EV Grieve

Sunday, September 22, 2013

First sunset of fall

Photo via Bobby Williams

Zoltar feels the cold shoulder of the Key Master

See?

Outside Gem Spa on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place.

Photo by Hugh Burckhardt, who does an excellent job of documenting the neighborhood from his blog More Than Usual.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Gem Spa stunner: Zoltar now has Key Master competition; doomsday predicted

Week in Grieview

[At the first Nuyorican Poets Cafe Block Party yesterday, photo by Stacie Joy]

Illegal penthouse disappears on East 6th Street (Thursday)

The Joe Strummer mural returns (Friday)

Astor Place ready for its reconstruction (Wednesday)

Peephole season at this community garden (Friday)

David McWater vs. residents at CB3/SLA meeting (Tuesday)

An improvement at 14th and First (Monday)

A mural for LES Jewels in Venice Beach, Calif. (Thursday)

Out and About with Christopher Tanner (Wednesday)

St. Mark's Bookshop looking for help (Tuesday)

The big plans for SPURA (Thursday)

When Tompkins Square Park had a Milk House (Monday)

The story of the old glass at the new Standard East Village lobby (Tuesday)

7-Eleven AC update (Thursday)

East Village murals of the early 1990s (Tuesday)

Stand-up comedy in an East Village apartment (Friday)

Fake fed robs real couple (Wednesday)

Citi Bike docking station posts are always fun (Thursday)

That early-morning sky

Photo by Nick Solares.

The NFL took my baby away

Eh. You can do much better than that headline.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

The Halal Guys are now in the East Village

We now have a cart open today in the East Village. It is found on the NE corner of 14th St. and 2nd Ave. It will be open from 11am to 11pm.
— THE HALAL GUYS (@HalalGuys) September 20, 2013

The fellows with the popular food cart on 53rd and 6th have opened an outpost hereabouts... per the above tweet... they announced this back in June.

Reader report: Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan jumped on East 9th Street

EVG reader Bayou talked with a bloodied Giuseppi Logan in Tompkins Square Park... The 78-year-old Logan, a familiar sight in the Park with his saxophone, said that he had been attacked earlier in the morning on East Ninth Street ... He said the assailant(s?) didn't take anything — because he didn't have anything... Bayou brought him bandages and a little something to eat... The soft-spoken Logan didn't provide any other details.

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For further reading in the Times from April 2012:
Giuseppi Logan’s Second Chance

Prepping for the NYC Pizza Run in Tompkins Square Park

Oh. The NYC Pizza Run starts this morning at 11 in Tompkins Square Park.

From the website!

What does participating entail?

Participants will run four laps around the park, counterclockwise. The total distance of the race is 2.25 miles. After lap 1, lap 2, and lap 3, there will be a “pizza station” set up where participants must stop to eat a slice of pizza before they can continue with the next lap. The first person to complete the run will be crowned the NYC Pizza Run Champion!

It costs $50 to enter, which includes an official race bib, the pizza and drinks afterwards at Common Ground. Also! "A portion of the proceeds will also be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)." And the slices come via Pizza by Cer té – "Manhattan’s first green pizzeria."

Dave on 7th, who took these photos, wonders if the participants will be running by the folks waiting in line for a free meal this morning...

Anyway, if you don't like NYC Pizza Runs, then move to...

Washing day

On the Bowery this morning.

Speaking of 7-Eleven... there is a "No 7-Eleven" rally tomorrow at 1 on Avenue A and East 11th Street...

Friday, September 20, 2013

Come dancing

The Julie Ruin with "Oh Come On" ... the new record from Kathleen Hanna's latest band came out the other week...

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Avenue C & East 6th Street via Michael Sean Edwards]

More about Stik and his new mural on 9th and A (Artlyst)

The Fab! Festival is Sept. 28 (Off the Grid)

Eating at Kura on St. Mark's Place (The New York Times)

Soundtracks from Tom Waits, Nick Cave, John Cale, Neil Young, Sonic Youth and more (Dangerous Minds)

Check out the film scores of John Zorn (Anthology Film Archives)

Madonna in '83 (BoweryBoogie)

PS 64 creates a dance studio out of a former shower room (DNAinfo)

A look inside Davey's Ice Cream on First Avenue (Eater)

Exhuming Dee Dee Ramone's "Funky Man" (Flaming Pablum)

A $60 million penthouse for the Puck Building (Curbed)

A look at Colony Music today (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

... and EVG regular peter radley shared these from 51 Astor the other day ... where he spotted a red-tailed hawk in action...

Gem Spa stunner: Zoltar now has Key Master competition; doomsday predicted

In a sad and shocking power play that has reverberated throughout the neighborhood, Zoltar now has a game-of-chance companion in the form of Key Blaster outside Gem Spa.

Stunned passersby were naturally stunned to see that Zoltar was no longer the only game in town, or at least here on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place.

"This is like really fucked up and stuff," said EVG reader Jim, who asked that his first name not be used in association with this post mostly because he was swearing. "First, they put the Lottery thing [Play Center] next to Zoltar. Then there is the display of like those Kardashian mags Us Weekly and OK! Are they purposefully trying to take away business from Zoltar?"

As for Key Master, a so-called "prize merchandising game," contestants compete to win such prizes as Macy's Gift Cards, iPhones, iPods [Ed note: Do they still make these?] and iPod Minis [Ed note: Do they still make these?].

You may also win presumably real $100 bills [Ed note: Do they still make these?] ... which might be a bad idea to have on display considering what some roughnecks with skateboards have done here in the past...

In case you've never been on a cruise ship, here's how Key Master works: You use a joystick for horizontal movement and a large button for the vertical alignment. Then! You manipulate a "key" so that it lines up perfectly with a "lock" holding a prize. If you successfully guide the key into the lock, then you win the prize. (OK, I just totally lifted that from this fellow's blog.)

A tutorial. (God, whatever you do — turn down the volume!)

Takeaway: Key Master is dumb! Long live Zoltar!

It's peephole season people!

Oh, what a bad headline! Anyway! Since 2005, East Village artist J. Kathleen White has created a set of peephole dioramas that she displays along the fence in the Ninth Street Community Garden at Avenue C.

And the 2013 edition is now on view, as Bobby Williams discovered yesterday...