Vinyl Bike Spotted on Avenue A. The neighborhood favorite yarn bike now has some creative competition on the streets.  A crafty vinyl bike was recently spotted on Avenue A.  The records are melted over the frame and placed in the spokes.  Where can we buy one? [Photo Credit: Michael Madrigale] [via Tenement...

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The 2010 Maxim Hot 100 — dissected on Pizza Party. Thursday, May 20, at 4PM ET. HOT FUN PIZZA PARTY Pizza Party presenters Kevin and Max are feeling some spring oats, apparently. Earlier this week the fellas had John Lydon in the booth. (If you missed it, you

The 2010 Maxim Hot 100 dissected on Pizza Party, Thursday, May 20, at 4PM ET. HOT FUN PIZZA PARTY Pizza Party presenters Kevin and Max are feeling some spring oats, apparently. Earlier this week the fellas had John Lydon in the booth. (If you missed it, you

1 EVIL50. RenaGinz posted a photo: St. Marks Place East Village, NYC www.youtube.com/watch?v=a126NLcEi1o . www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyDJl3SSa8Y&feature=related .

Pozzo Pastry Shop Still Mourned After Two-Plus Years. There are deaths of old businesses and deaths of old businesses. Sometimes I'll post an item about an old New York establishment closing its doors and no one will comment or link. Other times, they're comment and link in decent numbers and then the joint will fade from memory....

John Pizzarelli on the Death of Gino. The New York Times Diner's Journal has begun to print memories of Gino from noted habitues. The first to be feature is jazz man John Pizzarelli: For me and countless others, the closing of Gino represents the loss of an establishment that has been the home to many great meals....

subway crackers. kiminnyc posted a photo: Part of Duane Reade's new line of food items.

under video suveilance. kiminnyc posted a photo: another great sign made by my super. taken 8/21/09

sociability. kiminnyc posted a photo: A.S.V.P. east village.

Eat Me. Harris Graber posted a photo: This is Crif Dogs on St. Mark's Place in the East Village. It's supposed to have great hot dogs, but I can't tell because they're not on my no cholesterol diet. Still, it's a cute place. Crif Dogs 113 St. Mark's Place New York City, NY

*Everyday Chatter. More Potemkin Village , as Greenwich Village "has become like a theme park of the past , as these restored standards offer a vision of a lost bohemian New York — albeit with a well-heeled clientele and prices to match." [ NYT ] A guide to the last of the old guard restaurants...

Atlantic on the City. This month's Atlantic magazine has a special report on The Future of the City , and it is loaded with apologias for gentrification, a sort of anti anti-gentrification backlash. It was bound to happen, especially now that we're in the Bad Old Days and people are feeling nervous...

East-village.org Post of Shameel Arafin's Photo. Shameel Arafin posted a photo: East-village.org posted one of my photos, Monochromatic 2211 ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/shameelarafin/4619911417/ ) without asking permission.

Avenue A by the numbers. While walking north on Avenue A starting at Houston, I counted the number of storefronts. I decided to break the storefronts down into five categories: 1) Restaurants/pizza shops/coffee shops (including places that serve alcohol, but where food is usually thought of first) 2)...

Food OK now at the former Amato Opera. Not much has happened of late at the former Amato Opera , the historic historic opera house that closed last May after a 61-year run. As Curbed noted , the building sold for $3.7 million. I had hope for this space after The Real Deal reported in January 2009 that the building's...

Quick withdraw: HSBC name-change shocker! As I exclusively reported with an exclusive back on April 27 , the new HSBC branch at Second Avenue and Ninth Street showed off its new name... (and helpful warning that guns aren't allowed inside! ) The Stuyvesant Branch. But now! The branch has changed its name! Does this mean...

Former Cookout Grill turning Japanese. Over on First Avenue and 13th Street, there's work galore being done at the former Cookout Grill , home of the worst restaurant mascot in restaurant mascot history... A quick moment of silence! To the news! A worker says a Japanese restaurant is opening here... Previously on EV...

After less than six months Matsukado shutters. Speaking of Japanese, as I noted back in December , Matsukado took over the old Baluchi's space on Second Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street... Last evening, EV Grieve reader Peter passed along these photos with the news that Matsukado has closed... The monthly rent...

