Walkman this way

Wow — the Sony Walkman was introduced 30 years ago this week. Which reminds me. I recently busted out my portable AM-FM/cassette Walkman from a long time ago. I needed a radio for something. Anyway, I was inspecting the Walkman on a crowded 4 train. And I discovered a tape was in the Walkman. XTC's "Skylarking"! (Had I used this thing since, say, 1986?) I was fumbling around with the batteries. Then I realize. These two recent-college-grad types are looking at me in mild disbelief and horror, perhaps. Like I'm poor or low-tech and can't have an iPod. When the tape rewinds, I give them a nod and press play.

Posts that I never got around to posting: NYU pub crawls getting out of hand!

Posts that I never got around to posting: People on Ninth Street throw away really big TVs

And this is still tiny compared to the one Slum Goddess found here.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Capturing some street life in an ad

Posts that I never got around to posting: Two photos taken on Sixth Street

Posts that I never got around to posting: This annoying ad

On St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Chaining things to poles

On East 12th Street.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Unusual plywood on 33rd Street

The plywood looks just like the bar...

Posts that I never got around to posting: Last call for Pad Thai

Perhaps many restaurants have a Last Call notice on their to-go menus. I just never noticed it.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Your ultra weekend!

Seventh Street near Avenue C.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Hook and Ladder part duh

The building housing the John Street/FiDi location of Hook and Ladder is for lease. The bar is still open.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Cheep rent

On Fifth Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square.

Posts that I never got around to posting: Movie poster mischief

On 14th Street near Third Avenue.

Guess where? "Frattier than the frattiest frat party"

Eater has another reader report on the Greatest Shitshow of Them All, Superdive. Of course.

"I checked out the now imfamous Superdive last night, and I was blown away by the place. I paid $7 to mix my own drink (blacklable on ice, filled to the rim), was with a group that bought a keg, and smelled the aroma of weed. I can also say the place is frattier than the frattiest frat party imaginable, and was populated by about 90% business-casual clad iBanker types, and the plain-looking, done-up to the nines girls that follow them around. I have absolutely no idea how that place plans to stay open, there are potential liabilities EVERYWHERE (health violations, SLA, lawsuits, whatever). The place is a massive house of cards."

Previously on EV Grieve.

Damn hippies!

July 2, 1967, the Beach Boys play Wollman Rink in Central Park.

Noted

Heard that some paparazzi and various stalkers were hanging out on Avenue B near Manitoba's last night...Why? Who knew! According to Celebrity Gossip, a Web site about, um, celebrity gossip, Rihanna was at East Side Ink "taking a lesson in tattooing and having a marvelous time."

Work on Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre begins at former Two Boots space

The "for rent" signs -- seen below earlier this spring -- have come down at the former Two Boots space on Avenue A...(Two Boots Pizza and the video nook combined into the storefront on Avenue A and Third Street.)



There are now work permits in the window. ("To create new performance theater...")





And, peeking inside, you can see the space is being cleared out.



Previously:
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to Open East Village Location (Grub Street)

Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Two Boots Video store "in contract" -- largest available retail space on Avenue A

Looking at 45 John Street

Curbed has been reporting on the happenings at 45 John Street in the Financial District.



And, on Monday, The Real Deal reported 45 John had been hit with a $51 million foreclosure suit. (Downtowny has more here.) I also did a piece on 45 John last August.... and was curious to see what was happening for myself. For starters, the 45 John Street signage is gone.



The only evidence of 45 John Street is up 3/4 on the building.



The 45 John Street sales office was on the upscale Dutch Street....



...just down this inviting, scaffolding-covered passageway. When I walked down Dutch yesterday afternoon, I saw two men sleeping in the shadows on either side of the road.



The sales office door was closed, the sales office signage removed...and a reflective barrel was blocking the doorway.




There was some activity. There's still a security guard on duty. And yesterday afternoon, under his watchful eye, several workers hauled away dozens of empty carts.



Meanwhile, on the roof, the ritzy penthouses that were in the works...



...look like some giant Tonka toy.

RIP for Bounce Deuce, known for "eye candy staff" and plastic tubes of beer?

Eater reports that Bounce Deuce, the bar with a name too easy to mock, may be closed. Eater notes that there have been no signs of life here at the corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street, home to the Table Tapper -- a 3-foot plastic tube that holds 116-ounces of beer. (Bounce, its big brother on the UES, remains open.)

I walked by myself last night. All shut down. Fortunately, the BD Web site lives on...(and they're still advertising the Margarito fight from Jan. 24!)



Never been to the Deuce? Take a look via BD's photostream...

Another cartoon beheading in the East Village

Speaking of Eater, they also brought the news this week that Cookout Grill on First Avenue at 13th Street shut it down. I always loved their catchphrase: REAL BURNING WOOD.



On top of it all! (So to speak!) The truly odd Cookout Grill mascot was beheaded by vandals.



Point of discussion: Is there a serial beheader of animated characters in the neighborhood?

Flashback to December!