Sunday, October 30, 2011

Reminders today: Concert in Tompkins Square Park, tribute to Bob Arihood


Also, as we mentioned, the organizers are going to have a table set up with a memorial for Bob Arihood. The organizers are looking for photos to mount on a huge poster board that they'll have at a special table for Bob. These can be shots of Bob and/or photos that Bob has taken over the years....

You can print them out from Neither More Nor Less or Nadie Se Conoce and bring them along...

Starting soon...

Local man decides to hack off arm while enduring a 127-hour line at Rite-Aid


Yeaahhhh. Our friend Goggla posted this photo the other day from everyone's favorite Rite-Aid on First Avenue at Fifth Street....

And Happy Halloween...

11th and B circa 1983

BoweryBoogie was first to post this video a few weeks back... it's a short circa 1983 by French filmmaker Marie Martine ... mostly filmed on Avenue B and 11th Street...

The video has been making the rounds... thought we'd also post it... the video is 20 minutes, so dig in...

11th & B from J. Sprig on Vimeo.

The Sunday morning flea markets along Avenue C

Meanwhile, here's a clip from August 1993 with much lower production values... but interesting nonetheless ... the old flea market on Avenue C at Eighth Street...

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Also today during the HallowNor'easter

Bobby Williams braved the elements... meanwhile, we were too busy finishing the bath water left in the tub from #Irene.



Live team coverage of the HallowNor'easter begins now

Despite the devastating storm that's hitting our area... we are able to provide live team coverage of the HallowNor'easter that has crippled the tri-state area ... live team coverage begins earlier today with Dave on 7th...


Hawk eyes

A few recent photos from Tompkins Square Park via Bobby Williams...



Today's sign of the apocalypse: 'Sex and the City' slots

After a few hundred years of false starts, the Resorts World New York casino is now open at EV Grieve favorite Aqueduct Racetrack... and, as you may have heard, among the more than 2,000 slot machines...

[James Messerschmidt/NY Post]

AHHHHHHHHHHH.

According to the Post:

Players hit a button that spins traditional slot-machine reels adorned with images of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda, along with a limousine icon, the “Sex and the City” logo, and other items from the show.

Hitting a row of bonus logos spins a separate electronic wheel, which features symbols for each of the show’s stars.

Players can win the top award if the wheel lands on a suitcase — the symbol for Carrie’s boyfriend, Mr. Big — and they pick correctly from one of three suitcases displayed on screen.

Bonus photo from the Racino opening...

[James Messerschmidt/NY Post]

And now, a supermodel shopping at an East Village record store

Thank you to everyone who sent along the link to this video... of supermodel Bar Refaeli talking about something or another while shopping at A-1 Records on East Sixth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue ....

Friday, October 28, 2011

Today in gambling action in Tompkins Square Park


Bingo! No, wait — blackjack! Uh...

By Bobby Williams.

Earlier today in Washington Square Park


By Dave on 7th.

Face dances



Grace Jones from 1981.

Sunday: Free Halloween concert in Tompkins Square Park


From the EV Grieve inbox...

Join us for yet another Halloween time party in Tompkins Square Park! Watch as the sun sets on another season of DIY punk shows in Tompkins Square Park and ring in the Mischief Night together! Get away from all the commercialization of Halloween going on out there and enjoy a totally free event in the park.

Featuring:
Reverend Billy + His Earthalujah Choir (4 pm-5 pm)
Morgan O'Kane
John Dolan, Popeye & the C-Skwat Happy Hour

In addition to the performances, the organizers are going to have a table set up with a memorial for Bob Arihood. The organizers are looking for photos to mount on a huge poster board that they'll have at a special table for Bob. These can be shots of Bob and/or photos that Bob has taken over the years.

Wow. Tough call. I couldn't narrow it down to one from the five-plus years of Neither More Nor Less. However, I keep coming back to this one from June of Jewels and Tim.


I may pick some other favorites before the show... anyway, you can print them out from Neither More Nor Less or Nadie Se Conoce and bring them along...

Mass tomorrow for Bob Arihood


The mass is at 5:30 p.m. at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Cleaning out the Grieve menu drawer

There is a drawer in our apartment full of menus. Hundreds. It's absurd, because we always end up ordering from Odessa.

So I cleaned out the drawer because: a) it wouldn't close and b) we're going to rent it out. The space will fit a small futon and maybe something else pliable from IKEA. No Pets. No brokers please. $1,350 a month. Perfect for students on a budget, models from Europe and people who like sleeping in drawers. Must like menus.

As for the menus... nothing too old... but it is a snapshot of how quickly some places come and go...




An appreciation: Breakfast at Stage


For no particular reason... too often we mourn instead of appreciate around here at EVG...



Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place.

Outside the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery


Welcome to St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, the oldest site of continuous worship in New York City and the second oldest church in Manhattan. Not only is the St. Mark’s campus a beautiful collection of buildings and burial grounds, its unique and interesting history is quintessential New York. The site is officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966.

The St. Mark’s Church and its yards are just a few reminders of the once vast “bouwerie,” or Dutch plantation, which Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New Amsterdam purchased in 1651 from the Dutch West India Company. When Stuyvesant died in 1672, his body was interred in a vault under the family chapel he’d had built in 1660. In 1793, Stuyvesant’s great-grandson, Petrus Stuyvesant, donated the chapel property to the Episcopal Church with the stipulation that a new chapel be erected and on April 25, 1795, the cornerstone of St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery was laid.

Via.

A case to co-name East Sixth Street after Miriam Friedlander

One item on Monday night's CB3 agenda — co-naming East Sixth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue after Miriam Friedlander...


Briefly, she was the longtime city council member who represented the area from 1974 to 1991. Friedlander, who lived at 314 E. Sixth St., passed away in 2009. She was 95. Read her obituary here at The Villager.

John's of 12th Street has a new awning

John's Italian restaurant on East 12th Street is certainly a neighborhood treasure... Jeremiah pointed out at the beginning of the year that the 100-plus year-old restaurant is now offering vegetarian fare...

All fine... Anyway, EV Grieve reader James C. Taylor noted that they've made this part of their awning now too...

Before!


Now!


Not sure exactly when it went up... noting it nonetheless...

Via Twitter, they told us "Just trying to mix in some 'new school' with the 'old school.'"

Veselka Bowery kinda looks open



Bobby Williams took these shots yesterday afternoon while walking by the long-time-coming Veselka Bowery on East First Street, which owner Tom Birchard described as a "toned-down Ukrainian Balthazar" in an interview with The Feast.

Perhaps it's just a test run... meanwhile, nothing official about an opening on Veselka's Facebook page or Twitter feed...