Fish Bar Film Night: 'Trading Places'

Haven't mentioned the Fish Bar Film Night in some time. (Read more about it here.)

There's a fine holiday offering tonight (at 9-ish) with "Trading Places."



Fish Bar
237 East Fifth Street, between Second Avenue and Cooper Square.

And all together... Constance Fry, Constance Fry...

Holiday meal for a red-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park

EVG reader Lia shares this photo of the red-tailed hawk's Christmas meal today in Tompkins Square Park ... some type of unspecified rodent washed down with a Monster Energy drink... Always a fine pairing...

Season's Greetings, etc.

[Seasonal Urban Etiquette Signage on East Third Street]

[Leftover trees on Dec. 25 on East 14th Street and First Avenue]

[East Seventh Street]

[Popeye Doyle as Santa in "The French Connection"]

[Vazac's]

[Christmas spirit at the 7-Eleven on the Bowery]

[East 11th Street parking garage]

[The Mystery Lot]

Noted

Free Xmas trees on 1st Ave. outside Rite-Aid. twitter.com/evgrieve/statu…

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) December 25, 2012

When we shot turkeys on the Bowery for Christmas

Per the description at the New York Public Library Digital Galleries:

A Christmas "turkey-shoot" on the Bowery. (1897)

Happy holidays to you... and whatever your traditions are...

Henry with your coat so bright...

Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C shares this... from tonight in Tompkins Square Park ... with his dog Henry... "He was thrown over the fence at the Tompkins Square Park dog run and abandoned eight years ago."

And Henry has had a loving home ever since...

Looking at the snow (sort of), enjoying the quiet streets

Dave on 7th is out looking at the snow... and enjoying the empty holiday streets...

Breaking: Workers gutting Little Italy Pizza on Third Avenue

Little Italy Pizza opened up here at 23 Third Ave. at St. Mark's Place in August... and EVG regular Stephen Popkin notes this afternoon that workers were gutting the space... not sure yet if this is some kind of renovation or permanent closure...

Most recently, the space was home to Tahini, which closed for good in June... and a few years back... St. Mark's Pizza.

Anyway, did anyone ever try Little Italy Pizza? They had a breakfast deal too... Almost seemed like the brightest storefront around...

SantaCon evil spreads upstate

EV Grieve reader John M. writes in ... he's upstate visiting relatives for the holidays... "and what greets me on the front page of the local newspaper, The Daily Gazette?"

The article is only available online to subscribers... the gist: A local named Michelle takes credit for 'borrowing' the idea from NYC, saying, "I usually go to the one in New York City, but I had my sister and niece visiting from Sicily. I couldn't miss out on all that time with them, so I got really bummed, because I would miss out on an annual thing with all my friends."

The article reports that she then organized her own event, initially for just a few friends, but that snowballed pretty quickly.

Per the article:

"In keeping with the theme of the New York City event, which is a fundraiser, [she] reached out to the Franklin County Community Center and promised to donate food, even if she had to go out and buy everything herself," the article states, and notes that a pickup truck filled with non-perishable food items by early afternoon.

Last paragraph of the story: "[She] hopes that in the future all the local bars will be open early for the event, and she also wants to see it expand with carolers in the streets, like in New York City."

John M. takes exception with that caroling part.

"She calls drunks screaming snatches of Christmas songs at the top of their lungs — even in subway cars — 'carolers?'"

Candlelight Caroling tonight in West Stuyvesant Square Park

Lordy I can still hear the drunken Santas butcher Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" on East Fifth Street that one Saturday...

IT WAAAAAAAS DECEMBER 24TH ON HOllllllllllis AVENUUEEEE... uh, faa lala IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN HOLLLLIS QUEEEEEEEEENS!

[Pause]

Tonight at 5:30 in West Stuyvesant Square Park on Second Avenue and East 16th Street...

... there'll some classy holiday cheer...

Puts the 'Ass' in Classic Burger

EVG regular Pinhead spotted this rather unfortunate menu typo at the new Good Guys on Second Avenue... to the Grievestrator...

H/t to Pinhead for the headline too!

Resident claim: Living above Mighty Quinn's can be mighty smelly

Mighty Quinn's opened last Wednesday on Second Avenue and East Sixth Street, and people have been very enthusiastic about the Texas and Carolinas-inspired barbecue.

As Eater noted, pitmaster Hugh Mangum "is smoking all his meat in a pit the size of most people's livings rooms, using oak, apple, and cherry wood."

Sounds good, though perhaps not if you live in one of the apartments upstairs... A reader left this comment on a previous post:

The giant room-sized meat smoker has serious ventilation problems. We live in the building and our apartments & hallways reek of barbecue, all the way to the top floor — it's coming up through the radiators,walls & floors. Additionally, the ventilation system on the roof is going 24/7 & sounds like a jet plane idling. I'm sure everyone on the block can hear it. It's quite intrusive. The Health Dept. is coming to check it out. We're distressed! There's a reason smokehouses are located down country roads — they stink up the place, even if the food is delicious...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Life behind IHOP: 'My apartment now smells like the kitchen of a cheap hotel after the breakfast rush'