Your daily Deitch Wall update

Kenny Scharf continues his mural here on Houston and the Bowery. Check out some great photos of Scharf at work on GammaBlog.

Christmas is coming, still

Christmas trees arriving at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, Second Avenue and 10th Street...






...and there are even trees that will fit inside apartments...

First Street, 9:09 a.m., Nov. 27

Christmas is coming

Two scenes from First Avenue tonight...

Window shopping on 14th Street

Between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Thanksgiving marathon continues

Bowie's puffy-pants, puffy-hair phase circa 1987.

Avenue A, 12:22, Nov. 25

Breaking: Delivery bike removed from Stuy Town

We just noted the presence of an abandoned restaurant delivery bike that has been locked to this tree in 4 Stuyvesant Oval in Stuy Town since.... Halloween!



EV Grieve reader Nixta now reports that, as of this morning, workers removed the bike!

Dora Park Apartments getting a bath

One of my favorite apartment buildings, the Dora Park on Seventh Street across from Tompkins Square Park, is getting cleaned up... watching workers on the scene this morning... hope no one wanted to sleep in...




Here's a shot from the invaluable Forgotten New York showing the detail above Dora Park's doorway...

Scharf attack

On Wednesday, BoweryBoogie noted that Brooklyn-based artist Kenny Scharf had started his work on the Deitch Wall at Houston and the Bowery... here's a progress report...

The work continues at St. Brigid's

There have been several "alarming rumors," according to The Villager, about the renovations at St. Brigid's on Avenue B and Eighth Street....I walked by the site earlier this week.... and there was a lot of work going on...Still continues to look like a major operation....

Remembering what St. Brigid's looks like

Seems like forever since we last saw St. Brigid's on Avenue B at Eighth Street with the scaffolding and sidewalk shed, etc.... Here's a shot (via) from 2000 or so...



And from the NYPL digital archives... a view of the church in 1928...



...and 1935...



Photos from NYPL. 1928-35

The suspects list has been narrowed down to 8 million people

Waiting for the N/R at Union Square.

FDNY Twitter account pulled after Post article?

Per the Post today:

The firefighters of Engine Co. 28 and Ladder Co. 11 in the East Village have begun posting unsanctioned tweets to alert local residents when the company is unable to respond to emergency calls, The Post has learned.

"We're just trying to let people know when we're not around," said a source familiar with the instant-messaging tactic, which has nothing to do with the FDNY's official Twitter account.

According to unofficial Fire Department logs obtained by The Post, Engine Co. 28 and Ladder Co. 11 were pulled out of service on 20 occasions last month for everything from mechanical failure to training, and to cover other firehouses when other units are pulled from service.

"Technically, you're going to increase response times," said the source. "People should know when their fire company is out of service. It's the taxpayers' money. It's your money."

The FDNY claims that units are routinely pulled from service for various reasons and it does not present a danger to the public.
"There is ample coverage on the Lower East Side," said an FDNY spokesman. "There are redundancies built into the response."

I've been following the feed too... Unfortunately, it appears that someone removed the account...