By Bobby Williams.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
5th annual Bike Noise show tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park
Via the EV Grieve inbox...
+ FREE + ALL AGES + PUNK + BIKES +
Sliding Scale Productions Presents
Swaggerin' Growlers
Wombat in Combat
The Will
Wood Spider
and
Team Spider
Show starts at 2.
And some Wombat in Combat from the Park in summer 2010 to warm you up...
Today in photos of a pile of raw chicken on Avenue B
From farm to sidewalk? Several readers have noted this at East Third Street. Via EVG reader Steven...
Given the temperature, the chicken should be ready to turn in about 15 minutes.
Friday, May 25, 2012
The next stop is...
Heaven 17 with "We Live So Fast" circa 1983...
Have fun whatever you're doing this weekend. We'll see you back in here in, oh, an hour or two.
Beer bard back with 'Light or Dark' at McSorley's
The Daily News has a feature today on Geoffrey Bartholomew, the poet bartender at McSorley's since 1972.
Bartholomew, who took writing classes at City College where his teachers included Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, just published his second collection of poems, titled "Light or Dark."
Here's a sampling via the News:
from “Restaurant Inspection”
They come in all shapes & sizes
both guys and gals
thermometers and test strips
eyeballing it all
protecting your health
The violation reads:
I did see 9/10 live flies
Well, effing bully for you
but at $100 a fly
that’s an even grand
On Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bartholomew and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright will be give a reading at McSorley's.
You can find the McSorley's Poems website here.
The tattoo-piercings-smoking-accessories awning war is on!
Yesterday, workers installed a new awning/sign for Kulture on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...
[Photo via EVG reader Anna C.]
And today...
Meanwhile, almost directly across the street...
Hmm. Tough call. Will have to see these at night to be a favorite.
And today...
Meanwhile, almost directly across the street...
Hmm. Tough call. Will have to see these at night to be a favorite.
Breaking: Former bank branch to become a Duane Reade on First Avenue
[February 2010]The now-shuttered HSBC branch (the one that some residents tried to save) on First Avenue just north of 14th Street is getting a new tenant. Earlier in the week, pcvstBee pointed out that renovations had started on the space.
Now, a reader passes along this tip ... that the Duane Reade on 14th between First Avenue and Second Avenue will be moving into this former HSBC space (yes, right next to the CVS). A Duane Reade employee and the Fruit Stand Guy outside the former HSBC confirmed this to the reader. (Woo! Sourcing!)
So what's the loudest block in the East Village?
We did that post last week about a reader looking for a quiet block to live on (helpful, by the way!) ... asking if such a thing even existed these days. (This post.)
Following that, another reader thought it might be sorta therapeutic to prompt a discussion about the loudest block in the neighborhood. Bar noise. Traffic noise. Noise noise. The usual.
Sure. What the Hell.
So.
I've never lived on these blocks, but they seem as if they could be really loud at times.
• St. Mark's Place closer to Avenue A (apartments facing St. Mark's Place)
• Third Avenue (OK, maybe between 10th and 12th...)
• Near or around Avenue A and Houston
Anyone else?
[File photo outside Superdive back in the day]
East Ninth Street smells like manure this morning
Just between Avenue A and First. Did a manure spreader jack-knife here last night?
Shocking revelations: People like looking at photos of topless women on the Internet
Last Friday, we posted the item about the topless advocate who was walking around the neighborhood topless. (This post.)
Since then, we've received quite a few more photos (which we never posted) of the women, first identified by Racked as Moira Johnston.
Anyway, our post quickly became the most-viewed, uh, post in EV Grieve's five-year history, easily topping the former No. 1 — The East Village rolls out welcome wagon for new Starbucks.
Which begs the question: Will you start posting more photos of topless women?
Yes. And we will also include some peen for equal time.
Actually, that wasn't the question.
This is: What was the least-viewed EV Grieve post of all time?
Oh! So many to choose from.
Blogger doesn't keep track of such things. But if we had to guess. It was this one from July 9, 2008...
Per the post:
Drug store celebrity exit wars
Duade Reade has Mario Lopez gracing its exits (and disguising the store's security system). Not to be outdone, Rite Aid (at least the one on 14th Street between Avenues A and B) wants us to smell like David Beckham.
According to Google Analytics, no one even casually glimpsed at this post.
Since then, we've received quite a few more photos (which we never posted) of the women, first identified by Racked as Moira Johnston.
Anyway, our post quickly became the most-viewed, uh, post in EV Grieve's five-year history, easily topping the former No. 1 — The East Village rolls out welcome wagon for new Starbucks.
Which begs the question: Will you start posting more photos of topless women?
Yes. And we will also include some peen for equal time.
Actually, that wasn't the question.
This is: What was the least-viewed EV Grieve post of all time?
Oh! So many to choose from.
Blogger doesn't keep track of such things. But if we had to guess. It was this one from July 9, 2008...
Per the post:
Drug store celebrity exit wars
Duade Reade has Mario Lopez gracing its exits (and disguising the store's security system). Not to be outdone, Rite Aid (at least the one on 14th Street between Avenues A and B) wants us to smell like David Beckham.
According to Google Analytics, no one even casually glimpsed at this post.
Benny is missing
Benny has been missing since last Friday. His owners are really worried ... all the info is on the above flyer...
Former Stuyvesant Grocery now open as Adam's Deli on East 14th Street
A few weeks ago, EV Grieve reader LvV passed along the good news that Stuyvesant Grocery, the deli on East 14th Street and Avenue A that a fire destroyed in May 2010, was reopening at the former locksmith shop ... just west on 14th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.
Now, our friends at pcvstBee report that the store — now called Adam's Deli — opened yesterday...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Conspiracies: What next for 14th Street and Avenue A?
Renovations in order for Stuyvesant Grocery and Pete's-A-Place?
Thursday, May 24, 2012
[Updated] EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
21-year-old woman killed early this morning in a hit-and-run on Broadway and 14th Street (DNAinfo)
On putting together the new Joey Ramone record (NPR)
How the size of NYU's campus stacks up against other universities, such as Stanford (Off the Grid)
The Pen and Brush Club townhouse on East 10th Street has been sold (Curbed)
The move in New York State to ban anonymous online speech (Runnin' Scared)
A note for High Line tourists (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
Downed tree closes part of Clinton Street for the moment (The Lo-Down)
East Village resident Jim Gaffigan does not like Subway (Grub Street)
Photographer Camilo José Vergara has been documenting Harlem for nearly four decades (New York Historical Society)
14 photos of a rainy & stormy NYC (Gothamist)
Lower Manhattan restaurants of the 1960s (Eater)
Beastie Boys in London circa 1986 (BoweryBoogie)
... and not a very good endorsement here on First Avenue and East Second Street... ("in-house thief alert")
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