[Photo by Greg Masters]
Day 2 in Tompkins Square Park…
Not a very big crowd today at times (likely all in the VIP section???)
Bottom three photos via Scuba Diva
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Because you an never have enough photos of Mulchfest 2015
[Photo by Greg Masters]
Day 2 in Tompkins Square Park…
Not a very big crowd today at times (likely all in the VIP section???)
Bottom three photos via Scuba Diva
The Post checks in on the former PS 64
[EVG file photo]
The Post provides a quickie today about the former PS 64 and CHARAS/El Bohio community center on East Ninth Street.
There isn't any new information for anyone who has been following the story… more of a primer bringing the issue to people's attention outside the neighborhood.
Anyway, a quote from Councilmember Rosie Mendez:
"We don’t need a dorm — we’ve never wanted a dorm," Mendez told the Post. "When the building was sold to this developer . . . he was supposed to develop it. He has not. The city can negotiate to get the building back."
Previously on EV Grieve:
Local elected officials urge Mayor de Blasio to help return the former PS 64 to the community
The Landmarks Preservation Commission approves application for modifications at PS 64
'Misinformation' cited as DOB issues Stop Work Order at the former PS 64; community meeting set for Sunday afternoon
Sweet Generation opens today
[Photo via Sweet Generation]
Sweet Generation's storefront bakery opens today at 8 a.m. at 130 First Ave. near St Mark's Place.
This is the first storefront for owner Amy Chasan, a former high school arts teacher who quit her job to open the made-to-order bakery business.
Here's more about the operation via the EVG inbox...
Sweet Generation donates a portion of proceeds to innovative creative organizations to support their fundraising and programmatic goals.
Additionally, Sweet Generation has partnered with Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation and the Lower Manhattan Arts Academy to create an internship program that teaches baking, customer service, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to teens and young adults from low-income communities. The shop also boasts a magnetic Art wall that will showcase talented young artists.
In a comment to us a few weeks back, Chasan said, "Sweet Generation is focused on creating opportunities for youth, and our new bakery does just that. The young people working in our business and developing as professionals certainly are eager to meet the community as am I."
During business hours today (8 a.m. to 7 p.m.), Sweet Generation is offering a variety of promotions such as coupons, discounts, samples, etc., on their various baked goods. Sweet Generation will also serve coffee from Brooklyn Roasting Company.
The space was previously home to First Avenue Pierogi and Deli, whose owners decided to retire (they also own the building) in early July.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Coming soon to 1st Avenue: Sweet Generation, 'A Bakery for Arts Education'
Saturday, January 10, 2015
How was your MulchFest 2015?
Live team coverage starts now
Day 1 of MulchFest 2015 is nearly three hours old.
Derek Berg was in Tompkins Square Park for some of the mulching action this morning...
And this event did not go unnoticed by the media...
Back at it tomorrow... same time (10 a.m. - 2 p.m.) and same place (Tompkins Square Park).
This year's TreeCycle event left mulch to be desired, at least before it started
Despite having VIP All-Access Backstage Passes, we thought we'd still sit with everyone else to watch MulchFest 2015 in Tompkins Square Park.
To avoid the lines, we arrived 90 minutes (or so) before the 10 a.m. start time.
And no one was there yet to watch, lining up early for the best angles. The only people on the scene were some bored-looking Parks employees sitting in their vehicles, refusing to sign autographs even to those holding VIP All-Access Backstage Passes.
The whole thing was pretty shoddy.
The MulchFest banners had already come undone before the mulching commenced.
Worse, there were already mounds of mulch lying around the Park...
When did this mulching happen?
It's like releasing the Super Bowl commercials on YouTube weeks before the actual Super Bowl.
Back in the VIP section, the in-MulchFest buffet almost made up for it.
Remembering Walter Kühr
The Times checks in with a detailed feature obituary, noting: "From his boyhood in Germany to the end of his life, he sought to prove that the accordion, long derided, is actually 'the hippest instrument on the planet.'"
Unfortunately, his 19-year-old shop at 19 Essex St. will close next week. As Jeremiah Moss reports, the shop would have had to close anyway — the landlord chose not to renew the lease.
There's a stoop sale at the shop next weekend. Jeremiah has more details here.
[Photo by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis for The Lo-Down]
Friday, January 9, 2015
For those about to Roki
Tartu Popi ja Roki Instituut (translated: Tartu Pop and Rock Institute) is from the university town of Tartu, Estonia.
And the band is on the bill tonight at the Cake Shop on Ludlow Street. Here is "Marienbad" from their new release "Biedermeier-Psychedelia."
Reminders: Pun-friendly MulchFest is this weekend
[2nd Avenue this morning via Vinny and O]
As if you need any reminders about the best event that takes place in NYC every January. (We hear that organizers are combining MulchFest with Restaurant Week and the No Pants Subway Ride next January. No Pants Mulch Week is the working title.)
MulchFest 2015 takes place tomorrow and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Tompkins Square Park. Just follow the soothing sounds of the wood chipper toward the middle of the Park...
Our first snow photo post (snow post photo?) of 2015
Only 34,561 to go!
This view comes from an EVG reader on East 14th Street.
Take caution out there. If you need to ride a bike today, then at least try to get one of those bright red "Annie"-branded Citibikes...
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[Hanging out on Avenue A yesterday via Bobby Williams]
RIP Main Squeeze proprietor Walter Kuehr (The Lo-Down)
Cake Shop seeking investors to continue bringing live music to the LES (Gothamist)
Meanwhile, go see a band at Cake Shop. Check out their live lineup (Cake Shop)
Success Academy won't be opening a new charter school in the East Village or LES for at least another two years (DNAinfo)
Protecting the University Place/Broadway corridor from towers (Off the Grid)
More tenant woes at 113 Stanton St. (BoweryBoogie)
Fundraiser Sunday for fire-stricken Black Crescent on Clinton Street (Facebook)
Marky Ramone: "The Lower East Side is like anywhere else in the country now" (New York Post)
When burlesque meets opera at Drom on Avenue A (Bedford + Bowery)
A look at 3,000 Manhattan doorways from 1976 (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Rev. Billy arrested at Grand Central (Runnin' Scared)
Rain dogs (Gog in NYC)
A place that can't exist again: Blondie's New York (NPR)
Group show Places and Things continues at the Dorian Grey Gallery on East Ninth Street (Dorian Grey)
Check out a full concert from the Talking Heads in 1980 (Dangerous Minds)
... and EVG reader Greg Masters caught Christo in action for a moment the other day in Tompkins Square Park...
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