What's doing at the Economakis dream mansion on East Third Street? Scoopy has an update this week in The Villager . Take it away Scoopy ....: Lower East Side activist Susan Howard told us that a friend of hers who lives near 47 E. Third St. — the East Village "mass eviction" building — hasn't seen evidence of any work going on there for a...

Grand Street History Uncovered in Wake of Fire. It's been more than five weeks since a fire on Grand Street killed one tenant, left scores of families homeless, and gutted the century-old tenement buildings at 283, 287, and 289 Grand.  Many of us who work nearby have been watching the fire's aftermath play out on a daily...

Collective Hardware Artists Worried About Their Artwork. A concerned reader wrote in last night following news that Collective Hardware might be evicted from 169 Bowery.  Based on the email, it appears that numerous artists currently have their work trapped behind the freshly-padlocked doors. Stuart Braunstein, proprietor of the...

38 Delancey Unveils Touch-Screen Window Computer. After revealing itself to the neighborhood earlier this week, 38 Delancey keeps rolling out the new features.  Yesterday afternoon, a touch-sensitive computer magically appeared in a window at the corner of Forsyth Street. There isn't much functionality, though.  Passersby can...

Comfort Inn Now Open at 136 Ludlow. The new geographically-challenged Comfort Inn at 136 Ludlow is now open.  We passed by the hotel last night, and noticed an employee stationed at the front desk, along with a security dude sitting on a front couch. And as a Curbed tipster mentioned the other day, the lobby...

Early Edition: May 20. 

Court House Square Subway Entrance. The long-under-construction " Big Stair " addition to the No. 7 line Court House Square stop is now, finally, semi-functional! Straphangers no longer has to cross Jackson Avenue and 23rd Street to the far western stair to transfer from the G to the 7. Now they can just cross...

New Islands Archipelago. Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., May 20 until Sun., June 6, 8:00pm - Discos, spas, hot tubs, boxing rings, waterslides, climbing walls, miniature golf courses, chocolate fountains, ice sculptures, and all-you-can-eat lobster mousse—is there...

Buffalo Tom. Fri., May 21, 7:30pm - Buffalo Tom weren't the band that blew up via a thousand zines, or the spur for a flurry of SASE's sent off to Massachusetts. But throughout the '90s, the trio did engage a steady and fervent audience with a sound that tempered insight and emotional tug...

Flobots+K-Os
. Fri., May 21, 8:00pm - Flobots are probably the most famous rap group that no one who actually listens to rap cares about: Tuneless, funkless, unrepentantly emo, pretty much dominating modern rock stations at the end of the decade—or at least until Sugar Ray released Music for...

The Bunker Presents Tobias Freund & Prosumer. Fri., May 21, 10:00pm - Brooklyn's venerable techno party kicks off a partnership of Berlin's legendary twin clubs. Berghain resident Shed had to cancel, but club regular Tobias Freund appears in his stead, performing in his new live guise, simply named Tobias. Panoramabar...

Dub War Presents Headhunter & Sepalcure. Fri., May 21, 10:00pm - Headhunter helped spearhead the dubstep-techno hybrid; Nomad , his 2008 album on Tempa, nodded toward Basic Channel and maybe even Future Sound of London. Now the Bristol native is calling himself Addison Groove and exploring Chicago juke, brilliantly...

Pat Metheny. Fri., May 21, 8:00pm - The jazz guitarist is touring accompanied only by his Orchestrion, a group of instruments—including vibraphones lent by Gary Burton, drums courtesy of Jack DeJohnette, guitarbots created by the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, blown bottles, and...

Rez Abbasi's Raaq. Fri., May 21, 9:00pm - With each stride, the guitarist becomes a little clearer, a little more eloquent. His work with the Indo-Pak Coalition has been mesmerizing because his long tones give him a chance to mess with texture while still waxing lyrical. This new RAAQ foursome,...

"Huge punk selection" at Trash and Vaudeville. Skinny ties, black jeans, beatle boots, and other punk/new wave staples were up for grabs in 1980 at Trash and Vaudeville, which has occupied 4 St. Mark's Place since 1975. An Ephemeral reader clipped this cool vintage ad out of a March 1980 issue of Trouser Press, a New...

