Chelsea is lost

Tonight on 12th Street and Avenue C

It was a dark and stormy night...

I stood on Avenue B at Sixth Street last evening trying to get photos of the brilliant displays of lightning to the north... wasn't successful...





GammaBlog shot this video of the storm looking from Houston looking north...



Meanwhile, love was in the air!

Per Craigslist:

We watched the lightning storm - m4w (East Village)

Alright, I feel absolutely ridiculous posting on here, but if we met watching a lightning storm last night, and you're actually on this site, I figure it'd be worth a shot....

Meanwhile meanwhile...

Today in Tompkins Square Park.....

The SHADOW Presents: The Headless Horsemen, David Peel + The Lower East Side, Sexual Suicide, BANJI and *Star Fucking Hipsters* [Surprise speakers and more bands to be announced]

Verizon is going to blow the budget on brown paint

On Thursday, we noted a Verizon working painting over a few tags on the 13th Street side of the Verison Building at Second Avenue...


[Photo courtesy of evilnyc]

...and just like that, the wall is full again...





Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Ms. Squeegee tags Shepard Fairey

The latest addition to the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and The Bowery...





Oops. Apologies to Jen Doll... missed that she had noted this yesterday on Runnin' Scared.

Save our community gardens from bulldozers and condos

Also, please note there has been a change in location for the Aug. 10 citywide meeting on the topic:

Attend the public hearing on the proposed rules on Aug. 10 at Chelsea Recreation Center at 430 W. 25th St. at 11 a.m., and speak in favor of protection for community gardens. If you would like to testify, then please notify Associate Counsel, Laura LaVelle, via telephone at 212-360-1335 or e-mail at laura.lavelle@parks.nyc.gov by Aug. 9.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Protect our community gardens

May the Rapid Deployment Force be with you

Rapid Deployment Force circa 1983... one of the bands on the bill for tomorrow's free show in Tompkins Square Park...

The SHADOW Presents: The Headless Horsemen, David Peel + The Lower East Side, Sexual Suicide, BANJI and *Star Fucking Hipsters* [Surprise speakers and more bands to be announced]

Memorable reader comment of the week

There has been a lot of great discussion here this week... from Tompkins Square Bagels coming to Avenue A.... to looking for Sammy... to First Avenue bike lanes... to Crustypunks...

Thank you for the comments, and being part of all this...

Meanwhile, here's an excerpt from a comment that is, well, one that I'll likely never forget...

"My neighbor once threw away her dead cat in a Duane Reade shopping bag." (From World's largest Duane Reade now open on Union Square)

Movie about bicycle messenger currently blocking bike lane

The "Premium Rush" shoot is getting under way on Avenue A this afternoon... thanks to EV Grieve reader Liam for these photos...




Doesn't the crew know what we've been discussing here?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Rush Hours

[Updated] Celebrating the 'GoodFellas' anniversary

Wow..."GoodFellas" is 20 years old this year... And there's a special VIP screening of it tomorrow night at Theatre 80 on St. Mark's Place... and Henry Hill will be there...

Update: Looks as if there is a special discount on the screening ... info here.

Rush hours

Today, "Premium Rush" follows in the fine tradition of "The Smurfs Movie" and "Step Up 3-D" — movies that filmed scenes on Seventh Street and Avenue A of late...



Looks to be a big production....



And the plot:

An action story set in New York City, where a bike messenger picks up a package at Columbia University and subsequently catches the attention of a dirty cop.

Bike messenger?! Why aren't they filming on those new bike lanes on First Avenue and Second Avenue?!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has the lead... in the movie directed by the guy who wrote the screenplays for the "Jurassic Park" blockbusters.

Kind of makes me want to watch "Quciksilver" again.

7:45 a.m., First Avenue, July 23

Meanwhile, the commenting continues on [Updated] Looking at the First Avenue's new bike lane and "floating lane."

New look, name for 'The Villager'

Per the paper's editorial this week:

You might have noticed something different about the newspaper you are holding in your hands. For starters, it has a different name on the front page — and that name is in “eco green,” not blue.

Starting this week, East Villagers and Lower East Siders who have enjoyed reading The Villager over the years now have a paper they can call their own. It’s called the East Villager and Lower East Sider, and it will offer the best of what The Villager brings — but with an increased focus on Downtown’s vibrant East Side

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In addition, each week, the paper will feature a page of Clayton Patterson's vast LES archives.

If you don't pick up a hard copy around the neighbor, then you can check out their new website.... and new digital flipbook.

Congrats to Lincoln Anderson and his crew... as always, I look forward to reading the paper each week...