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Entertaining by Acronym in The EV - Part III: DBA
2008-02-08 06:19:00 The Board of Booze at DBA D.B.A.. An acronym for “Doing Business As”? Historically, I say, “No.” DBA, the East Village bar on 1st Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets in 10003, has been around for about 15 years and never left me wanting for a return visit. But, I always do ... More About: Part , Entertaining
2 Hours Until the NY Giants Parade
2008-02-05 15:05:00 The Canyon of Heroes in Blue It’s only 9 a.m. here on Cortlandt St. just off the Canyon of Heroes (Broadway) and the To-Go cups are already swarming Lower Manhattan in NYC in anticipation of the parade for the Super Bowl XLII Champion New York Giants . Wall Street wears blue jerseys today. More ... More About: East Village , Parade , Hours
Entertaining by Acronym in The EV - Part II: PDT
2008-02-05 05:19:00 Deer with Date No, PDT does not mean Pacific Daylight Time. This is a blog about the East Village, after all. We’re on Eastern Time here. Is there any other time? When entertaining by acronym, PDT means “Please Don’t Tell,” of course - and it’s a speakeasy! I ... More About: Part , Entertaining
NY Giants Win Super Bowl: East Village Rejoices
2008-02-04 04:46:00 Super Bowl - Eli Manning of the New York Giants In one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history according to me, the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots in a game that was decided in the final minute. East Village residents were glued to their barstools at local ... More About: Super Bowl , Super , East Village
Pinkberry Means Pink Insulation
2008-02-03 23:32:00 Pinkberry’s Pink Insulation The Pinkberry at 24 St. Marks in the East Village of New York City is still almost open. And if you want to work there, you can still apply for a job - except that the job may be completing the construction. This yogurt ... More About: Pink , Pinkberry
Entertaining by Acronym in The EV - Part I: EU
2008-02-03 21:56:00 EU Menu The past week has included visits to hot spots. Now, I’m usually not a hot spot guy… but the visits unearthed two disturbing, new trends in the EV of NYC. First, the use of acronyms. Undoubtedly, the abbreviationization is a signal - Armageddon is ... More About: Part , Entertaining
Burrito Brawl: Puebla Mexican Food vs. Downtown Bakery
2008-02-03 05:32:00 Chicken Burrito: Puebla Mexican Food vs. Downtown Bakery Separated by a mere two, short, city blocks these two stop-and-stuff-your-face mexican food restaurants are throwing down the burrito on the East Village Podcasts blog to lay claim - once and for all - to the best takeout chicken burrito in the East ... More About: Mexican food
Cooper Square Hotel - Was April, Now Summer
2008-01-29 12:50:00 Cooper Square Hotel , 1/25/2008 In case you didn’t read it in the The New York Times last week, Carlos Zapata’s Cooper Square Hotel on The Bowery isn’t going to open until the Summer according to developer Matthew Moss of the Peck Moss Group. The “$100 million” (cue the ... More About: April , Cooper
Bowery Wine Co. - Another Wine Bar for the East Village!
