More photos from yesterday's German-themed Avenue C street fair

So anyway, as I mentioned yesterday, German fans were in a celebratory mood after beating Argentina 4-zip in the World Cup. Some fans watching the match at Zum Schnieder, Alphabet City Lounge, Kafana, Arcane and the Porch all converged. A fire truck arrived... and the firefighters good-naturedly joined in the celebration, honking the truck horn and waving a German flag. And posing for photos. When a few fans jumped on top of the truck, the firefighters quickly made them get down... The entire celebration all seemed pretty harmless and went on for about 15 minutes...














Previously on EV Grieve:
Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

Ray's delivery team to be featured on Fox tonight

[Photo via Bob Arihood]

Bob Arihood sent us a note saying that the Ray's delivery team will be featured tonight on the Fox News channel at 9 (Fox News is Channel 44 on Time Warner.) The delivery team will be roughly 1/3 of the program that will be hosted by John Stossel. The program will air again tomorrow night at 9.

Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

The scene on Avenue C and Seventh Street around noon after Germany beat Argentina 4-0 in the World Cup....



A fire truck arrived... I thought to clear a path for traffic that was backing up... However, the truck stopped ... and joined the celebration...

Shepard Fairey's mural continues to go to pieces

On Thursday, Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reported on the vandalized state of Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston and the Bowery... and, every day (night), the mural continues to be mauled... someone or somebody pulled more of the mural apart in the last 12 hours...

The line to get into Zum Schneider this morning

For the Germany-Argentina match. Wow. Much longer than last week's line. One Zum Schneider regular said this was the longest line that she'd ever seen here, including Octoberfest...the line streches west halfway up Seventh Street.






If you're in the back of the line now, then I'd suggest you watch the match elsewhere...

An Egg Cream for you

Reminders tonight! Darkness, French movie in Tompkins Square Park

Godard's "A Woman is a Woman" in Tompkins Square Park... where some of the lights are covered in preparation... (and how long will workers leave the lights wrapped up...?)

Toilet humor

Grub Street's Daniel Maurer notes that the three restrooms at the Ninth Ward are labeled either Sex, Drugs or Rock & Roll.

[Photo by Daniel Maurer, via Grub Street]

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

Photo from 10th Street and Avenue B courtesy EV Grieve reader Steve

City officially turns over former squat at 209 E. Seventh St. to the tenants (Scoopy's Notebook, previously)

A view into the creepiness of the New Bowery (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Rag & Bone's Cafe Colonial tribute (BoweryBoogie)

Marky Ramone sues for unpaid royalties (NME)

A swank Second Street pad with a private garage (Curbed)

A visit to Carteles (East Village Eats)

Taj Mahal closed "for renovations" on East Sixth Street (Fork in the Road)

The Hester Street Fair is Saturday... be sure to check out Goggla's work there...

RIP Deno's Party House

Sad news, friends... Deno's Party House, the sketchorama bikini bar near Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue, has closed. When, we have no idea...we just discovered for ourselves last night...The NYC sanitizing continues. Sure, Deno's have had their problems with the law in the past...





...but is this anyway to try to lure LeBron James to the Knicks?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Where you can still get a beer, some bikini action and maybe a colonic in this town

Exclusive: The Penistrator didn't act alone

Given the behavior of some Smurfs cast members this spring .... authorities released the above photo... perhaps as a cautionary tale of some sort.

The 13th Step to feature 28 flatscreen TVs, 8.5-hour happy hour (and deep-fried hot dogs)

The 13th Step opens on Thursday on Second Avenue, and Thrillist has the scoop on what to expect:

Named after the AA term for hooking up with one’s sponsor, 13S's morphed the former Telephone Bar space into a down-to-business, 28-flatscreen sports spot; the booth-lined main room’s been revamped with a wood-topped bar and a brass ceiling rocking custom amber fixtures, while the the back now features two rooms that share the same spanking-new bar, but’re separated down the middle by a wrought iron gate with swinging doors, which’ll let anyone inside. In spite of eating up most of the kitchen space, the standard bar menu’s studded with adventurous booze-sponges, including bacon, egg, and cheese sliders; cheese/gravy-/bacon-smothered tots; pulled-pork-stuffed burgers; and deep fried dogs, aka rippers, which don’t need jack to tear your heart out. The drink’s fittingly straight ahead as well, with a fully stocked bar backed by 14 drafts, local bottles, and old-school cans of Schaefer, Carling Black Label, and Sly Fox IPA, which coincidentally is also crazy...delicious!

