Monday, July 4, 2022
Flashback Friday: 'Touchez Pas Au Grisbi' in Tompkins Square Park
Photos by Daniel Efram
This past Friday night, the 2022 Films on the Green series came to Tompkins Square Park with a free screening of "Touchez Pas Au Grisbi," a 1954 French-Italian crime drama starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau and Lino Ventura.
EVG regular Daniel Efram shared a few images from this welcome summer-in-the-city event, where "a delicate breeze pierced the humidity," he wrote.
• July 8, Seward Park "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" by Dai Sijie (2002)
• July 15, Seward Park "The Class" by Laurent Cantet (2008)
Find the whole schedule here.
Monday's opening shot
Sunday, July 3, 2022
[Updating] Report of a gas explosion at La Mia Pizza on 4th Avenue
... and issued the "under control" 22 minutes later.Manhattan All Hands Box 0464, 124 4 AVE, EMERGENCY
— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) July 3, 2022
The front windows of the restaurant, which opened here in September 2020, were blown out during the explosion. It wasn't immediately known who was injured — an employee, patron or passerby.Manhattan All Hands Box 0464, 124 4 AVE, COMMERCIAL, , Under Control
— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) July 3, 2022
Will update when more information becomes available.
Updated 6:05 p.m.
Here's part of ABC 7's report:
First responders detected gas and called ConEd who dispatched a crew to help search for the source inside the 20-floor building. As they were searching an explosion happened in the kitchen of the restaurant while FDNY and ConEd employees were inside.The explosion didn't cause a fire and was contained to the kitchen, according to the FDNY.One ConEd employee sustained minor injuries but refused transportation to the hospital.
Thank you to the EVG reader for the top photo.
Week in Grieview
• Parking removed on sections of Avenues A and D; curbside bus lanes set for M14 service (Wednesday)
• RIP Lisa Martin (Thursday)
• Hoop dreams: A memorial for Jesse Parrilla (Friday)
• Lord Kitty fell from a window and needs surgery (Saturday)
• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Kevin Sabo on ‘Kimberly Pepperoni’s Closet’ (Thursday)
• Treetops tops off on 2nd Avenue; signage arrives (Monday)
• Police searching for suspect who burglarized a storage room on Avenue B (Saturday)
• A visit with Wolfie, a talented emerging outsider artist — and rabbit (Tuesday)
• City pools open with limited staffing (Tuesday)
• More burgers for the former Black Iron Burger on 5th Street (Thursday)
• Compilation Coffee coming to St. Mark’s Place (Monday)
• Brooklyn Roasting Company opens a cafe inside the Strand (Monday)
• ‘American Horror Story’ brings the porn and 1980s mobiles to 9th Street (Friday)
• Let the wheatpaste battle BEGIN! (Wednesday)
• A new Korean concept for the Oiji space on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)
• Raclette reopens (Monday)
• Blank Street continues East Village expansion with outpost on 1st Avenue (Tuesday)
... and we had a @Culture.20 sighting on Second Avenue ... photo by Derek Berg...
Reader report: FDNY truck collides with vehicle on 10th Street and Avenue C
Top image via Citizen
Sunday's opening shot
Saturday, July 2, 2022
[Updated] Lord Kitty fell from a window and needs surgery
Updated: Sadly, the fall was too intense and Lord was unable to breathe on her own. She was put to sleep. Per Lindsay: "So thank you all for your kindness, for your help, for raising awareness I cannot tell you how much it meant to me, to us ..."
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Lord survived the fall, “but we had to take her to the emergency vet immediately. Due to the extremity of the fall and the need for the x-rays, overnight stays, medicine, and her having a broken hip, plus some internal organ issues, it’s a lot, and we have her staying overnight a few nights to stabilize.”
Lindsay launched a GoFundMe to help her pay for Lord’s medical expenses.
“I’m not sure I can put into words how much she means to me, but she is my best friend, my baby, the absolute love of my life,” she wrote.
Find the link here.
Police searching for suspect who burglarized a storage room on Avenue B
According to the police, the incident occurred at 4:25 a.m. on June 11 at 23 Avenue B, which is between Second Street and Third Street. As previously reported, workers added two new floors and combined the two four-story structures here.
The police report does not mention the name of the business... the lone one being Gas on Deck, a recreational marijuana dispensary and accessories shop.
There is a $3,500 reward for information about this theft...
