EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

NYC murder rate up 17% so far in 2010 (Runnin' Scared)

Is this finally the economic collapse? (Fortune)

Hmm.. not so cheery with the headlines so far... We need a cheery song!



Update on saving the community gardens (The Gog Log)

Watering on East Houston (BoweryBoogie)

Arby's quickly shutters in landmarked building (Eater)

The Grumbler questions the no-shoes rule (The Grumbler)

Resident discards mattress WITHOUT bedbugs (NYC the Blog)

Sleeping on the sidewalk to beat the heat in 1910 (Ephemeral NY)

New Belgian place that isn't German on Second Avenue gets more Belgianie (DNAinfo)

East Village Radio livestreaming tonight's White Rabbits show from East River Park (The Lo-Down)

And the man surrounding by police officers on First Avenue near 10th Street in the photo below? He allegedly stole a bike.



This happened last Thursday... via justindisgustin's Flickr page ...where there are more details (and photos!) about the incident.

Bedbugs from the big chair

Yesterday, on the Bowery and East Fourth Street.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

The return of the Scribbler (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

How you can "live richly" on the Bowery (BoweryBoogie)

An outdoor pingpong table for Tompkins Square Park (DNAinfo)

Checking out the LES secret grilled cheese dealer (The Post)

More on Thursday's Paul Revere ride (The New York Times)

"Rosemary's Baby" tonight in Bryant Park (Nonetheless, who also points us to a "Rosemary's Baby" now and then at Scouting New York)

And the Times has a feature on East Village resident Kieran Culkin ... in which the 28-year-old actor drinks at one of his favorite bars — Bar None on Third Avenue... "For the first couple of years, I hated it," Mr. Culkin said of the neighborhood, which he moved to about eight years ago, after leaving his family's Upper West Side apartment. The crowd, he said, was too loud, too obnoxious.

Beauty Crisis is gone now on Seventh Street...


[Thanks to Blue Glass for the photo]

And can TVs get bedbugs? On 10th Street and Avenue A

Mattress factory

Seems to be a more active move in/move out end-of-month/beginning-of-month period than usual... seems as if more people are moving out than moving in... While walking around yesterday and today, I counted 17 abandoned mattresses... I started taking pictures of them... but you get the idea...







And none of them were marked "bedbugs."

A terrible experience prompts bedbugs art

We've posted some bedbug art by Samuel Mark here in recent weeks... there's a short Q-and-A with him over at The Wall Street Journal... As he says about his bedbug art: " I am actually just trying to raise awareness. To me, it’s a big problem. I actually experienced bedbugs firsthand and had a terrible experience."

[Photo by EV Grive reader Dan N.]

Bedbugs getting bigger, more colorful

More from Samuel Mark. Undisclosed location.

Bedbug artist strikes again with a tribute to bedbug-riddled stores

A mysterious e-mail just arrived with another bedbugs creation by Samuel Mark... On St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue last evening... And the e-mailer confirmed his identity as the elusive street artist Samuel Mark, who previously left a bedbug-ridden couch for Shepard Fairey.

Now with some video...




Previously on EV Grieve:
Bedbugs inspire local artists

The Summer of Bedbugs continues...

What does the sign say...? I can't make it out from this distance...




Seventh Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...

Meanwhile, CNN had a piece last night on the city's new battle against bedbugs...

Bedbugs inspire local artists

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Dan N. for the photo here on St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue... As he noted, "This kind of makes having bedbugs look like one wacky experience that all New Yorkers should love."

And the Summer of Bedbugs continues...

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]