And have you noticed how many East Village windows still have tape on them to protect from flying glass and stuff...? (Or maybe this pre-dates Irene... and to ward off UFOs...)
You may
Sunday, August 26, 2012
One year ago today: Waiting for Hurricane Irene
While parts of the South brace for Hurricane Isaac... I'm reminded that it was one year ago today when New York started prepping for the arrival of Hurricane Irene...
And have you noticed how many East Village windows still have tape on them to protect from flying glass and stuff...? (Or maybe this pre-dates Irene... and to ward off UFOs...)
You mayrelive revisit all of our Irene posts here.
And have you noticed how many East Village windows still have tape on them to protect from flying glass and stuff...? (Or maybe this pre-dates Irene... and to ward off UFOs...)
You may
The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Tompkins Square Park today
You can read more about the musicians here.
Admission is free. Free jazz. (Heh.)
Updated: Dave on 7th passes along this shot of workers setting up the stage ... it went up around 8:30...
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Star lives, and may be available for adoption
Star, the dog that the NYPD shot on East 14th Street on Aug. 13, is OK and may soon be available for adoption, according to Gothamist.
As of last night, Star is now in the custody of Animal Care & Control. Said Richard Gentles of the AC&C: "Her owner had until that day and time to reclaim her but since he didn’t ownership was legally transferred to AC&C."
According to Gentles, Star's medical bills, "which have already amounted to nearly $10,000, will be paid for through donations to AC&C’s Special Treatment and Recovery (S.T.A.R.) Fund."
And per Gothamist:
"It's expected she'll be put up for adoption—but Gentles says no one has expressed interest in being her human (yet)!"
Serena Solomon at DNAinfo has more on the story here.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Report: NYPD shoots dog on 14th Street and Second Avenue (Warning: Post includes graphic image of the dog after the shooting)
[Image courtesy of AC&C via Gothamist]
Trash and a dead rat at the Tompkins Square Park Playground this morning
A reader this morning noted an unusually dirty playground in Tompkins Square Park on East Ninth Street and Avenue A ... newspapers, half-eaten containers of food, etc. ...
But... per the reader, "The icing on the cake was the dead rat, which was still pulsating, chilling in a swarm of flies by the still broken-down sandbox."
In the summer of 2010, New York magazine named this one of the city's best playgrounds.
But... per the reader, "The icing on the cake was the dead rat, which was still pulsating, chilling in a swarm of flies by the still broken-down sandbox."
In the summer of 2010, New York magazine named this one of the city's best playgrounds.
How do we feel about a Tim Hortons opening on East Houston?
As you may have noticed in recent weeks... hanging in the vacant space next to Katz's on East Houston...
EVG reader Chris F. sent along the above photo. BoweryBoogie and The Lo-Down both recently noted the arrival of Tim Hortons, launched by the former NHL star who spent some 20 years in the league.
Per the website:
And...
There are now 3,000 locations in the United States and Canada ... including 11 in the city. (This will make No. 12.)
I'm not at-all familiar with the chain (except what I posted above) ... though I'm not sure I like the sound of "Timbits"...
EVG reader Chris F. sent along the above photo. BoweryBoogie and The Lo-Down both recently noted the arrival of Tim Hortons, launched by the former NHL star who spent some 20 years in the league.
Per the website:
The Tim Hortons chain was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario. The chain's focus on top quality, always fresh product, value, great service and community leadership has allowed it to grow into the largest quick service restaurant chain in Canada specializing in always fresh coffee, baked goods and homestyle lunches.
And...
Sadly, Tim did not live to witness the chain's great success. He was traveling back to Buffalo from a game at Maple Leaf Gardens when he was killed in an automobile accident on February 21, 1974. The Buffalo Sabres retired his Number 2 sweater as a tribute to his memory. At the time of Tim's death, there were 40 Tim Hortons restaurants.
There are now 3,000 locations in the United States and Canada ... including 11 in the city. (This will make No. 12.)
I'm not at-all familiar with the chain (except what I posted above) ... though I'm not sure I like the sound of "Timbits"...
Tomorrow is NYU Freshman Move-In Day
Tomorrow, NYU welcomes nearly 4,000 new students during the school's official Freshman Move-In Day. For the new students and parents, this means a day of great excitement and stress. For you, well, tomorrow may not be the best day to, say, finally decide to rent a car and run errands, like drive to P.C. Richard on East 14th St. to buy that new air conditioner you've been talking about all summer.
Meanwhile, at other NYU residences, some students are already moving in, such as here on the Bowery at East Second Street...
Anyway, please be on your best behavior tomorrow. Any encouragement, words of wisdom, neighborly advice, etc., to pass along ...?
