours to shop for holiday fare they say is difficult to find elsewhere.

The Tompkins Square Greenmarket is open tomorrow (but not Sunday) for the holiday weekend

From the EVG inbox...

The Tompkins Square Greenmarket will be CLOSED Sunday April 20th, and OPEN tomorrow, Saturday April 19th.

As of now, attending farms will be:

• Stannard Farm

• Meredith's Bread

• Rogowski Farm

• Red Jacket Orchards

Food Scrap Collection 8-1

Textile Recycling 8-4

Noted

[Image via NYU Local]

The former home of Bleecker Street Records, forced to relocate after a rent hike to $27,000, will next become a Starbucks. (Grub Street)

Making up for not getting the Bleecker Bob's space, perhaps?

A checkup for the Bendy Tree of Tompkins Square Park

Workers today are tending to the Bendy Tree, the elm next to the the Hare Krishna Tree in the center of Tompkins Square Park ... workers are giving the tree an MRI (???) to check for decay, etc.

Hope that Bendy is OK — it's probably our most favorite tree in the Park.

Hey, you darn kids! Get out of the tree!


[Photo the other day via Bobby Williams]