Upping the imbibery's a recurring 8.5 hr happy hour (excepting Sundays), plus daily specials like dollar drafts and half-price bombs...

And the hits just keep on coming...

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Jeremy for the tip.

[Photo via Thrillist]

The East Village is NYC's third hottest nightlife neighborhood! (Woo! High fives!)

As you may know, Zagat has released the results of its 2010/11 New York City Nightlife Survey (or, as NYPress nicely put it: "what we like to call 'Places You Don’t Want to Frequent.'")

The best thing about the survey was the reaction to the survey... Like this from the Observer:

A whopping 40 percent of the "5,719 local night owls" surveyed said that they hit the town less frequently because of the recession. On average, the survey says New Yorkers now spend 1.8 nights out per week as opposed to 2000's 2.3 nights. That's a loss of a half-night per decade, and at this rate there will be no going out at all in a mere 40 years.

Heh.

Anyway, here are a few of the results that likely won't surprise you...

Do you primarily frequent nightspots…?

In your neighborhood: 32%

Outside of your neighborhood: 68%

What is NYC's hottest nightlife neighborhood?

1. Meatpacking District

2. Lower East Side

3. East Village

Oh, thanks!

Here's the full news release.

The problem with private driveways in the East Village

No one pays attention to the "no parking" signs....



Yeah, it's funny until John Legend has your ass towed ... Well, unless this is the LegendMobile.... outside 52E4, the 15 stories of condo on Fourth Street... where the Legend, Moby and others live...




Perhaps a trend...Previously, as seen at 238 E. Fourth St. in front of the Novogratz-designed penthouse home....

And now a photo of a supermodel by the Thompson LES Pool

Victoria's Secret supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio hosted her annual summer party at the Thompson LES pool last week. And...wait...



It's that guy! I see this guy everywhere. Not him necessarily. But someone who looks like that. Always. And... that does it!



[Photo via]

What the Mosaic Man needs to continue rebuilding

Earlier today I mentioned a good sign: The Mosaic Man working on refurbishing some of his work on Second Avenue at Sixth Street...

And he posted this message on his blog today:

60 light poles need rebuilding (2 months each) to complete the 80 lightpoles in the project.....now....donate your pottery, dishes etc. and of coarse save a few BUCKS ... cause without it it's over ... pass the word

Meanwhile, EV Grieve reader Glamma noticed this as well: Jim has uncovered the mosaic on Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place...

Bedbugs, not beefcake, now greeting Hollister shoppers

Early last year the the iconic-y DKNY ad mural at Broadway and Houston was painted over to make way for what BoweryBoogie described as "the teen-loving mall dwellers Abercrombie & Fitch," who planted their Hollister flagship store here. (Read Curbed's coverage here.)



Anyway, as The Wall Street Journal reported this morning, the store, with the shirtless dude greeters, has closed... due to an infestation of bedbugs. Per the Journal:

Infestations in commercial buildings are typically handled privately and don't need to be reported to the city. A spokeswoman for the city's Department of Health said bedbugs "do not present a health risk or spread disease."

Still, bedbugs aren't something consumers expect to bring home with their new clothes, and an expert on torts law said, hypothetically, consumers who had made recent purchases and then discover bedbugs could have a case.

"Technically it's a breach of warranty of merchantability," said Michael M. Martin, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. "They are defective because they don't meet consumer expectation. The usual remedy for that, first of all you can get price back and, second, you might well be able to recover for the consequential injuries. I'd be willing to take that case."

[Top image via BoweryBoogie]