Now that Halloween is over with...

The Christmas holiday lights are going up on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue this morning, as these photos via Steven show...

A little early this year, as we've seen them arrive as late as Dec. 5 in the past...

Anyway, it's always festive on this block during the holidays... and if we've ever needed some holiday cheer, the time is now... 

Updated 7:50 p.m. 

Steven shared a few photos of how the lights look tonight...

Halloween 2020

A few Halloween scenes from around the neighborhood courtesy of Derek Berg ...

Saturday's parting shot

A moment from the Moral Panic show tonight on Second Street... look for more photos later... Happy Halloween!

6 posts from October

A mini month in review...

• Documenting 166 Avenue A through the years (Oct. 22) 

• This is the new building slated for the corner of 6th Street and Avenue C (Oct. 19)

• A look back at the first Avenue B flea (Oct. 13)

• An Art Attack at East River Park (Oct. 12) 

• Owner's retirement will bring a close to EV children's treasure Dinosaur Hill next month (Oct. 8) 

• Bread alert: Sullivan St. Bakery pop opens a 9th Street outpost (Oct. 6)

Photo of the Hare Krishna tree in Tompkins Square Park from Thursday night

Noted

As seen on 10th Street and Avenue A... 

Pumpkin via @little.things.ny ... photo by Robert Miner...

Naming the Lost at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery

Given the pandemic, the Annual Day of Dead festival is not happening over at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery on 10th Street and Second Avenue this year.

Instead, Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders and Naming The Lost created a memorial to remember local residents who died of COVID-19...

The memorial is now on the church fence... and will be here through Monday...

The church's website has more information about the project at this link.

Thanks to Lola Sáenz for the information...

A break in at Tompkins Square Bagels on 2nd Avenue

Workers arrived at the Second Avenue location of Tompkins Square Bagels this morning to find that someone broke into the storefront here between 11th Street and 12th Street...

Owner Christopher Pugliese said that the door, with an estimated cost of around $3,500, was the worst of the break-in damage. The now-smashed register contained $200 in change.

An invitation for Day of the Dead at Campos Community Garden

Via the EVG inbox...

Te invitamos a nuestra Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead.) This is an invitation to our neighbors from the members of Campos Community Garden on 12th Street.

Being respectful of COVID-19, we won’t be hosting a large event this year, but we will continue to honor our lost loved ones, especially those souls lost to the pandemic, police brutality and racism.

On Sunday, Nov. 1 from noon to 4 p.m., our altar will be open for viewing by the entrance and for leaving objects in memory of your beloved.

If you can’t make it during that time, we will also have our fence decorated and at anytime on Sunday you can also leave/attach your objects to the decorations there.

Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Campos Community Garden is on 12th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.

Friday's parting shot

A scene this rainy morning on Astor Place courtesy of Derek Berg...

A car-motorcycle collision on 1st Avenue

Several readers reported a serious-looking collision this afternoon between a car and a motorcyle on First Avenue at Seventh Street... 

From a reader report (thanks Bill!): "A black car with an Arizona plate hit a motorcycle going north on 1st, which was in the left lane. The car swerved from the right lane into the motorcycle." 

In a positive sign, another reader said that the motorcyclist was moving as he was loaded into an ambulance. We'll update this post if any further information becomes available. 

Thank you to Derek Berg for the photo...

Built to Spell

 

Siouxsie & the Banshees have been on heavier heavy rotation in recent days... the video is for "Spellbound" from 1981. Top of the Pops!

Noted

An EVG reader shares this from Third Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... where the recent strong winds carried in an outfit from Christmas past for a collision of holiday seasons...