2008-01-28 01:40:00 Bowery Wine Company More wine! It appears that the liquor license was approved for Bowery Wine Company at 11 East 1st. - or do you say, “Avalon Bowery Place“? - and construction is full steam ahead if not nearing completion. A stroll/drive-by this past weekend yielded sliver-like views - there are going to ... More About: East Village , Village
January 2008: Freedom Tower and World Trade Center Update
2008-01-28 01:10:00 Freedom Tower in NYC, 1/21/08 The workplace’s front row perch continues to give an excellent view of the machinations in the World Trade Center area. From my vantage point, it appears that in spite of the fact foundation layers have been created, poured and pounded for at least a year, the ... More About: Freedom , World Trade Center , January , East Village
Freemans - Waiting To Eat In 10002
2008-01-23 06:00:00 Freemans If it’s Friday night and you want to go wait in line somewhere, I strongly suggest Freemans, owned by Taavo Sover and William Tigertt, and located at the end of Freemans Alley - it’s the latest cool alley - off of Rivington between The Bowery and Chrystie on the Lower East Side. And if you can manage the wait, and survive the heroine-addicted models, the food is entirely satisfying on a cold winter’s eve. My Freemans The Good Doctor and I arrived at 7 p.m. at Freeman’s last Friday, and I got off to a “good” start by mistakenly brushing against a red-headed “addict” who instantly over-reacted and asked me what my deal was. Telepathically I informed her how I wished she would go play in the traffic and lock lips with the fender of the next M15 bus. From what I could pick up from her brain waves, she didn’t seem to know what the M15 was, so our convo ended quickly. I immediately inquired about table availability with ... More About: Waiting
445 Lafayette 2nd Floor - Community Gallery or Sculpture for Empty Living
2008-01-21 21:20:00 Checked out the Corcoran site for the “Astor Place” condo costs lately? (What, you don’t have the “coin” to shop at Corcoran? Pretend with me, then.) - $3.5 million for 2200 square feet and a $5,500 monthly maintenance fee. Zowee. Still, all is not well at Astor Place, the Sculpture for Empty Living . When Charles Gwathmey designed the building at 445 Lafayette (see map), he surely did not envision the second floor going unused until at least 2008. After all, with tenants ponying up for $9,000 monthly rentals and $2,600 per sq. foot condo costs, what could possibly keep the second floor empty? - A squeaky, spinning metallic cube outside on the piazza? Unlikely. But, that’s where we stand today. (more…) Tags: east village, new york city More About: Community , Gallery , Floor
Jerry: East Village Icon and Newspaper Guy
2008-01-20 16:39:00 Jerry The East Village has had plenty of turnover in the past 15 or so years. And through it all, Jerry has remained the one constant for me. Always willing to trade a “hello”, have a little chat and dish the latest on East Village surroundings and architecture, his newsstand ... More About: Icon , Jerry
The Violets? Ron Paul Campaign Song Passes 50,000 Views
2008-01-20 03:25:00 Fresh on the heels of Ron Paul ’s second place finish in the Nevada caucuses (even if Fox News didn’t think so) comes word that the Ron Paul campaign song and video created by the Brooklyn, New York-based band, The Violets, has now seen over 50,000 views on YouTube. Could this be more than just coincidence? Drummer Roger ... More About: Views , Song , Campaign , East Village
Whole Foods: The New Starbucks - I mean McDonalds
2008-01-20 01:10:00 Whole Foods in New York City on Houston St. For the past few years, I’ve noticed the steady decline of local Starbucks franchises which includes 2nd Avenue and 9th street, 3rd Avenue and St. Marks - and the worst of all - the Starbucks on Lafayette and 8th street in ... More About: East Village , Whole Foods , Mcdonalds
East Village of NYC Cold? Try Chicago
2008-01-19 23:27:00 East Village Cold ? Try Chicago One of the pleasures of my iPhone is quickly looking at the weather of favorite hot spots - or cold spots, as the case may be. And this time the case in question is Chicago. No doubt, I prefer the East Village of New York City to ... More About: East , East Village
New Museum Expands Exhibit to Second Avenue Curb
2008-01-14 04:49:00 It appears that the New Museum is emptying its new building and taking its exhibitions to the streets of the East Village . Saturday, I was walking along Second Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets and - outside Frank - I spied this collection of current or future New Museum artwork. New Museum Curbstyle ... More About: Exhibit
Penne for Your Thoughts: Paprika vs. La Casalinga
2008-01-14 04:21:00 Penne: Paprika vs. La Casalinga Abbondanza! Or something like that. It’s “penne time” on the East Village Podcasts blog where two local favorites match carbohydrates in a struggle of East Village of New York City pasta titans! On the left, residing at 110 St. Marks Place (a.k.a. 8th Street) between 1st Avenue ... More About: Thoughts , Competitive , Penne
