Now that 7-Eleven has opened their East Village location, the community will be out in full force protesting 7-Eleven’s presence!
BOYCOTT 7-ELEVEN RALLY
THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1-2PM
CORNER OF 11TH STREET / AVENUE A
Why Boycott NYC 7-Elevens? The No 7-Eleven blog lays out the reasons here.
"The guy I bought it from found it late Friday night on East 4th Street and 2nd Avenue on the sidewalk. He is a professional dumpster diver and every week he puts out all his finds at the flea market ... needless to say he sold it to me for a very low price...it's just such a coincidence that after all the bad mouthing I did on Banksy last week and here I am tooling around the flea market and, voilà, a Banksy appears ... Crazy."
We rescued 10 kittens and cats from the euthanasia list (at Animal Care & Control) a few nights ago, and half of them arrived Thursday night! More are set to arrive. THESE KITTIES NEED HOMES!!! We are also pretty desperate for foster homes for cats and kittens. Fostering lasts a week or two, and for every animal we place in a foster home we can take another out of the kill shelter.
Any intel on what that concert was last night around 11:30? I'm on 13th between A and B and it sounded like it was coming from everywhere. Louder than anything I typically hear from Tompkins Square.
"Heard blaring music start at like 1130ish and on for easily 20-30 mins. I heard several other people from other buildings yelling shit at them but the band played on...
"Good music but I was super surprised the cops didn't show up...or if they did it took em a while."
Tomorrow (November 2, 2013) Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) will host its seventh Load OUT! — a twice yearly "riot" of repurposing and recycling activities. FABnyc will gather gently used materials from arts organizations and other donors throughout the East Village/Lower East Side for this one-of-a-kind extravaganza, taking place at 11 East 3rd Street from 12-3PM.
Load OUT! is specially designed to showcase creative thinking about sustainability and the arts. Artists and art students are welcome to take home any of the costumes, props, and furniture they need for their artistic endeavors, free of charge.
Community members and non-artists can also attend Load OUT! for a small entrance fee of $5 and may take away materials free of charge. Everything remaining will be repurposed or recycled responsibly by GrowNYC, Wearable Collections, The Lower East Side Ecology Center, Film Biz Recycling, and the NYC Department of Sanitation.
Additionally, Load OUT! includes clothing, textile, and e-waste community collections — open and free for everyone 12-3PM. FABnyc will collect e-waste, and GrowNYC
will collect clothing and textiles. A list of accepted donations is available here.
Load OUT! will also feature "Latch/Attach," a growing hook-rug project that turns old t-shirts into yarn, producing a colorful, patchwork made from these up-cycled materials. This activity is designed to engage individuals of all ages in a shared conversation about consumption while creatively making art from recycled materials.
FREE admission for artists/art students
$5 admission for the general public
FREE drop off for e-waste & textile collection by GrowNYC & The Lower East Side Ecology Center
Location: 11 East 3rd Street, between Bowery & 2nd Avenue
Mrs Claus says: pull out the ole' sled & lets do it all over again on Dec 14! http://t.co/TWEBlkROLL http://t.co/9RSNY5AcVZ Happy Halloween
— santacon (@santacon) October 31, 2013
I am writing to express my concerns regarding SantaCon and the effects it has on the communities it visits. Each year local elected officials, community boards and local precincts are besieged by complaints as SantaCon passes through their neighborhoods.
While SantaCon may be a short-term boon to a select group of local businesses, the many adverse impacts it wreaks, such as vomiting in the streets, public urination, vandalism and littering, disrupt community members’ quality of life. I recognize that at any large event, a few bad actors may disrupt an otherwise orderly affair, but at previous SantaCons bad actors have hardly been the exception. As such, significantly more must be done to combat the neighborhood scourge SantaCon has become.
Further, no matter the behavior of the participants, the event has grown large enough to completely overwhelm sidewalks and public spaces, creating a public safety hazard for all.
I strongly urge you to work with the New York City Police Department in order to come up with a strong and effective plan to combat public intoxication and to ensure all participants are respectful of the neighborhoods they visit, as well as handling the overwhelming crowds associated with an event this size. In addition, I urge you make this plan available to the affected local Community Boards well in advance of your event so that they have time to comment and help shape it.
Sincerely, Brad Hoylman
CC: Community Boards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Precincts 1, 6, 9, 10, 13, 17, 20, Midtown South, and Midtown North
Cesar was always a smiling, sunny face behind the counter at Stromboli's Pizza, where he worked for 17 years. While biking home to Brooklyn after a shift on Oct. 21, he was struck by a delivery truck and sustained multiple injuries. He lapsed into a coma at Bellevue hospital and succumbed to his injuries on Oct. 30. This fund is to help with hospital expenses and funeral costs. Cesar was 34 years old and leaves behind a wife and three small children. Stromboli's owner, Joezef, will accompany the body back to Mexico for burial.
MUSEUM OF RECLAIMED URBAN SPACE to celebrate release of: THE ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE: BUILDING A BETTER WORLD.
"The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World" is a collection of essays and photos demonstrating how people from all walks of life and every socioeconomic level can create real change in their communities and beyond. These are people who refused to accept that things couldn’t change, who saw the possibility of making something better, and didn’t hesitate to act.
Bullet Space, a housing and art collective founded in the East Village in 1986, has blossomed into a “battlefield of ideas” for the global arts and activist communities. The building, its history and residents are among real-world examples found in the newly released book, which addresses issues of innovative housing, neighborhood reclamation, community empowerment, racism, aging, gentrification, displacement, and the power of social networks.
Maggie Wrigley, an East Village resident who contributed the essay and photos on Bullet Space, also serves as co-editor along with Jerilou Hammett, editor and co-founder, with Kingsley Hammett, of DESIGNER/builder: A Journal of The Human Environment, an independent and nontraditional journal that brought issues of social justice and equity to the debate over the built and human environment.
Wrigley, a familiar face on the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space’s (MoRUS) weekend walking tours, will celebrate the release of the book at MoRUS with a slide show and reading tonight at 7.
Refreshments will be served and admission is free, but a $5 suggested donation is always appreciated. MoRUS is located at 155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets
Immaculate studio in the heart of Greenwich Village. 2 Blocks from Astor Place and subway. CitiBike station right across the street. Available for Dec. 1st but an earlier move in can be accommodated. $50 application fee. 15% broker fee.