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Bedford-Stuyvesant's prettiest cul-de-sacs. Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy is one grimy, bustling main drag. You'd never know that just off it are two of the sweetest lanes in all of Brooklyn. Those would be Alice Court (above) and Agate Court, built around 1890 by a Swiss-born stamping-factory owner. Alice was his...

East Village Jukebox. East Village Jukebox

The other New York Giants of baseball. While the New York Giants of the National League held court at the Polo Grounds in the first half of the 20th century, a couple of other New York Giants were playing Negro League ball around the city. The New York Lincoln Giants (below, in 1912) got their start in 1911.  Home...

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Unexpected Quaintness in Queens. Here we have a squat little brick building on 61st Street in Woodside, Queens. Might have been a garage or warehouse in the past, but it was some time ago converted into a two apartment building. (The doors are two the side. Not much to capture your heart here. But look more...

Carroll Gardens' Legendary Joe's Perette Undergoes Construction. Carroll Gardens culinary legend, Joe's Superette (or Joe's Perette, as it's known by its mutated sign)—home of superlative prosciutto balls—is wrapped in scaffolding. The building is being refurbished for the first time in, well, forever. "If I owned the building, I would...

Banksy gives Shepard Fairey some love. But first... As I pointed out on Saturday, Shepard Fairey's Bowery-Houston mural got hit pretty hard ... Now, it looks as if someone is making some progress cleaning off the mural... ...while Banksy checks in next door.... Previously on EV Grieve : Historic bombing on the...

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Fyfe Dangerfield live video performance on The Shocking Blue Sessions. From May 19. FYFE IN THE FAST LANE Fyfe Dangerfield (cool name), founding member and frontman for the UK band Guillemots, is celebrating the May 18, release of his first solo album,

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Shepard Fairey Un-Blooped. GammaBlog posted a photo: A graffiti cleaner hired by Deitch. The white background cleans off fairly well, but not the black outline.

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JESUS SAVES, NYC 2010. mollynme80 posted a photo: www.rossbennettlewis.com

Happy Shavuot! To all our Jewish readers, have a festive Shavuot!  Kick back and enjoy the Mel Brooks portrayal of the Ten Commandments!

$1 Fresh Oysters @ Desnuda, East Village, New York City. Lucem808 posted a photo: $1 Oysters! We had a craving for oysters, and Desnuda helped fill it. These fresh oysters are shucked in front of you, and placed on a platter of sea salt. Our oysters came with three sauces (I hope I remembered them right): sweet mango jelly, chipotle...

$1 Fresh Oysters @ Desnuda, East Village, New York City. Lucem808 posted a photo: $1 Oysters! We had a craving for oysters, and Desnuda helped fill it. These fresh oysters are shucked in front of you, and placed on a platter of sea salt. Our oysters came with three sauces (I hope I remembered them right): sweet mango jelly, chipotle...

The Royal Chains perform live in the booth on Hella Fabulous. From May 19. CHAIN MY HEART If you count among your musical influences the "skyrocketing rents in NYC," along with the requisite drugs, alcohol and other people's music," and publish an official bio that states "Adam doesn't

Frozen Files Presents a happy Biggie birthday party. Wednesday, May 19 at 4PM ET. THIS IS GONNA BE BIG. The Frozen Files cats, Schott Free and Matt Life, enjoy the celebration of life. And here comes one right now... The Notorious B.I.G. was born May 21, 1972. And Schott

Nabe News: May 19. Bar-neighbor relations, another Orchard boutique, and Jeremiah in Playboy, all in today's neighborhood news roundup! Are East Village bar owners starting to make nice with neighbors? [EV Grieve] A new boutique opened this past Saturday at 154 Orchard Street.  The...

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BSA, East Village. NYCShawn posted a photo:

Burned, Corner of 14th and Ave A. NYCShawn posted a photo:

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Telephone Bar and Grill. meister.kent posted a photo: This is the first place I worked when I moved to New York, so I was sad to see it out of business and being dismantled when I just happened to walk by the other day. RIP Telephone Bar

McSorley's Old Ale House. meister.kent posted a photo: This is one of the oldest bars in city. I've never been in here though.

Where the subway ends: neighborhood stations. Above: Outside the Greenpoint Avenue station, Brooklyn I'm giving a shout out to my old dear friend Lisa Gidley , an accomplished photographer currently living in Portland, OR, who has recently re-introduced her fascinating photography series entitled Station to Station . Since...

