Holiday week recap

[Sledding in Tompkins Square Park Saturday via Derek Berg]

A few stories from last week...

• Out and About in the East Village 2017 recap and news about 2018 (Wednesday)

• Report: 9th Street resident battling with Kushner Cos. to clean up black mold infestation (Thursday)

• Pizza Rollio bringing its skinny slices to 9th Street (Tuesday)

• Residential conversion underway at 180 2nd Ave.; the Ninth Ward expected to return (Thursday)

• Neapolitan Express pulling into 29 2nd Ave. (Wednesday)

• The opossum of Tompkins Square Park — now on video (Thursday)

• The EVG 2017 recap (Friday ... Saturday)

• Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2017 (Sunday)

• Classic Man Barber Lounge coming to 9th Street (Wednesday)

• Free scarves along the East River Promenade (Dec. 25)

• Crunch time at the Kellogg's NYC Café on Union Square (Wednesday)

• Malcriada morphing into Bar Taco on Avenue C (Tuesday)

• Report: The SBS15 has the worst on-time arrival in the MTA fleet (Tuesday)

• Thank you for 35 years of reheating leftovers and other microwaving activities (Friday)

• Former Wall 88 space for rent on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)

• Window watch at 32 E. 1st St. (Tuesday)

Monday's parting shot

Thanks to EVG reader Dan Nallen for sharing this photo from Ninth Street at Second Avenue ...

And how was your New Year's Eve?

Derek Berg spotted the above remnants, including playing cards and a bra, on Seventh Street ... and below, on Second Avenue, a discarded New Year's hat surrounded by what appears to be dried blood...

2nd Avenue cab crash

Derek Berg came across this scene this morning just before 8 on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place... unfortunately, we don't know what caused the cab driver to crash into the curb and send the trash can toward Gem Spa's entrance...



No one was injured... and thankfully this didn't happen at 8 a.m. on a non-holiday Monday...

Ending 2017 with a pronghorn discovery on 12th Street

An EVG reader spotted this between Avenue A and First Avenue... and it quickly found a new home with Matilda...

Happy 2018 from Ray

And happy birth month to Ray, as the proprietor of Ray's Candy Store at 113 Avenue A will be 85 on Jan. 25.

Thanks to Rainer Turim for the photo!

Farewell 2017...

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Photo late this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park via Allen Semanco...

Our Happy New Year

Our Happy New Year

We awaken from one year into

another, will there ever be rest?

What are we going to do,

with this new blank slate.

Can we find it within, to do,

all we have promised ourselves,

Or will we leave our promises,

For another time, another year.

Make this the year of moving,

Forward with our dreams,

Why not, let’s make some,

Good news for a change,

If you have no dreams,

Help someone who does.

Let us bring joy back.

•

peter radley

Gone but Not Forgotten

Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2017...

Bonnie DeWitt...



Rita Lasar...



Kenny Kendra...


[Photo via Facebook]

Toyo Tsuchiya...


[Image via Facebook]

Magdalena Wassiltschuk...



Elizabeth Lee...



Richard Hambleton ...



Erin O’Connor...


[Photo by Steven]

Diane Maguire...



Kelly Hurley...


[Photo via Facebook]

Bianca Bennett...


[Photo by Derek Berg]

Neftaly Ramirez...



David Peel...


[Photo in Tompkins Square Park in 2010 by Shirley Dluginski]

Eddie Hunt...



Guilherme Barreto...


[Image via Facebook]

Chester Kawalec...



Glenn O'Brien...


[Image via glenn.obrien.com]

Edouard Menuau...


[Photo by Steven]

Kate Millett...


[Image via PBS]

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Longtime East Village resident Adam Alexander died before the December holidays ... I will do a post when more details are available...


[Photo by Steve Salmieri via Facebook]

Report: East Village resident looking for justice in the 2005 death of her husband in Iraq

The Post has a feature today on East Village resident Lisa Ramaci, who has spent the past 12 years trying to find out who was responsible for the August 2005 murder of her husband, journalist Steven Vincent, in the Iraqi port city of Basra.

She has spent long hours scouring the Internet schooling herself in the intricate politics of extremist forces in Iraq, and is currently suing the government of Iran and five major European banks that she says financed the thugs who killed Vincent and other Americans.

But now her biggest obstacle may be her own government.

Last week Ramaci sued the FBI in federal court in Manhattan to force them to release hundreds of pages documenting their nearly four-year investigation into Vincent’s death.

When asked if the FBI was stonewalling and perhaps covering up something in their files that they may not want her to see, Ramaci shrugged.

“Look, I was raised in an era of conspiracies but I’m not going to ascribe that to the FBI,” she said. “I’m going to be charitable, and say that they’re just overwhelmed with requests because there is no earthly reason that the FBI shouldn’t give me that file.”

You may read the whole article here.

Christmas trees lounge

You my now officially drag your [Christmas] trees (no home appliances please) to Tompkins Square Park, where workers have assembled the drop-off pen... which appears to have some sort of guard on duty...



Disguised as an ordinary outdoor snowman, this hidden camera with DVR provides motion activated recording of all activity (with 90-day standby battery).



The city is holding its annual MulchFest/TreeCycle on Jan. 6 and 7 (2018!) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tompkins Square Park is once again serving as a chipping location.

Photos yesterday by Steven.

Headline H/T!

Tompkins Square Park, 8:15 a.m., Dec. 31