... and making music at Second Street... photo by Lola Saenz...
Friday, September 15, 2017
Gorillas in the mist (on the Bowery)
... and making music at Second Street... photo by Lola Saenz...
So long Cher, the willow tree of La Plaza Cultural
Workers arrived this morning at La Plaza Cultural to remove the willow tree in the southwest corner of the community garden here on Avenue C and Ninth Street.
The tree, nicknamed Cher, was in bad shape, as this shot of the rotting trunk shows...
EVG correspondent Steven shared these photos...
... and later via Bobby Williams...
Previously on EV Grieve:
A wake for the last willow trees at La Plaza Cultural
At the Weeping Willow Wake
Jimmy Webb will make dreams come true with new rock 'n' roll boutique I Need More
[Photo of Jimmy Webb for EVG by Walter Wlodarczyk]
Jimmy Webb, a familiar figure in the East Village during his long tenure as the manager and buyer at Trash & Vaudeville, is opening a rock 'n'roll boutique next month on the Lower East Side at 75A Orchard St. between Broome and Grand. Webb gave me a quick overview about the shop, called I Need More, which opens on Oct. 13.
Why did you decide to return to the retail business?
What else would I do? In my heart I never really left.
I’ve never really looked as myself as a seller of anything or even as someone in the retail business. What I do is I make dreams come true and I love doing it! I simply find what’s inside people, I help bring it out, and then I help them dress it up! I guess that’s the retail business, but the word "business" sounds so disconnected from "dream maker," and I’d rather make "dreams come true!"
Why did you pick the Lower East Side for the shop?
I didn’t pick the Lower East Side, or any special place for I Need More. I was very open to where the rock 'n' roll angels were leading me when I finally decided to open a store. A certain group of friends, I call them angels, guided me to the clarity that I needed to open a brick-and-mortar store. Loving all of New York City I was very open to anywhere in Manhattan. My heart and spirit is in ALL of New York City.
Of course the Lower East Side is a HUGE part of my life since I ran away and arrived in the city in 1975. So I wasn’t the least bit surprised when that second batch of angels ended up leading me right to 75 Orchard Street — 75A in fact! How cool is that? I take that leap of faith and run away to New York City in 1975 as a 16-year-old boy. Decades later another leap of faith leaving everything I know and ending up at 75A Orchard Street.
What can people expect from I Need More?
It’s about the spirit of New York City — past, present and future, And also the spirit of what art, music, and everything else that colors the world! It will be about everything that is real, raw, energetic, welcoming, passionate, dirty, beautiful and most of all — honest!
I’m a firm believer in "we are the future.” That "no future” pessimism doesn’t cut it with me. Like Joey Ramone singing “What a Wonderful World” or Iggy singing every song that Iggy sings. I Need More aims to please with every heartbeat within it. It’s here to make dreams come true.
Thanks to Walter Wlodarczyk for the photo. Find more of his work here.
Block Party on, 9th Street
Time again (tomorrow!) for the annual block party on Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.
Here are details via the EVG inbox...
Annual 9th Street A-1 Block Association Block Party
Saturday, Sept. 16, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. (no rain date)
Live Music (from noon - 4 p.m.)
MUSIC LINE UP:
Ginga Pura
EV-3
Sea Kelp (Originals)
Ron and his Personal Demons
BroadBand
Resident artists, crafts people, and photographers will be showing and selling their work, and residents will be selling a la "stoop sale" — antiques, bric-a-brac, clothing, accessories, music, jewelry, etc.
Block businesses include:
• Beetle Bug (florist), Enchantments, Flower Power (herbs), Love Gang (clothing), Mr. Throwback (vintage clothing and accessories), Ollie's Place (cat adoption), Pink Olive (gifts), Polytima (jewelry), Puppy Love Kitty Kat (pet supplies), Reason Outpost (clothing)
• Restaurants/Cafes: Cagen, Good Beer, Superiority Burger, Tacos Morales, Thursday Kitchen, Whitman's, Zucker Bakery
• Hair Salons/Barbers: Crops for Girls, Lovemore & Do, Maria Mok Salon, Neighborhood Barber, Tsumiki Salon
The Mount Sinai Health System wants to hear from you (in this survey anyway)
You can find the 10-question survey here. (It's billed as a "Community Health Needs Assessment for Mount Sinai Downtown.") There's also more info on the landing page about Mount Sinai's plans.
As you know, the Mount Sinai Health System is in the midst of its years-long project to rebuild Mount Sinai Beth Israel, transitioning to a network of smaller facilities throughout lower Manhattan.
East Village Vintage Collective celebrates 2 years on 12th Street tonight with some 'terrible' offerings
[Image via Instagram]
Via the East Village Vintage Collective Instagram account:
Join us for our two-year anniversary party 🎉 featuring the fucking terrible art and video show, tarot card reading by @gaylestacher, free drinks, & 20 percent off store wide! Starts at 7 p.m. Thanks to our amazing customers who have helped a small business survive over these last two years!
