mp-FREE: Dimitry!!! records a live set on East Village Radio
2008-06-06 23:27:00 We seriously haven't heard Res or Artful Dodger in so fucking long, it's a welcome treat. Dimitry!!! is the kingpin of High Voltage, even when he's throwing up paisley gang signs like the photo above. Tracklist: 01 Hercules & Love...
The New York Times Capitulates; Home Page is Taken Over by Ad
2008-06-04 23:32:00 The newspaper is dead offline and now online, too? The New York Times has ceded the last possible place for advertising on its site - the entire home page. Known in the advertising world as a “home page takeover,” Jet Blue is running an ad about “Happy Jetting.” Not sure what that means. Good ...
East Village Coffee Shops: B Cup
2008-06-04 14:44:00 Iced B Cup Coffee The fourth in a series of East Village Podcasts features on local, East Village coffee shops. Yesterday’s feature was Mud. B Cup One of the great names in East Village coffee shops, B Cup, located on the southwest corner of Avenue B (B Cup, get it? I did! ...
Waterfalls in New York City; East Village Waterfall Proposal
2008-06-03 23:47:00 Yesterday’s article in The New York Times by Carol Vogel was the first I have heard of the waterfalls planned for New York City. A Dane-ish, Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, proposed the project to the Mayor, the Public Art Fund and the City of New York. Evidently we decided to go for it and ...
East Village Coffee Shops: Mud
2008-06-03 15:01:00 Entering Mud The third in a series of East Village Podcasts features on local, East Village coffee shops. Yesterday’s feature was The Bean. Mud On 9th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues is Mud, the coffee shop better known for its vehicular version. The orange “Mud” truck has been parked near the ...
East Village Coffee Shops: The Bean
2008-06-02 12:08:00 The Bean The second in a series of East Village Podcasts features on local, East Village coffee shops. Yesterday’s feature was The Mercury Dime. The Bean An editorial team favorite due in large part to its proximity to EVP offices, The Bean, on the northwest corner of Third Street and First Avenue, ...
Kimbo Slice To Open East Village Pizzeria
2008-06-02 03:48:00 Still trying to confirm this rumor. May open across from Bowery Wine Company. More information as it becomes available. Tags: east village, food, new york city
Cooper Square Hotel and Thompson LES ?Showing Signs?
2008-06-02 02:03:00 Open Windows of the Cooper Square Hotel As Marv Albert might say, “The Cooper Square Hotel is showing signs!” Within the past week or two, the windows of the Cooper Square Hotel have opened as springtime temperatures have increased. This means two things: the windows work and the air conditioner does ...
East Village Coffee Shops: The Mercury Dime
2008-06-01 23:39:00 The Mercury Dime Many hours are spent by the East Village Podcasts editorial “team” in local coffee shops. For me, the coffee shop is a refuge from being cooped up in the “cozy” East Village apartment office. I can potentially order a cuppa and a bagel or something-or-other, not spend wads of ...
The Street Bricks of Bond St. in Nolita
2008-05-27 00:38:00 Bricks of Bond St. What is with the street bricks on Bond St.? I have passed by these bricks for at least a year and the same jumble of brickage is covering the center of the street as you cross Bond on the east side of Lafayette St. I haven’t checked the court ...
East Vilage Door Handle Sign Improves Sleep; Saturday Sunset
2008-05-25 17:55:00 New Door Handle Idea Yesterday, as I was descending an East Village staircase leading from a friend’s apartment, I had the pleasure of spying the new door handle sign pictured on the right. After several seconds of careful contemplation, the simple messaging of the sign was effective. I remained quiet and ...
May 2008: Freedom Tower Grows, Blasting Continues at WTC Site
2008-05-24 22:39:00 The Freedom Tower, originally designed by Daniel Libeskind and architected by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is continuing to be built at its base in the northwest area of the former site of the World Trade Center towers. From my vantage point in an office building on the east side of “the bathtub“, ...
Video: Hotels and More in the East Village and LES
2008-05-14 03:39:00 The Cooper Square Lurks Construction remains a focus of the East Village Podcasts blog, and this post is no different. This past weekend, the editorial team went to the streets of the East Village and Lower East Side to shed a “video” light on several of the newest buildings in the ...
Video: The Kills - "Last Day of Magic" + on East Village Radio
2008-05-12 21:06:00 Midnight Boom is easily one of the culture of me's top 20 so far for the '08. Alison and Jamie prove that hypothesis quite easily with this, the video for new single "Last Day of Magic", a Blake & Amy...
