Sunday, August 15, 2010
Reminders tonight: Sensitive Skin at the Bowery Poetry Club
There's a reading tonight at 6 with Sensitive Skin magazine. There will be readings by Darius James, Christian Hunter, Drew Huebner and Rob Hardin with music by Kurt Wolf (ex-Pussy Galore) and video by Rebecca Gaffney. Details here.
20-plus years of keeping Tompkins Square Park in shape
[Photo credit John Penley]
In case you haven't already seen it... Lincoln Anderson has a nice piece in The East Villager this week on Harry Greenberg, who's retiring after more than two decades as the supervisor of Tompkins Square Park.
There are plenty of passages to highlight...
Greenberg is quick to credit his staff for keeping Tompkins clean. Actually, the number of his workers has shrunk over the years, forcing him to do more with less. In 1990, he had 15 permanent workers in Tompkins Square Park, and also managed part of Parks District 3, which is contiguous with the East Village and Lower East Side’s Community Board 3. Today, he only has four permanent workers for Tompkins, who also have to maintain 34 other sites in a portion of the district, such as the planted islands on East Houston St., for example.
And!
Although there are drugs in the park, it used to be far worse. Plus, Greenberg noted, “What park doesn’t have drugs?”
“I used to come to this park early in the morning, and there were drug dealers and hookers. Now it’s normal people,” he said, though adding with a laugh, “They could be hookers and drug dealers.”
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Police presence in Tompkins Square Park
Seems to be more police than usual in Tompkins Square Park the last few days... Late Thursday afternoon, there were six police cars on the scene... and the only noticeable offense was a man receiving a ticket for an open container... more police cars were prowling around early Friday morning... asking some questions of a few Park regulars, such as John and Hot Dog...
NYU sets up temporary dorm on Seventh Street
Heh. OK, that was really bad. Just thinking about this story. Anyway, the castle is part of the Yorkiest Block Party on Seventh Street... where there are FREE hot dogs!
A rainbow in Tompkins Square Park
Earlier this morning. And you see the unicorn too right? Right! Tell me that you see the unicorn!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Sensitive Skin live Sunday at the Bowery Poetry Club
Sensitive Skin magazine has been revived by publisher Bernard Meisler and managing editor Tim Beckett... The print version ran on the Lower East Side in the 1990s, and published such luminaries as Richard Hell, Taylor Mead, Herbert Huncke, Bob Holman (who now runs the Bowery Poetry Club), among others.
And Sensitive Skin is having their first reading since like 1998 at the Bowery Poetry Club this Sunday at 6. There will be readings by Darius James, Christian Hunter, Drew Huebner and Rob Hardin with music by Kurt Wolf (ex-Pussy Galore) and video by Rebecca Gaffney.
Here's the first issue from 1991 ... when it was called 'Peau Sensible' (that's French for sensitive skin...)
For further reading:
Check out Jeremiah's interview with Bernard and Tim at Vanishing New York.
Oh, he's a magic man.....
Per Craigslist:
Magic The Gathering... - m4w - 27 (East Village)
I want you to tap my mana till I'm all tapped out. Be my Exalted Angel, I'll be your Dark Confidant. Take my Rod of Ruin deep into your Karplusan Forest.
Come on, baby. Let's make some magic.
Or!
The Rhong Tiam dilemma: Stay (and remodel) or go
[Photo via]
Grub Street has the official word on what's up with Kurve/Rhong Tiam on Second Avenue and Fifth Street:
"Andy Yang tells us he has closed the East Village outpost of Rhong Tiam. “It was a miscalculation,” he says of its predecessor Kurve, with its infamous Karim Rashid design." (Above!) He's also considering whether to remodel it (bringing the kitchen upstairs) and reopen it with a less off-putting décor, or to simply let go of the space, Grub Street notes.
What do you think? Remodel or let it go?
Previously on EV Grieve:
Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over
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