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Check out Melanie's photos at East Village Corner ... BoweryBoogie ... and NY Through the Lens ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Halloween dog parade afternoon
Here are more photos from the the 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Parade yesterday in Tompkins Square Park ...thanks to East Village-based photographer Stacie Joy for sharing these...
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Check out Melanie's photos at East Village Corner ... BoweryBoogie ... and NY Through the Lens ...
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Check out Melanie's photos at East Village Corner ... BoweryBoogie ... and NY Through the Lens ...
And now, the main event...
Part of FreakFest yesterday in Tompkins Square Park... GLOB — Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling! (Sports-satire warriors wrestling in fake blood to punk rock...)
Photos by Bobby Williams...
Photos by Bobby Williams...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Now we know how a Kardashian feels
At the 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Parade today in Tompkins Square Park via EV Grieve reader C.C.
Dethrace 2011
Here's a first batch of FreakFest photos from Tompkins Square Park today... Dethrace via peter radley...
NYPD cites two East Village bars last night
Multiple readers sent along word that the Undercover/Underage Patrol was out in full force last night...
There's a "closed by court order" sign at Bar 81 on Seventh Street...
...and a "restraining order" and a whole bunch of legalese papers on U2 (or 2U) Karaoke on St. Mark's Place... for "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."
Know of any other bars that the NYPD cited last night...?
There's a "closed by court order" sign at Bar 81 on Seventh Street...
...and a "restraining order" and a whole bunch of legalese papers on U2 (or 2U) Karaoke on St. Mark's Place... for "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages."
Know of any other bars that the NYPD cited last night...?
NYPD pulls over cyclist this morning on the Bowery
We've reported on cyclists who received tickets for blowing through red lights... (like here)...
This morning, the NYPD pulled over this fellow at First Street on the Bowery... Word is he zipped through the intersection at Houston and the Bowery without stopping for the light...
We stood around awkwardly for an awkwardly long time (how long can you pretend to look at Steven Tyler's clothing line?) to see if the officers would write him a ticket... we left when our cover was blown... Don't look at the camera! Stay in character!
This morning, the NYPD pulled over this fellow at First Street on the Bowery... Word is he zipped through the intersection at Houston and the Bowery without stopping for the light...
We stood around awkwardly for an awkwardly long time (how long can you pretend to look at Steven Tyler's clothing line?) to see if the officers would write him a ticket... we left when our cover was blown... Don't look at the camera! Stay in character!
Friday, October 21, 2011
Breaking: Starbucks plywood going up on First Avenue
EVFlip sends along photos of workers putting up the plywood on First Avenue at Third Street, home of the former Bean...
As you know, the Bean left to make way for the Starbucks, the Times first reported on Sept. 14.
Per EVFLip: "I'm guessing that it's just for construction, but seeing as Ben Shaoul is involved with this space, it may be a retractable balcony!"
As you know, the Bean left to make way for the Starbucks, the Times first reported on Sept. 14.
Per EVFLip: "I'm guessing that it's just for construction, but seeing as Ben Shaoul is involved with this space, it may be a retractable balcony!"
People behind fabulous hotels opening another likely fabulous hotel on Ludlow Street
A record — two posts on 180 Ludlow in one day. Earlier, we mentioned that there were new lights on the loooooooooong-dormant apartment-hotel-apartment-no-a-hotel! site just off Houston. Well, you can thank the new owner for the illumination. Curbed is reporting this afternoon that BD Hotels have purchased the
As BoweryBoogie noted, "Expect construction to resume at the 170-room eyesore in due course."
Lordy.
[Image via Curbed]
Tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park: Dogs in costumes, photo opps
From the EV Grieve inbox...
[Photos by Bobby Williams]
Via a news release...
Via a news release...
Join the Largest Dog Run Halloween Parade in the U.S.
Halloween just got beastlier. The Tompkins Square dog run is pleased to announce the 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Parade. On Saturday, October 22, hundreds of costumed canines will march on Tompkins Square Park to participate in the country’s largest Halloween parade for dogs.
This year, they will be competing for thousands of dollars in prizes, including two iPods and of course, bragging rights for the year. All proceeds go to the N.Y.C. Department of Parks & Recreation for the maintenance and upkeep of the newly restored Tompkins Square Dog Run.
5th edition of the Get Local Shopping Guide now available
From the EV Grieve inbox...
[EV resident Dominique Camacho in front of her store and cafe, Sustainable NYC, on Avenue A with the new Get Local Guide.]
In an attempt to keep our neighborhood independent and unique, the East Village Community Coalition (EVCC) publishes the free Get Local! Guide to East Village Shops each year. The updated 5th Edition is available now!
Spending your money locally helps small businesses thrive in the East Village. Local shopping also:
• Keeps more money in our community
• Creates local jobs
• Sustains small business owners who defend our neighborhood's identity
• Chooses creativity and personality over uniformity
The newly available 5th Edition lists 400+ local merchants and is available in shops and cafes in the neighborhood. You can download the online version here. (PDF)
We are working to preserve small businesses as an integral part of maintaining our diverse, livable community. In addition to the Get Local! Guide, the EVCC is researching ways to maintain retail diversity in our community.
First Street closed this weekend for BMW Guggenheim Lab removal
Back in July, workers closed down East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue for a mobile crane to help put into place something or another for the BMW Guggenheim Lab...
Flashback!
The crane people will be back this weekend to remove the big pieces of the Lab...
What kind of impact will this have on the brunch line at Prune?
Flashback!
The crane people will be back this weekend to remove the big pieces of the Lab...
What kind of impact will this have on the brunch line at Prune?
Get your FreakFest on tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park
From the EV Grieve inbox...
