Saturday, May 28, 2022
Saturday's parting shot
'Memorial Day Madness' today in Tompkins Square Park with 6 bands
The Loisaida Festival is TOMORROW
Most of the activities will be taking place between Fifth Street and 12th Street, the site of the main stage with a slate of live bands and DJs throughout the afternoon.
The Festival is from noon to 5 p.m. ... with an opening parade starting at 11 a.m. featuring Batalá New York, the all-women, Black-led percussion ensemble.
You can find the full list of performers and other events at this link.
By the way, Chico created this year's festival poster.
Friday, May 27, 2022
Friday's parting shot
Hair and now
Sudan Archives has new music out ... here's "Selfish Soul," a song about women and the celebration of hair.
Last 2 days for the 'Rotten to the Apple' NYC punk photo show at C-Squat
Photos by Stacie Joy
There are two days left to check out "Rotten to the Apple" an NYC punk photo show featuring the work of 30-plus photographers at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space/C-Squat on Avenue C. (Previously.)
The show ends tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.
EVG contributor Stacie Joy recently stopped by the space...
... lots of great work here, including EVG friend Walter Wlodarczyk...
You can access the free show, curated by Destiny Mata and David Siffert, via MoRUS, 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street. 
Today's hours: 1-6 p.m. ... and tomorrow noon to 4 p.m.
P&T Knitwear, a new bookstore, cafe and podcast studio, opens tomorrow on Orchard Street
P&T Knitwear is a family-owned independent bookstore, podcast studio, event space and cafe ... "run by a team of passionate lifelong readers and listeners."
As previously reported (first by the publishing industry newsletter Shelf Awareness), Bradley Tusk, the venture capitalist and philanthropist who founded the Gotham Book Prize in 2020, and general manager and buyer Julie Wernersbach are behind the new venture.
In 1952, Tusk's grandfather, Hymie Tusk, and his business partner Mike Pudlo opened the original P&T Knitwear, a small shop selling sweaters and collared shirts at 37½ Allen St. Per the store's website, "the two men survived the Holocaust and met in an American displacement camp in Germany after the war."
The 3,000-square-foot bookstore is open this weekend from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. You can find a list of specials and promos here.
The 27th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts is this weekend at Theater for the New City
The 27th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts is on for three full days this Memorial Day weekend, from Friday, May 27-Sunday, May 29, at Theater for the New City, with a wide array of free indoor and outdoor offerings that include theater, music, dance, video, film, poetry, cabaret, an art exhibition, and a youth program, along with food and vendors.
Find the full list of activities here.
Theater for the New City is at 155 First Ave. at 10th Street.
Panda Express makes it signage official on the SW corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue
The Panda Express Chinese Kitchen signage arrived yesterday on the SW corner of 14th Street and First Avenue, as EVG regular Pinch shows us...
News of the PE arrival first surfaced in January (31 comments!).
This marks the latest outpost for the quick-serve Chinese restaurant chain that launched in California in 1983 ... with more than 2,000 locations today (with a handful around NYC).
An AT&T store was here for a few months... taking over for the Vitamin Shoppe.
FULL reveal at 118 E. 1st St.
Workers have now removed the scaffolding and construction netting from the building, offering a better look at the "collection of four townhouse-style duplexes with direct, keyed elevator access and private outdoor spaces."
Foundation work started on this building in the spring of 2018.
Also yesterday, an EVG reader pointed out 118's pièce de résistance on the market ...
Tour de force of 118 E 1st, the penthouse triplex is a stunning space converging between a downtown industrial loft aesthetic that meets a modern architectural vision. Upon stepping off the elevator you are instantly awed by the 15’ ceilings with floor-to-ceiling windows. The dining room is set back with a stunning south-facing terrace, perfect for enjoying an indoor/outdoor environment while overlooking clear downtown views.
Asking price: $7.2 million. This includes Siberian Marble Herringbone heated flooring in the can bathroom.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Thursday's parting shot
New open space at DEP site debuts on 4th Street near the Bowery
EVG reader JOY spotted the gates open yesterday... with a few folks inside the long-empty lot ...
According to the Parks Department website, construction is now 100% complete... and the completion date was moved up from October to this month.
As noted in previous posts, since the 1990s, the Department of Environmental Preservation has used this city-owned space to work on shafts connected to the underground network of tunnels that supply NYC's drinking water.
