I've seen the stories in recent weeks about Lauren Silberman, the first woman in history to register for an NFL regional scouting combine. (She is trying out as a field-goal kicker.) Today, she competes alongside college kickers at the Jets training facility in Florham Park, N.J., for the right to advance to a Dallas super-regional combine in April.
The previous stories about just says that she lives in New York. The Post mentions today that she lives in the East Village. (Not sure what the Post defines as the East Village.)
In any event, Silberman, 28, was a club soccer player at the University of Wisconsin. Plus, she worked on her master's in comparative media studies at MIT, "writing her thesis in 2009 about how athletes use video games to boost their performance."
Here she is talking about the combine ...
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
A brief history of humiliating Teddy bears in the East Village
Goggla spotted this on East Second Street near Avenue B today ... and yes, the note around the neck reads "can't bear it anymore."
Why must people do this to poor stuffed bears? From the EV Grieve "humiliating teddy bears" archives...
Here are the new bike corrals outside Continuum Cycles on Avenue B
Thanks to @chufucious for passing along this photo showing the brand-new bike corrals in front of Continuum Cycles (and Continuum Coffee) on Avenue B near East 12th Street...
Here's a photo of the DOT installing them yesterday via @nixta ...
Back in December, we noted that CB3 OK'd bike corrals (CityRacks!) for the 4th Street Food Co-op and Continuum Cycles.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Here's your new East Ninth Street bike rack (18 comments)
More bike corrals on the way for East Village businesses
New-look Flea Market Cafe shows itself on Avenue A; reopens March 11
The Flea Market Cafe closed back in the fall for renovations... the paper is off the front windows now...
The folks at Ten Degrees around the corner on St. Mark's are now operating the restaurant. There's not much information on the Cafe's website, except for the opening date — March 11.
H/T to esquared™ who had the details last month in a comment.
Speaking of flea markets...
There's one today at the East Side Community High School on East 11th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue ... 12:30-5 p.m.
Lawsuit claims a British empire at the World Class Learning Academy on East 2nd Street
An axed admissions director at the World Class Learning Academy — a U.K.-based independent school for kids from 3 to 11 — claims in a lawsuit that British employees are treated much better than their American counterparts, the Post reports today.In the suit claiming national-origin, sex and age discrimination, Sarah Bottoms, who lives in Brooklyn, alleges that administrators at the school on East Second Street "gave British employees greater allowances for time off, raises, excusal from student supervisory duties and subsidized lunches."
The school, at the site of the former LaSalle Academy, is run by Brits John and Dawn Taylor.
Also, there's this claim:
"On more than one occasion, Ms. Taylor told Ms. Bottoms that men preferred Asian woman because" their sexual organs were smaller, the suit claims.
Bottoms says she went to HR — and was fired.
An attorney for the school, where tuition is upwards of $34,000 annually, said that they will conduct a thorough investigation of the allegations.
[Image via Facebook]
Friday, March 1, 2013
[Updated] Fire at Village View tonight
[Via an EVG reader]
We're still waiting for more information about the fire that broke out tonight around 7 in an apartment in Village View at East Fourth Street and First Avenue...
.@evgrieve RT @buzzfeednews Whoa! -- Fire in the East Village, New York vine.co/v/bXplZmiW3Er
— matt L (@longoM) March 1, 2013
To be continued...
Updated:
Per a source: Fire in one room on 18th floor. Quickly extinguished. One firefighter slightly injured.
At John Penley's NYU protest
This afternoon, longtime activist John Penley started his campout to call on NYU to help house the homeless.
Bobby Williams stopped by to see what was happening...
Bobby Williams stopped by to see what was happening...
'Walter Robinson: Indulgences' opening tonight at Dorian Grey
From the EVG inbox...Walter Robinson: Indulgences
Recent Paintings & Works on Paper Exhibition: March 1-31
Reception: tonight, 6-9
Dorian Grey Gallery is pleased to present "Walter Robinson: Indulgences," a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper.
Robinson's work visualizes the idea of indulgence, both in terms of contemporary consumer appetites and in reference to the religious practice by which sins can be forgiven. Using a straightforward illustrative style, he presents pop culture images of cheeseburgers, alcoholic beverages and other comestibles, as well as pin-ups (both female and male), pharmaceutical products, portraits of celebrities, and paperback images of romance and drama.
Walter Robinson was born in 1950 and has lived in New York City since 1968. He has a long career as an art critic and editor, co-founding "Art- Rite" magazine in the 1970s, serving as news editor for "Art in America" magazine in the 1980s and early '90s, and as founding editor of "Artnet Magazine" from 1996 to 2012.
Gallery info here. Dorian Grey is at 437. E. Ninth St. near Avenue A.
[Image via Dorian Grey]
Musical interludes: Steve Cannon plays piano at Tribes Gallery
Love the ending. Video by Jim Flynn. Learn more about Steve Cannon and A Gathering of the Tribes on East Third Street here.
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