New York City Marble Cemetery Opens for a Day
2008-05-06 06:42:00 As pictured, November 2006 On Sunday, May 4, the East Village’s New York City Marble Cemetery opened to the community for a few hours on a perfect spring day. Families and friends gathered on the perennially green and well-manicured lawn Totally unplanned, I had the good fortune of spying a poster on a street light ...
East Village Trees Are Best
2008-05-03 21:32:00 East Village Tree Power The East 4th Street Block Association was out in force today with a fundraiser aimed at buying additional tree guards for the street’s trees. A dedicated local group, they have ideas that go beyond the trees and look to build a better East Village (and ...
Needy 20-Somethings Wait for Ice Cream
2008-05-01 21:29:00 31-Cent Ice Cream at Baskin Robbins In case you missed it yesterday, the East Village’s Baskin Robbins on 6th street and 1st Avenue in 10009 was dishing out 31-cent scoops of ice cream in support of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. The ?31 Cent Scoop Night? brought the 20-somethings out in droves ...
Obama Fundraiser at Mona?s in the East Village
2008-05-01 13:22:00 Video Game at Mona’s Politics in the East Village? Why yes. Last night’s political events included an East Village-style fundraiser at the venerable Mona’s located at 224 Ave. B between 13th and 14th Streets. Organized by Jonathan Woodward and billed as a lead-up event to the thrilling Guam primary, a ...
My Ceiling Has A Leak and Won?t Stay Up
2008-04-30 19:58:00 Hallway Ceiling with Leak April showers bring May flowers, but it also means that the perennial roof leak is back. Monday’s mild rainstorm brought a section of the apartment building’s hallway ceiling down (again). A relatively small, 1 foot by 1 foot section came down. No big thing - no ...
Dance Tracks to Become Wine Store?
2008-04-27 18:28:00 Dance Tracks A trusted source at The Bean coffee shop told me today that the former vinyl record store location known as Dance Tracks at 91 E. 3rd St. which closed last November may become… a wine store. Wine - It’s everywhere! The source quotes the superintendent at 91 E. 3rd. Nothing ...
Art and Angst of Subway Life - Mostly Angst, Wait, Art
2008-04-26 18:20:00 Subway Wall I have always disliked the subway - it stinks. It’s rarely there when you need it. It’s too hot in the summer, too. Even those “blast” air conditioners on the 42 St. subway platform during the summer do little for me. And I like it. ...
Wine 101 from NYC Wine Class: Jamokes Welcome
2008-04-21 03:23:00 NYC Wine Class Glass After years of threatening to take a wine class to teach my beer-soaked palette something more than the difference between a red and a white, a wine connoisseur friend generously presented the editorial team of East Village Podcasts with a birthday gift of grapey goodness. For 2.5 ...
Llamas in Central Park
2008-04-15 17:05:00 Central Park Zoo Lllamas As pictured, I’m not exactly sure what the llamas did to get thrown behind bars (…. yuk, yuk, yuk), but they seemed fairly content during a recent visit to (just outside of) the Central Park Zoo. In the eons I have spent in New York City, I ...
Rubbin? It in the East Village: Back Forty
2008-04-13 05:16:00 The Back Forty Logo When I stepped into Back Forty, I was struck by how nice it was. Nice wood floors. Nice wood bar. Nice coasters with a nice “Back Forty” logo. A nice piece of wood on the wall which says “Back Forty.” A nice drink called “The ...
Three of Cups - Crusading for East Village Restaurants
2008-04-04 06:05:00 The Three Cups of Three of Cups Between bursts of rain drops this evening, I went to one of my most local of restaurants, Three of Cups at First Avenue and 5th Streets, for a hearty repast. As few may know, Three of Cups received its moniker from Medieval knights who roamed the wild streets of the East Village in the mid-15th century. Every Thursday they would come to “Billy’s” - as it was known in the 1500s - for wine and wenches and to tell tales of their latest conquests. Ripple dissolve to present day - Three of Cups, and the three cups left behind the bar by the knights, remain a solid destination for reliable food - the “comfy chain of mail” of East Village restaurants. A Bar Knight (more…) Tags: 3 of cups, east village, nyc, new york city
Sun Dominates East Village Saturday
2008-03-30 05:51:00 Cooper Square Lives The sparkling Saturday sky offered a welcome, Spring-like backdrop to today’s meanderings in the East Village of New York City. As I walked along 5th Street between Second and Third Avenues, I could see the top of the Cooper Square Hotel peaking above. For all my comments about its resemblance ...
Patterns in the Nabe of 10003 and Beyond
2008-03-26 13:04:00 Given that every neighborhood displays patterns of one sort or another, I have gathered together a few photos with patterns from New York City’s East Village in hopes of finding deeper meaning. Feel free to add your thoughts. Construction East Village Barriers One of the many constants of the East Village is ...
