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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Spider-Man on Avenue C (aka, BOUNCY CASTLE)

Bouncy castle! (And not quite sure why Batman and Superman get such low billing here...) Oh! All this during the Loisaida Festival today on Avenue C today... we'll post more photos tomorrow... this shot is via ~~Peter Parker~~ Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[Photo by Stephen Popkin]

Q-and-A with Lydia Lunch (Tuesday)

Arrest in assault of gay man on Avenue D (Tuesday)

Preservationists call for archeological review of former cemetery at Mary Help of Christians site (Thursday)

How Edward Arrocha became “Eak the Geek” (Wednesday)

Looking at Ben Shaoul's Bloom 62, which is taking over the former Cabrini Center (Saturday)

Early 1990s photos from the East Village (Friday)

Long-dormant ast 13th Street lot back in action; 6-floor building on the way (Thursday)

David's Show Repair leaving the East Village for the cheaper rents of ... Midtown (Tuesday)

TREEMAN (Monday)

Hearing about the illegal addition at 515 E. Fifth St. (Tuesday)

CB3 says no to The Living Room to Second Street (Wednesday)

Fall out from the cancelled Great GoogaMooga Festival (Sunday)

More about the CBGB Music and Film Festival (Wednesday)

Max Fish closing in late July (Thursday)

... and workers have replaced this on Avenue A and East Ninth Street...

Week in Grieview — Citi Bikes edition

[Friday via EVG reader John]

Early verdict on Citi Bikes — kids love 'em (Friday, 26 comments)

And now, more complaints about Citi Bikes docking stations (Friday, 20 comments)

Trading places: Citi Bikes docking station making the move on East 11th Street (Thursday, 51 comments)

Report: 9th Precinct traffic safety sergeant worries about an increase in accidents with Citi Bikes (Thursday, 17 comments)

Countdown to Citi Bikes bike share in the East Village (Wednesday, 18 comments)

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... and a few people have said that the docking stations are positioned in a potentially dangerous manner; that people will have to pull the bikes from the docks out into the street ... Here's a shot from yesterday on St. Mark's Place ...

[Stephen Popkin]

...looks like enough room, yes?

Second Avenue, before the 'giant fraternity party'

Christopher Gray at The New York Times has a piece on the history of Second Avenue in today's paper ...

Second Avenue opened after the adoption of the grid plan in 1811, and wealthy families put up comfortable brick Greek Revival houses, like the Isaac Hopper house at 110 Second Avenue (above), nearly intact from the 1830s.

[Early 2012]

And you may not notice the beauty of No. 149 ... with the distraction of the kegs and stench of chicken wings from the 13th Step...

[Yesterday]

But, at one time...

Another town house from the 1840s is 149 Second Avenue; it still has its stoop and is comparatively little altered, although there’s a big skylight on the roof that must give some apartment plenty of sun. The 1870 census records the occupants as Edward Jaffray, a socially prominent dry goods importer, his family of five and nine servants.

And what about today's Second Avenue?

There is still some of the old egg-cream-ethnic left on Second Avenue, but now the chief cultural group is 20-something singles, who spill onto the sidewalks like a giant fraternity party, more ebullient than disorderly, even with plenty of beer.

Read the whole article here.

Reminders: The Loisaida Festival is today

The 26th annual on Avenue C, from East Sixth Street to East 12th Street ... The official Festival site is here.

And this morning, everyone is setting up for the day... from the shetland ponies ...