Today in Tompkins Square Park ... during "Bamboozled, The Real Reality Show" courtesy of the Theatre for the New City.
Bobby Williams.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Earlier today in Tompkins Square Park
Today in Tompkins Square Park ... during "Bamboozled, The Real Reality Show" courtesy of the Theatre for the New City.
Bobby Williams.
Flood watch in effect
On 10th Street and First Avenue... Hurricane Irene two weeks later. Go sanitation. Via Steven Hirsch.
Get 'Bamboozled' today in Tompkins Square Park
Today at 2 in Tompkins Square Park: "Bamboozled, The Real Reality Show" via Theatre for the New City.
Today at the BMW Guggenheim Lab: Natividad Zirate
As BoweryBoogie noted back in May, the city tossed the tools belonging to Natividad Zirate, the homeless bicycle mechanic who worked near the BMW Guggenheim Lab. This happened as workers were preparing the lot for the BMW Guggenheim Lab. (We discussed that and other matters about the Lab here.)
In any event, a reader noted one of the programs today during the First Street Green day at the Lab:
This program is 2-4.
Meanwhile, EV Grieve reader Steve Carter noted the arrival of balloons at the Lab this morning. Someone celebrating a birthday?
In any event, a reader noted one of the programs today during the First Street Green day at the Lab:
Fix Your Bike with Natividad Zirate
Join First Street Green and the BMW Guggenheim Lab as we celebrate and learn from neighborhood bicycle hero and repairman Natividad Zirate. Zirate, well known in the neighborhood as the “go-to” guy for bicycle problems, will lead a how-to workshop on bicycle repair and mechanics.
This program is 2-4.
Meanwhile, EV Grieve reader Steve Carter noted the arrival of balloons at the Lab this morning. Someone celebrating a birthday?
Woman found dead outside St. Brigid's on Avenue B
Avenue B is currently closed between Seventh Street and Eighth Street ...
[Photo by Ted Roden]
... as police investigate the death of a woman under the sidewalk shed at St. Brigid's...
An officer told Dave on 7th that the victim is a homeless woman. No foul play is suspected. Another reader was told that the death is being treated as an overdose.
This is the same space where Grace Farrell died back in February.
... as police investigate the death of a woman under the sidewalk shed at St. Brigid's...
An officer told Dave on 7th that the victim is a homeless woman. No foul play is suspected. Another reader was told that the death is being treated as an overdose.
This is the same space where Grace Farrell died back in February.
Jello wrestling ... for a good cause today
From the EV Grieve inbox ... from our friend Our Lady of Perpetual PMS...
Double Down will host live wrestling matches, Saturday evening, in the ring of jello ...
Wrestlers: Show up early to sign up and sign a waiver to wrestle. Then you're free to fight it out with your roommate over which of you drank the last PBR or dirty-dish bombed the sink for a week.
(Athletic) Supporters: Come out & cheer for your favorite delinquent-turned-wrestler for the day! Bet on the wrestlers, win great prizes from our sponsors & enjoy the drink specials & the madness. Don't forget to bring signage supporting your favorites!
Guest emcees are Our Lady of Perpetual PMS & Referee Mike SOS
from GLOB — Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling
This is a mixed event. We reserve the right to remove or dismember any assholes or douchebags disrupting the spirit of good-natured fun for a great cause.
Annual Jello Wrestling to Beat Breast Cancer Benefit
Saturday, 9/10
Double Down Saloon
14 Avenue A
Event begins @ 4pm, goes till 9 pm
Suggested donation of $10 benefits Breast Cancer Research.
Today in Where is the yarn-covered cart today
Several readers noted that the yarn-covered grocery cart — an Agata Olek original – has gone missing from its home of recent weeks on Second Avenue at Fourth Street ...
[Bobby Williams]
But! @armrooster found it last night on First Avenue and 11th Street ...
And ... EV Grieve Peter Radley spotted another cart ... this one on East Fourth Street ...
But! @armrooster found it last night on First Avenue and 11th Street ...
And ... EV Grieve Peter Radley spotted another cart ... this one on East Fourth Street ...
A shy Emily is lost!
These flyers went up around the neighborhood yesterday ...
Photos via EV Grieve reader Creature.
Photos via EV Grieve reader Creature.
[EVG flashback] Bars to drink in Sunday evening where you won't have to watch the Jets
Seeing as its the start of the NFL season (with college football season kicking off last weekend) ... we thought we would rerun this post from Jan. 21, 2011... And this isn't anti-sports...just, you know, it seems as if more and more bars around here cater to various teams, as Esquared noted in the comments here yesterday ... Anyway, the list is slightly out of date... Feel free to make any amendments in the comments...
