Cost newsbox is missing

On Tuesday, I posted photos from EV Grieve reader AWKWORD showing new street art created by graffiti legend Cost... The box on Second Avenue near Houston was part of the recent Showpaper exhibit...




I went to take some photos of it this weekend... and the newsbox is gone...



Stolen? Or confiscated by the city?

For more on the boxes, check out the NYPress cover story this week.

Three makes it a trends post!

Thanks to Tim for the tweet and photo...



Gizmodo refers to it as "the caffeinated alcoholic poison drink."

The seasoning makes it taste better

Ninth Street and Avenue A.

Second Avenue, 9:42 a.m., Nov. 21

About those tanks on Seventh Street and Avenue A

Remember those tanks that I mentioned earlier today on Seventh Street and Avenue A....?

Well, as these photos by EV Grieve reader Bobby Williams show.... they attracted a lot of attention this afternoon from the NYPD and FDNY.....

Things left on the street

Seventh Street and Avenue A this morning. I always enjoy walking around in the morning, looking for odd things left behind on the street.

What do you call this?

A catwalk! Thank you very much — I'll be here all weekend!

Avenue B and Second Street.

Nala is missing

Chasing the Dragons

Dee Dee Ramone and the Chinese Dragons, circa 1992 or so....

City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses

On Tuesday, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) and other groups... not to mention various politicos ... rallied to help save the historic townhouses at 326 and 328 E. Fourth St. The GVSHP doesn't have good news to report:

Unfortunately, as we gathered in front of the houses on Tuesday to make this last appeal to the city to consider landmark designation, the city was issuing permits to the developer to allow the houses' destruction, effectively foreclosing the possibility of landmark designation.

Former Señor Swanky's will soon be a new 'local'

And over at Bleecker and LaGuardia, the former Señor Swanky's is shaping up... As Eater noted, it will become a gastropub aimed at a more "mature" audience. And, given the sign, maybe for local mature audiences? In this neighborhood? Good luck! [Thanks to Goggla for the tip on this...I attended the CB2 meeting last summer when the owners here made their pitch...]

The back room at Otto's Shrunken Head reopens tonight

As you know, a fire severely damaged Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th Street on Oct. 24. While the front room reopened on Oct. 30 ... the back room needed a lot more attention. Otto's regular DJ Xerox passes along the good news that the back room reopens tonight with the Rebel Night Rockabilly dance party, and then the first bands take the stage tomorrow night.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Assessing the damage at Otto's Shrunken Head

Breaking: Early-morning fire at Otto's Shrunken Head

Bank robber looks familiar

Police have released the photo of a man they say robbed the Capitol One Bank at 21 University Place on Eighth Street, according to DNAinfo.



Despite the similarities in the photos, I suppose we can rule out one possible suspect....

A reader question

An EV Grieve reader sent this photo of an ad for the M15 Select Bus Service that just went up this week ... the reader wondered why the ad was in the N-Q-R stop on Broadway and 40th...