A moment with El Gatito on Avenue A ... photo today by Lola Sáenz
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Campaign to get a wax statue of Paul Giamatti at Madame Tussauds™ comes to the East Village
EVG reader MP spotted this on Ninth Street.
Via the WaxPaulNow website:
For too long, we as Americans have sat back and ignored the flagrant oversight that is the dearth of wax statues of Paul Giamatti at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. What Times Square is to New York, Paul is to the institution of acting itself. No longer shall we remain silent. Join us; make your voice heard!
Week in Grieview
[The former Village Gifts Friday morning on St. Mark's Place]
Stories posted on EVG this past week included...
The real story behind the so-called Lower East Side hoarder (Tuesday, 55 comments)
The Living Stage Summer Festival coming to Meltzer Tower Garden (Friday)
Out and About with Brian Breger (Wednesday)
Basketball courts at Open Road Park getting refurbished thanks to NBA star Kevin Durant (Tuesday)
An update on Steiner East Village, "Usherer of Alphabet City Gentrification" (Wednesday)
Montauk Salt Cave coming to 10th Street (Monday)
Gelarto officially (re)opens on Avenue A (Friday)
Townhouse living on 5th Street for $7.5 million (Friday)
N'eat is currently closed (Thursday)
Report: Man arrested after 3 failed bank robberies (Thursday)
Traveling and panhandling (Monday)
Going up and going down on 14th Street (Tuesday)
New EVG feature looks at the rent-stabilized apartments of East Village residents (Thursday)
More about Boris and Norton, the dog-friendly cafe coming to Avenue A (Thursday)
Ladybird about a month away from opening on 7th Street (Wednesday)
Café Floral Delight now open on 10th Street (Thursday)
What's happening with the former Edge space? (Thursday)
La Newyorkina joins Astor Plate on Astor Place (Thursday)
Retail space at 347 Bowery sells for $20 million (Monday)
Looking at the Allegro Coffee Roasters, now open at Whole Foods Market® Bowery (Tuesday)
More about Martina, Danny Meyer's "fine-casual pizzeria" coming to 11th Street (Wednesday)
Mayahuel closing Aug. 6 on 6th Street (Tuesday)
Yuan Noodle in soft-open mode on 2nd Avenue (Monday)
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Your weekly update on the Tompkins Square Park sinkhole
The first two photos are from Wednesday evening at the Eighth Street/Avenue B entrance to Tompkins Square Park...
... and today...
Have you seen anyone work on the month-old sinkhole this past week? Doesn't seems as if there was much, if any, progress this week.
Previously
... and today...
Have you seen anyone work on the month-old sinkhole this past week? Doesn't seems as if there was much, if any, progress this week.
Previously
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Report: About the 20 year old who spent the night locked inside a Lower East Side bar
This was the ultimate walk of shame https://t.co/N7eSoSnH17 pic.twitter.com/BpJpi9vfSy
— New York Post (@nypost) July 22, 2017
The Post files two stories about a 20-year-old New Jersey resident who reportedly passed out in the women's restroom at Boss Tweed's, the bar/saloon on Essex near Delancey.
Article Article No. 1:
Therese Hipolito, 20, of Flemington, could be heard shouting from behind the roll-down gate at Boss Tweed’s ... before cops set her free at around 9:20 a.m. [yesterday], police and witnesses said.
And...
The reveler had been tossing back drinks with a gal pal when she nodded off on the floor of the bar’s rest room some time before workers closed up at 4 a.m., sources said.
She woke up a few hours later, freaked out and called 911 at 7:55 a.m., according to cops.
Bartenders had failed to check the bathroom before closing up, cops said.
The bar may now be in hot water over the underage drinker, a police source said.
Then in article No. 2, she told the Post that she believes her drink was spiked.
“Whatever happened last night, I’m not that kind of person.
“I would never be in the city just drinking. I was at a friend’s birthday party. I had one shot and one glass of champagne. And the last thing I remember, I go get a slice of pizza with my friend and we sit back down in a booth [at the bar] and that was my last clear memory."
And about being locked in:
“How do you not notice someone sleeping on the floor of your bathroom? There are only two stalls," she said, adding, "I’m going to sue them."
Speaking of her night behind the bar’s bars, she said “it’s really not like me – it’s so inappropriate and trashy."
Boss Tweed's closed earlier this year ... and reemerged as a more upscale lounge that advertises Super Model Karaoke on Wednesday evenings.
[Updated] RIP Joseph Rago
Joseph Rago, a Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal, was found dead Thursday evening in his apartment on St. Mark's Place. He was 34.
