Monday, July 5, 2021
Monday's parting shots
One of Amelia and Christo's red-tailed hawk offspring has died
On Friday afternoon, the young hawk was spotted in a dazed state on a fire escape behind a building on Seventh Street. (Thank you to Lauren of 7th Street for sharing these photos.)
According to residents, the hawk "flapped clumsily out of a tree onto our fire escape. Clearly not well, damaged wing or leg?"
Rob Mastrianni of the NYC Urban Park Rangers transported the chick to the Wild Bird Fund on the Upper West Side for observation. There was blood in the hawk's mouth. However, as Goggla noted in her post today, an official cause of death has not been determined. The young hawk was said to have a spinal injury.
Amelia and Christo, the resident red-tailed hawks of Tompkins Square Park, had three chicks this spring. One died from unknown causes in May.
Signing off with part of Goggla's post:
[W]e've noticed several dead rats in Tompkins Square Park and in the surrounding neighborhood over the last couple of weeks. This is NOT normal and anyone finding a dead rat should report it to 311. If one is found within the park, please notify a park employee so they can dispose of it. We have concerns that with all the trash in and around the park the last several weeks, people could be using rodenticide. We currently have an outstanding inquiry with the Parks Department to confirm whether or not they are still employing nontoxic dry ice for rat control.
A mutual aid pop-up shop today in Tompkins Square Park
Sales from the art, clothing and jewelry will benefit East Village Mutual Aid as well as a BIPOC dad trying to secure safe housing for his three children. (Details here.)
The Village Voice said to be restarting a print edition
The Village Voice has hired Steven McKenna, the former CEO of Dan's Papers, to serve as the publication's chief revenue officer.
According to Keith Kelly at the Post, with McKenna on board, the paper will launch a monthly print edition this fall with plans for an issue every other week in 2022. (The Voice next needs to hire an editor-in-chief.)
At the beginning of the year, the publication returned online with new ownership in Brian Calle, the chief executive of Street Media, the owner of LA Weekly. A quarterly print edition of the iconic paper was in circulation this spring. (I never did see one out in the wild.)
Previously... the Voice website ceased publishing new content in August 2018 ... this after the final print edition in September 2017 — a 176-page commemorative issue with Bob Dylan on the cover.
The paper first started in 1955 under founders Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock and Norman Mailer.
Previously on EV Grieve:
From the EVG archives: Q-and-A with Lydia Lunch, underground legend, town crier
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Sunday's parting shot
Reader report: Falling tree branch strikes man sitting in Tompkins Square Park
An EVG reader shared the top photo and this narrative around 6:45: "People are helping him. He can walk. The branch is hanging precariously. It is still attached to the tree. A guy called 911."
The FDNY arrived to remove the rest of the branch from the tree... EVG correspondent Steven took these photos...
According to witnesses, paramedics were treating the man, believed to be in his 60s, at the scene. Hopefully, he is OK...
Week in Grieview
• How you can help The Bowery Mission protect New Yorkers from summer heat (Monday)
• A conversation with Lilly Dancyger, author of the East Village memoir 'Negative Space' (Thursday)
• Help wanted: East Village restaurants look for staff, find few options (Tuesday)
• At the 27th annual Drag March (Sunday)
• A plant-based community fridge arrives outside Essex Market (Tuesday)
• C&B debuts expanded space on 7th Street (Wedensday)
• Days and Nights of Pride (Monday)
• A red-tailed hawk rescue outside Whole Foods on East Houston (Wednesday)
• Report: Diner reviver Louis Skibar eyeing Odessa (Thursday)
• The ridiculously narrow pedestrian passage at the NE corner of St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue (Tuesday)
• A case of mistaken rat identity on the lawn in Tompkins Square Park (Wednesday)
• Doc Holliday's serves again on Avenue A (Monday)
• Community Board 3 returns to in-person meetings starting in July (Monday)
• Openings: Toasted Deli on 9th Street (Monday)
• Former Paper Daisy space for rent on St. Marks Place (Thursday)
Sonic Youth at Central Park, July 4, 1992 (redux)
Missing from the previous post — a video of the 66-minute set ...On July 4, 1992, I saw Sonic Youth at SummerStage in Central Park. Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra opened. I remember SY being as frenzied as I'd ever seen them as they played a Dirty-heavy set. (The record was just about to be released.) I don't remember much else, except that I loved every minute of the afternoon.
