New Year's Eve 1977 with the Ramones

Live from London...

Ice cream dreams in Tompkins Square Park

Via The NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.

[Updated] Gone but not forgotten

Remembering a few of our friends and neighbors who died in 2012...

Markand Thakar, artist, Mona's and Sophie's regular

[Photo by Thomas D. Ward]

Donald Suggs, friend, activist, mentor

[Photo by Stacie Joy]

Mary Pupillo, lifelong resident of Avenue A

[Via Cynthia Chaffee]

Bob Spedalere, longtime bartender at the Grassroots, New York Giants fan

[Via Facebook]

Connie Bush, director of the Cornelia Connelly Center

Mike Hamm, loved living in New York City

Mary Spink, community activist, executive director of Lower East Side People’s Mutual Housing Association

Andrew Kowalczyk, last East Village landlord of his kind

Christine Ebel, co-owner of Arcane on Avenue C

The top-5 viewed EV Grieve posts of 2012

Why? Because it's the Season of the Listicle! All based on Google pageviews... No. 1 is not much of a shocker...

1. [Updated] There is a woman who has been walking around the East Village topless (Maybe NSFW), May 18

2. [Updated] We do not know what this is on St. Mark's Place, Aug. 4

[Spotted by @thestarkonline]

3. Everyone loves a really bad meatball sandwich!, May 18

4. Here comes the East River, Oct. 29

5. Despite plea, landlord doubling rent on East Village family with cancer-stricken 2 year old, Oct. 9

The top-10 least-viewed EV Grieve posts of 2012

Continuing this Season of the Listicle, nothing is safe from becoming listicled. Here then are the most unpopular EV Grieve posts of 2012 ... whether because of the subject matter or the complete and utter disregard the editor-publisher showed for any kind of intelligent headline... The following posts had no pageviews...

Are those two pillows or are you just happy to see me? Oct. 21

Breaking: Wet Paint spotted on Downtown 6 platform at Astor Place; caution urged; you likely shouldn't be wearing white pants now anyway
Sept. 23

Person in pretty-darn expensive car stops and talks to workers on Cooper Square
Sept. 5

This corner deli has a lot of fruit for sale, May 23

Talk about a mix tape! Sept. 27

Noted, Oct. 12

This is what happens when you leave your luggage tied up outside stores, Aug. 30

Elvis is Back — and upside down in this window display! Dec. 8

Where the Wild Things Are Stored in Dumpsters on Lafayette Street, May 9

Brokers now marketing to one-night stands on St. Mark's Place, July 7

[Updated] More from the anti-7-Eleven front on Avenue A and East 11th Street

So far, we've seen signs of opposition against the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A and East 11th Street. First, someone carved "Fuck 7-11" into the sidewalk (twice) ... then we saw the anti-7-Eleven stickers ... and now... sidewalk chalk ... several of these are around the plywood...

[Thanks to @JGerbz for the photo]

And last night, someone created giant "No 7-Eleven" signs in the middle of the intersection... via an EVG reader...

Can't wait to see what's next in the anti-7-Eleven arsenal...

Previously on EV Grieve:
7-Eleven alert: Are 2 chain stores replacing Bar on A and Angels & Kings?

First sign of the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A

Reviving those 7-Eleven + another chain rumors for Avenue A

2 new coffee shops in the works for the East Village

EVG reader Tony shares this tip... an espresso bar is ready to open at 319 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... in space that previously housed a Verizon store... It will be called Madman Espresso.

Meanwhile, EV resident Bill the libertarian anarchist gets word of a new coffee shop opening in the former Stogo space on East 10th Street just west of Second Avenue. This will mark the second NYC location for Third Rail Coffee, which currently has a shop on Sullivan Street.

[Verizon image via Google]

Avenue C leads the Year in Pictures

I didn't look at the Times today. Just too much going on... However, Dave on 7th sent me a photo of the front of the Sunday Review section... a photo looking north on Avenue C from East Seventh Street following the Superstorm Sandy surge... looking at this photo, I'm amazed that anything is back open, to be honest ...

Updated:

Here's a direct link to the above image... thanks to Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C for the link...

Week in Grieview

[Photo of Avenue A the other evening via Bobby Williams]

An anti-7-Eleven sticker campaign (Wednesday)

Your picks for East Village dream homes (Thursday)

Classic menu typo (Monday)

EVG favorite Whole Earth Bakery & Kitchen has closed on St. Mark's Place (Friday)

Holiday greeting from Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street (Friday)

Little Italy Pizza abruptly closes on Third Avenue (Monday)

Living above Mighty Quinn's can be mighty smelly (Monday)

East Village bars that will be open all night on New Year's Eve (Thursday)

An amenity to die for in Stuy Town (Thursday)

SantaCon evil spreads upstate (Monday)

La Vie returns (Monday)

[Updated] Hard up for attention, Penistrator imitator strikes on slow news weekend

EVG regular Spike was out enjoying the quiet, picturesque snowfall last night when he came upon this ...

The Penistrator Imitator left this one on East Second Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue. There's never just one. Dicks never travel alone. Anyone else spot one this x-rated snowffiti?

Previously on EV Grieve:
An EV Grieve investigative report: In search of the Penistrator

A stunning development: Is Haley Joel Osment the Penistrator?

Snow is in the forecast tonight, which means....

Updated:

EVG regular Lori E. Seid shared this shot from East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Then there, uh, this... spotted by @JGerbz on East 11th Street and Avenue A...

There must be a connection...

Runaway dog

A reader shares this from late this afternoon:

I was walking west on St Mark's Place toward Broadway. I heard somebody shouting "Stop that dog!" Then saw a group of guys running down Lafayette, but I didn't see a dog.

Shortly thereafter, I saw an exhausted woman with a leash trying to run to the direction of the shouting.

I kept walking and turned north on Broadway. I had reached 9th Street when I heard the shouting again. I saw a very wet golden retriever-ish dog running in the street and against traffic, but directly toward me. The dog skillfully dodged my attempt to catch it, and proceeded to dart its way through oncoming traffic before ... disappearing again.

The reader asks:

Any other reports of this story? Does anyone know how it ended?

Another wet-tailed hawk sighting in Tompkins Square Park

Was hoping for a snow-tailed hawk. Photo by Bobby Williams.

The NYPD is looking for this suspect in attack on jogger in East River Park Thursday

Just before noon on Thursday morning, a man attacked a 42-year-old woman jogging in East River Park near East Houston. The attacker reportedly removed the woman's pants, but he left the scene when she fought back, according to CBS New York.

The victim was taken to Beth Israel Hospital in stable condition, with minor bruises, DNAinfo reported.

The NYPD released the above sketch of the alleged suspect. Police describe him as a light-skinned black or Hispanic male in his late teens, early 20s. He was seen wearing a grey hoodie and green sweat pants during the time of the incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).

[Image via CBS New York]

Report: The Living Room set to close in January

Potential bad news for live music fans. BoweryBoogie has the scoop that the Living Room is set to close at the end of January.

Skyrocketing rents (shocker!) will chase the Living Room from its home these past 10 years on Ludlow.

However! The owners have launched a crowdsourcing campaign to help them fund a move to new space somewhere else in the neighborhood. You can read about their campaign at Pledge Music.

And you can watch this video...



Also, yesterday, The Lo-Down reported that the team behind Piano's (and 7A and Virage) are looking to take over the Living Room's current space for some kind of live music-gallery venture. The group appears before the CB3/SLA committee next month.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Luna Lounge owner Rob Sacher on Joey Ramone, a new CBGB and what killed the Lower East Side