The Village Voice said to be restarting a print edition

The Village Voice has hired Steven McKenna, the former CEO of Dan's Papers, to serve as the publication's chief revenue officer. 

According to Keith Kelly at the Post, with McKenna on board, the paper will launch a monthly print edition this fall with plans for an issue every other week in 2022. (The Voice next needs to hire an editor-in-chief.)

At the beginning of the year, the publication returned online with new ownership in Brian Calle, the chief executive of Street Media, the owner of LA Weekly. A quarterly print edition of the iconic paper was in circulation this spring. (I never did see one out in the wild.)

Previously...  the Voice website ceased publishing new content in August 2018 ... this after the final print edition in September 2017 — a 176-page commemorative issue with Bob Dylan on the cover. 

The paper first started in 1955 under founders Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock and Norman Mailer.

Previously on EV Grieve:

• The Village Voice is returning, and is this a good thing?  

From the EVG archives: Q-and-A with Lydia Lunch, underground legend, town crier

"Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over" is currently playing at the IFC Center (and on various streaming platforms) ... Beth B's career-spanning documentary retrospective is enjoying a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes...

   

Back in 2013, before an appearance at the Bowery Electric and the Pyramid, EVG correspondent Stacie Joy spoke with the singer, writer, poet, No Wave icon ... and you can find that interview at this link ... and some photos from her appearance at the Pyramid here.

Monday's opening shots

July 5 from Tompkins Square Park...

Sunday's parting shot

A red-tailed hawk on the cross atop Most Holy Redeemer on Third Street today ... thanks to Steven for the photo...

Reader report: Falling tree branch strikes man sitting in Tompkins Square Park

Earlier this evening, a tree branch fell in Tompkins Square Park and struck a man sitting on a bench at the Ninth Street and Avenue B entrance. 

An EVG reader shared the top photo and this narrative around 6:45: "People are helping him. He can walk. The branch is hanging precariously. It is still attached to the tree. A guy called 911." 

The FDNY arrived to remove the rest of the branch from the tree... EVG correspondent Steven took these photos...

According to witnesses, paramedics were treating the man, believed to be in his 60s, at the scene. Hopefully, he is OK...

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a photo by Derek Berg) ... 

• How you can help The Bowery Mission protect New Yorkers from summer heat (Monday) 

• A conversation with Lilly Dancyger, author of the East Village memoir 'Negative Space' (Thursday) 

• Help wanted: East Village restaurants look for staff, find few options (Tuesday) 

• At the 27th annual Drag March (Sunday) 

• A plant-based community fridge arrives outside Essex Market (Tuesday) 

• C&B debuts expanded space on 7th Street (Wedensday) 

• Days and Nights of Pride (Monday) 

• A red-tailed hawk rescue outside Whole Foods on East Houston (Wednesday)

• Report: Diner reviver Louis Skibar eyeing Odessa (Thursday) 

• The ridiculously narrow pedestrian passage at the NE corner of St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue (Tuesday) 

• A case of mistaken rat identity on the lawn in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)

• Doc Holliday's serves again on Avenue A (Monday)

• Community Board 3 returns to in-person meetings starting in July (Monday) 

• Openings: Toasted Deli on 9th Street (Monday) 

• Former Paper Daisy space for rent on St. Marks Place (Thursday)

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Sonic Youth at Central Park, July 4, 1992 (redux)

A partial repost of an EVG item from July 4, 2008...

On July 4, 1992, I saw Sonic Youth at SummerStage in Central Park. Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra opened. I remember SY being as frenzied as I'd ever seen them as they played a Dirty-heavy set. (The record was just about to be released.) I don't remember much else, except that I loved every minute of the afternoon. 

Missing from the previous post — a video of the 66-minute set ...

   

 And the setlist from the Sonic Youth website... 

01. Teenage Riot 

02. Burning Spear 

03. Dirty Boots 

04. Drunken Butterfly 

05. Theresa's Sound-World 

06. Youth Against Fascism 

07. Swimsuit Issue 

08. Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit

09. 100% 

10. Kool Thing 

11. Sugar Kane 

12. Expressway to Yr Skull 

There's a bootleg of the show here.

Saturday's parting shot

Aka, today in discarded art... as seen on Second Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street... photo by Derek Berg...

Because someone had to be an asshole

Someone overturned the Grocery Cart Garden on Fourth Street... which had survived more than a year here at the Bowery before the crowds returned... 

Photos today by Stacie Joy...

Updated:

Back in business...

New York's Liberty Bell, long housed in the East Village, now ready for a closer look

Photos by Stacie Joy 

The New York Liberty Bell is now on display at the New-York Historical Society.

As you may recall, workers removed the bell, which dates to the early 1700s, several weeks ago from the belfry at the fire-damaged Middle Collegiate Church on Second Avenue at Seventh Street.

Here's some history of the bell via the Museum: 

Along with countless other momentous events, the bell pealed upon the reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, announced the inauguration and death of every American president, and tolled in remembrance of the lives lost on September 11, 2001. 

Donated by Colonel Abraham de Peyster to Middle Collegiate Church — then the New Dutch Church on Nassau Street—the bell was cast by the foundry of Jan Albert de Grave in Amsterdam in 1731. The 900-pound bell rings with a distinctive silver tone, thanks to donated coins thrown into the metal mix. 

During the Revolution, the bell was moved to York, Pennsylvania, for safekeeping, but it was not silenced for long. The bell echoed through the 19th century from Middle Church at Lafayette Place, Ninth Street Church, and St. Nicholas Collegiate in Midtown. In 1949, the bell was relocated to Middle Church’s present East Village location. 

The bell will be in the museum on Central Park West until Middle Collegiate Church's sanctuary is rebuilt.

 

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The museum is open Fridays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; until 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Kids 17 and under get in free on the Fourth of July.

Previously on EV Grieve:

• At fire-damaged Middle Collegiate Church, it's moving day for the historic New York Liberty Bell

The Cock is back open on 2nd Avenue

The Cock, closed since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, returned to service on June 24 here at 93 Second Ave. between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.

For now, the two-level bar-club is open Thursday through Saturday from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. For the holiday weekend, they will be open on July 4. Proof of vaccination is required to enter the establishment.

As we first reported, owner Allan Mannarelli, an East Village resident, was hoping to relocate the Cock ... and he appeared before CB3 this spring for a new liquor license at 112 Rivington St., the former Fat Baby space. However, CB3 denied the move. (BoweryBoogie has details on the licensing history.)

The Cock, once described as "the last filthy gay bar in New York," moved to No. 93 in late 2015 (you may recall the "Block the Cock" campaign) ... it first opened on Avenue A in 1998 before relocating to 25 Second Ave. several years later.

Never Fled NYC 2020

As seen on St. Mark's Place. Sticker art by @ad.tumulum ... find his Etsy shop here.