Dunno if it was supposed to be yet... but the gates were open... and I counted 14 skateboarders inside...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Open Road Park closed now on 12th Street
Why the Open Road Park is closed
Friday, July 1, 2011
Open Road Park back open last evening
Dunno if it was supposed to be yet... but the gates were open... and I counted 14 skateboarders inside...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Open Road Park closed now on 12th Street
Why the Open Road Park is closed
Happy endings: No more blood on the bench
On Wednesday, we wrote about the new bench adjacent to the MTA ticket machines on Second Avenue just south of 14th Street.... the one with the dried blood on it... EV Grieve reader Peter figured it had been there for five days. MTA officials standing there told him that it wasn't there problem.
Before!
Anyway! As of last evening, the blood is gone.
Now!
Now if someone would only pick up that coffee cup!
Before!
Anyway! As of last evening, the blood is gone.
Now!
Now if someone would only pick up that coffee cup!
And now, the newly designed menu at Odessa
Matt Rosen at Neighborhoodr notes the newly designed menu at EV Grieve favorite Odessa on Avenue A.
The previous menu seemed to be about, oh, 20 pages... Matt says that the new version is more streamlined.
Oscar winners film TV commercial in Yonah Schimmel, Katz's
A reader came across this scene earlier this week at Yonah Schimmel Knishery on Houston ... a crew was on the scene filming a commercial. After a little digging, it turns out this is a high-powered crew — Tom ("The King's Speech") Hooper on the left and Guillermo ("Pan's Labyrinth") Navarro on the right. They were also filming a scene at Katz's ... it's for a credit card commercial...
When using a Groupon at Veniero's
Last evening on 11th Street. Such confusion among the Grouponers! We even heard squealing.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Before 'Raging Bull' tonight in Tompkins Square Park
Oh, don't worry — we won't be posting all these photos before every movie in Tompkins Square Park this summer... we were curious about the first one, what we could expect, etc.
If you went, what did you think? Of the scene, not the movie..
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Things to be advised about before watching 'Raging Bull'
On the way in to see "Raging Bull" tonight in Tompkins Square Park. In perpetuity, of course! Photo by Dave on 7th.
Soon, 'Raging Bull'
Bobby Williams spotted crews setting up for the "Raging Bull" screening tonight in Tompkins Square Park... I remember those cheers...
...and it looks like quite a production, with sponsor tents and what not...
...and it looks like quite a production, with sponsor tents and what not...
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
A rundown on the recent high-profile police activity on the LES (BoweryBoogie)
Ray becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States of America on July 15 (Neither More Nor Less)
About the changes coming to PS122 (The New York Times)
CIA activity on East Fourth Street? (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Return to the Chillmaster's (The Gog Log ... and Marty After Dark ... and Slum Goddess)
An update on Tuesday night’s riot outside Tammany Hall on Orchard Street (The Lo-Down)
2 great NYC neon signs (Ephemeral New York)
Tonight is your last chance to see the exhibit by photographer Jesper Haynes, titled "St. Marks 1986-2006" at Gallery Onetwentyeight, 128 Rivington St. Closing party tonight 6-9.
And Billy Leroy notes that The White Wolf of the Bowery told his pal The Grizzly Bear that there is a treasure trove of grease and blubber oozing out of Pulino's and to hurry up and wolf it down before those slick L.E.S. Rats get to it...
Just a few more hours left for Veselka at the First Avenue/Houston kiosk
[Photo by Matt Duckor]
New Seventh Street mansion re-emerges with additional floor
The Economakis Manor isn't the only recently unveiled, newly minted single-family home in the East Village... Here we are over at 64 Seventh Street between Second Avenue and First Avenue. (Or, for coffee fans, between Van Leeuwen and Abraco.)
Before!
Jeremiah wrote extensively about the history at this address in March 2010. (Read his post at Vanishing New York here.) It has been the Les Deux Megots coffeehouse that attracted everyone from Allen Ginsberg to William F. Buckley Jr. ... as well as the Paradox, the macrobiotic restaurant where Yoko Ono and Loudon Wainwright III both worked...
