The year in East Village photos, 2012

Happy 2013. Before moving forward, let's take a quick look back at a few of the photos (not in chronological order) from the more than 3,300 EV Grieve posts circa 2012... thank you to everyone who shared photos from last year ... Happy 2013 to you...

Via EV Grieve regular jdx on Jan. 24.

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Via Stacie Joy from June 3...

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Via Bobby Williams from Dec. 8...

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Via EVG from Oct. 31...

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Via James Maher from January.

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Via EVG from Jan. 7. ...

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Via Dave on 7th from Feb. 27 ...

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Via Paul DeRienzo from Aug. 5 ...

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Via Paul Kostabi from Oct. 18 ...

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Via peter radley from May 19...

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Via Eddie Huang from Aug. 13 ...

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Via Bobby Williams from July 27...

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Via @michalmeer1 from May 18 ...

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Via Tenacious C from July 23...

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Via Goggla from Nov. 12...

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Via Gudren Georges from Nov. 4...

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Via Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C from Nov. 12...

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Via ‏@stevemotts from Nov. 1 ...

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Via EVG from Nov. 1...

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Via @RDevro from April 10 ...

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Via James and Karla Murray from June 3...

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Via EVG reader Alex from Feb. 15 ...

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Via Jose Garcia from March 22...

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Via peter radley from April 6...

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Via EVG from July 16...

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Via Shawn Chittle from Jan. 23 ...

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Via EVG from Nov. 15...

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Via Shawn Chittle. from Jan. 6 ...

Find more East Village photos from 2012 here.

The year in East Village photos, 2012 — Bobby Williams edition

While putting together a post on the Year in East Village photos, I realized that many of the shots were from longtime EVG contributor Bobby Williams... so I decided to create a separate post featuring some of Bobby's work from 2012, an amount that numbers more than 1,000 photos ... I'm grateful to Bobby for sending me photos every day of the year, regardless of the conditions — from extreme heat and humidity to (gulp!) St. Patrick's Day. Here are some of my favorite photos from Bobby this past year...

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...