Help the East Side Community School win $500,000

Over on 12th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue, students and teachers are outside with computers to get people to vote online so that the school can win $500,000 in the Kohl's Cares for Kids contest. Per the reader who sent me the photos and tip: "It's pretty cool to see them all out there doing this." The students and teachers will be out until later this evening. (Hoping they get in before the zombies arrive!) You can also vote from home. If you go to www.eschs.org, then you'll find more details.

What's next for the Deitch wall?

A reliable source passed along word that Barry McGee (aka Twist) is up next on the Deitch wall on Houston and The Bowery. Deitch alum Kathy Grayson is now apparently serving as the curator.

Here is some of his recent work, via the Deitch website:

Four months in the tumultuous short life of the Shepard Fairey mural

As I reported yesterday, workers removed what was left of the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery... (The mural was to remain up until Dec. 31.)

Last night, our friend Bryan Waterman did a little detective work and concluded that the build-out remains over what was here before — the Os Gêmeos art...



So let us go back to the middle of April...



And, sometime during the weekend of April 16, someone removed the Os Gêmeos art...



Then, on April 20, Shepard Fairey arrived to start work...





April 21!



And the next day, the first tag appeared, as reported by Animal New York... graffiti writer NAW tried to add a little something ... which didn't go over well with the security guard on duty...


[Photo: ANIMALNewYork]

Per the Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) on April 22: "I suspect this piece gets dissed and fixed many times."

The week of April 26, Jeremiah discussed some of the ongoing vandalism issues with on the mural... (You can read those here, here and here.)

Then the kicking began!



Paul Richard added his mark on May 7...




By the week of May 10, cleanup crews were busy removing the tags...



On May 15 — the epic bombing.





Soon, it became a game of tag, clean, tag, clean...




Workers placed a plaque on the scene in June...nearly six weeks after the mural went up...



The holes and tags continued through June...





By the end of June, the mural was falling to pieces... people continued to pick and rip...





July 7



As Jeremiah first reported, workers covered up half the mural on July 9....




On July 12, the dicks arrived.


[Photo credit: DNAinfo]

And so it went...



July 17...





July 18




July 20



July 24...



Aug. 8...



Yesterday, it all came to an end...



Many other people covered the ongoing saga here...including, but not limited to:

BoweryBoogie

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York

DNAinfo

NYC the Blog

Animal NY

Awkword World View

C'mon you guys — really, keep this door closed! No, seriously...

Despite some apparent thievery at the Theatre for the New City through the East 10th Street doorway, people just wanna keep the door open anyway...




[Photos courtesy of Blue Glass]

Speaking of signs that no one pays attention to...

Ninth Street and First Avenue.

Rhong Tiam pretty much not fooling anyone

The sign remains even though workers were removing appliances yesterday...



The thai eatery has been closed now for nearly three weeks here on Fifth Street and Second Avenue. Unless it's one helluva private party...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Kurve/Rhong Tiam's long, strange trip is apparently over

The Babe Ruth of...Babe Ruth

Came across some previously unpublished photos of Babe Ruth on LIFE.com. Per the website:

Babe Ruth, the most famous and, arguably, the most beloved player to ever wear a baseball uniform, died of cancer on August 16, 1948 -- two months after his final public appearance at Yankee Stadium. On that gray June day when, gravely ill, he last put on the pinstripes (above), 60,000 people filled "The House That Ruth Built" — to watch as his famous No. 3 was retired, and pay tribute to a man who had given so many fans so many thrills for so many years. LIFE magazine's Ralph Morse was there, chronicling Ruth's final moments in the public eye; now, in this gallery, LIFE.com presents rare and unpublished photos from that day. Morse — 93 years old, and as sharp as ever — recently spoke with LIFE and recalled what it was like to photograph one of the 20th century's greatest athletes as the Babe said his final, poignant goodbye. Pictured: Babe Ruth, 53 years old, in front of his locker at Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948.

Speaking of The House That Ruth Built.... Have you seen it lately? It's a giant pit.



Ex Yankee Stadium, indeed....