Not at all comprehensive... just a few bars without TVs... not that there's anything wrong with TV. Or the Jets. We love the Jets! Go Jeter!
• Bar on A (we understand that the TV has been retired)
• Burp Castle
• Coal Yard
• The International Bar
• KGB Bar
• Mars Bar
• Max Fish
• Scratcher
• Swift Hibernian Lounge
Also! If you're on the fence (kind of want to see some of the game, but not really), then consider the Grassroots... they have the lone TV leftover from 1991 at the south end of the bar... the Jets uniforms will likely look orange, though... the color on the GR set has been wonky the past five or so years...
Feel free to name other TV-free bars in the comments... (and Hookah bars don't count...)
And, of course, there are many fine (and unfine) bars where you can watch the Jets beat the Pirates.
Not at all comprehensive... just a few bars without TVs... not that there's anything wrong with TV. Or the Jets. We love the Jets! Go Jeter!
• Bar on A (we understand that the TV has been retired)
• Burp Castle
• Coal Yard
• The International Bar
• KGB Bar
• Mars Bar
• Max Fish
• Scratcher
• Swift Hibernian Lounge
Also! If you're on the fence (kind of want to see some of the game, but not really), then consider the Grassroots... they have the lone TV leftover from 1991 at the south end of the bar... the Jets uniforms will likely look orange, though... the color on the GR set has been wonky the past five or so years...
Feel free to name other TV-free bars in the comments... (and Hookah bars don't count...)
And, of course, there are many fine (and unfine) bars where you can watch the Jets beat the Pirates.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Notes from Avenue C
Chico continues to keep busy ... working on the rolldown gate earlier today on Seventh Street and Avenue C... Photo by Bobby Williams.
The TSP Ratstravaganza receives first celebrity endorsement
What do you hate most about living in New York?
The rats in Tompkins Square Park. I’m constantly on the phone to 311.
Who is your mortal enemy?
The rats in Tompkins Square Park.
Then she definitely should not look at Bob Arihood's post today of rats eating a squirrel in the Park. (Now with correct link! Sorry!)
[Image via]
Envisioning the future beyond the BMW Guggenheim Lab; plus, rat cookies!
From the EV Grieve inbox ... slightly edited for length...
Meanwhile, there was a little behind-the-scenes dramaabout this event involving ... cookies. The organizers wanted some locally produced cookies; BMW bigs said no, that this was the domain of its sole food vendor, the Brooklyn-based Roberta's. Roberta's people dittoed that.
Anyway. It all worked out in the end... The Lower Eastside Girls Club will be serving free “rat” cookies and truffles to the first 500 community rodentologists who participate in the First Street Green envisioning “What’s Next” workshops.
Since 2008, First Street Green’s mission has been to transform the Parks Department–owned, vacant lot at 33 E. First Street from a rat-infested derelict space into a community culture park.
Our phase 1 goal to remove the rubble and create a simple-to-maintain plaza and cultural space has been achieved. First Street Green’s efforts with the Parks Department have led to the hosting of the BMW Guggenheim Lab at the lot this year. The Guggenheim has provided an at grade plaza that will remain after the Lab moves on. Now, we are working with the BMW Guggenheim Lab team to plan for the future of the lot.
As part of this effort, First Street Green will be hosting the Lab’s September 10, “What’s Next” workshop to get your ideas on what should happen in the future park. Please come and give us a piece of your mind.
10 a.m. — Meet and greet with volunteers and participants
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. — History of First Park and 33 E. 1st Street Site
2 - 5 p.m. — It’s My Park videos: producer, Adrian Sas Visioning Wall workshop: Modular inspiration/idea sculpture Community survey and balloon run: to canvas neighborhood, invite participation
5 -7 p.m. — Reception: presentation of completed visioning wall. Refreshments, music
7 – 9 p.m. — PUBLIC NOTICE: AN EXHAUSTED FILM + LIVE-CINEMA PERFORMANCE: Ofri Cnaani, Cheryl Kaplan and Kathryn Alexander
Meanwhile, there was a little behind-the-scenes dramaabout this event involving ... cookies. The organizers wanted some locally produced cookies; BMW bigs said no, that this was the domain of its sole food vendor, the Brooklyn-based Roberta's. Roberta's people dittoed that.
Anyway. It all worked out in the end... The Lower Eastside Girls Club will be serving free “rat” cookies and truffles to the first 500 community rodentologists who participate in the First Street Green envisioning “What’s Next” workshops.
How you can help save the St. Mark's Bookshop
From the EV Grieve inbox .... Background here
[JVNY]
Joyce Ravitz
Chairperson
Cooper Square Committee
The St Mark's Bookshop has a long tradition in the Lower East Side and serves an admirable and increasingly rare function. St Mark's is struggling to pay the market rent that Cooper Union is charging them at 31 3rd Ave. A significant rent concession by Cooper Union could save this irreplaceable neighborhood institution.
