Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sends message to SantaCon

Last night, EV Grieve reader Hank's Pound of Spaghetti passed a long a photo of someone with a GIANT Santa head entering Diablo Royale Este on Avenue A...

Well! Turns out this was no ordinary Santa!.... It was an Ahmadinejad Santa ...



Via @Preovolos.

Check out Melanie's photos too... She has a great shot of this...

ConEd provides this morning's entertainment

Dunno if the photos and video do this justice... on First Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street...

Mother Nature sneers: 'Your $3 umbrellas from the deli are no match for me today'

We're losing a lot of good umbrellas out there today. P.S. It's raining.

And just think if it was, oh, 25 degrees colder today

The morning after

Yesterday morning on Avenue B and Houston

The Lower East Side — 'still better than SoHo'

The Post checks in today with a piece on the (likely) closings of the Mars Bar and Max Fish. A few excerpts...

"The Lower East Side felt like it was over a while ago, but [Max Fish] is a very symbolic closing," said author Richard Price, who used the neighborhood as a backdrop to his best seller "Lush Life."

"There are no neighborhoods in Manhattan anymore. South of Harlem, it feels like a bunch of districts where rich people can crash."

And from artist Aaron Rose, former owner of Ludlow Street's Alleged Gallery:

"The Lower East Side will always have some kind of edge until they manage to kick out the Latino community," said Rose. "A lot of people get pissed off that it's not what it used to be, but it's still better than SoHo."

Rather hilariously, here is how the Post chose to illustrate the article...





P.S.
Chilling?

When you try to enter Diablo Royale Este in an extra large Santa head

Avenue A between 10th Street and 11th Street..... Thanks to EV Grieve reader Hank's Pound of Spaghetti for the photo....

Thanks!

A big thanks to all the Santas who visited the neighborhood tonight and peed on our sidewalks, threw up on our stoops, made fun of our bars, didn't tip our bartenders, etc., etc.

Held hostage by Santa

Earlier today...photos by SantaCon correspondent Blue Glass...

Virage reopens

Virage on Second Avenue at Seventh Street closed this week for renovations... and, per their sign, they were expected to reopen last night... and they were open...

When children talk for a long time on payphones

Second Street at Avenue A.

Santacon taking over Starbucks, Second Avenue

Via @prismpop


Via @katemax


Via @experiri

Meanwhile, on First Avenue

Via @pegchandler