Monday, July 5, 2010

Noted



At the L stop on First Avenue and 14th Street.

Nighthawks... and Nighthawks

Remember Jeremiah's series on looking for Hopper's Nighthawks? He wrote a condensed version of it for the Times... and his op-ed appears there today.

Meanwhile! Speaking of Nighthawks...reminds me that I haven't seen "Nighthawks," the surprisingly decent Sly Stallone-Rutger Hauer thriller from 1981 in years....it features a climatic scene aboard the Roosevelt Island tram...



(Image via Roosevelt Island 360 ... where you can read more about the movie...)

The CBGB saga continues



For those of you following the CBGB Estate-Buyer saga... Karate Boogaloo has more on it... As KB notes: "I find it very difficult to believe that anyone could purchase a brand name like CBGB, and NOT be able to do something...anything...with it."

[Image via.]

Sunday, July 4, 2010

First Street, 10:21 a.m., July 4

You've been warned! And I am taking names!



Good way to make "up to" $1,000... narc on your friends with fireworks from their visit to South Carolina. And what is in that cup there? Hope that it's not a urine sample. 13th Street and Avenue A.

Greetings



From the incomparable Blarney Cove.

More photos from yesterday's German-themed Avenue C street fair

So anyway, as I mentioned yesterday, German fans were in a celebratory mood after beating Argentina 4-zip in the World Cup. Some fans watching the match at Zum Schnieder, Alphabet City Lounge, Kafana, Arcane and the Porch all converged. A fire truck arrived... and the firefighters good-naturedly joined in the celebration, honking the truck horn and waving a German flag. And posing for photos. When a few fans jumped on top of the truck, the firefighters quickly made them get down... The entire celebration all seemed pretty harmless and went on for about 15 minutes...














Previously on EV Grieve:
Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Ray's delivery team to be featured on Fox tonight


[Photo via Bob Arihood]

Bob Arihood sent us a note saying that the Ray's delivery team will be featured tonight on the Fox News channel at 9 (Fox News is Channel 44 on Time Warner.) The delivery team will be roughly 1/3 of the program that will be hosted by John Stossel. The program will air again tomorrow night at 9.

Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

The scene on Avenue C and Seventh Street around noon after Germany beat Argentina 4-0 in the World Cup....



A fire truck arrived... I thought to clear a path for traffic that was backing up... However, the truck stopped ... and joined the celebration...








Shepard Fairey's mural continues to go to pieces

On Thursday, Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reported on the vandalized state of Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston and the Bowery... and, every day (night), the mural continues to be mauled... someone or somebody pulled more of the mural apart in the last 12 hours...








The line to get into Zum Schneider this morning

For the Germany-Argentina match. Wow. Much longer than last week's line. One Zum Schneider regular said this was the longest line that she'd ever seen here, including Octoberfest...the line streches west halfway up Seventh Street.






If you're in the back of the line now, then I'd suggest you watch the match elsewhere...