According to Streeteasy, this 1837 Federal Townhouse was originally part of Peter Stuyvesant's parcel of land.
Today!
It's now a single-family home again just like in 1837 ... though now with an elevator. Per the Streeteasy listing, the new owner bought the place in April 2008 for$5.7 $5.3 million.
The house is configured with 13 windowed rooms: three interior rooms, a kitchen on the main floor, three bathrooms and four fireplaces.
Meanwhile, we're not sure what kind of welcome wagon the new tenants will receive from neighbors. According to the DOB, there have been 22 complaints filed against 64 Seventh St. in the past 12 months, ranging from "illegal work on Saturdays" to some steel beams used for the additional floor causing some walls to crack at 62 Seventh St.
Before!
Jeremiah wrote extensively about the history at this address in March 2010. (Read his post at Vanishing New York here.) It has been the Les Deux Megots coffeehouse that attracted everyone from Allen Ginsberg to William F. Buckley Jr. ... as well as the Paradox, the macrobiotic restaurant where Yoko Ono and Loudon Wainwright III both worked...
According to Streeteasy, this 1837 Federal Townhouse was originally part of Peter Stuyvesant's parcel of land.
Today!
It's now a single-family home again just like in 1837 ... though now with an elevator. Per the Streeteasy listing, the new owner bought the place in April 2008 for
The house is configured with 13 windowed rooms: three interior rooms, a kitchen on the main floor, three bathrooms and four fireplaces.
Meanwhile, we're not sure what kind of welcome wagon the new tenants will receive from neighbors. According to the DOB, there have been 22 complaints filed against 64 Seventh St. in the past 12 months, ranging from "illegal work on Saturdays" to some steel beams used for the additional floor causing some walls to crack at 62 Seventh St.
Will tonight mark the last call at the Mars Bar?
That's what people keep asking us.
Short answer: We have no idea. June 30 was the date some reliable sources had mentioned earlier in the month; the same date that Joe's Locksmith next door and some of the tenants upstairs are moving out.
However! Two reliable sources have said that Hank has put in the weekend liquor order. So either tonight will be a helluva blow out, as one of the sources put it, or the bar will be open for what promises to be a lucrative holiday weekend.
So if you're thinking about going tonight for one last time, then go ahead and stick to those plans. Worst case is you'll have to go again in a week or two or so.
One thing we can say with some certainty: The bar stools are disappearing. One regular noted that people have already been taking them as souvenirs.
Just in case — dibs on the toilet seat!
Short answer: We have no idea. June 30 was the date some reliable sources had mentioned earlier in the month; the same date that Joe's Locksmith next door and some of the tenants upstairs are moving out.
However! Two reliable sources have said that Hank has put in the weekend liquor order. So either tonight will be a helluva blow out, as one of the sources put it, or the bar will be open for what promises to be a lucrative holiday weekend.
So if you're thinking about going tonight for one last time, then go ahead and stick to those plans. Worst case is you'll have to go again in a week or two or so.
One thing we can say with some certainty: The bar stools are disappearing. One regular noted that people have already been taking them as souvenirs.
Just in case — dibs on the toilet seat!
Extra Place is turning into a big sidewalk
We've been watching the work of late on Extra Place. A worker said that they were installing new pipes or something.
Before!
And now look what's happening... it's getting sidewalked!
[Photo by Bobby Williams]
Oh no! No more skateboarding! Or dogwalking! Or basketball playing! Or "Wonder Woman" posing!
Four years later, maybe it really will look like this some day...
Someone please get Cheetah Chrome on the phone...
Before!
And now look what's happening... it's getting sidewalked!
Oh no! No more skateboarding! Or dogwalking! Or basketball playing! Or "Wonder Woman" posing!
Four years later, maybe it really will look like this some day...
Someone please get Cheetah Chrome on the phone...
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