Several years ago, there were public meetings to gather ideas for "passive recreation space" here between the Bowery and Lafayette. And this is the result of those.
As a few readers have noted, the design couldn't include large trees because the space is above the water-tunnel site ... and the roots would interfere.
[Updated] Can you Handel some opera in a community garden?
UPDATED!
Due to the rain expected on Friday, organizers have moved opening night to tomorrow (Saturday) and added a Sunday show. Friday reservations are being honored for both Saturday and Sunday. And per the organizers: "Come as you are. All are welcome."
Via the EVG inbox...
Opera Praktikos (OPrak) will present a one-act distillation of Handel's rarely performed opera, "Orlando" in collaboration with Opera Essentia as their inaugural presentation in the NY OperaFest.This distillation of Handel’s masterpiece, here titled "Orlando: Hero of Love," explores love and madness from contemporary sensibilities, centering on what it means to love truly and how to endure pain and loss.
Performances occur tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday at Campos Community Garden on 12th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. There is an encore presentation on June 10-11. The start time is 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free, and you can reserve seats via this link.
In the photo below, Opera Praktikos co-founders Gregory Moomjy and Marianna Mott Newirth check out Campos Community Garden (photo by Dailin Mercedes) ...
Parting spring thoughts on the wisteria of Stuyvesant Street
Photos by Steven
On May 11, we pointed out — with concern! — that the wisteria ("the purple paradise of flowering beauty") outside 35 Stuyvesant St. at 10th Street never reached a full bloom this season. (See pic above.)
There were comments (and whispers!) that the wisteria was, perhaps, suffering from a root disease or some issue with the vines.
In any event, as this photo from yesterday shows, the wisteria is looking pretty lush as we move deeper into the spring... into the opening weekend for "Top Gun: Maverick."
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Wednesday's parting shots
The grocery cart garden of 4th Street is in full bloom this spring
Noted
Live from New York City pic.twitter.com/ziN3NZrWhR
— dinny (@dinfowars) May 24, 2022
Amelia and Christo's chicks looking ready to wing it in Tompkins Square Park
Photos Monday by Steven
Amelia and Christo's 2022 chicks are GROWING so quickly... and looking more and more each day as if they're ready to branch out...
Goggla has excellent observations here about the hawklets, roughly 5 weeks old now...
The appearance of the chicks will change quickly now. They will soon lose all the fuzzy down and should start exercising their wings more. The next step for them will be exploring the branches outside the nest...
Goggla also shared some insights on photographing the red-tailed hawks or any other urban wildlife in a previous post. (AND PLEASE — NO DRONES!)
Gutting 207 E. 4th St., onetime home of Bob Arihood
The building last changed hands in 2018 for $3 million, per public records.
No. 207 was also the longtime home of Bob Arihood, a photographer-journalist who lived in a ground-floor unit until he died in 2011.
As I wrote at the time:
Bob chronicled the comings and goings of the East Village on Neither More Nor Less. His site was essential viewing every day. He seemed to deem himself a social scientist more than a journalist at times. His work was invaluable for showing the changes in the East Village ...
Police looking for 2 suspects in attack on 2nd Avenue and 4th Street that left victim with a skull fracture
The NYPD says that the two separately attacked the 46-year-old victim at 3:40 a.m. on May 18. Video footage shows the first suspect grabbing the victim from behind and throwing him to the ground, where he gets in his face and punches him before walking away.
After the victim gets to his feet on the crosswalk, the second suspect smacks him onto the ground and punches him. Before leaving, the second suspect stops and drags the victim out of the roadway to the corner.
A motive for the attack is not known at this time. It's also not known if the suspects knew the victim.🚨WANTED-ASSAULT: 5/18/22 approx. 3:40 AM, E 4 St & 2nd Ave @NYPD9PCT Manhattan. The suspects punched a 46-year-old male victim multiple times & dragged him on the pavement. Any info call us at 800-577-TIPS or anonymously post a tip to https://t.co/TRPPY5zHV2 Reward up to $3,500 pic.twitter.com/FjhO7FkKrs
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) May 25, 2022
EMTs transported the victim to NYC Health & Hospitals/Bellevue for a skull fracture, and he is listed in critical condition.
Police said the suspects are between 25 and 35 years old.
Anyone with information that could help in the investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You may also submit tips online. All calls are strictly confidential.
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