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EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by today's semi-annual sale at Village View … and met some of the residents taking part …
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Food Bank For New York City will host its first annual “Farm To Food Bank” Food Drive, in partnership with GrowNYC’s Union Square Greenmarket, to help support the 1.5 million New Yorkers who rely on Food Bank For New York City and its citywide network of charities.
Food Bank is asking New Yorkers who stop by Union Square Greenmarket to shop for their families, to buy a little extra and donate some fresh fruit and vegetables to Food Bank to help ensure that all New Yorkers have access to healthy nutritious meals.
Last year, Food Bank For New York City distributed 18 million pounds of fresh produce to New Yorker in need.
When: Monday, Sept. 21
9 A.M. – 6 P.M.
Village View's Semi-Annual Flea Market/Tag Sale will take place tomorrow (Sunday, Sept. 20) in the playground just behind 60 Avenue A at the corner of East 4th Street and Avenue A from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control NS is temporarily closed. We are working to resolve the Situation and Hope to Re-open Soon.
— Nevada Smiths (@NevadaSmiths) September 15, 2015
Every day she and her mother, Michelle, walk through Tompkins Square Park, where they see more and more homeless men and women suffering on the streets. Maribella decided she couldn’t just walk past them again and do nothing. So she figured out something even a second-grader could do to help.
About a year ago, Maribella began collecting loose change she found on the sidewalk and under couch cushions, keeping the spare pennies, nickels and dimes in a special jar on her bedside table. She carefully kept track of what she collected in a journal. Now, a year later, her jar holds $25 dollars in change! She decided she wanted to give the money to one of the homeless people she sees everyday – along with a note of well wishes
We're sold out! If you didn't make the cut, you can still cheer on participants or meet us @DoubleWideNYC for the after party at noon.
— NYC Pizza Run (@nycpizzarun) September 17, 2015
Starting at 11AM, participants will run four laps around the park, counterclockwise. The total distance of the race is two miles. After lap 1, lap 2, and lap 3, there will be a “pizza station” set up where participants must stop to eat a slice of pizza before they can continue with the next lap. The first person to complete the run will be crowned the NYC Pizza Run Champion!
“I’m not responsible,” he said before pinning the listings on brokers.
“Brokers are unauthorized. Brokers do that all the time. There’s nothing,” he said. “Brokers do whatever they want to do.”
Annual 9th Street A-1 Block Association Block Party
East 9th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A
Saturday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. (no rain date)
Live Music (from noon - 4 p.m.)
Resident artists, crafts people, and photographers will be showing and selling their work, and residents will be selling a la stoop sale — antiques, bric-a-brac, clothing, accessories, music, jewelry, etc.
Block businesses include:
• Dorian Grey Gallery, Enchantments, Flower Power (herbs), Mr. Throwback (vintage clothing and accessories), Ollie's Place (cat adoption), Pink Olive (gifts), Polytima (jewelry), Pork Pie Hatterie (hats), Puppy Love Kitty Kat (pet supplies), Reason Outpost (clothing), The Upper Rust (antiques)
• Restaurants/Cafes: Good Beer, Tacos Morales, Cagen, Whitman's, Zucker Bakery, Superiority Burger
• Hair Salons/Barbers: Crops for Girls, Lovemore & Do, Maria Mok Salon, Neighborhood Barber, Tsumiki Salon
Through the repositioning, Brookhill plans to upgrade the common areas in the buildings and renovate the residential units to maximize their square footage.
@NameCantBe @evgrieve @nytimes Two more weeks. Hope to see you soon on 1st Ave!
— Black Seed Bagels (@BlackSeedBagels) September 17, 2015
A 26’ wide, five-story, multi-family walk-up building located on the north side of East 7th Street between Cooper Square and 2nd Avenue. The building consists of nine residential units, of which three are rent-stabilized, one is rent-controlled, and five will be delivered vacant.
The average in-place rent of the rent-regulated units is approximately $22 per square foot which is only a fraction of market. A majority of the units are large one-bedrooms that could be converted to two-bedrooms or front-back units.
There is also dramatic upside in renovating the free market units, one of which can be converted into a duplex unit with garden access, to attain market rents. The building is located steps from The Cooper Union’s new building and around the corner from trendy East Village eateries such as The Mermaid Inn and Narcissa.
Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control Nevada Smiths is temporarily closed. We are working to resolve the Situation and...
Posted by Nevada Smiths on Tuesday, September 15, 2015
"He is the purest example of a hippie ever seen in this city," said Mary Cantwell, the author of 'Manhattan, When I Young,' who met Mr. Purple in 1985. "He is an artifact of that era, living in a very unlikely time and place, namely present-day New York City."
Mr. Purple has been something of a fringe fixture ever since he moved to the city 30 years ago. His appearance and his moniker were striking even in a city known for its eclectic characters and wild sartorial tastes. During much of the 70's and early 80's, he dressed almost entirely in the royal hue: purple shirts, purple sweaters, purple pants. With his beard, gray hair, floppy green stocking cap, sunglasses and twinkling blue eyes, he looks like Santa Claus if Santa hit the skids and lost the belly.
He put the color away, he said, after the garden was destroyed.
"Purple went out with the garden," he said. "Adam Purple doesn't exist."
"Planet Fitness [offers] a $10 monthly membership fee that makes it accessible to everyone, which was very important to us." said S. Andrew Katz, a principal at the Prusik Group, which is a minority partner in the $1 billion-plus development and oversees the leasing of retail space. "There are gyms that charge $250 a month for membership, but those don't fit the community's needs.”
“She was someone who struggled,” said Harbour, who was in Toronto for the premiere of his film "Black Mass."
“She was in the shelter system. I was trying to help her out,” he said.
Situated in a five-story walk-up, the store is owned and run by Murray R. Silver, 65, who lives in an apartment above the business, which absorbed three other gravestone dealers, Forsyth, Weinreb & Gross.
Inside, the selection ranging from standard marble “toaster” shapes with the Star of David in relief (customary for men, while women usually get Shabbat candles) to massive granite Torahs rests on squares of tattered artificial green grass to capture the feel of a real cemetery. The oldest gravestone sample, hand carved by Mr. Silver’s late father, Samuel Silver, depicts a broken tree and a flying dove.
“You are now in the house of satisfied customers,” a sign proclaims. Mr. Silver inherited the business from his parents. His father died 20 years ago and now rests in a cemetery on Long Island under a modest family marker engraved “Silver.” His mother, Minnie, who is 95, became the first woman on the Lower East Side to run a monument store’s showroom. She would leave work early so she could put out milk and cake for her children arriving home from school.
CB3 Public Hearing — FY 2017 Budget Priorities
Wednesday September 16 at 6:30 pm — Community Board 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St. (between Second Avenue and the Bowery)
This is an opportunity for organizations and residents to tell the Community Board their budget priorities.
What parks need reconstruction? What programs need funding? Help us assess the needs of our community.
Every year the Community Board submits a list of capital and expense budget priorities to city agencies. This hearing is your opportunity to have input into these district budget priorities. Tell us how money should be spent in Community Board 3.
Organizations, groups, and individuals representing all segments of the community are encouraged to participate.