According to The Wall Street Journal:
Here's more via the Journal:
Rago started at the paper as an intern in 2005 after graduating from Dartmouth that year.
Updated 9/12
Reported by Patch today:
According to The Wall Street Journal:
The New York Police Department found Mr. Rago dead in his apartment at 7:40 p.m., according to a police official. The authorities went to check on Mr. Rago after he didn’t show up for work on Thursday. Paul Gigot, the editor of the Journal’s editorial page, had alerted the paper’s security officials, who then contacted the police.
Mr. Rago was found with no obvious signs of trauma and emergency responders declared him dead at the scene, the police said. The cause of death was being determined by the medical examiner on Friday.
Here's more via the Journal:
He did his homework, becoming one of the most well-sourced people around on health care, with sources throughout Washington and among academics on the left and right, Mr. Gigot said in an interview on Friday.
“He was the kind of person you liked to have a beer with — I know that’s a cliché, but it’s actually true,” Mr. Gigot said.
Rago started at the paper as an intern in 2005 after graduating from Dartmouth that year.
Remembering the career of an extraordinary colleague,
— Larry Kudlow (@larry_kudlow) July 22, 2017
Joseph Rago https://t.co/LGBPrVZBN8 via @@WSJOpinion
Updated 9/12
Reported by Patch today:
"The cause of death is sarcoidosis involving lungs, heart, spleen, hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes," Julie Bolcer, director of communications for the Medical Examiner, said in an email. "The manner of death is natural."
Sarcoidosis, which causes severe inflammation of the organs, is still relatively mysterious to doctors.
According to the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research: "Despite the best efforts of researchers for more than a century working to better understand the complexities of this disease, sarcoidosis remains difficult to diagnose with limited therapies. Many patients suffer for years before arriving at the correct diagnosis or discovering the best treatment plan."
A theft in the Immaculate Conception Church sacristy
Signs are up outside the Immaculate Conception Church on 14th Street near First Avenue... noting a break-in back on Monday...
Per the sign: "[A]n individual was observed making an unauthorized entry into the sacristy through the sanctuary. This individual proceeded to pilfer some small items."
Friday, July 21, 2017
At Death's door
Taiwan Housing Project, featuring members of noise-rock bands Harry Pussy and Little Claw, opens for the Thurston Moore Group tonight at the Bowery Ballroom.
The above track by Taiwan Housing Project is "Veblen Death Mask," from their recently released album of the same name on Kill Rock Stars.
Trumpets of Summer
Trumpets of Summer
The trumpets of summer reverberated,
Whether in celebration or warning,
Its fiery presence assured,
A procession of days before us,
The fanfare of resonance fulfilled.
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peter radley
EV Grieve Etc.: Fight for community gardens; hawks in the heat
[Photo in the NYC Marble Cemetery by Derek Berg]
Mapping all the LES developments (Curbed)
Community gardens fighting for survival against developers and the city (Commercial Observer)
LUNGS Environmental Education Project continues with its free urban nature exploration for children in neighborhood community gardens. Learn more about The Living Classroom here.
Saying farewell to the Cup & Saucer (The Lo-Down)
CB4 has joined the ranks of Manhattan community boards calling on DOT to improve safety at intersections along streets with protected bike lanes (StreetsBlog)
The red-tailed hawks in the heatwave (Laura Goggin Photography)
9 facts about Union Square (Gothamist)
City decides to fund community land trusts, including with the Cooper Square Committee (City Limits) ... reaction (City Limits)
An early look at MoMa's upcoming show, "Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983" (Blouin Artinfo)
City retail vacancies climb (The Real Deal)
Tenants of 83 and 85 Bowery protest their "slumlord," the owner of Dr. Jay's (B+B)
Happy No. 12 to Alex! (Flaming Pablum)
Sinkhole in the bike lane along the Stuyvesant Cove Park (Town & Village)
More Mondo Bava this weekend at the Quad on 13th Street (Official website)
AC/DC at the Palladium in August 1977 (Mashable)
... and if the northbound lane of the FDR at East Houston is in your weekend plans...
#FDRDrive northbound exit 5 closed from 11PM on 7/21 to 10AM on 7/23. Motorists on Houston St/Southbound FDR & #bikenyc/ped not impacted. pic.twitter.com/Z5giDuNkIo
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) July 20, 2017
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Gelarto officially (re)opens on Avenue A
Following an opening sneak preview back in June, the owners of Gelarto closed to make a few improvements to their gelato business at 145 Avenue A at Ninth Street.
On Wednesday, the new shop reopened... EVG contributor Steven shared these photos of the interior...
According to the Gelarto Instagram account, the shop's hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily (until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday).
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