Sunday, June 30, 2013
Week in Grieview
The Yippie Museum Cafe is closing (Friday)
Tacos Morelos coming to East 9th Street (Monday)
Update on crowdsourcing campaign for injured East Village Farm and Grocery worker (Friday)
The glassy future of East 10th Street and Fourth Avenue (Tuesday)
Former funeral home becomes Townhouse 49 on East 7th Street (Monday)
The polite tip jar thief (Thursday)
A case against using the term 'crusty' (Friday, 86 comments)
More about Davey's Ice Cream, opening this summer on First Avenue (Tuesday)
The Blarney Cove closed (Tuesday)
New security cameras for Campos Plaza (Tuesday)
Driver crashes into gate at Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)
Phillip Giambri's East Village (Wednesday)
Rite Aid's new look on First Avenue (Tuesday)
Illegal penthouse coming down on East Sixth Street? (Friday)
Retail for 51 Astor Place (Tuesday)
Name change at Billy Hurricane's (Tuesday)
Last call for the Motor City Bar today
Previously on EV Grieve:
Reader report: Motor City Bar is closing on Ludlow Street
In time for a Star Spangled 4th of July Christmas!
Well! A tipster passes along this well-maintained Christmas-holiday tree spotted yesterday on Second Avenue and East Sixth Street... with some smartphone proof for Authentication purposes...
... and via OlympiasEpiriot ... the beauty made it through the night...
Looks like this is all legit in our estimation, though it's not ultimately up to us. Gruber MacDougal, spokesperson for the International Coalition of Tree Tossing in the Spring and Summer (ICTTSS), is currently in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for unknown reasons.
And thanks to EVG reader Steve for this shot too...
How soon before it rolls into the bus lane?
Pride
Outside Nowhere on East 14th Street...
And visit the NYC pride website for a list of today's Pride-related activities...
Cutting back a damaged tree in Tompkins Square Park
A crew arrived early yesterday morning to attend to a tree in Tompkins Square Park ... a limb came crashing down the other day...
Here's what the tree, in the southern section near East Seventh Street, looked like later in the day ... via these photos by EVG contributor peter radley...
Saturday, June 29, 2013
A private party in a public Tompkins Square Park
Several residents have told us that part of Tompkins Square Park was closed off this afternoon for a private party of some kind... in an area between East Eighth Street and East Ninth Street along Avenue B... the residents said that they were unaware that a section of a public park could be shut down for some private gathering... the partygoers were flashing permits to people who were put out by what was transpiring ... even the men who are part of the drum circle along here were told that they needed to vacate the area. And, from what we were told, they were quite unhappy about it...
Updated:
One reader said that this event was a birthday party for a chihuahua.
Updated:
Here is information from the Parks & Recreation website with information on requesting a special event permit.
"From the smallest birthday party to the largest concert, special events take place every day in New York City parks. If you want to have any activity in a City park with more than 20 people, or where you would like to reserve a specific area within a park, you need to apply for a special event permit."
At Drag March Madness
The annual Drag March took last evening... and the marchers gathered at Tompkins Square Park for the trek over to the Stonewall Inn... and our friend editrrix shared some of her fantastic photos from the Park...
Find her full set of photos (51!) from last night here.
And be sure to check out Goggla's photos from last night here.
Noted
Spotted this morning on Second Avenue... in front of the Starbucks at East Ninth Street... Someone wrote "Kill him" in chalk with an arrow pointing toward the sidewalk space outside the 13th Step...
Anyone know what this is about?
I can't really think of a headline for this
EVG reader John came across this mini photo shoot this morning on East Sixth Street at Avenue B...
Now I wanna sniff some glue
Chico is working on a new mural at the newly reopened Croxley Ales on Avenue B ...
... and a better shot via @salim ...
Friday, June 28, 2013
Downed limb in Tompkins Square Park
A few readers sent along photos from Tompkins Square Park this morning... noting a downed limb in the southeast corner of the Park... we didn't see it ourselves, so we're not sure how extensive the damage is...
Drag March Madness starts tonight in Tompkins Square Park
Marchers will start gathering at 7 p.m...
From the Drag March Madness Facebook event page...
Once more the time has come to clutch our pearls and put on our marching pumps and make Manhattan a place worth being in again.
The Drag March in New York City emerged 20 years ago at the Stonewall 25 commemoration when the organizing committee for that event asked that drag and leather folk to leave their wardrobes at home. Instead of buying into this attempt at "normalizing", the Drag March celebrated Gay Spirit in all of its' manifestations and became the most authentic celebration of all that Stonewall truly was and is.
And a few Park photos from last year ... via @emmsape ...
Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken signage arrives
A sign has arrived to mark the impending arrival of Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken on Second Avenue and East First Street, as this photo via @superterrific shows... this is the latest outpost from chefs/restaurateurs Eric and Bruce Bromberg of the Blue Ribbon empire...
CB3 signed off on a beer-wine license for the place back in November.
This corner of of the Avalon Bowery
A case against using the term 'crusty'
[At a recent Thursday night PBJ Dinner in Tompkins Square Park]
Andréa Stella, executive director and co-founder of The Space at Tompkins, submitted the following post.
With the summer in full swing, a lot of our clients are coming back to New York, and we wanted to take a moment to give an explanation for a term that has been and will inevitably be thrown around while they're here.
Three reasons why we don't call our clients "crusties"
1) The term "crusty" is derived from "Crust Punk," a punk movement started in the 1980s out of England with followers who referred to themselves as "crust punkers." Being a "crusty" is like calling someone a Deadhead. 99% of our clients do not refer to themselves as crusties, so we don't either. The term gets thrown around a lot in the East Village because it's a quick way to define a group of folks who look a certain way, but that doesn't make it accurate.
2) When asked, "What do you consider yourself?" — almost everyone told us their name. The first time I asked someone that question, I felt like an idiot because I know that personally, I don't walk around introducing myself as, "Hi, I identify as a white female and my name is Andréa." I start with my name.
3) Our clients are individuals, and most of them are trying to transition out of their current situation. It may not always look like it to outsiders, but there are many complex issues right under the surface that each person copes with in their own way. Tagging someone as "crusty" deepens the stigma and does not promote positive change.
We're The Space at Tompkins, a harm reduction organization whose mission is to help homeless travelers move towards improved health and self-sufficiency. We've been doing this since 2009.
Learn more about The Space at Tompkins here.
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