Was: Kura Sushi, Now: Ishikura Sushi
2008-03-21 03:09:00 Ishikura Sushi Neon Now that they have added “Ishi” to the “Kura,” will the new Ishikura Sushi be providing the same great sushi as before? East Village Podcasts has yet to sample the fleshy, fishy morsals of “Ishi” on 1st Avenue and 4th Street in 10003 (Would somebody move the truck?), ...
Peter Grimes at Metropolitan Opera: Coronation of the Bi-Polar
2008-03-20 13:56:00 Awaiting Act I at Peter Grimes Saturday afternoon I had the good fortune of attending a performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera, Peter Grimes, at the Metropolitan Opera, located in Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. The performance ...
Pinkberry Is Near in the East Village
2008-03-03 04:35:00 Pinkberry Under The Plywood The new East Village Pinkberry, heavily chronicled here on EVP, is nearly ready. A peak through two, really good peep holes and a view from across the street on Saturday revealed the frozen yogurt store’s imminent opening. I eagerly await a new competitor to my lucrative, Ben ...
Houndstooth Invades; East Village Capitulates
2008-03-03 04:13:00 Woof, woof - it’s Houndstooth! Houndstooth is here, there, everywhere! For the past two months my fashion senses have been overwhelmed by the Houndstooth swarm walking in the East Village and New York City. What is it about this seizure-inducing pattern that has made it the new “black” for fashionistas during ...
Day 3: No Fake Designer Handbags on Canal Street
2008-02-29 13:13:00 Carnage on Canal We’re entering the third day since the New York Police Department swooped in and grabbed all the world’s counterfeit handbags, and there appears to be no end in site for the disappointment felt by tourists and New Yorkers alike who need their very own Chanel. (Click here for ...
Community Board 3 Meets To Rousing Ovation
2008-02-27 13:48:00 Community Board No. 3 Last night was my first attendance at a local community board meeting. Let it be known that you do not need to get there by 6:30 p.m. for the proceedings as it says on the Community Board No. 3 website unless you enjoy sitting in the Anna ...
Variety on Avenue B in the East Village of NYC
2008-02-26 04:06:00 Avenue B in the East Village It may seem like the East Village is being swarmed over by development and cultural deterioration but reminders of the East Village of old remain if you hunt around - and the sun hits just right. I’ve never been inside this liquor store on Avenue B ...
World Trade Center, February 2008: East Bathtub Excavation Finished
2008-02-19 06:02:00 The blasting has stopped at Ground Zero - at least, temporarily. East Bathtub - 2/18/2008 East Bathtub - 9/11/2008 Excavation of the southern portion of the East Bathtub, in the opposite corner from the Freedom Tower and just across the street from Century 21, ...
Walking Down Bond St., Looking for a Hotel
2008-02-19 05:10:00 Bond St. at the West End Ten years of continuous construction on Bond St. has transformed the quiet cobblestone street in Noho (East Village West) into a competitive - yet still quiet - architecturalmania. Now, all that is missing is a hotel. Lately, there have been hints here and there that ...
Aspergers Community Started By Brooklyn Blogger
2008-02-18 01:05:00 In recent years, the profiles of the neurological disorders Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome have grown dramatically. A Brooklyn friend of mine has moved forward with developing an Asperger’s community site that will address her ongoing research in the field as well as provide a hub for researchers, educators and service providers who are unearthing ...
International Bar and La Casalinga No More: What Next?
2008-02-17 22:05:00 International Bar Headstone With the classic dive bar “International Bar” at 120 1/2 First Avenue already “history” and now the very recent demise of La Casalinga - where I used to get a tasty and affordable Penne a la Vodka - it follows that the neighboring restaurant and bar could now ...
Etherea: Best East Village Record Store
2008-02-17 21:38:00 Etherea in the East Village Etherea never goes away in spite of the continued gentrification of the East Village of New York City. If you haven’t been to the EV’s best record store - check it out. It’s located at 66 Avenue A in 10009. I enjoy going into the ...
4th Avenue and 10th Street: New Chinese Takeout Planned?
2008-02-11 02:48:00 71 or 73 Fourth Avenue, Tomato Tomahto As Jerry, my newspaper guy, said to me a few weeks ago, The Bowery and Fourth Avenue may become the new Fifth Avenue in 10 years. Given all of the hotels and construction, he may be right. In the coming months, ...
East Village Blog Revives Pinkberry Expansion Plans
2008-02-10 02:38:00 This East Village blog brings light to the ooze of pink insulation at Pinkberry one week. All H-E double toothpicks breaks out the next. Power to the people, baby! Last Week This Week Tags: pinkberry,, east, village,, nyc,, new, york, city
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ... |
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