Sunday, May 29, 2011

Going to the mural and we're gonna to get married

The Late Adopter caught up with the Mural Marriage Proposal Couple yesterday on Second Street and Avenue A...


Our friends at Runnin' Scared have more on all this here.

Previously.

[With apologies to the Dixie Cups for borrowing a lyric for the headline]

Meanwhile, on the N train...

Dunno how long this flyer has been up... I only saw it yesterday on Houston near Chrystie... Dunno if it needs much of a narrative...




I suggest that she tries a mural.

East 10th Street yesterday

During the street fair portion of the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which continues today...

[Blue Glass]

[Bobby Williams]

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Another protest outside the Continental tonight

EV Grieve reader AWKWORD notes that protestors — organized by the Answer Coalition — have returned to the Continental on Third Avenue this evening to protest what they consider to be discriminatory acts by the bar’s bouncers....




You can read more about this ongoing story here. Bob Arihood has more at Neither More Nor Less here.

Table tennis tagging

A little more than two months since the city installed a new permanent ping-pong table in Tompkins Square Park, someone has tagged it...




We're not always whistle-blower types. But, in this case, we will admit we know who's responsible...

Marshal seizes Hirai Mong on St. Mark's Place

Here at 12 St. Mark's Place, a restaurant space that has seemingly been about 10 different things in the last 10 years... Hirai Mong opened last March in the former Gama space.



Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Gama space becoming a fusion restaurant and bar

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream now open on Seventh Street

Thanks to the multiple tipsters who pointed out that the Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream shoppe is now open on Seventh Street just east of Second Avenue... And, apparently, they are happy to be here.


Previously.

A marriage proposal by mural on Second Street (and she said yes)

Multiple readers/tipsters sent along word yesterday about a marriage proposal on the mural on East Second Street at Avenue A... as this photo from RyanAvenueA shows...


And later, Ryan (different one!) notes that the Caitlin of the mural said yes. Hey, he's not even on his knee!


The Late Adopter has a nice shot of the mural too here.

Your chance to ride the Lady Gaga train

I read somewhere (not sure where exactly) that Lady Gaga ads were now adorning subway cars... Thanks to EV Grieve reader Tony for these shots of the S train in Times Square...



A new mural by Chico at 10th and C

EV Grieve correspondent Bobby Williams caught up with Bobby Williams Chico yesterday afternoon working on a new mural on 10th Street just east of Avenue C...


Friday, May 27, 2011

Teddy Bear down


In Tompkins Square Park today.

[Bobby Williams]

Dream on



Suicide circa 1979 or so.

Free this weekend: Bike Noise 4; David Peel; a lot more!

So, that's it for me. I'm headed out for a weekend of golfing, sailing and socializing at my place in Sagaponack. See you back on Tuesday!

Haho. That's a good one. But seriously. See you here.




For more information, visit:

Theater for the New City here.

And the good people at The Shadow here. And thanks to Wombat in Combat.

Obscura Antiques owners share weird wares with Conan O'Brien



Mike Zohn and Evan Michelson, owners of Obscura Antiques and Oddities on East 10th Street, appeared on "Conan" last night... As you probably know, they have their own show, "Oddities," on the Science Channel.

Late-night marketing at Snack Dragon


Image at Snack Dragon on East Third Street via @saywhatagain

EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition


Rape trial fallout: What proof does a woman have to have? (The New York Times)

Neighborhood reaction to the verdict (DNAinfo)

The Scribbler returns (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

A scene from Tompkins Square Park the other night (Nadie Se Conoce)

Moving discounts at Discovery Wines (East Village Eats)

A rundown of some LES-related Memorial Day Weekend happenings (The Lo Down)

East River String Band covering Cee-Lo Green (Slum Goddess)

From the Mars Bar with love (The Gog Log)

Alex is back with another NYC band photo quiz (Flaming Pablum)

A Howard Johnson for Allen Street? (BoweryBoogie)

Developer: A shorter building in the works now for 75 First Avenue

Anthony Marano, the developer at 75 First Avenue, sent us an email following our update on the site the other day. (Read that post here.)

He said that this rendering shows the building that the city approved before the zoning changed in November 2008. It's a little different than what we saw before.


Marano said that they have re-structured the financing and are working on plans to proceed with a shorter building — roughly 80 feet shorter. So perhaps something like the above but not as tall.

As for rentals or condos, he said, "We are trying to do rentals, but it will be subject to the final offers we get for financing."

Previously.

When the city installed sheep lanes

So, according to the NYPL Digital Gallery, here we are at the "Junction of Broadway and the Bowery, 1831. [Union Square.]"


It's difficult to get your bearings without a Duane Reade to help.

Mystery Lot monster leaves before getting annexed by NYU

Our friend Lux Living passes along the following photo with this upsetting news, "It seems the doomed monster of the 13th Street Mystery Lot fame has been beamed back up to his home planet."


[A moment of silence]

In reality, workers who were there to mow the rocks and weeds Tuesday most likely removed the little fellow.

And now, a fond look back...

[Via James and Karla Murray]

And, after a storm...


What is your favorite memory of the Mystery Lot Monster/Alien? Were you suspicious that it never applied for a liquor license? Or become a boutique hotel? Or annexed by NYU?

Previously.

Bikini season on the Bowery



At whatever that new store is called next to the DBGB private garden.