And the setlist from the Sonic Youth website...
01. Teenage Riot
02. Burning Spear
03. Dirty Boots
04. Drunken Butterfly
05. Theresa's Sound-World
06. Youth Against Fascism
07. Swimsuit Issue
08. Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
09. 100%
10. Kool Thing
11. Sugar Kane
12. Expressway to Yr Skull
There's a bootleg of the show here.
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Saturday's parting shot
Because someone had to be an asshole
Photos today by Stacie Joy...
Updated:
Back in business...
New York's Liberty Bell, long housed in the East Village, now ready for a closer look
Photos by Stacie Joy
The New York Liberty Bell is now on display at the New-York Historical Society.
As you may recall, workers removed the bell, which dates to the early 1700s, several weeks ago from the belfry at the fire-damaged Middle Collegiate Church on Second Avenue at Seventh Street.
Here's some history of the bell via the Museum:
Along with countless other momentous events, the bell pealed upon the reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, announced the inauguration and death of every American president, and tolled in remembrance of the lives lost on September 11, 2001.Donated by Colonel Abraham de Peyster to Middle Collegiate Church — then the New Dutch Church on Nassau Street—the bell was cast by the foundry of Jan Albert de Grave in Amsterdam in 1731. The 900-pound bell rings with a distinctive silver tone, thanks to donated coins thrown into the metal mix.During the Revolution, the bell was moved to York, Pennsylvania, for safekeeping, but it was not silenced for long. The bell echoed through the 19th century from Middle Church at Lafayette Place, Ninth Street Church, and St. Nicholas Collegiate in Midtown. In 1949, the bell was relocated to Middle Church’s present East Village location.
The bell will be in the museum on Central Park West until Middle Collegiate Church's sanctuary is rebuilt.
The museum is open Fridays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; until 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Kids 17 and under get in free on the Fourth of July.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Cock is back open on 2nd Avenue
For now, the two-level bar-club is open Thursday through Saturday from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. For the holiday weekend, they will be open on July 4. Proof of vaccination is required to enter the establishment.
As we first reported, owner Allan Mannarelli, an East Village resident, was hoping to relocate the Cock ... and he appeared before CB3 this spring for a new liquor license at 112 Rivington St., the former Fat Baby space. However, CB3 denied the move. (BoweryBoogie has details on the licensing history.)
The Cock, once described as "the last filthy gay bar in New York," moved to No. 93 in late 2015 (you may recall the "Block the Cock" campaign) ... it first opened on Avenue A in 1998 before relocating to 25 Second Ave. several years later.
Friday, July 2, 2021
Candy O
Today in photos of a sparrow and squirrel sharing a loaf of sourdough in Tompkins Square Park
Before the sparrow joined the feast, the squirrel was digging out the insides ...
A new look — and a second location — for Ki Smith Gallery
Also! Ki Smith is opening a new space — in addition to this one — on Third Street in the weeks ahead. More about that later.
Ki Smith debuted here this past September. A new exhibit arrives next Friday.
EVG Etc.: Abel Ferrara helps reopen Cinema Village; Lydia Lunch gets her due
• The Board of Elections releases (again) the first unofficial ranked-choice tally for mayor's race (Gothamist ... City Limits) Where are the absentee ballots coming from? (The City)
• How the red-tailed hawks have been spending these hot summer days in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)
• Abel Ferrara's Cinema Village retrospective continues through July 8 at the classic 12th Street theater — all tickets are $5 (Official Site)
• Beth B's biographical documentary on Lydia Lunch, "The War is Never Over," now playing at the IFC Center (Official Site ... Beth B will be there after tonight's 7:45 screening)
• Some history of the Petersfield at 113-119 Fourth Ave. (Off the Grid)
• About the andouille-sausage corn dog at the recently opened Sidney's Five on First Avenue (Grub Street)
• Behold the MTA's subway car of the not-so-distant future (amNY)
Thursday, July 1, 2021
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