Friday, August 24, 2012
Today in photos of a Home Depot cart tied to a light pole with plastic on East 9th Street
Phew.
Pic by Bobby Williams.
Tonight at the Pyramid Club: 'Rise great spirit of Avenue A!'
From the EV Grieve inbox... heh ... at the Pyramid tonight starting at 10 ...
Tonight join Rosalie Knox & Jacquelyn Gallo as we journey into the unknown where unicorns frolic, faeries shine & nails get did.
With musical offerings by DJ MIKE BILL$ and DJ MAX GERONIMO, we summons the olden gods of yore who once burst through ye olde Pyramid Club with splendor and majesty. Rise great spirit of Avenue A!
If it pleases the court, our pro go-go dancers including seasoned contortionist AMAZING AMY + majorly bonerific ARIC-SHUN aka JUGGERNUT + the unihorned wonder REVE and many more will grip their feet and steady their beat to music curated by the best djs in our friends list — all MC'd by Mr JOHNNY BIZARRO himself.
A place where only oddity reigns supreme, costumes are encouraged.
Searching into the darkness, we jump into the abyss. What do we say to the God of death? Not today.
~FOR WE ARE HORNY~
BASEMENT OF PYRAMID CLUB
DOWNSTAIRS FROM 80S NIGHT!
$5 - entrance to both!!
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
Lawsuit claims East Village trainer is bedding his clients, dumping them via Facebook (New York Post)
Counting the driving infractions on Delancey and Essex (Animal NY)
The fate that awaits Colony Records (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Bloomberg thinks the city's homeless shelters are a pleasurable experience (Runnin' Scared)
The Voice is leaving Cooper Square (DNAinfo)
What if the Bowery had a different name? (Ephemeral New York)
One on One's new neon (BoweryBoogie)
Something new in the works for 13th Street and University Place (Flaming Pablum)
... and THE SUMMER OF BEES RETURNS... Swarm found on Grand Street (The Lo-Down)
Josie's opens tonight on East Sixth Street
Tonight at 6, Josie's opens at 520 E. Sixth St., former home of the late, great Joe's Bar here between Avenue A and Avenue B.
The bar closed last Thanksgiving after proprietor Joe Vajda died. (Joe's opened in that space in 1973. Joe and two other partners previously had a place across the street.)
Earlier in the year, as we first reported, Richard Corton and his business partner Kirk Marcoe, who own Mona's and Sophie's, purchased the bar from Dottie, Joe's longtime domestic partner.
The two considered all this as more of a restoration than a renovation. So you'll find a space that looks and feels very familiar... Which is all good.
As Dave on 7th noted after a recent look-see:
"The bar has been beautifully refinished. I spent 10 years of my life in this bar and I think what they're doing is going to be beautiful and authentic."
Indeed.
Corton and Marcoe even found a company in Los Angeles to replicate the exact same wallpaper that adorned Joe's through the years...
And here's a shot of the old wallpaper before it was removed ...
There is a new pool table and jukebox ... and likely some new music. Dottie took all of the country-and-western CDs with her...
Also, expect the return of the giant, Soviet-era Lowenbrau clock (once it's working again). But there aren't any seedless mandarins.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Joe's Bar is joining the Sophie's-Mona's family
2 additional floors coming to 205 Avenue A; another Lowenberg-Issac production
205 Avenue A between East 12th Street and East 13th Street is resident-free as workers have gutted the building this past week... According to the DOB, two additional floors are on the way via developer Terrence Lowenberg and architect Ramy Issac.
Perhaps we can expect to see more dorm-like conditions upon 205's unveiling, much like the previous Lowenberg-Issac production at 326-328 E. Fourth St., where there is a six-bedroom unit available for $8,000. (The two also teamed up for the in-progress additions at 154 Second Ave.)
Meanwhile, there are two complaints dated Wednesday on file with the DOB... from next door at No. 203:
CONSTRUCTION AT THE ADDRESS LSITED IS NOT TAKING PROPER SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND AS A RESULT NAILS, SCREWS AND OTHER DEBRIS IS FALLING ONTO ADJACENT PROPERTY
Previously on EV Grieve:
City has OK'd one-floor addition for Ben Shaoul-owned building on Avenue A and East 12th Street
[VIDEO] 'Suffering terribly' from the mystery noise on East Ninth Street
Earlier this week, we posted the signs about the "terrible screeching noise" from somewhere behind a building on East Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C ...
There's also a video.
Per the description on the video: "If anybody has any idea what the noise might be and how it can be stopped, please let me know."
There's also a video.
Per the description on the video: "If anybody has any idea what the noise might be and how it can be stopped, please let me know."
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