Monday, June 3, 2013

Budget now open on East Ninth Street



As you can see, there's now a Budget car rental place adjacent to the parking garage here on East Ninth Street. And look what you can upgrade too!



Just need to find a docking station!

The storefront has been vacant for more than four years ... since M Sonii, the vintage boutique, lost its lease here...

David's Shoe Repair has left the East Village



As reported earlier, high rents sent David's Shoe Repair packing from its longtime home on East Seventh Street to ... West 35th Street...



Previously on EV Grieve:
For rent sign appears at David's Shoe Repair

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Howl! or just another Sunday in Tompkins Square Park?











Photos by Bobby Williams

'It's the Bomb' in Tompkins Square Park



Photos by peter radley



These people just ate a shitload of pastrami from Katz's



Wow. World champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut ate 25 7-ounce pastrami sandwiches to win the first ever Katz's Delicatessen World Pastrami Eating Championship trophy this afternoon on Orchard Street.



Photos by Stephen Popkin.

BoweryBoogie has video here if you can stomach it! The Lo-Down has photos here.

The Katz's Delicatessen World Pastrami Eating Championship trophy is on the move!


[Photo by Stephen Popkin]

On its way to Orchard Street...

Week in Grieview


[3rd Avenue at East 13th Street]

A note for the "Birthday Girl on the Second floor" (Tuesday, 30 comments)

Cab backs into DBA (Sunday)

An update on Kita The Wonder Dog of East 10th Street (Friday)

The end for Odessa Cafe and Bar on Avenue A? (Thursday)

At the Loisaida Festival (Monday)

First sign of the 17-year cicadas in Tompkins Square Park? (Thursday)

Matt Torres talks about all his family in the neighborhood (Wednesday)

An assualt on First Avenue and East First Street (Thursday)

Crunch moving to the Bowery (Friday)

Closing night party info for Motor City Bar (Thursday)

First Citi Bikes spotted in the wild (Monday, 25 comments)

Everyman Espresso doesn't [heart] NY at the moment (Thursday)

Citi Bikes makes dumb mustache joke (Monday, 20 comments)

Distribution deal for CBGB biopic (Thursday)

Remembering Taylor Mead at Art Around the Park



Taylor Mead, the artist and Warhol superstar, died on May 8 after suffering a stroke in Colorado. He was 88. And his spirit lives on at Art Around the Park this weekend ...



Art Around the Park in 6 seconds


One way of highlighting a lot of the murals without posting 50 photos...

A lot of murals to highlight... such as Nicolina and Perola painting Portal 8 ...


[Courtesy Shane Perez]

GammaBlog has some nice shots here.

The Wall Street Journal does not care much for Citi Bikes



Several readers have pointed us to this video from The Wall Street Journal, in which editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz rips Mayor Bloomberg and the entire bike-share program.

Katz's at 125


A look at the deli this morning... celebrating 125 years in business this weekend... nice that crews from the Houston Street corridor reconstruction left the crane parked right outside for all today's festivities!



There will be live entertainment all day...



...including sets from EVG reader Stephen Popkin, who will be playing a selection of death metal music throughout the decades... (from the 1930s, 40s, etc.)...





Also today, the Katz's Delicatessen World Pastrami Eating Championship takes places as part of DayLife on Orchard Street. Find that info here.

On East Village Radio Friday, AndrewAndrew delivered their show live from Katz's. Find that archived program here.

Now everyone [with a credit or debit card!] can ride Citi Bikes!


[East 13th Street yesterday morning]

Bike Share launched last Monday for folks who bought the annual membership... and today, 24-hour and 7-day passes are now available at Citi Bike kiosks...



Here's info on pricing:



And this is happening today:
Celebrate Citi Bike!
@ Union Square
North Side of Union Square Park, Manhattan
Sunday, June 2
11 am - 3 pm
We'll have a DJ, food, a Citi Bike Street Skills
zone where you can test your urban biking
skills, NYC DOT will be fitting and giving away 500
free helmets (must be 18+ or have a parent or guardian
18+ accompany you), plus some other fun special surprises. It’s free and open to all.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Looking at some Art Around the Park



So much great Art Around the Park... here are just a few of the pieces via Bobby Williams today...













At the Howl! Festival 2013



Just a few scenes from EVG contributor peter radley...















The action continues tomorrow.

Today in the New York Post doesn't like Citi Bikes

Today's New York Post Citi Bikes Will Be the Downfall of NYC Feature highlights an East Village resident who got caught up in some stupid city bureaucracy.

