Live blogging the NYC marathon

Trautwig looks good and sounds crisp. No apparent ill effects from covering the Knicks home opener last night.

OK, OK

I'm not really live blogging the NYC marathon. Just following up on this post from Friday.

The doctor is... hanging from the fire escape

On Avenue A between 12th Street and 13th Street.

Noted, Halloween edition

St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue.

East Village of the Damned

What Demonic Force Lurks Behind Those Eyes?
Beware the stare that will paralyze the will of the world.


















Happy Halloween!

[Barf on sidewalk photo via; Bowery hoodie photo via]

Tompkins Square Park, 9:18 a.m., Oct. 31

"Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80" (the East Village in this case)

The Times has a feature today on a Halloween costume party at the Educational Alliance’s Sirovich Senior Center on 12th Street.

The article, titled Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80, starts like this:

Anyone hazarding a guess about the demographics of Manhattan might name the East Village the youth capital of the island. It's a place where anyone over 30 starts to notice that her standard fashion go-to's are suddenly has-beens and that everyone else in the environs has preternaturally dewy skin. One friend decamped from the neighborhood when she turned 32 and decided that that was too young to be the oldest person in her building...

Influx of youngsters aside, the piece also notes that in the Community District 3 (EV, LES and Chinatown), "31 percent of people who are 65 or older are living at or below poverty level, the second-highest rate for the elderly in New York City."

Happy haunting

Dethrace, of course.

Neighbors call for a boycott of the Moonstruck Diner

At Fifth Street and Second Avenue. If you can make out the sign, a blind man cut his hand on one of the diner's "7-9 commercial bikes that are always blocking the East 5th Street sidewalk." And the Moonstruck Diner "refuses to move those obstacles."




So until they remove the bikes, the organizers are asking you to eat elsewhere. How about the Odessa?

Cooper Square Hotel honors Homer Simpson

Yesterday, most of the the shrubbery (which was new!) was ripped up on the Fifth Street side of the hotel...



...to make way for, uh, this.

By the way...

Please let me know if you see anyone out this weekend wearing the Michelle Obama mask. Like the one here at Duane Reade on Avenue B and Second Street.





Previously on EV Grieve:
Looking at the Michelle Obama Halloween mask at Duane Reade

From the EV Grieve in-box:

Will you be live blogging the NYC marathon Sunday?