Seems like a nice way to end a holiday weekend

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Shawn Chittle for the photo.

NYC's shifting demographics, and the vanishing middle class

I'm catching up on some news...The Times noted that for the first time since the 1970s, a majority of Manhattan's population is non-Hispanic white. According to census figures examined by the paper, the white share of the population rose to 51 percent last year from 40 percent in the 1990s. The rest of the borough's residents were 24 percent Hispanic, 14 percent black and 11 percent Asian.

Per the Times:

Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, expressed concern that the "conflation of luxury development and good strong public housing stock" means that "that the borough is becoming a place for very, very wealthy people and enclaves for poor people and that middle-income people are finding it impossible to stay here."

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Noted

From the Page Six "Sightings" today:

Scarlett Johansson, in a fedora and thick, black-rimmed glasses, playing pool at Lucy's in the East Village . . .

Noted

At the L stop on First Avenue and 14th Street.

Nighthawks... and Nighthawks

Remember Jeremiah's series on looking for Hopper's Nighthawks? He wrote a condensed version of it for the Times... and his op-ed appears there today.

Meanwhile! Speaking of Nighthawks...reminds me that I haven't seen "Nighthawks," the surprisingly decent Sly Stallone-Rutger Hauer thriller from 1981 in years....it features a climatic scene aboard the Roosevelt Island tram...



(Image via Roosevelt Island 360 ... where you can read more about the movie...)

The CBGB saga continues

For those of you following the CBGB Estate-Buyer saga... Karate Boogaloo has more on it... As KB notes: "I find it very difficult to believe that anyone could purchase a brand name like CBGB, and NOT be able to do something...anything...with it."

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First Street, 10:21 a.m., July 4

You've been warned! And I am taking names!

Good way to make "up to" $1,000... narc on your friends with fireworks from their visit to South Carolina. And what is in that cup there? Hope that it's not a urine sample. 13th Street and Avenue A.

Greetings

From the incomparable Blarney Cove.

More photos from yesterday's German-themed Avenue C street fair

So anyway, as I mentioned yesterday, German fans were in a celebratory mood after beating Argentina 4-zip in the World Cup. Some fans watching the match at Zum Schnieder, Alphabet City Lounge, Kafana, Arcane and the Porch all converged. A fire truck arrived... and the firefighters good-naturedly joined in the celebration, honking the truck horn and waving a German flag. And posing for photos. When a few fans jumped on top of the truck, the firefighters quickly made them get down... The entire celebration all seemed pretty harmless and went on for about 15 minutes...














Previously on EV Grieve:
Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

Ray's delivery team to be featured on Fox tonight

[Photo via Bob Arihood]

Bob Arihood sent us a note saying that the Ray's delivery team will be featured tonight on the Fox News channel at 9 (Fox News is Channel 44 on Time Warner.) The delivery team will be roughly 1/3 of the program that will be hosted by John Stossel. The program will air again tomorrow night at 9.

Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

The scene on Avenue C and Seventh Street around noon after Germany beat Argentina 4-0 in the World Cup....



A fire truck arrived... I thought to clear a path for traffic that was backing up... However, the truck stopped ... and joined the celebration...

Shepard Fairey's mural continues to go to pieces

On Thursday, Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reported on the vandalized state of Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston and the Bowery... and, every day (night), the mural continues to be mauled... someone or somebody pulled more of the mural apart in the last 12 hours...

The line to get into Zum Schneider this morning

For the Germany-Argentina match. Wow. Much longer than last week's line. One Zum Schneider regular said this was the longest line that she'd ever seen here, including Octoberfest...the line streches west halfway up Seventh Street.






If you're in the back of the line now, then I'd suggest you watch the match elsewhere...

An Egg Cream for you

Reminders tonight! Darkness, French movie in Tompkins Square Park

Godard's "A Woman is a Woman" in Tompkins Square Park... where some of the lights are covered in preparation... (and how long will workers leave the lights wrapped up...?)

Toilet humor

Grub Street's Daniel Maurer notes that the three restrooms at the Ninth Ward are labeled either Sex, Drugs or Rock & Roll.

[Photo by Daniel Maurer, via Grub Street]

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

Photo from 10th Street and Avenue B courtesy EV Grieve reader Steve

City officially turns over former squat at 209 E. Seventh St. to the tenants (Scoopy's Notebook, previously)

A view into the creepiness of the New Bowery (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Rag & Bone's Cafe Colonial tribute (BoweryBoogie)

Marky Ramone sues for unpaid royalties (NME)

A swank Second Street pad with a private garage (Curbed)

A visit to Carteles (East Village Eats)

Taj Mahal closed "for renovations" on East Sixth Street (Fork in the Road)

The Hester Street Fair is Saturday... be sure to check out Goggla's work there...

RIP Deno's Party House

Sad news, friends... Deno's Party House, the sketchorama bikini bar near Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue, has closed. When, we have no idea...we just discovered for ourselves last night...The NYC sanitizing continues. Sure, Deno's have had their problems with the law in the past...





...but is this anyway to try to lure LeBron James to the Knicks?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Where you can still get a beer, some bikini action and maybe a colonic in this town

Exclusive: The Penistrator didn't act alone

Given the behavior of some Smurfs cast members this spring .... authorities released the above photo... perhaps as a cautionary tale of some sort.