[Actually Chelsea]
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Flea market continues outside home of former flea market on Avenue A
This afternoon between East 11th Street and East 12th Street... photo by Bobby Williams.
Previously.
Week in Grieview
[Inside the Immaculate Conception gymnasium]
Injured East Village Farm and Grocery workers emerges from coma (Tuesday)
Vandalizing Citi Bikes (Tuesday)
Out and About Part 2 with Philip Giambri (Wednesday)
First Avenue Pierogi and Deli on vacation the rest of the summer (Monday)
Third Rail Coffee opens on East 10th Street (Tuesday)
Plans for the Odessa Cafe and Bar (Tuesday)
Honoring Ryan Gosling on Canada Day (Monday)
Rainbows and double rainbows (Wednesday)
Zoltar's new sidewalk mate (Friday)
Looking at new luxury homes on East 12th Street (Monday)
Noise notes outside Upright Citizens Brigade (Monday)
Citi Bikes docking station as an apartment amenity (Wednesday)
Happy birthday Debbie Harry (Monday)
A ribbon for 'Serendipity' in Tompkins Square Park
[Bobby Williams]
A red ribbon arrived on "Serendipity," the life-sized sculpture of Christopher Gamble's silhouette in Tompkins Square Park. The silhouette is in honor of Gamble, who was homeless for nearly 28 years. Fanny Allié's creation will be in the Park through November.
Today in photos of a decorative camel resting on First Avenue
Near East Second Street. Explanations?
Today in photos of a double-decker, eight-wheeled Hummer super stretch limo on Avenue A
Wow. We thought things like this only existed on Cheezburger sites... but no — EVG reader MA captured this photo last night around 9 in the wilds of Avenue A... Anyone spot the occupants?
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Shocking report: Rich people are coming below 14th Street
The photo caption that appears with the main photo sums it up this way: "Uptown denizens who once thought Harry Cipriani on 59th Street was the southern border for gracious living are discovering new condos and restaurants downtown."
It's not necessarily about the East Village, but downtown in general. Examples in the article cite a UES couple who are buying apartments for their high-school age children in — gasp! — Battery Park City ...the article also mentions new developments on Charles Street and Leonard Street....
A few excerpts, because you don't really want to read the whole piece:
“Downtown is livelier — we feel as though we have been in Milan for the weekend,” said Brooke Garber Neidich, a chairwoman of the Whitney Museum.
(We believe this is a reference to Milan, Italy, and not Milan, Ohio, birthplace of Thomas Edison.)
And!
Such a rarefied perspective may particularly rankle longtime downtowners, and portend the end of Manhattan’s few remaining bastions of bohemia. But just as flocks of young New Yorkers who might once have lived in the East Village are now in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Williamsburg, and those who had once lived in Williamsburg have moved on to Bushwick, it is perhaps inevitable that gaggles of Muffys and Thurstons wearing Lilly Pulitzer are invading neighborhoods below 14th Street. The cool crowd has long been on a southward migration.
And!
“You are seeing people ask themselves: Do I have an affair, get a divorce or get a downtown apartment?” said Michele Kleier, the president and chairwoman of Kleier Residential.
Rite Aid is turning blue on First Avenue
More exciting news to report from the World of Rite Aid on First Avenue and East Fifth Street... first, they cleaned up the inside and ditched the carpet...
Now, workers are painting the exterior, as the headline likely tipped you off... Goggla shared this from yesterday afternoon...
Perhaps they will consider bringing back the armpit tanning banner for the front window...
Now, workers are painting the exterior, as the headline likely tipped you off... Goggla shared this from yesterday afternoon...
Perhaps they will consider bringing back the armpit tanning banner for the front window...
Friday, July 5, 2013
Evening tweets
Tompkins Square Park is packed for the French film tonight. pic.twitter.com/llC5bEo21m
— evgrieve (@evgrieve) July 6, 2013
The lawn is filling up too... tough to read the subtitles from there...
Tompkins Square Park still without a gate at Avenue A and St. Mark's Place
Last Thursday, a man driving a station wagon crashed through the front gate of Tompkins Square Park on Avenue A and St. Mark's Place ... sections of the damaged gate were sitting there for several days... now they're gone... with some orange tape in place for the time being...
White lines
East Seventh Street near Avenue C above and below...
Unrelated from the other week. East Third Street and First Avenue.
Unrelated but always good to hear.
And related.
Zoltar's cozy new arrangement
Well, what do we have here outside Gem Spa...? A New York Lottery "Play Center" is now stationed directly next to Zoltar... picking lottery numbers adjacent to the Great One who tells fortunes and accurately predicts the future? We're guessing Zoltar's daily income is about to go through the box.
An East Village snow day
Grégoire Alessandrini let us know that he just added more images to his blog — New York in the 1990's Photo Archives. We featured some of his work back in May.
Some background: As a student here in the early-to-mid 1990s, he always carried a camera around with him ... and he has been uploading the photos from that time to his blog. He lives in Paris these days.
Anyway, given the temps outside today ... East Village blizzard pics from 1995 seemed fitting...
Second Avenue looking north...
First Avenue looking north ...
Avenue A looking south ...
Indian Larry...
You may now spend your holiday weekend rooting through his photo archives here.
El Jardín del Paraíso loses its prized tree
[Photo by Annalee Sinclair via Facebook]
Ugh. The largest tree at El Jardín del Paraíso had to come down earlier this week... The tree in the community garden that spans the block of East Fourth Street to East Fifth Street between C and D was leaning, and some people worried that it could come down during a storm... Here's the scene yesterday via Goggla...
Chico finishes his Ramones mural at Croxley Ales
As we first noted last Saturday, Chico was creating a mural of the Ramones on the gate at Croxley Ales...he wrapped his work earlier this week on Avenue B...
A French 'Heartbreaker' tonight in Tompkins Square Park
Tonight in Tompkins Square Park... Films on the Green presents another free French, uh, film... French DJ’s from WNYU will spin music before the screening, which starts around sunset (approx. 8:30) ...
Tonight — "Heartbreaker"
A description!
Pascal Chaumeil's new film "Heartbreaker" starring Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis. It's a French romantic comedy, kind of the opposite of Hitch, about a guy who breaks up relationships for a living and falls into one in the process ... Chaumeil is also a protégé of Luc Besson, having work as second unit director on a few of his films.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
July 4th on Union Square — 1876
[Click on image to enlarge]
A Centennial celebration, followed by epic lines for the restrooms at the nearby Starbucks.
From the NYPL Digital Gallery.
A scene on Second Avenue this morning
Two readers described this scene this morning on Second Avenue by the steps of the Ottendorfer Library. Two older men are passed out on the sidewalk. Two other men come by and try to rouse them. Or so it seems.
A passerby on the other side of the street starts screaming at the men standing. Residents in an apartment across the way also yell at the men. There's shouting back and forth.
From the witnesses, it appears that one of the men took money from the two on the ground. The man in the red shirt declares his innocence. He walks into Second Avenue yelling. He comes back to the men on the sidewalk and explains he was actually helping by hiding the money on their bodies. He says that it was too easy to take.
There's more standing and the two finally walk away, still declaring their innocence. They placed the money into the crack of the man's ass.
Someone else walking by promises to call an ambulance. Others pass by walking on the Avenue.
Golden eye
Bobby Williams took this photo late yesterday afternoon, between the
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