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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Cookies in return for info on stolen bike

Oh, met to post this the other day... spotted along Fourth Avenue near 12th Street...

Monday, October 24, 2011

'My Mars Bar Movie' world premiere on Thursday

Thursday marks the "world theatrical premiere" of "My Mars Bar Movie," the 87-minute documentary directed by Jonas Mekas, the 88-year-old filmmaker-poet-writer-curator... (His full bio is here.)

Here's a description of the film via YouTube:

For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and tequila whenever we had to take a break from our work at Anthology Film Archives, and it was also a bar where most of those who came to see movies at Anthology ended up after the shows. We always had a great time at Mars Bar. It was always open, there was always the juke box, and very often there was no electricity, and it was old and messy and it didn't want to be any other way — it was the last escape place left in downtown New York. So this is my love letter to it, to my Mars Bar. Mars Bar as I knew it.

Find ticket info here.

H/t to One Folded Sunset for the post yesterday.

See hawk

Early one recent evening in Tompkins Square Park. Photos by Bobby Williams.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[via EVG reader Tom]

Protest at 515 E. Fifth St. (The Villager)

Good news from the revamped Waverly diner (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Cooper Square Hotel sells for $90 million (The Wall Street Journal ... via Curbed)

Pete Seeger at Occupy Wall Street (Slum Goddess)

Another night with the Chillmaster (Marty After Dark)

Sauce opens on Rivington (BoweryBoogie)

East River Park still rather stalled (The Lo-Down)

New sign for David Schwimmer's place on East Sixth Street

You may recall that the new home going up at 331 E. Sixth St. may possibly belong to David Schwimmer... And someone had added a message to the "what's going on here?" sign... The sign was this way for weeks ...

Anyway, workers have finally replaced the old sign...

And what's happening behind the sign? A quick look through the peephole...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Is David Schwimmer the 'Friends' star who now owns the demolished 331 E. Sixth St. townhouse?

Outrage over total demolition of historic East Sixth Street townhouse

[Updated] Why you need to give Jamshed Bharucha a call today

From the EV Grieve inbox...via the Cooper Square Committee

Please contact Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha immediately. President@cooper.edu or (212) 353-4250.

A Board committee is meeting [today] to decide if they will reduce St Mark's Bookshop's $20,000/month rent by $5,000. Thousands of emails or calls will influence the decision.

Tell the President to reduce the bookshop rent to $15,000 a month until the economy improves. You can add any additional comments.

Your support is invaluable.

Updated. Missed these reports from earlier... both Gothamist and Runnin' Scared noted that there wasn't any meeting scheduled today... A Cooper Union spokesperson told Runnin' Scared that the discussions are ongoing and "the outcome will be announced by the end of this month."

Mermaid Inn closed for renovations this week

The sign explains what's happening... "installing new floors, redoing our bathrooms, painting, retiling and generally sprucing up the place."

Back open Friday.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

[h/t Neil Simon]

Fine Fare takes steps to curb recycling-related issues

Quick follow-up to the story that Patrick Hedlund reported on at DNAinfo last week... A lot of roughhousing and stuff happening at the recycling center outside the Fine Fare on Avenue C and East Fourth Street... which was causing quality-of-life issues for nearby residents...

As Hedlund reported in a follow-up piece, Fine Fare put up some signs and painted a no-hanging-out zone along East Fourth Street...

We swung by this past weekend to take a look and take a few photos...

BMW Guggenheim Lab continues to shrink

Yesterday, a work crew and very large crane arrived on East First Street to pack up the BMW Guggenheim Lab... toward the end of the day, this is what it looked like...

Comings and goings on Second Avenue

Something called Health Mart Pharmacy is opening at the former UPS Store near 11th Street...

... and Crembebe, a boutique specializing in kid's fashions near Fourth Street, has closed...

Here's the Gingersnap's Organic awning

Last Monday, we had details on Gingersnap's Organic, which will feature "handcrafted conscious cuisine" at 130 Seventh St. just west of Avenue A.

And now, the awning...

No opening date announced just yet...

[Updated] Street verse

Spotted on the Bowery and St. Mark's Place...

evflip came across another poem today... this one on Second Avenue and Fourth Street...

[Weekend recap] NYPD cites two bars for 'illegal sale of alcoholic beverages'

We first posted this on Saturday morning... kind of got lost with all the dog costume photos...

Multiple readers sent along word that the Undercover/Underage Patrol was out in full force last night...

There's a "closed by court order" sign at Bar 81 on Seventh Street... "restraining order" says for "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."

...and a "restraining order" and a whole bunch of legalese papers on U2 (or 2U) Karaoke on St. Mark's Place... for "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."

Know of any other bars that the NYPD cited last night...?

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Today in photos of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots handing our flyers in front of Ricky's on First Avenue

Photo by Bobby Williams.

At the Rally to Stop Police Brutality

Yesterday marked the 16th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality ... the peaceful rally/protest started at Union Square ... Bobby Williams picked up the route in Tompkins Square Park... then down East Eighth Street ... Avenue C and Avenue D... We don't have an exact number of people who were marching ... almost seemed as if there were equal numbers of the NYPD ...