A canopy for King Samson on St.Mark's Place

Yesterday, workers were busy putting in a new canopy at the recently opened tattoo shop (formerly Cherries!) near the Grassroots on St. Mark's Place...

And here's what it looks like now...

[Bobby Williams]

And here is King Samson...

[Bobby Williams]

Avenue A, 7:51 p.m., Nov. 24

And on First Avenue earlier in the day...

Photo by Bobby Williams...

Tompkins Square Park, 3:23 p.m., Nov. 24

Things that people are throwing away today (or yesterday)

Seventh Street and Cooper Square...

Breaking: Christmas Holiday tree stands in place outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

Sources say that the Christmas holiday trees and marijuana will arrive tomorrow or the next day.

There are people waiting in line for Best Buy on Union Square to open at midnight

Thanksgiving morning at the World Famous Pee Phone

...and behind the phone on Avenue A at Seventh Street...

Is that a lamp post or are you just happy to see me?

That headline never gets old... Photos in Tompkins Square Park today by Bobby Williams.

In which a film crew calls your wife a 'stupid bitch' on Avenue A

Well then. A pleasant Thanksgiving to you too!

So we asked RyanAvenueA for a little background on this incident last night. Ryan and his wife were having dinner at an Avenue A restaurant. There were cones blocking the west side of Avenue A along (from Fourth Street on down) to restrict parking. There weren't any signs indicating what this was for, but all the cones were labeled "MC," Ryan said. A van was parked there, with an extension cord coming out of the rear passenger door that plugged into the panel at the base of a lamp post.

A little later, Ryan's wife goes outside for a cigarette. She asked crew members what they were doing, and they said they were "securing the location" for "A Gifted Man." To which she asked why they needed all the parking now. She said they should have permits up if they want to block the parking. They told her to get lost.

"As we walk out to go home, she slipped a little on the wet pavement, and the bigger buy (there's a few of them) goes, 'I hope you fall on your fucking head you stupid bitch.' I turn around and ask him what the fuck that was for, and he says I should ask my wife. He starts walking away and I ask him directly if they are there filming the CBS show 'A Gifted Man.' He just stares at me, and I repeat my question. He finally says yes and walks away."

As of this morning, the crews weren't set up yet for filming, though someone had posted permits.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Men's room at 7B. Not new, but ...]

Check out Jen Doll's cover story at the Voice — How to be a New Yorker (The Village Voice) ... which includes commentary by Jeremiah Moss.

Five East Village delis busted for selling booze to minors (The Lo-Down)

Progress at the subway super-station project on East Houston (BoweryBoogie)

Marty visits Sardi's (Marty After Dark)

Check out the latest from the EV Grieve animated GIF tribute site (EVGIF)

And if you're in town tonight, then consider seeing "Transatlantic Coffee" at 8:15 at the Anthology Film Archives ... A reader notes that the film stars longtime Lower East Side resident Kevin Pinassi, who recently received Best Actor for the movie at the inaugural Hell's Kitchen Film Festival.

[Kevin Pinassi photo by Thomas Ward]

And you thought that today would be a slow news day

Hardly.

Remember that toilet-paper dispenser that someone put up in a tree near McSorley's?

Yeah, well — it's out of paper.

[Bobby Williams]

In time for your Thanksgiving, the Hells Angels

Anyway, in case that you haven't seen it yet, someone has extracted a portion of the 1983 documentary "Hells Angels Forever" ... only showing footage around the clubhouse on East Third Street...



Per the message from the person who uploaded the clip:

I edited this film down from the full length feature, "Hells Angels Forever," to include most of the footage that was filmed on 3rd St., NYC. To be clear, I AM NOT THE ORIGINAL FILMMAKER. I lived across the street from the clubhouse for 10 years, from mid-1970s to mid-1980s. These are the guys I used to see on the block everyday.

The first guy speaking is Howie Weisbrod, who's apartment was directly across the street from mine. Next guy is Big Vinny Girolamo, who later lost his life in a knife fight with an Oakland Hells Angel, back in 1979. There's a plaque in his memory posted over the renovated clubhouse door to this day.

Most of the East Third Street scenes start just after the 2-minute mark... and an entertaining scene involving the 9th Precinct and an angry neighbor starts around the 6:59 mark...

Last day for Xoom on 14th Street

As the tweet shows, today is the last day for Xoom, the smoothie-coffee bar on East 14th Street in the Pure Fitness retail space ... Last week, Xoom owner Jennifer London said, "Unfortunately, the gym ownership has not been able to hold up their side of our contract making it impossible for me to run my business there."

Xoom opened here this past July ... after moving from Seventh Street in the spring.