During the Loisaida Festival today... photo by Bobby Williams...
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Reader report: Fire on Avenue C yesterday
We heard reports of a fire yesterday afternoon on Avenue C... a reader passed along these photos with some details...
Just before 4 p.m. yesterday, the FDNY responded to a report of a fire at 56 Avenue C near East Fourth Street ...Per the reader: "Smoke was pouring onto Avenue C for over an hour and a big crowd gathered. I feel badly for any building residents or neighbors who will return home wondering why their homes are water logged and/or smelling of smoke."
We haven't heard the official cause of the fire. A new cafe called Bikinis is slated to open in one of the retail spaces at 56 Avenue C, which is the former Nublu Records office.
Do you have any further information on what happened here? Let us know via the EV Grieve email
Just before 4 p.m. yesterday, the FDNY responded to a report of a fire at 56 Avenue C near East Fourth Street ...Per the reader: "Smoke was pouring onto Avenue C for over an hour and a big crowd gathered. I feel badly for any building residents or neighbors who will return home wondering why their homes are water logged and/or smelling of smoke."
We haven't heard the official cause of the fire. A new cafe called Bikinis is slated to open in one of the retail spaces at 56 Avenue C, which is the former Nublu Records office.
Do you have any further information on what happened here? Let us know via the EV Grieve email
[Updated] In case you were going to go look at those baby tigers today...
It's closed, via Matt LES_Miserable ... As Gothamist pointed out on Friday, two five-month-old female Bengals (Sonia and Tanya) were part of Norwegian artist Bjarn Melgaard's "Ideal Pole" exhibit at the Ramiken Crucible gallery on Grand Street.
No word on why the exhibit is closed. Or if the tigers will be back. They were scheduled to be there until June 3. Gothamist wrote, "We've reached out to the Humane Society of the U.S. to find out what the rules are about this sort of thing, because that cage looks too small to us."
Updated 3:31 p.m.:
Gothamist received a statement from the Human Society of the United States. Part of the statement:
The baby tigers on display at the Ramiken Crucible gallery were prematurely removed from their mothers, transported to New York from a game farm in Ohio that has been cited for failing to meet minimum standards of the federal Animal Welfare Act, and are confined to a tiny barren cage inside an art gallery.
Week in Grieview
Water store opening on East 10th Street (Monday)
Searching for the loudest block in the East Village (Friday)
Development lot for sale on Avenue D (Monday)
No Astor Place is an island (Tuesday)
The smallest art gallery in the East Village? (Wednesday)
Iglesia Pentecostal Sarepta cut in half for now on East Sixth Street (Monday)
Union Market update (Wednesday)
A former bank branch is becoming a Duane Reade (Friday)
Bistro Cafe & Grill opens (Tuesday)
From farm to sidewalk (Saturday)
Why there's a dining room set in the middle of Avenue B
Crews arrived early this morning for a shoot on 10th Street and Avenue B... a crew member said it's a short film titled "1956" ...
The NYPD is redirecting traffic on Avenue B ... several motorists have been grumbling ... (Avenue C is closed between Sixth Street and 12th Street for the Loisaida Festival ... so apparently driving and parking is a bit of a hassle for the time being. More of a hassle than usual...)
Anyway! Here's the street set...
...and as is customary, someone needs to bepassed out asleep on the film set...
The NYPD is redirecting traffic on Avenue B ... several motorists have been grumbling ... (Avenue C is closed between Sixth Street and 12th Street for the Loisaida Festival ... so apparently driving and parking is a bit of a hassle for the time being. More of a hassle than usual...)
Anyway! Here's the street set...
...and as is customary, someone needs to be
25th anniversary of the Loisaida Festival is today
Saturday, May 26, 2012
5th annual Bike Noise show tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park
Via the EV Grieve inbox...
+ FREE + ALL AGES + PUNK + BIKES +
Sliding Scale Productions Presents
Swaggerin' Growlers
Wombat in Combat
The Will
Wood Spider
and
Team Spider
Show starts at 2.
And some Wombat in Combat from the Park in summer 2010 to warm you up...
Today in photos of a pile of raw chicken on Avenue B
From farm to sidewalk? Several readers have noted this at East Third Street. Via EVG reader Steven...
Given the temperature, the chicken should be ready to turn in about 15 minutes.
Friday, May 25, 2012
The next stop is...
Heaven 17 with "We Live So Fast" circa 1983...
Have fun whatever you're doing this weekend. We'll see you back in here in, oh, an hour or two.
Beer bard back with 'Light or Dark' at McSorley's
The Daily News has a feature today on Geoffrey Bartholomew, the poet bartender at McSorley's since 1972.
Bartholomew, who took writing classes at City College where his teachers included Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, just published his second collection of poems, titled "Light or Dark."
Here's a sampling via the News:
from “Restaurant Inspection”
They come in all shapes & sizes
both guys and gals
thermometers and test strips
eyeballing it all
protecting your health
The violation reads:
I did see 9/10 live flies
Well, effing bully for you
but at $100 a fly
that’s an even grand
On Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bartholomew and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright will be give a reading at McSorley's.
You can find the McSorley's Poems website here.
The tattoo-piercings-smoking-accessories awning war is on!
Yesterday, workers installed a new awning/sign for Kulture on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...
[Photo via EVG reader Anna C.]
And today...
Meanwhile, almost directly across the street...
Hmm. Tough call. Will have to see these at night to be a favorite.
And today...
Meanwhile, almost directly across the street...
Hmm. Tough call. Will have to see these at night to be a favorite.
Breaking: Former bank branch to become a Duane Reade on First Avenue
[February 2010]The now-shuttered HSBC branch (the one that some residents tried to save) on First Avenue just north of 14th Street is getting a new tenant. Earlier in the week, pcvstBee pointed out that renovations had started on the space.
Now, a reader passes along this tip ... that the Duane Reade on 14th between First Avenue and Second Avenue will be moving into this former HSBC space (yes, right next to the CVS). A Duane Reade employee and the Fruit Stand Guy outside the former HSBC confirmed this to the reader. (Woo! Sourcing!)
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