A new hawk in town?

BaHa noted the following yesterday ...

"I watched a hawk sailing overhead (as I have done quite frequently in the general area of Whole Foods lately), until it swooped downward with no small amount of grace, landing on the water tower atop 18 2nd Ave. It was still there 30 or so minutes later. I suspect that is is not one of the Tompkins Square Park hawks, but perhaps one staking out new territory."

The latest mural outside the Mars Bar

Just noting the latest Mars Bar mural... from last weekend...

One way to recycle Christmas trees on St. Mark's Place

7A pushes re-opening date to Tuesday

The renovations at 7A on Seventh Street and Avenue A have been pushed back to Tuesday from Friday.... which I meant to note yesterday...

You can't keep a good wall brown

Just keeping tabs on the ongoing battle for the wall here at the Verizon building on 13th Street at Second Avenue... Previously.

Possible delay in emergency responses today

We'll periodically have information on local fire company activities, including when they are closed for periods of time... particularly the FDNY’s Engine 28 and Ladder 11 — the two fire companies quartered at 222 E. Second St.

The following companies that are either located in the East Village or that respond to emergencies in the East Village have M.U.D. (Multi-Unit Drill) scheduled for Sundays:

E-14
E-5
L-3
E-15/L-18

Companies MAY experience delays when responding to emergencies during Multi-Unit Drill.

Frozen drinks trend getting out of hand

This one has Correlejo Blanco tequila, chipotle chili agave, toasted cardamom infused agave, chipotle chili toasted cardamom infused agave, red pepper puree, cucumber, Dimmi Italian cordial, fresh lime, untoasted agave, orange bitters and hickory smoked ice melter. It's $27,000. You get to keep the car

Actually, EV Grieve contributor Bobby Williams passes along these ice car photos from Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Maximum security

Avenue C near 14th Street. At back of the old R&S Strauss store.

Residents resort to desperate measures to melt snow

Photo fun with the Kardashians

Already tired of seeing this ad on Houston for the reality show "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" ...

So let's have a little fun with Camera Bag...

1974...

Instant...

Cinema...

Fisheye...

Infrared...

'Every pioneer that has passed through Lower Manhattan has no doubt felt that their time there was the Golden Age'

In the Times today, Helene Stapinski checks in with an essay titled, "The Max Fish Magic: Will It Travel Well?" In the 1990s, Max Fish was more than her favorite bar — "It was an essential part of my central nervous system."

Here's another passage:

Every pioneer that has passed through Lower Manhattan has no doubt felt that their time there was the Golden Age. There were the Dutch and then the English and Irish. And, even before them, the Indians who smoked tobacco pipes on wooded paths. I’m sure my great-grandmother, who made an extended pit stop there between Ellis Island and Jersey City, thought the neighborhood had lost its edge back in the ’90s — the 1890s. “Posers,” I can hear her say in Southern Italian dialect. “Imposters.”

[Photo — Nancy Siesel/The New York Times]

Today in lost rings

Houston and East First Street.

Previously.

Avenue B, 9:21 a.m., Jan. 15

Repeat performance

From Wednesday morning...