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Avenue A at Second Street last evening...

Thanks to our friend BaHa for sending these photos along.

[Perhaps better viewed while watching this. Don't worry — it's not ZZ Top.]

Gang warfare tonight in Tompkins Square Park

Tonight marks the third of the free music-movie nights in Tompkins Square Park. This evening's picture show: The Warriors.

And of course, the most terrifying gang The Warriors encounter: The Punks in a desolate Union Square Station! Those fellows in roller skates, rugby shirts and denim overalls.

This must be what it's like to get into a tiff at a Gabe Stulman restaurant...

Hey ho!

And the rest of the summer's lineup...

July 21 — Star Trek
July 28 — Arthur
Aug. 4 — Pope of Greenwich Village
Aug. 11 — Kickass
Aug. 18 — Rosemary’s Baby
Aug. 25 — The Godfather
Sept. 1 — Stake Land

Here's the official website for the summer movies.

A loft on the Bowery — with a catch

Here we are at 354 Bowery Apt. 5 ... between Great Jones and Fourth Street... This loft is going for $1.1 million.

Here's the listing. See if you can spot the catch!

This is a rare opportunity to get 1200 sqft on the Bowery!!!

Unbelievably large, entire floor, penthouse loft on a 5th floor of a walk-up building. The space is now setup as one bedroom and can be converted easily to a two bedroom or even 3. The loft gets great light thanks to its big windows and two exposures east/west, and more than that, 2 skylights with the option to create a 3rd one. Also an option to a third exposure (south).

The loft just got new pipes and new electricity , and 2 fireplaces that could operate again with a little bit of work. The apartment currently is under construction so a bit of a mess inside, and is missing the rear wall (part of the building’s plan to rebuild the rear wall).

New sculptures in the Kenkeleba House Garden

EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams notes some new sculptures in the Kenkeleba House Garden on East Third Street just east of Avenue B...

For more on the Kenkeleba House Garden, go here.

East Village skies, during and after the rain tonight

Photos by Bobby Williams.

There's a moon over the Christodora House tonight...

Photos by Shawn Chittle.

Temporary traffic light down at Houston and Norfolk

Well, that was a helluva 10-minute storm...

A reader delivers this report:

That quick storm that blew through the neighborhood tonight knocked down a huge temporary traffic light/street lamp pole and attached wires on Houston St in front of the Red Square building. DOT has been doing work here as part of the Houston St construction project and put up these temporary light poles a couple of months ago. As usual, looks like they went with the cheapest contractor and subsequently got shoddy, unsafe work. You can see the knocked over pole in the middle of the pictures. It looks like it wasn't secured to anything, and the concrete base was blown right over by the wind from the storm. The gold SUV across the street swerved to miss the falling wires and hit another pole, but shortly after drove away. Luckily no one else was hurt.

So will workers just prop the pole back up and leave it to fall over again the next time a thunderstorm rolls through?

Houston temporarily closed between A and B

And samo notes that Houston is closed between A and B due to the downed temporary light pole...

The rainbow, from ConEd to the Bowery

EV Grieve reader AC is first to check in with a rainbow photo...

...and from @bio623

... and @saywhatagain

... and @czilka ...

... and John Iz...

... and Han Shan from Third Avenue and 11th Street ...

...and Curt Hoppe...with a photo from the Bowery...

...and from Steven Hirsch...

And this shot by @Section215 gives us a nice perspective on the double rainbow...

...And a shot from the FDR by @nsanchis

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

Part of the old Ratner's revealed at Met Foods (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Black-and-white photos of the Second Line parade for dba's Ray Deter (Neither More Nor Less)

Some of Charles Cushman's NYC color photos from the 1940s (Stupefaction)

A death in Tompkins Square Park Monday afternoon? (BoweryBoogie)

NYC to get more Midwestern with arrival of first Steak 'n Shake (Eater)

Celebrating the summer with live music (The Village Voice)

And now the Strokes with their new ad for Dramamine® ...

Rent the former Le Souk space for $25,000 a month

Back in late May, we noted that part of the former Le Souk space on Avenue B was on the market. Or maybe it was the whole space. We couldn't tell!

In any event, there is a listing for the the space.

Here's the description:

Rent: $25,000 Per Month Size: 6,480 Sf On Two Levels / 3,240 Sf On Each Former Restaurant / Nightclub Space. 32 Feet Of Frontage. Prime East Village Happening Location. Loaded With Egresses And Bathrooms. One-Of-Kind Interior Designs And Layout. Tons Of Day & Night Foot Traffic. Huge Skylight Exposed Wood Ceilings And Large Wide Open Areas. Prime Residential Neighborhood. *Perfect For Restaurant, Spa, Warehouse, Liquor Store, Hardware Store, Any Use Considered

Warehouse? Hardware store? Excuse us for a moment. (Haha!)

However holds the lease must promise to continue holding mysterious late-night parties and after-prom bashes...

But this building on Avenue C, add a 'dream penthouse'

Here at 94 Avenue C near Sixth Street, this four-story building is new to the market for $3.3 million. As the listing shows, this is the latest East Village building for sale in which the owner could build an additional floor. Per the ALL CAPS description:

RAISE THE ROOF, BUILD A MEZZANINE AND ADD A FLOOR, TO CREATE A DREAM PENTHOUSE OF ABOUT 2000SF PLUS TERRACES! GREAT FOR INVESTORS, USERS, FAMILYS OR FRIENDS!

Other properties in which you are encouraged to add a floor are here on Seventh Street ... and Avenue B ...

Meanwhile, the former Singas Pizza here on the ground level is for rent for $5,000 a month.

A vision of Times Square's future in 1986

EV Grieve reader Sarah passed along these scans from a spring 1986 issue of Psychotronic, the B-movie magazine ...

(The images are actually connected, but we couldn't make that work as well here...)

The first image is a nightmare vision of the "future" Times Square, which, as Sarah notes, is exactly how the actual Times Square turned out ...

and a photo of the St. Marks Cinema as it was nearing the end of its run...

For more on the St. Marks Cinema on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place, go here.

Update:

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Beatrice the Cat for splicing these images together for us...

Local 'blogger' wrong about 'butchered' willow tree

Last Dec. 10, a local (hyperlocal?) "blogger" reported on a willow tree that workers cut back on Eighth Street near Avenue C. ("Butchered" was the actual word.) Several readers assured the local blogger that the tree would, some day, come back.



Meanwhile, seven or so months later, EV Grieve Willow Tree Correspondents Bobby Williams and Dave on 7th have noted that the tree is looking healthy again.

Not quite back to as it was before, but on the way, perhaps.



Previously on EV Grieve:
The willow trees of Loisaida

11th Street condo owners want to chop down this willow tree