Update: Cooper Union Building Continues to Bubble
2008-01-08 13:56:00 New Cooper Union Building - 1/5/07 The New Cooper Union building designed by Thom Mayne - and as previously referenced here on the East Village Podcasts blog - continues to bubble. In the picture you can see the foundation being built and surrounded by a ‘bathtub’ of cement ... More About: Update
Pierogi Porn: Veselka vs. Odessa
2008-01-04 06:55:00 Pierogies: Veselka vs. Odessa Supple… innocent and inviting …. luscious. I give you… the pierogi. The East Village Podcasts blog proudly presents another food fight of doughy goodness pitting two East Village of New York City, Borscht-belt shrines. Pictured on the left, from the southeast corner of Second Avenue and 9th Street, the robust ... More About: Competitive
Pizza Pie Wars - Two Boots vs. Lil Frankies
2008-01-03 04:38:00 The Pizza : Two Boots vs. Lil’ Frankie’s And may the best whole pie pizza win. Known to most long-time, East Village residents (anyone here over 3 months), these two venerable purveyors of pizza have been flinging dough and filling the needy gullets of pizza aficionados since the Dinkins administration. Now, finally, it’s war. ... More About: Wars , Competitive
Kara Walker at Whitney Museum
2007-12-31 18:40:00 Kara Walker The Kara Walker exhibit entitled “My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love” was another reason that I prefer the Whitney Museum to the city’s other major art galleries and museums which includes the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others. ... More About: East Village , New York City
Solex - East Village Winebar
2007-12-31 00:39:00 Thinking of a quieter New Year’s Eve than visiting Times Square? Sole x at 103 First Avenue (7th Street) might be the perfect spot. With a wood-y interior that magically blocks out all noise or vibration from First Avenue, Solex serves a range of whites, reds etal. that will likely quench your winebar thirst. My compadre and ... More About: Drink , East , East Village , Village
Cooper Square Hotel - 12/16/07
2007-12-16 23:06:00 Cooper Square Hotel - 12/16/07 Cooper Square Hotel is showing signs of completion as only a few plywood windows remain on the facade of the enormous vibrator. Did someone forget to order enough windows? With an opening date of April, the East Village awaits its least welcome new neighbor. In that Cooper ... More About: Cooper , New York City
Hark The Hells Angels
2007-12-12 03:50:00 Hells Angels Christmas Let us give thanks this holiday season for motorcycle gangs that enjoy the Christmas season as much as I do. I give you as proof - on the right in graphical format - the East Village of New York City chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. ...
O East Village Christmas Tree
2007-12-11 04:59:00 Christmas Tree 2007 A Slim Jim conifer burns brightly in this blogger’s East Village of New York City apartment. The tree, apparently still alive - I can hear it breathing, has been in my home for 10 days and still smells like pine when the wind blows through the crack in ... More About: Christmas , East Village
Cooper Square Hotel Rumble?
2007-12-10 06:34:00 Cooper Whoop in NYC Did someone say “rumble”? Local East Village residents may be taking to the streets in front of the Cooper Square Hotel later today in preparation for the Cooper Square Hotel’s SLA Meeting. The history of the CSH’s liquor license lament has been well-documented and if this flyer is ... More About: Cooper , New York City
New Museum on the Bowery
2007-12-10 05:59:00 New Museum Ground Level New Museum has opened and the crowds are already flocking to the Bowery ‘wedding cake’ building. I was impressed with the crowds, the breezy spaces and the cool-but-cramped museum store - seemed to me that they had sourced gifts and chachkis you can’t find in the MOMA Design ... More About: East Village , New York City
Cooper Square Hotel Gets New Companion
2007-12-09 01:15:00 Cooper Square Hotel Gets New Companion Even though the Cooper Square is not quite ready for mating, a crane has been erected right next door. No doubt the Cooper Square Hotel, a.k.a. the enormous vibrator, appreciates the company. I wonder if there will be kids? Is the Bond St. development ... More About: Cooper , East Village , New York City
It Rains In Las Vegas
More articles from this author:2007-12-08 17:48:00 Las Vegas Morning Sky For the past week, I experienced Las Vegas - the other city that never sleeps. In comparing the East Village of New York City , there are several notable differences with the Las Vegas lifestyle. (Oh, the irony.) First, cabs seem to cost a fortune. My co-worker and ... More About: Las Vegas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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