Halloween scenes (reader edition)

Many thanks to everyone who passed along some Halloween-related photos...

From Editrrix...







From Bobby Williams...




From Blue Glass...



From 68 Comeback... (and Batman has to wait in line!)



A favorite ... the blood drive truck in front of the vampire store on Avenue A... Via NYCETC



Fox and Hounds at Lakeside Lounge via Bonnie...



A morning-after walk home by a Cat Woman on Third Avenue via someone who didn't leave a name...



And two morning-after shots from readers showing two different takes on St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue...

At 6 a.m., showing a rather apocalyptic scene...



And a few hours later, where some zombies were on the prowl...

Weekend at Sin Sin

We first heard that Sin Sin was calling it quits last Thursday.



However! The beleaguered bar/club was open on Second Avenue and Fifth Street on Friday night...



and Saturday night...




...and yesterday morning, workers gutted the space....





Word is the owners will rebrand the bar as something else in the coming weeks....

"Lives" live at 98 Bowery

Marc H. Miller sends along word about the latest addition to the 98 Bowery site...

Lives: exhibition and catalogue organized by Jeffrey Deitch
The Fine Arts Building, 105 Hudson St., NYC
November 29 - December 20, 1975

Here's a little bit more about it....:

The "Lives" exhibition by Jeffrey Deitch that opened in November 1975 at the Fine Arts Building featured the experimental artists that I had admired and identified with in the early 1970s. The exhibition also marked the start of a brief period when the Fine Arts Building, a large, eleven-floor office building at 105 Hudson Street, was the center of an energetic art scene that helped rejuvenate the deserted neighborhood just south of Soho -- the now fashionable Tribeca. With its abundance of cheap live-in studios, offices and exhibition spaces, the building fostered the camaraderie and networking that helped nourish radical new directions in the 1980s. For those who were there it was a stimulating time that ended abruptly when the building went co-op in the late 1970s. The young artists and fledgling galleries that helped develop the building and neighborhood were priced out and had to seek new quarters. Most migrated to the East Village and the Lower East Side where a new phase in the evolution of the art of the period began.

[Flyer from 1978, via 98 Bowery]

Today, 105 Hudson is home to, among other things, Nobu....

For further reading on EV Grieve:
Life at 98 Bowery: 1969-1989

Revisiting Punk Art

Q-and-A with Curt Hoppe: Living on the Bowery, finding inspiration and shooting Mr. Softee

Voices from 98 Bowery's past

Halloween outside Diablo Royale Este

Outside the Halloween party at Diablo Royale Este on Avenue A Saturday night...








... featuring the new outdoor urinal...

'Chocolate Library' coming soon to St. Mark's Place

Here between Avenue A and First Avenue...




Dunno what exactly this will entail... there is a Chocolate Library in the UK.

'Restaurant/cafe use preferred' on corner of Second Avenue and First Street

The corner space at Avalon Bowery Place on First Street and Second Avenue has remained vacant since work ended on the apartment complex ...



However, I recently noticed a new "for lease" sign on the doors... noting that "restaurant/cafe use preferred."

Do you mind if we dance with your dates?

Breaking: Workers gutting Sin Sin

A team of workers are on the scene this morning at the beleaguered Sin Sin on Second Avenue and Fifth Street...



...basically throwing away everything... liquor bottles...



...the Red Bull machine...



The bar was originally set to close after Thursday night. More later.

Sin Sin comes undone

Here are more shots of Sin Sin's dismantling... courtesy of Honey Millmann.

At the Lower Eastside Girls Club groundbreaking Friday

On Friday, the Lower Eastside Girls Club held their official groundbreaking for their new home on Avenue D between Seventh Street and Eighth Street .... aside from local politicians, East Village native Rosario Dawson was on hand...

I couldn't attend the ceremony, unfortunately... For more on the groundbreaking... here's a piece on NY1. The Lo-Down has coverage... as does DNAinfo....

Here's the official news release with more details on what the HQ will house.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Passion and progress at the new home of the Lower Eastside Girls Club

Avenue A, 9:10 a.m., Oct. 31

The night before Halloween

Happy Halloween

Well, if you happen to be out and about and see some great costumes or streetscenes, I'd love to post the photos... So please let me know if you'd like to share any Halloween photos (be happy to give you credit and link to your site, Flickr page) from the weekend... grieve98@gmail.com

!!!Halloween CarnEvil!!! tonight

Reminders: Protest tomorrow night in Tompkins Square Park

As reported earlier this month, there'll be a Protest/Fiesta in Tompkins Square Park starting tomorrow night at 7 ... organized by longtime East Village activist/photojournalist John Penley...

amNY had a feature on it in yesterday's paper...(not online)



Previously on EV Grieve:
More details on Halloween night protest/fiesta in Tompkins Square Park (74 comments)

Movement afoot to limit the number of concerts in Tompkins Square Park

Newsflash! Pumpkins are a popular item this Halloween!

Oct. 17!



Today!



At the Great Urban Pumpkin Patch on St. Mark's Place.