Monday, May 11, 2009
Information on recent TSP attacks
Bob Arihood has detailed reporting on several recent attacks in Tompkins Square Park — one of which may have resulted in the death of a young woman. Meanwhile, something seems a little different this year around the Park— more menacing, perhaps. As a commenter noted on Neither More Nor Less, "I've been somewhat worried about this summer in TSP. There are a lot more people hanging out already than there was this time last year."
How the recession may change New York City
New York magazine's cover story this week is titled "Recession Culture." And it begins:
It’s a truism now that money was an engulfing, distorting force of the boom years, particularly in New York. At the level of urban development, it skewed our economy; at the level of culture, it misshaped values; at the level of individual behavior, it corrupted habits and discolored thoughts: This is your brain on money.
Come, let us dance like children of the night
In Tompkins Square Park Friday evening. A bit of a Wes Anderson moment, someone said. And, yes, the fellow is playing "Wish you Were Here" on the guitar.
Meanwhile, Slum Goddess has more from the weekend, including photos of the Bodies of Pyongyang performance at TSP.
Like a Virgin Megastore going-out-of-business sale (groan)
As you may have heard, the Virgin Megastore is closing on Union Square. I was finally lured in Saturday like a sucker with the "up to 40 percent" off signs... Also, I wanted to make a bid on the Lady GaGa banner in the window. (Unfortunately, my offer of "You pay for the can of gas and I'll rip it down and set it on fire on 14th Street" wasn't accepted.)
Well, as for the rest of the store. The new CDs that are usually marked for sale with a $13.99 sticker over the $18.99 sticker...were all $18.99 again. And they were 25 percent off. Ditto for the DVDs. Most new DVDs were $24.99. So with the 25 percent off -- you're pretty much paying what you were paying before the store was going out of business. I'm sure there were bargains elsewhere. Or not. I didn't stick along long enough to dig. Oh, one thing I saw for 40% off? Stationery! Which was all sold out. And the Blondie pocketbooks were also 40% off.
Another cupcake choice in the East Village
There's a new cafe/bakery called Pinisi on First Avenue between First Street and Second Street. Located where the Edwin Travel Agency II used to be. (The agency moved to Allen Street.)
We're sort of assuming this is an outpost of the Pinisi around the corner of Fourth Street.
We're sort of assuming this is an outpost of the Pinisi around the corner of Fourth Street.
Not everyone thrilled about new ramen place coming to the former Loves Saves the Day spot
Seventh Street at Second Avenue, at the site of the shuttered Love Saves the Day. Which is becoming a ramen place.
CB3's SLA Licensing Committee meets tonight; new Mexican restaurant slated for Fourth Avenue
The Community Board 3's SLA Licensing Committee meets tonight...
Among the new restaurants looking for a license... This coming-soon Mexican joint on Fourth Avenue near 13th Street....at this spot of a former Tasti D-Lite.
Among the new restaurants looking for a license... This coming-soon Mexican joint on Fourth Avenue near 13th Street....at this spot of a former Tasti D-Lite.
Working sort of zipping along at the old Zips space
And as of Friday evening, a new paint job for what is expected to be an upscale diner-type place at Avenue B and Fifth Street...
And is black and blue the best color scheme for a new restaurant in this economy?
Previous Zips coverage here.
And is black and blue the best color scheme for a new restaurant in this economy?
Previous Zips coverage here.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
From "The Real Housewives of New York City" collection perhaps?
Because nothing says "Happy Mother's Day" like an AbRocket, BenderBall or some running gear.
Anyway, I got my mom the five push-up bras for $20 yesterday at the street fair.
Anyway, I got my mom the five push-up bras for $20 yesterday at the street fair.
In case you missed yesterday's street fair on Second Avenue, the exact same vendors are on Broadway today
From 14th Street on down....
With the winds today, the vendors were having problems setting up their stuff...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Pass the Tums: First of 458 spring/summer street fairs kicks off today on Second Avenue
The Times explores the culinary tastes of Seventh Street
A look at the different cuisines of Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. “Even though you cannot deny that the East Village is a little more upscale,” said Suzanne Wasserman, director of the Gotham Center for New York City History, who specializes in the history of local food vendors, “these are businesses that are not chains. They’re small businesses, and small businesses are what make neighborhoods unique.” (The New York Times)
[Photo: Rob Bennett for The New York Times]
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Sign of the Times
The guy in line said he will not pay $5 for the Sunday Times starting in June...nor will he pay $2 for the daily paper. He said he will simply just read the paper on his iPhone.
Pass the Tums: First of 458 spring/summer street fairs kicks off today on Second Avenue
Runs from 14th Street all the way down to, oh, Georgia.
There's at least one new addition to the usual array of sausages, bags of socks, four T-shirts for $10 kookiness...a local merchant... Chocolate Bald Men have a stand/booth
REALLY big crane doing something on Third Avenue
So Second Avenue is off limits to traffic with the street fair... Meanwhile, on Third Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets...this humungo crane is lifting something up to the roof at 111 Third Ave. And slowing down traffic. And making everyone look cautiously toward the sky.
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
An item about "Ugly Betty," an EV gallery owner and trash (Page Six)
Private fashion event to take over West Fourth Street ball courts (Washington Square Park)
Highlights from Miss Heather's trip through the EV and Chinatown (New York Shitty)
Hot dog in the early 1990s (Little Stories and Maybe Poems from Now and Then)
More on the possible move of Ludlow Guitars (BoweryBoogie)
Trash?: Thoughts on the new New York Dolls record (This Ain't the Summer of Love)
Getting to know Crazy Joe Gallo (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
A slam the landlord party (Blah Blog Blah)
Q-and-A with author and EV Grieve reader/frequent commenter Mykola (Mick) Dementiuk (Amanda Young)
Words to the wise on the street (Flaming Pablum)
Going underground: A tour of the world's oldest subway tunnel (Patell and Waterman's History of New York)
Going underground?!
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
At Joe's (The Village Voice)
Fake cabs (NYC Taxi Photo)
Update on Ray of Ray's Candy Store (Scoopy's Notebook, The Villager, third item)
Also from Scoopy: Florent Morellet's new restaurant plans (fourth item)
Speaking of Florent's! Perfect time to run this photo that Karate Boogaloo passed along by photographer Gary Breckheimer:
Another NYC nude here (NSFW)
Manhattan now more reasonably overpriced
From the Times:
“When you go to Manhattan, there’s an air of selling out,” he says. “I’ve accepted that.”
Great Recession prices are drawing even the most loyal outer-borough dwellers back to Manhattan. The migrants hail from Hoboken, Astoria and the brownstone blocks off Prospect Park, as New Yorkers who found themselves priced out of the gilded isle in the boom years are bidding farewell to long commutes and skinny-jean chic.
Among the lures: $1,600 one-bedrooms on the Lower East Side. Lenient landlords who no longer require security deposits. And an overriding sense that an obscenely overpriced borough is now, well, slightly more reasonably overpriced.
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