Basically, here's what happened, torn right from the pages of today's paper!

An NYU grad student has finally won her battle with the city over $475 in parking fines racked up because a crew moved her car to an illegal spot to make way for a new bike-share station.

On April 30, Patricia Preston left her Honda Civic on East Second Street between avenues A and B, where she had to move it for street cleaning two days later.

When she went back, her car was gone — and a Citi Bike rack was in its place.

Anyway, among other things, the tow truck parked her car backward — handing her a $65 ticket.

The resident got all this dismissed yesterday in Manhattan Traffic Court.

At the Museum of Interesting Things



Dave on 7th checked out the The Museum of Interesting Things ("a traveling interactive demonstration/exhibition of antiques and inventions") this morning in Tompkins Square Park. Part of the Howl! Festival.

A demonstration! (Where do you upload the MP3s?)


Report: Lou Reed recently had a life-saving liver transplant



Lou Reed is recovering after a life-saving liver transplant at Cleveland Clinic, Laurie Anderson told the Times of London in an article published today.

She said that the 71-year-old Brooklyn-born Reed isn't back to full strength, but "he's already working and doing t'ai chi.

"I don't think he'll every totally recover from this, but he'll certainly be back to doing [things] in a few months," she said. "I'm very happy. It's a new life for him."

[Photo outside the The Avon 7 cinema on Seventh Avenue via the Lou Reed Facebook page]

The tree chair of East Sixth Street is... back!



Some readers pointed out that the tree chair of East Sixth Street (just east of Avenue A) returned yesterday after a week-long absence... well, the stump never left, just the chair-back thingy. (We know chairs!) Anyway, the longtime resident who created this reinforced the chair, as these helpful circles show...



Previously on EV Grieve:
What happened to the tree chair on East Sixth Street?

Now ready for Art Around the Park


[Shawn Chittle]

Among the artists taking part today, according to the Howl website:

Anca Barbu Frank Barrett, Victor Batorksy, Andres Bella, Billy the artist, Perola Bonfanti, Ian Brennan, Teresa Brown, Irma Cannovo, Simon Cardwell, Nicki Carrico, Alberto Carvalho, David Caudle, Chico, Susan Conrad, Kate Conroy, Chris Cooper, James Cornwell, Steve Cox, CRAM CONCEPTS, Emilio Cuilan, Ethan Cyr, Chauncey Dandridge, Patrick Daugherty, Taiyo De Jong, Onno De Jong, Alicia Degener, Vito Luca DiTomaso, Sophia Domeville, Peter Dougherty, Launa Eddy, Kevin Farley, Walker Fee, Luke Felisbert, Martie Flores, Alexandre Fortier, Amy Gissen, Tasha Goldblum, Mario Gomez, David Greene, Thomas Hames, Brian Harris, Jere 'JEX' Harshman, Edward Herman, Jhonatan Hernandez, Bruce Hlavna, Brianna Holley, Sam Ita, Shuri Jackson, Jeffrey Jameson, Case Jernigan, Nicolina Johnson, Ebi Kagbala, Gulnara Karpuchok, Nina Katan, Lola Katan, Ingrid Kelleman, Patrick Keyes, Darryl LaVare, Un Lee, Kevin Leong, Viveca Licata, Kerri Lindstrom, Daniel Litt, Philip Lombardo, Leslie Lowe, Andrea Lynn, Aimee Margolis, Marthalicia Matarrita, Tim McCarthy, Stephen McCombe, Fran McGee, Michael Meade, Martin Medina, Kwue Molly, Danny Mota, Michelle Nappi, Michael Natale, Jake Nelson, Alison Nolan, Daniel Olshansky, Dennis Os, James Peterson, Robert Petrick, Alex Price, David Pullman, Hannah Quirk, Jeff Richman, Frankie Roche, Doug Rochelle, Freddie Rodriguez, Kai Salvatore, Kennyray Scallon, Simon Scott, Simon Scott, Steven Shryock, Nathaniel A. Siegel, Kristen Singer, Stephen Skinner, Edward Snyder, Sok Song, Raymond Sosa, Meghan Spitzer, Bjorn Strigel, Richard Surmacz, Brett Thompson, John Trembo, Jiro Ueno, Nina Valazquez, Rolando Vega, Charles David Viera, Jonathan Weiser, Joff Wilson, Javier Winnik, Allen Yeager, and of course, the famous RISD Student...


[Via EVG's Twitter]

Now ready for Heels Around the Park


[Photo by Steven Matthews]