It was only a matter of time before others — like DEBT and Mr. Star City — would start adding to Ron English’s mural on the Houston Bowery Wall, but the latter had no intention of vandalizing it with his work while the former absolutely did. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Four years after the NYPD began patrolling the Lower East Side’s nightlife district on horseback, literal horse shit is still a problem in the neighborhood. Bowery Boogie reports that there are piles of shit all over Hell Square (their clever nickname for the bar-saturated zone from Houston to Delancey and Allen to Clinton) every Saturday […]
A little something to get you out of bed this morning: Bowery Boogie points to this found/archival footage shot from the window of a moving car rolling around the East Village and Lower East Side in the late 1980s, “beginning with a left-turn from East Houston north onto Avenue D.” It is grimy. […]
Of course you would. First Street Green, a majestic art-and-garden-oasis tucked away in the chaos of the East Village right off Houston Street, is seeking artists to paint murals on the plywood walls of First Park. Ideas and volunteers are also welcome. More, from their website: Each selected artist will be assigned a site within […]
RIP East Village. Poet, writer, long long long-time East Village resident Taylor Mead died yesterday at the age of 88, Bowery Boogie reports. Most everyone who lived in the East Village knew Taylor, or knew of Taylor, or saw Taylor hobbling sexily down Houston to 163 Ludlow Street where he lived in a notoriously dilapidated apartment. […]
