Tag: EAST VILLAGE
Jared Kushner — son-in-law of Donald Trump, destroyer of newspapers, buyer of buildings — now has his sights set on a humbler target: the quaint garden behind 170-174 East Second Street, a walkup his company Westminster Management recently purchased in the East Village. Residents of the building, who built and maintain the garden themselves, are gutted. […]
There are certain things experienced renters know to look for when scoping out a potential new place: check the building for previous bedbug complaints, note the proximity to whatever subway line you’ll be using to commute, make sure there’s a good place for snapping self-portraits that really nail that perfect blend of artsy sophistication and […]
The space that houses Sounds, the last remaining record store on St. Mark’s Place, is going on the market today. It’s sad that the shop will soon be gone, and that a strip that was once an embarrassment of music riches no longer has a single store to its name, but let’s be honest: Sounds, […]
As first reported by EVGrieve, a bunch of graffiti artists were busted in the East Village on Wednesday while painting a rooftop. The New York Post named CASH4 as one of the five who were arrested and since he was the only one ID’d by the tabloid, we’ll keep it at that. In 2012, CASH4 […]
Jerry Delakas’s East Village newsstand, which operated on Astor Place for 26 years before the city shut it down last month, reopened today. The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs forced Delakas to close because he worked without a license, and instead paid a monthly fee to “a succession of people who had received operator licenses,” […]
Hanksy — a street artist who isn’t exactly ANIMAL’s favorite — is doing something pretty cool: he’s hosting a street art show at an abandoned building that’s slated for demolition in the East Village tonight. It’s called “Surplus Candy,” and it features the likes of Icy and Sot, El Sol 25, Moustache Man, Dee Dee, […]
While cycling through the East Village on my way to work at around 10 this morning, I spotted a friendly face on 8th Street and 1st Avenue: Louis C.K., behind the camera and presumably shooting the next season of Louie. “I want the show to keep getting better. That’s my goal, and I don’t want it […]
Last month, the decade-old Joe Strummer tribute that was painted on the side of an East Village bar was completely buffed by workers doing renovations according to EV Grieve. It was originally painted outside of Niagara on the corner of East 7th Street and Avenue A by legendary graffiti artists REVOLT and ZEPHYR in 2003, […]
Here’s The Birdman, a 10-minute documentary on the proprietor of Rainbow Music, a shop stocked with LPs, CDs, cassettes and VHS tapes at the corner of First Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. If you’ve spent any time in the East Village you’ve likely walked by; whether you’ve been inside or not largely depends on your patience for Hoarders levels […]
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. […]
