On the Bowery.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Posts that I never got around to posting: Somewhere in Brighton Beach
You know, just something about an ad for hemorrhoids next to a "Deli & Appetizing" sign.
Posts that I never got around to posting: Bicycles vs. fences
Took these in September on Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. Am curious what came first, the bicycles or the signs...
Videos that I never got around to posting: Things that I find oddly comforting
That hummmmmmm at the ConEd substation on Avenue A between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
Friday, November 6, 2009
With many apologies
Mötley Crüe - Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
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I missed this gem by Alex over at the New York Nobody Sings.
There are plenty of music videos that seem to go out of their way to feature Manhattan. For example, Motley Crue's largely lamentable "Girl Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" finds preternaturally annoying vocalist Vince Neil living in a spacious loft in the meatpacking district (while his band mates are still walking around Hollywood). Sixteen years after said video was filmed, the building that Vince supposedly lived in -- then the headquarters of legitimate meatpacking firm, Western Beef -- was turned into a tony Belgian restaurant called Markt. That restaurant lost its lease in 2007, and the space is now the home of the meatpacking district's own needless branch of The Apple Store.
Outside the Mars Bar: The quick and the dead
Was poking around Flickr for some Mars Bar photos the other day...and came across this classic uploaded Nov. 1. (Reprinted with permission from the photographer.)
Feed me with your dis
Anyway, the East Village is Dead mural continues to attract attention... there seems to be a new addition every time I walk by...and the mural probably already looks different since I took these shots...
Previously.
Previously.
Le Gamin is now the Village Bistro East
Just yesterday, an EV Grieve reader asked:
Here's what Eater had to report back on Sept. 28:
As the chalkboard sign shows, Le Gamin is now the Village Bistro East. It opened last night.
So... new name. New theme. Same owners.
Previously.
I happened to walk by there [Wednesday] and it appears that the renovations are indeed continuing. The Le Gamin sign however, has mysteriously disappeared...
New name? New restaurant? New owners?
Here's what Eater had to report back on Sept. 28:
Just a quick note to assuage the East Villagers in the crowd. A number of readers have written in both here and on EV Grieve to report that Le Gamin on East 5th St. between Aves A and B—the last Le Gamin in Manhattan—has closed. A worker at Black Iron Burger Shop next door reports that no, they are just renovating, extensively. They will reopen with the same name but a different "theme" and a more "modern" look on October 10. Funnily enough, the restaurant closed for renos just one year ago when the original owner...
As the chalkboard sign shows, Le Gamin is now the Village Bistro East. It opened last night.
So... new name. New theme. Same owners.
Previously.
Avenue B's pretzel logic
Always Hungry reports that the long-dormant space at 29 Avenue B near Third Street is now home to the Sigmund Pretzel Shop, owned by two former Bouley staffers. Per Sigmund:
The Salted and Seeded Pretzels (three kinds: Caraway, Sesame and Poppy Pretzels) cost $2.50 each. Flavored pretzels (Jalapeño-Cheddar and Cinnamon Raisin) cost $3.00 each. There will also be pretzel dips: whipped butter, whole-grain mustard, cream cheese, warm three-cheese sauce, horseradish-mayo and Nutella. Pretzels come with one dip; additional dips cost 75¢ each. A half-dozen pretzels of any variety with three dips costs $16.00. A dozen pretzels with six dips costs $30.00.
(via Eater)
P.S.
The Steely Dan reference is to drive Slum Goddess batty. (Battier?)
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