Monday, September 7, 2015
Anwar Grocery remains closed on Avenue B
On Wednesday night, we're told that the NYPD shut down Anwar Grocery at 106 Avenue B just south of East Seventh Street…
[Reader submitted photo from Wednesday night]
At this point, we don't know what the closure is for… the store hasn't been open since the bust. And someone has removed the NYPD sticker from the gate.
Anwar was cited and briefly shut down for underage alcohol sales in March 2012.
According to the State Liquor Authority, their liquor license is inactive.
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Preparing for the papal visit
So you probably know that Pope Francis is visiting NYC on Sept. 25.
Did you sign up for your chance to attend his Central Park procession? (Maybe Q104 will be giving away tix to the 10th caller next weekend?)
Meanwhile, folks around here are prepping for his arrival.
Spotted on East Fourth Street near Avenue B …
East East Fifth Street near Avenue D …
Robert Ryan at Anthology Film Archives
Anthology Film Archives is in the midst of a Robert Ryan retrospective… Here are some details via the Wesleyan University Press (publishers of the new Robert Ryan biography) …
The series collects six of the most arresting screen performances by this gifted artist and activist, whom Martin Scorsese called “one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.” Select screenings will feature discussions with author J.R. Jones, film editor for the Chicago Reader, and Robert Ryan’s son, Cheyney Ryan, professor of law and philosophy at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at Oxford University.
Robert Ryan became a star after World War II on the strength of his menacing performance as an anti-Semitic murderer in the film noir Crossfire. Over the next quarter century he created a gallery of brooding, neurotic, and violent characters in such movies as "Bad Day at Black Rock," "Billy Budd," "The Dirty Dozen," and "The Wild Bunch." His riveting performances expose the darkest impulses of the American psyche during the Cold War.
Here's the lineup:
• ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann, 1948)
Sept. 6, 4:15 PM; Sept. 8, 9 PM
• ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
Sept. 7, 7 PM; Sept. 10, 7 PM
• THE NAKED SPUR (Anthony Mann, 1953)
Sept. 7, 9:00 PM; Sept. 9, 7 PM
• ABOUT MRS. LESLIE (Daniel Mann, 1954)
Sept. 10, 9 PM
• BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (John Sturges, 1955)
Sept. 6, 9 PM; Sept. 8, 7 PM
• GOD’S LITTLE ACRE (Anthony Mann, 1958)
Sept. 6, 6:15 PM; Sept. 9, 9 PM
I saw "The Naked Spur" yesterday and it was quite entertaining…
Here's more on Ryan in Artforum this past week.
Anthology Film Archives is on Second Avenue at East Second Street.
Morning!
It's really a nice morning out. Mostly. A reader shared this...
Here on East Sixth Street between Avenue A and B, we opened our doors to quite a spectacle of nature this morning. Pigeons feasting on a large pool of food waste right in the middle of the street... Can't wait until the rats show up!
Really glad someone seems to have thought it would be funny to throw a garbage bag in the middle of the street for cars to crush. Such a refreshing change from the overturned trash cans on the corner of 6th and A.
Apparently a resident will grab a shovel to remove this, but…
I really want to see the meathead who did this clean it up. With his or her bare hands, ideally.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Candy you were so fine
A little weekend entertainment via this clip from "The Arsenio Hall Show" from January 1991... when former Avenue B resident Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson of The B-52's were guests...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Go on a tour of Iggy Pop's East Village in 1993
Friday, September 4, 2015
Someone puts penis cake pan up for grabs on East 6th Street
Why not, we live among the land of the original penistrator ... and so many knockoffs...
Photos on East Sixth Street via Shawn Chittle
Some great reward
Thee Oh Sees (John Dwyer and a rotating cast of musicians) are out on tour in support of their latest release, Mutilator Defeated At Last.
They'll be playing at the Bowery Ballroom Tuesday (sold out!) then Thursday and Friday at the Warsaw.
From that new album, here's "Lupine Ossuary" (marked here as "Lupine Dominus" and with the band's previous lineup).
And how was your Thursday Happy Hour?
Death Star inflatable rat attack!
The inflatable union rat is currently perched outside 51 Astor Place/the IBM Watson Building/Death Star ...
EVG correspondent Steven reports that occupant St. John's University is the target... via the District Council No. 9 Painters and Allied trades, who are protesting claims of the school hiring workers and not giving them the wages and benefits that were established in the area by said District Council.
The crew is handing out flyers...
Maybe later the rat and rabbit can mix it up.
Developing: Uni K Wax Center sign is on its way up; lime green and violet never looked so good
Anyone who things the Friday before Labor Day is a slow news day, well — you're wrong.
This morning, crews are carefully putting into place the Uni K Wax Center signage here at 120 Second Ave. near East Seventh Street... behold the pleasing lime green-violet color combo...
The waxing center has also nailed the three most important qualities when it comes to waxing — all natural, safe AND affordable, at least in the opinion of this blogger.
As previously noted, the address here is returing to its spa roots. After a short-lived time as the froyo spot Twister, the storefront housed a Spa Belles.
Updated 12:03 p.m.
And ta-da!
[Photo by EVG waxing correspondent Steven]
Previously on EV Grieve:
Former froyo spot will become body waxing center on 2nd Avenue, just because
A step back in time on the Bowery
The Subway (sandwich shop) closed on the Bowery at the end of June. The storefront at 342 Bowery between Great Jones and Bond is currently for rent.
While recently researching 342 Bowery, Jeff Klepper, who was born and raised in Manhattan and now lives in Boston, came across our Subway closing post.
He shared the following photo with us... of his great-grandfather, Aaron Klepper, in front of his diamonds and jewelry shop at 342 Bowery just about 100 years ago ...
[Photo courtesy of Jeff Klepper]
We asked Jeff for a few more details, such as if his great-grandfather and family lived in the apartment above the shop.
Aaron's daughter, my great-aunt Sue, talked about living "behind the store" in one large room, in which her father had built some partitions. There was no heat, except for a kerosene stove, and the toilet was outside in back. But I think she was referring to their tenement on Allen Street.
I'm guessing they moved to the Bowery around 1905, and probably lived in an apartment above the store, because she said that her father would "go upstairs" to sleep when he was ill.
Jeff said that this photo had been hanging in his house for years, but he never knew the street until one of his cousins figured it out based on the 1920 census records.
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