The shop is at 545 E. 12th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
Previously on EV Grieve:
At the East Village Vintage Collective
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Thursday's parting shot
Photo on Seventh Street today via Derek Berg. (Crews were out filming something called "Detective Chinatown 2.")
Tree down on 12th Street near Avenue A
EVG regular Greg Masters shares this... a 20-year-old tree on the north side of 12th Street just west of Avenue A was upended late this morning. No eyewitnesses but it apparently was uprooted by a truck backing into a parking space. Police were soon on the scene and the tree was later cut into pieces...
I Am a Rent-Stabilized Tenant
East Village resident Susan Schiffman has been photographing the apartments of rent-stabilized tenants living in the East Village for her Instagram account, I Am a Rent Stabilized Tenant. She will share some of the photos here for this ongoing EVG feature.
Photos and text by Susan Schiffman
Tenant: Tanya, since 1985
In 1978, Tanya came to NYC from Ann Arbor, Mich., to attend NYU. She lived in the dorms Weinstein and then Brittany. There were only three dorms back then.
After graduation in 1982, Tanya looked for an apartment in the East Village. Tanya and I reminisced about how you could walk around the neighborhood and ask supers if there were any apartments available in their building. This is how she found her apartment on 13th Street.
She met a pop star and moved to London to be with him, giving up her apartment in the process. They came back to New York, where she moved in and out of 10 different places. She found her current apartment through friends in 1985.
Tanya loves that all of the moldings in her apartment are original. She also loves that each room by law had to have a door and a window to be classified as a room.
She and her apartment are very inspired by Heywood-Wakefield Modern Furniture. She is obsessed with Hawaiian textiles. She has recovered her couch about five times. Tanya has made all of the pillows, curtains, duvet covers and reupholstery in her home. She repainted the floor eight times with a tiny brush.
If you're interested in inviting Susan in to photograph your apartment for an upcoming post, then you may contact her via this email.
Photos and text by Susan Schiffman
Tenant: Tanya, since 1985
In 1978, Tanya came to NYC from Ann Arbor, Mich., to attend NYU. She lived in the dorms Weinstein and then Brittany. There were only three dorms back then.
After graduation in 1982, Tanya looked for an apartment in the East Village. Tanya and I reminisced about how you could walk around the neighborhood and ask supers if there were any apartments available in their building. This is how she found her apartment on 13th Street.
She met a pop star and moved to London to be with him, giving up her apartment in the process. They came back to New York, where she moved in and out of 10 different places. She found her current apartment through friends in 1985.
Tanya loves that all of the moldings in her apartment are original. She also loves that each room by law had to have a door and a window to be classified as a room.
She and her apartment are very inspired by Heywood-Wakefield Modern Furniture. She is obsessed with Hawaiian textiles. She has recovered her couch about five times. Tanya has made all of the pillows, curtains, duvet covers and reupholstery in her home. She repainted the floor eight times with a tiny brush.
If you're interested in inviting Susan in to photograph your apartment for an upcoming post, then you may contact her via this email.
La Plaza's grand willow tree comes down tomorrow
Back in July, officials at La Plaza Cultural announced that the last two willow trees in the community garden on the southwest corner of Avenue C and Ninth Street would have to be removed.
The trees, nicknamed Cher and Krusty, are rotting, and may be in danger of falling during a storm. La Plaza gardeners have said that the trees are more than 40 years old.
The Parks Department announced that they will have the larger of the two willows — the one near Avenue C nicknamed Cher — removed tomorrow morning. (The second willow, Krusty, located near the gazebo, is also in poor shape and will likely need to come down at some point.)
During the work on Friday, La Plaza will be closed.
Last night, La Plaza gardeners removed any lawn furniture in Cher's path ... and said their final goodbyes.
Rev. Billy presided over a Weeping Willow Wake on July 9.
[Photo on July 9 by Steven]
Updated 5 p.m.
EVG regular Jose Garcia shares some flyers that someone placed at La Plaza...
Previously on EV Grieve:
A wake for the last willow trees at La Plaza Cultural
At the Weeping Willow Wake
A letter for new NYU students: 'think good thoughts about yourself and others'
EVG reader Lori Kohn shared this letter that she spotted taped to a light post on Ninth Street and Third Avenue...
[Click on image for more detail]
The letter of support reads in part:
The letter is signed by "your neighbor," Mr. Steck.
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The letter of support reads in part:
The struggles among new students at NYU are no doubt taking different forms. You might be struggling with how to meet friends or how to socialize with people who drink when you don't, or how to get involved in something, anything, when time seems so precious, etc. Some of you are wondering if everyone's smarter than you or if you're smart enough to be at NYU. Some of you are stressed with performance anxieties, with being cool. Some of you are just missing a home-cooked meal.
The struggles are real and sometimes hard, but they are normal. They are not a sign of a problem, but just the normal challenges of transitions to a new phase in one's life.
Dismiss any idea that your enrollment at NYU was a fluke. You belong here.
My suggestion: think good thoughts about yourself and others. Relax. And through it all, know that you are where you belong.
The letter is signed by "your neighbor," Mr. Steck.
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