Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Tomorrow at MoRUS: Growing up on Avenue B; recalling the squatter movement

From the EV Grieve inbox...


The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) will welcome 2013 with an artists salon giving voice to the very history the museum seeks to preserve. Eric Drooker, Fly Orr and beat-rhyming duo The Adventures of Kaila & the Kid will participate in this one-night-only event on Thursday, January 3, beginning at 8 PM. MoRUS is located at 155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets. This is the museum’s first membership drive event since officially opening on December 8, and the event is free and open to the public.

Lower East Side native Drooker will give a slide lecture exploring his early years as a street artist in New York City, and trace the evolution of his graphic novels into animated films — and from his cover paintings of The New Yorker, to his slow infiltration of the mainstream. The artist will talk about growing up on Avenue B and how the changing landscape has shaped his vision.

Orr will present a slide lecture, "UnReal Estate: A Brief Squatter History on the Lower East Side" based on her forthcoming book of the same title. Since the 1980s, Orr has been a squatter on the Lower East Side where she paints and draws comics and illustrations.

[Updated] Subway shove victim worked in the East Village for 16 years

As you may have read, a woman shoved a man in front of an incoming 7 train at the 40th Street-Lowery Street station in Sunnyside last Thursday. Police identified the victim as Sunando Sen, a 46-year-old native of India who had lived in Queens for several decades.

Sen worked in the East Village for 16 years at NY Copy & Printing, 204 E. 11th Street, as EVG reader Tad pointed out in an email.

Per Newsday:

"People have been coming to remember him with us," said Bidyut Sarker, Sen's boss. "He was brilliant. He was kind. We all miss him."

Sen had recently opened his own copy shop on the Upper West Side. His funeral was Monday.

Police have arrested Erika Menendez, who was being held without bail on a murder charge. She reportedly told police she pushed Sen because she thought he was Muslim.

Updated Jan. 4
The Villager has a feature on Sen here.


Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A red-tailed hawk's rat trap, of sorts


Robert K. Chin shares this photo and anecdote from earlier today with us... in Tompkins Square Park, a red-tailed hawk waited for a rat to show up to the trash pile. (Clever!) One rat did come by ... and the hawk chased it into a sewer drain. The hawk waited for it to emerge, but a dog got away from a woman nearby ... and the dog chased away the hawk...

The party's over...



... at least until Friday... Photos today via EVG regular William Klayer...

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...