Noted

At Think Coffee, Bowery and Bleecker, this weekend.

Singas Pizza opening on Avenue C

Singas Famous Pizza recently closed on Second Avenue near 11th Street...



...and they've relocated to the renovated storefront on Avenue C and Sixth Street, where they'll compete with Bite Me and Moon Pie...

Avenue C's Mr. C's on the block

Speaking of Avenue C, the former Mr C's space between Seventh Street and Sixth Street has been for lease for several months now...the Italian trattoria closed in October after just five months in business...



...and everything remains inside (dishes, glasses, daily specials on the chalkboard, etc.) as if the workers just disappeared...

Another Grimace sighting in the East Village

A few weeks back Jeremiah noted the presence of Grimace out front of McDonald's at First Avenue...(Bob Arihood also got a nice shot of the mascot...)


[Photo via JVNY]

And then, the other night in the restroom (the one on the left) at Mars Bar...



Which reminds me that I heard a good Mars Bar restroom story the other day. Just need to remember the details...

A view toward the Williamsburg Bridge circa 1913

Was poking around Shorpy.com when I found this photo... Summer 1913. "Bird's eye view of N.Y.C. from roof of Consolidated Gas Building." George Grantham Bain Collection.

It's looking to the south east... if you click on the image, then you can see some familar landmarks...such as Tompkins Square Park and the two old steeples at St. Brigid's...I keep staring at it and finding something different...

But how will we know what reality show to watch or strip club to hit?

As the Times reports:

[F]or the month of January, Show Media, a Las Vegas company that owns about half the cones adorning New York City’s taxis, has decided to give commerce a rest. Instead, roughly 500 cabs will display a different kind of message: artworks by Shirin Neshat, Alex Katz and Yoko Ono.

The project is costing Show Media about $100,000 in lost revenue, but John Amato, one of Show’s owners and a contemporary-art fan, said: “I thought it was time to take a step back. January’s a slow month. I could have cut my rates but instead I decided to hit the mute button and give something back to the city.”

Uh, gee, thanks?

Santacar back in the East Village on Christmas night

After delivering presents to the eligible 378 million* children in the world (roughly 91.8 million homes), Santa was back driving around in the East Village last night in his Santacar. He looks surprisingly refreshed and clean for having climbed down 91.8 million chimneys.



Thanks to EV Grieve reader Cheryl for this Santacar photo....

* estimated

Bring out your dead...trees

It appears some folks are getting a headstart on the city's annual MulchFest, which usually happens the second weekend of the new year... Late yesterday afternoon, a pile of abandoned Christmas trees appeared in Tompkins Square Park...



Though, on closer inspection (yes, I actually inspected them, kind of), the trees appear to be the leftovers from the lot on Second Avenue and 10th Street...

Things that were closed on Christmas

The McDonald's on First Avenue near Sixth Street.

Fly away

Not ELO, but The Motors.

Things to do today

Seventh Street, 9:36 a.m., Dec. 25