WANTED for a Burglary at 23 Avenue B. #Manhattan @NYPD9pct on 6/11/22 @ 4:25 AM an unknown individual forcefully entered the storage room at location and removed approximately $26,000 worth of merchandise. Reward up to $3500 Call 1-800-577-TIPS Calls are CONFIDENTIAL pic.twitter.com/OEzHoVzkj8
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) July 2, 2022
Now the bus knows what it's like to wait for a lift
The heavy-duty tow-truck was spotted between 10th Street and 11th Street ... and blocking the bus stop outside Tompkins Square Bagels...
The blowout occurred around 4 p.m. yesterday just south of 13th Street. Witnesses said it was loud as hell. There weren't any reports of injuries.
And coincidentally, "Blow Out," Brian De Palma's excellent 1981 thriller with John Travolta, Nancy Allen and a menacing John Lithgow, is playing tonight (July 2 as well as July 4 and July 8) at Metrograph on Ludlow Street.
Friday, July 1, 2022
'American Horror Story' brings the porn and 1980s mobiles to 9th Street
Top photo by DP; the rest by Steven
Film crews for a TV series with the code name "Bandana" (aka "American Horror Story," season 11) are filming on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (and along Avenue A and elsewhere) this evening.
Blow out on Avenue A
Photos by Steven
The Fourth of July came early this afternoon on Avenue A just south of 13th Street ... when a tire on an M14 bus blew out, causing a roar that several EVG readers described as sounding like an explosion...
There weren't any reports of injuries, just a few frazzled nerves and a line at the next stop on A...
Feel the need, the need for 'Speeding'
Household Name, the third record from Brooklyn's Momma, is out today. (Per Pitchfork: a "cheeky spin on Gen-X slacker rock.")
The video here is for "Speeding 72."
And you can catch Momma live next month in support of Snail Mail.
How to stay cool while being dive-bombed by a blue jay in Tompkins Square Park
Photos by Steven
Featuring Christo, one of the resident red-tailed hawks in Tompkins Square Park... basically, you act like, What blue jay... 
Hoop dreams: A memorial for Jesse Parrilla
Photos by Gebhard
Tuesday was Jesse Day on the basketball courts in Tompkins Square Park... as friends and community members gathered to celebrate the life of Jesse Parrilla, the local hoops star who was said to be an innocent bystander in a gang feud this spring.
Parrilla, who lived with his mother on 12th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue, and his longtime friend Nikki Huang were reportedly kidnapped and killed in May "in a series of retaliatory shootings" involving a stolen purse. (Previously.)
Parrilla, 22, played basketball for a season upstate at Genesee Community College.
In Tompkins Square Park, there were basketball games and remembrances of someone who is gone too soon...Sad to announce the passing of former @GCCCougarsBBall player Jesse Parrilla. Jesse played for Genesee CC during the 2018-2019 season. Prayers out to his family & loved ones. 🕊🕊🕊 pic.twitter.com/aifP1S4W58
— Genesee CC Mens Basketball (@GCCCougarsBBall) May 17, 2022
Films on the Green presents 'Touchez Pas Au Grisbi' tonight in Tompkins Square Park
The 2022 Films on the Green series comes to Tompkins Square Park tonight (July 1).
This year's theme is "From Page to Screen," spotlighting 12 literary adaptations. Our screening: "Touchez Pas Au Grisbi," a 1954 French-Italian crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau and Lino Ventura ... and based on a novel by Albert Simonin.
The plot!
After pulling off their "retirement job," 50 million in gold bars, aging criminals Max and Henri think they can give up the game. But when Henri's girlfriend tells the drug dealer Angelo about the loot, violence erupts. Angelo kidnaps the old crook and asks Max for the "grisbi' as ransom...
The trailer!
The film will start (roughly) around 8:30 in the center of the Park (where the bands play).
Films on the Green is produced annually in New York City parks by Villa Albertine, the French Embassy and FACE Foundation.
After a year off in 2020, the series returned with a hybrid event last summer, though there weren't any events in Tompkins.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Thursday's parting shot
6 posts from June
• The Gem Spa signage shines brightly in this Ohio farmhouse (June 23)
• At the book party for Ada Calhoun's 'Also a Poet' (June 17)
• Proposed plans now call for a 24-story residential building on 14th Street and Avenue C (June 14)
• Come, let's drive along some side streets between Avenue C and Avenue D in 1987 (June 10)
• A look inside Globe Slicers, one of the most unique storefronts on the Bowery (June 9)
• Gaia Italian Café set to debut on 3rd Street (June 6)
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