HALLOWEEN FREAKFEST (Part IV) is part of a series of FREE shows that celebrate the vitality and creativity of the counter cultural scene that has survived on the L.E.S., despite the rampant gentrification, soaring rents and lost venues that have contributed to the cultural genocide sweeping New York City.
HALLOWEEN FREAKFEST
Saturday, 1 till 7 pm
Tompkins Square Park
Costumes encouraged!
[Photo via Our Lady of Perpetual PMS]
BANDS: (amplfied sound starts @ 2 pm):
LUNCH LADY (new punk/garage-psych, one goddess & three men of steel)
RITZ RIOT (fresh energetic punk & post punk, feisty & female fronted)
GHOULS NIGHT OUT (the amazing all girl, costumed Misfits tribute!)
JESSICA DELFINO (The Lower East Side's own Queen of Obscene, the original dirty folk rock babe!)
DETHRACE (10 ft tall Super-Robots! 666 volts of ear blasting Metal! Blasting in from whatever planet they come from)
MARNI RICE (accordion player chanteuse performing vintage French Chansons, Euro Art songs & originals)
SKUM CITY (NYC hardcore punk decrying the demise of NYC, & putting what remains loud & in your face/ears/orifices, etc!)
PERFORMANCES & SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Blowdryer (punk writer reading ghost stories)
GLOB (Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling! sports-satire warriors wrestling in fake blood to punk rock!)
Nina Spierer (activist-poet/hip-hop collaborator featured in The Huffington Post)
The Good to Go Girls (a classically choreographed burlesque trio of dancing good girls)
Katrin Hier (writer/comedic performance artist)
DJ Mike SOS (Seizure Crypt, SOS, GLOB)
Plus: PUNK ROCK ART & VENDORS: Rat Bones' Pitwear, Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, & Calamity Industries
Rice & Beans w/Guacamole alla Gringa homemade by PMS
Produced & Hosted by:
• OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL PMS
• GLOB! — Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling
• THE SHADOW
NYC's underground newspaper since 1988
• MIKE SoS
• JESSICA DELFINO
HALLOWEEN FREAKFEST (Part IV) is part of a series of FREE shows that celebrate the vitality and creativity of the counter cultural scene that has survived on the L.E.S., despite the rampant gentrification, soaring rents and lost venues that have contributed to the cultural genocide sweeping New York City.
HALLOWEEN FREAKFEST
Saturday, 1 till 7 pm
Tompkins Square Park
Costumes encouraged!
[Photo via Our Lady of Perpetual PMS]
BANDS: (amplfied sound starts @ 2 pm):
LUNCH LADY (new punk/garage-psych, one goddess & three men of steel)
RITZ RIOT (fresh energetic punk & post punk, feisty & female fronted)
GHOULS NIGHT OUT (the amazing all girl, costumed Misfits tribute!)
JESSICA DELFINO (The Lower East Side's own Queen of Obscene, the original dirty folk rock babe!)
DETHRACE (10 ft tall Super-Robots! 666 volts of ear blasting Metal! Blasting in from whatever planet they come from)
MARNI RICE (accordion player chanteuse performing vintage French Chansons, Euro Art songs & originals)
SKUM CITY (NYC hardcore punk decrying the demise of NYC, & putting what remains loud & in your face/ears/orifices, etc!)
PERFORMANCES & SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Blowdryer (punk writer reading ghost stories)
GLOB (Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling! sports-satire warriors wrestling in fake blood to punk rock!)
Nina Spierer (activist-poet/hip-hop collaborator featured in The Huffington Post)
The Good to Go Girls (a classically choreographed burlesque trio of dancing good girls)
Katrin Hier (writer/comedic performance artist)
DJ Mike SOS (Seizure Crypt, SOS, GLOB)
Plus: PUNK ROCK ART & VENDORS: Rat Bones' Pitwear, Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, & Calamity Industries
Rice & Beans w/Guacamole alla Gringa homemade by PMS
Produced & Hosted by:
• OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL PMS
• GLOB! — Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling
• THE SHADOW
NYC's underground newspaper since 1988
• MIKE SoS
• JESSICA DELFINO
Ode to the Mystery Lot
An inspired (and anonymous) reader sent this along...
O Mystery Lot!
Home to dead bodies
But also morning glories
Used by some as a dumpster
But also bore a fabulous monster
Full of contradiction
Don't let us lose you to construction!
Think you can do better? We'd like to hear it. Or at least read it. In the comments... or via gmail...
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Mystery Lot likely facing a luxurious end
Before it was the Mystery Lot
Wednesday afternoon, The Real Deal reported that developer Charles Blaichman bought the long-vacant Mystery Lot on East 14th Street for $33.2 million.
Seems like a good time to repost an earlier item about the lot's former tenant — The Jefferson Theater. Per Cinema Treasures:
And a few photos of the theater through the years...
[Undated photo by tkmonaghan via Cinema Treasures]
[Undated photo via]
[From 1986. By kencmcintyre via Cinema Treasures]
[Top two photos via Warren G. Harris via Cinema Treasures]
[April 2011 from 13th Street]
Jeremiah has a good bit of Jefferson history here.
Seems like a good time to repost an earlier item about the lot's former tenant — The Jefferson Theater. Per Cinema Treasures:
The old Jefferson Theatre opened in 1913 as a B.F. Keith’s vaudeville theater in what is now known as the edge of the East Village. Later the RKO Jefferson, this theater was located at 214 E. 14th Street near Third Avenue. The entrance was a narrow space between two tenement houses with the bulk of the theatre (auditorium) located in 13th Street. The Jefferson operated at least into the 1970’s and was demolished in 2000. Today, the site is filled with bricks and debris from the demolition and the old Jefferson as passed on.
And a few photos of the theater through the years...
Jeremiah has a good bit of Jefferson history here.
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