I really like the photo in the post above this one... and it prompts me to say...
I miss Bob Arihood's latest photos and dispatches at Neither More Nor Less, particularly his shots outside Ray's and in Tompkins Square Park. As you know, he decided to move on from NMNL. Given the time and devotion that goes into a site, I certainly understand that decision.
In any event, every so often, I take a quick peek at NMNL .... to see if he might have quietly resumed posting new photos... Regardless, it's well worth your time to look through his vast archives.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Sunday in the Park!
WHAT: ALPHA WOMEN ATTACK THE LES - free punk & variety show!
WHEN: Sunday, June 27th, 2 til 6 pm
As the news releases says: It's the roaring return of the yearly punk and variety show produced by Our Lady of Perpetual PMS and THE SHADOW.
***Part of a series of FREE shows that celebrate the vitality and creativity of the counter cultural scene that has survived on the LES, despite the rampant gentrification, soaring rents and lost venues that have contributed to the cultural genocide sweeping New York City.***
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
Find all the NYC Pride events here for the weekend (NYC Pride)
A great door is gone on East Fifth Street (The Gog Log)
Reading the graffiti on the 10th Street and Fourth Avenue plywood (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Random shit! (Slum Goddess)
NYC photos from the 1910s (Flaming Pablum)
EV Grieve reader Marjorie Ingall recommends a Saturday trip to Governors Island...where some of the Figments sculptures remain up all summer....
Inside an abandoned orphanage (Scouting New York)
Griping about the subway...in 1905 (Ephemeral New York)
Reviewing public restrooms (Runnin' Scared)
Blowing up the Slipper Room (BoweryBoogie)
Finally, you've seen these stupid Diesel ads everywhere... Anyway, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival jury awarded the Grand Prix for outdoor ads to this effort... (Some reaction to this via Gawker.)
Residents pitching in to help refurbish First Street garden
So you might probably know this spot on East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Now some local residents have gotten together to try to save this derelict lot, owned by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
Here's some history via the organizers, First Street Green:
So that's what the "First Growth benefit show" is doing tonight from 6-9 at 35 E. First St. (This is in the empty storefront in the building next to the lot/park.)
Per the invite:
"Come and brows, buy and admire the works of local artists with all moneys to benefit the rebuilding of the First Street Green park. Refreshments and wine provided from surrounding businesses will be served. This show will also feature a series of masonite 'rats' created and donated by the Lower Eastside Girls Club."
First Growth's goal is to remove the rubble and create a simple-to-maintain garden and cultural space. Click on the image below for more on the plans.
Now some local residents have gotten together to try to save this derelict lot, owned by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
Here's some history via the organizers, First Street Green:
"For years -- back when the laws in New York were a little less rigidly enforced -- a block resident named Mattie made sculpture installations there, and he'd let neighborhood kids in to play basketball. Since Mattie's death, the rat population has exploded and the pavement is riddled with burrows. The only purposes it serves these days are to skeeve block residents and to horrify the block's restaurant patrons (which might be amusing, but their horrified screams are obnoxiously loud). First Street Green (a group that includes block residents, artists, and others) has tried going through the proper channels to develop the lot into a simple sculpture park, with no success: Parks funds are nonexistent (Parks leaves rat poison once a month, and that's about it); the City isn't interested in setting aside money to develop it into a park because of its low profile; it can't become a resident-run Greenthumb garden because it's owned by the Department of Parks and Recreation. So we have two choices: It can stay like this forever, or we can raise the money ourselves to develop it."
So that's what the "First Growth benefit show" is doing tonight from 6-9 at 35 E. First St. (This is in the empty storefront in the building next to the lot/park.)
Per the invite:
"Come and brows, buy and admire the works of local artists with all moneys to benefit the rebuilding of the First Street Green park. Refreshments and wine provided from surrounding businesses will be served. This show will also feature a series of masonite 'rats' created and donated by the Lower Eastside Girls Club."
First Growth's goal is to remove the rubble and create a simple-to-maintain garden and cultural space. Click on the image below for more on the plans.
New message from the Bad Pussies
Shot taken outside Mama's on Third Street near Avenue B earlier this week by John Penley ... On the Bad Pussies mural.
Thanks to John for letting me reprint... see more of his photos on his Facebook page. And he's frequently posting new shots there.
