Sunday, November 28, 2010

Celebrate the Bowery on Tuesday evening


From the EV Grieve inbox...

BOWERY HISTORY: A CELEBRATION
A lively evening of talk and entertainment honoring the cradle of American popular culture. Birthplace of tap dance, vaudeville, and punk rock, the Bowery is being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. Hosted by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors & Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

Tuesday, November 30, 2010
@ Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (Btwn. Rivington & Delancey)
SUBWAYS: F to 2nd Ave., 6 to Spring, B/D to Grand, J to Bowery

6 - Happy Hour (Cash Bar), featuring vintage Bowery cocktails
7 - Showtime

HOSTED BY:
Kent Barwick,
President Emeritus, Municipal Art Society

PERFORMERS:
Poor Baby Bree, Chanteuse (w/Frankllin Bruno, piano)
Bob Holman, Poet, Bowery Poetry Club

SPEAKERS:
City Council Member Margaret Chin
Kerri Culhane, Architectural Historian
Peter Quinn, Novelist, BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE
Eric Ferrara, L.E.S. History Project, author of upcoming book on the Bowery
Anthony Tung, Author, PRESERVING THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES
Trav S.D., Vaudeville Historian and impresario

FILM:
THIS IS THE BOWERY (rare film from the 1940s); fascinating footage of
the Bowery Mission, street life, etc. In many ways anticipates Lionel
Rogosin's classic 1956 documentary ON THE BOWERY.

TICKETS:
$20 - General Admission
$15 - Student/Seniors
$50 - Sponsors (Priority Seating)

Via here or 866-811-4111

Another day, another Deitch Wall update




Previously. GammaBlog has more here.

Santa baby



At the Morrison Hotel Gallery on the Bowery .....A Mick Rock photo.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Friday, November 26, 2010

Christmas is coming

Two scenes from First Avenue tonight...


Window shopping on 14th Street



Between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Thanksgiving marathon continues



Bowie's puffy-pants, puffy-hair phase circa 1987.

Avenue A, 12:22, Nov. 25

Breaking: Delivery bike removed from Stuy Town

We just noted the presence of an abandoned restaurant delivery bike that has been locked to this tree in 4 Stuyvesant Oval in Stuy Town since.... Halloween!



EV Grieve reader Nixta now reports that, as of this morning, workers removed the bike!

Dora Park Apartments getting a bath

One of my favorite apartment buildings, the Dora Park on Seventh Street across from Tompkins Square Park, is getting cleaned up... watching workers on the scene this morning... hope no one wanted to sleep in...




Here's a shot from the invaluable Forgotten New York showing the detail above Dora Park's doorway...