So I created a petition to Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science, which says:
"The St Mark's Bookshop, a vital Lower East Side cultural institution, needs a rent low enough to survive. Join the Cooper Square Committee petitioning Cooper Union, the bookstore's landlord, to give St Mark's Bookshop a lower rent."
Will you sign this petition? Click here
Joyce Ravitz
Chairperson
Cooper Square Committee
And now, posts that we never got around to posting this summer
Well, I have nearly 1,100 half-started, half-finished, half-assed posts in the EVG hopper. They just weren't working for some reason. Or pointless. (Or more pointless than usual.) So now, in all their glory, here are some of those posts... with, perhaps, an explanation why I never posted them.
Self-explanatory.
Ditto.
Well, as far as dog poop etiquette signs go, this was pretty blah.
Lordy. On what turned out to be my second-to-last time at the Mars Bar, a fellow was sitting by the door, dressed in a pink shirt, seemingly doing rather anything to draw attention to himself. We all figured he was a reporter trying to get some color for his article. He did get any. For more on Mars Bars and pink shirts, please revisit this post.
A shot of 115 St. Mark's Place enjoying its third gut renovation in as many years. I kinda forgot to ever post them.
Oh, a reader wanted to start a Tumblr with photos of people eating their food from Seventh Street restaurants on neighboring front stoops. I thought it was funny. But I never heard back from the person.
This was a pointless attempt at wondering out loud how Phebe's on the Bowery went from a hangout for William Burroughs and Terry Southern (circa 1978) ...
...to a place for duffers and Cincinnati Bengals fans.
EV Grieve Technologically Advanced Form of Extraterrestrial Life Correspondent Bobby Williams took these shots at Tokio 7 on Seventh Street. We were worried that the Predator would break free, and disguise himself in that dress...
But it hasn't happened. Yet.
Is this the worst ad ever featuring a New York Yankee?
Mattress delivery gone amuck.
This opened on Essex Street earlier in the summer. And I told someone that this was Beauty & Essex.
I never did write a review of the new Hamptons Market on First Avenue at 13th Street.
A reader asked: Are the swimsuits in Tompkins Square Park getting skimpier...?
Or are we just getting older? He asked that question after sitting in the Park one weekend. He thought, for a moment, that he was somewhere else. I couldn't make it work without seeming like a perv for posting gratuitous butt shots. I would never do that.
Bobby Williams sent me these photos... of a bridal party in Tompkins Square Park. They were looking for a place to have their pictures taken.
But we think the rats scared them off before they took any photos.
Oh, this was going to be some jokey line about how small sandwich bags are getting. Not funny.
And the rest... random photos...
And I have about 1,065 left...
Self-explanatory.
Ditto.
Well, as far as dog poop etiquette signs go, this was pretty blah.
Lordy. On what turned out to be my second-to-last time at the Mars Bar, a fellow was sitting by the door, dressed in a pink shirt, seemingly doing rather anything to draw attention to himself. We all figured he was a reporter trying to get some color for his article. He did get any. For more on Mars Bars and pink shirts, please revisit this post.
A shot of 115 St. Mark's Place enjoying its third gut renovation in as many years. I kinda forgot to ever post them.
Oh, a reader wanted to start a Tumblr with photos of people eating their food from Seventh Street restaurants on neighboring front stoops. I thought it was funny. But I never heard back from the person.
This was a pointless attempt at wondering out loud how Phebe's on the Bowery went from a hangout for William Burroughs and Terry Southern (circa 1978) ...
...to a place for duffers and Cincinnati Bengals fans.
EV Grieve Technologically Advanced Form of Extraterrestrial Life Correspondent Bobby Williams took these shots at Tokio 7 on Seventh Street. We were worried that the Predator would break free, and disguise himself in that dress...
But it hasn't happened. Yet.
Is this the worst ad ever featuring a New York Yankee?
Mattress delivery gone amuck.
This opened on Essex Street earlier in the summer. And I told someone that this was Beauty & Essex.
I never did write a review of the new Hamptons Market on First Avenue at 13th Street.
A reader asked: Are the swimsuits in Tompkins Square Park getting skimpier...?
Or are we just getting older? He asked that question after sitting in the Park one weekend. He thought, for a moment, that he was somewhere else. I couldn't make it work without seeming like a perv for posting gratuitous butt shots. I would never do that.
Bobby Williams sent me these photos... of a bridal party in Tompkins Square Park. They were looking for a place to have their pictures taken.
But we think the rats scared them off before they took any photos.
Oh, this was going to be some jokey line about how small sandwich bags are getting. Not funny.
And the rest... random photos...
And I have about 1,065 left...
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