Thanks to John for letting me reprint... see more of his photos on his Facebook page. And he's frequently posting new shots there.
Copper Building shows off its nether regions
Well! Look who's showing off now... As EV Grieve reader Caroline noted yesterday in this photo that she sent along, workers removed the sidewalk shed around the Copper Building at 13th Street and Avenue B ...
Alas, she won't be around for any ribbon-cutting ceremonies, though. "I've been living next door for two years and I am finally moving next week," Caroline said, "but I'll always have my memories of 2+ years of nonstop jackhammering noise."
And here's what the rendering looked like...
How'd they do?
And here are a few shots that I took later...
Meanwhile!
Cue the music ... Now let's take a stroll through our photo archives... at the former site of The Sylvia del Villard Program of the Roberto Clemente Center, which helped to offer counseling and therapy to people who were discharged from psychiatric facilities.
See you soon!
For further reading:
Can copper rust? (WikiAnswers)
Alas, she won't be around for any ribbon-cutting ceremonies, though. "I've been living next door for two years and I am finally moving next week," Caroline said, "but I'll always have my memories of 2+ years of nonstop jackhammering noise."
And here's what the rendering looked like...
How'd they do?
And here are a few shots that I took later...
Meanwhile!
Cue the music ... Now let's take a stroll through our photo archives... at the former site of The Sylvia del Villard Program of the Roberto Clemente Center, which helped to offer counseling and therapy to people who were discharged from psychiatric facilities.
See you soon!
For further reading:
Can copper rust? (WikiAnswers)
Shear madness?
Speaking of new bars, the Blind Barber has opened on 10th Street near Avenue B....at the former Plan B space (same owners, I believe)...
Frank Bruni paid a visit at the Times... Here's a Frankenblurb or two... He described it as "a new establishment in the East Village with a worrisome moniker but an amusing conceit: Every $40 haircut or $30 shave comes with a cocktail (or beer or wine) from an adjacent lounge in back, enabling the patron to do follicular and spiritual maintenance all at once."
And!
Uh, anyway, I walked by the place Wednesday evening and spotted a bouncer and velvety-looking ropes....
Back in January, Fork in the Road noted that Blind Barber would also be serving food from Gnocco next door...
Frank Bruni paid a visit at the Times... Here's a Frankenblurb or two... He described it as "a new establishment in the East Village with a worrisome moniker but an amusing conceit: Every $40 haircut or $30 shave comes with a cocktail (or beer or wine) from an adjacent lounge in back, enabling the patron to do follicular and spiritual maintenance all at once."
And!
Although we reporters are usually loath to admit this sort of thing, the release got my attention. It heralded a “barbershop and lounge mash-up,” casting the enterprise as “the ultimate experience in multitasking.”
“Not enough hours in the day for that much needed haircut?” it asked. “Has yet another social obligation cut into your grooming time?” Enter the Blind Barber, where you can socialize and groom simultaneously, or at least in rapid succession, under one roof. Get buzzed while getting buzzed. Combine hygiene with high jinks.
Uh, anyway, I walked by the place Wednesday evening and spotted a bouncer and velvety-looking ropes....
Back in January, Fork in the Road noted that Blind Barber would also be serving food from Gnocco next door...
A fleeting chance of love and a good burger on the Bowery
From our friends at Craigslist...
We were walking up the Bowery - m4w (East Village)
Date: 2010-06-24, 9:04PM EDT
and I asked you if you knew where to get a good burger. You smiled and said you didn't know that area. You seemed friendly as if you would have and maybe wanted kept talking to me, but I got shy... and watched you walk away regretfully.
This makes me sad that he didn't... go to Paul's...
Thursday, June 24, 2010
This afternoon's sign of the apocalypse
As Eater has been reporting today, the T.G.I. Friday's has opened on Union Square.... (Or, O.M.G. Friday's!)
Lots of hate for this, too. Based on the comments at Eater and Curbed. C'mon! They got their start in an old beer joint on First Avenue on the UES.... they invented the potato skin... they, they popularized flair bartending ....
[Weeping]
Photo via Eater.
Lots of hate for this, too. Based on the comments at Eater and Curbed. C'mon! They got their start in an old beer joint on First Avenue on the UES.... they invented the potato skin... they, they popularized flair bartending ....
[Weeping]
Photo via Eater.
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