So far so good at The Penny Farthing, but how about the possible not-actually-secret secret downstairs lounge? EV Grieve reader Margaret decided to stop by The Penny Farthing last evening ... it's new place on the southeast corner of 13th Street and Third Avenue....it was the former Cafe DeVille, who never returned from vacation last summer . Here's what she had to say: "[T]hey've...

Pilsner Urquell Forever! The hand-painted Pilsner Urquell sign on the outside of Zlata Praha, a Bohemian restaurant in Astoria, must be the only such advertisement of its kind in the city, maybe the nation. So odd to not only make a beer advertisement such a large element of your business facade, but to...

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10th Annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash, Wednesday, May 19, in NYC. GABBA GABBA GO Joey's gone, but his legacy keeps us punk to the end. And in what would have been his 59th year, we celebrate in style with the 2010 version of the official Joey Ramone

Can Bicycle Shops Last 70 Years. Bill's Cycle is on Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside. I've never been able to find out anything about the place, but the sign says Est. 1939. Is that possible? I know the bike biz is a tough one, with slim profits. If Bill's is really 71-years-old, I'd say that makes it the oldest...

In Vintage Store. kj.vogelius posted a photo: Store with amazing vintage interior stuff. On E Houston St close to Bowery.

In Vintage Store. kj.vogelius posted a photo: Store with amazing vintage interior stuff. On E Houston St close to Bowery.

In Vintage Store. kj.vogelius posted a photo: Store with amazing vintage interior stuff. On E Houston St close to Bowery.

"Patty Scull, who lives in the East Village, recently spent part of an evening at Momofuku Milk Bar...". " Patty Scull, who lives in the East Village, recently spent part of an evening at Momofuku Milk Bar spooning up cinnamon-bun cereal milk soft-serve with chocolate fudge topping. "It's so random that it's something you would eat if you were totally baked," she said. (For the...

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In Vintage Store. kj.vogelius posted a photo: Store with amazing vintage interior stuff. On E Houston St close to Bowery.

Wooden Phone Booth Sighting: New York Public Library Main Branch. The lower level of the Fifth Avenue branch of the New York Public Library. A bank of four. All working.

Arrived. kj.vogelius posted a photo: Finally in the appartment after the long trip.

fabulous. redjoe posted a photo: An amazing performer at Webster Hall last Saturday.

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Fyfe Dangerfield live performance on The Shocking Blue Sessions, May 19 at Noon ET. FYFE IN THE FAST LANE Fyfe Dangerfield (cool name), founding member and frontman for the UK band Guillemots, is celebrating the May 18, release of his first solo album,

Collective Hardware at 169 Bowery Faces Eviction. Indeed.  The New York Post is reporting this morning that the beloved Collective Hardware at 169 Bowery is facing eviction.  City Marshals reportedly shut down the five-floor arts space last Wednesday, padlocking the doors closed.  Is this the proverbial end of the road?...

Playboy with Zukin. In the April issue of Playboy magazine, Professor Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places , published an essay in the Forum section entitled "How the City Lost Its Soul." An editor from Playboy asked me to write a response to that essay,...

A happy ending next door to Cabin Down Below. Back on March 25, I did a story on the family who lives next door to the new ish entrance to Cabin Down on Seventh Street at Avenue A. The residents were often kept up for hours at night by the clack-clack-clack-clang-clang-clang of footsteps on the steel stairs bargoers use to...

Hi neighbor: Is this a new era for bar-resident relations? What happened with the Cabin Down Below management and the family next door is the latest example of East Village bar trying owners to be better neighbors... 1) David Schwartz, one of Lit's co-owners, recently outlined the steps his bar is taking to appease their unhappy...

Habib's quietly opens on First Avenue. Last November, Habib's Place on Avenue A near Sixth Street closed rather suddenly... Well! Thanks to Sean at East Village Wines for passing along the good news that Habib has relocated to the former Question Mark Cafe space on First Avenue between St. Mark's and Ninth Street ....

38 Delancey Reveals Ground Level. Over the weekend, much of the remaining worksite plywood was dismantled from the facade of 38 Delancey.  We now have a relatively unfettered look at the ground level of the new condoplex. The sheer size of the retail space – 30,000 square-feet across two floors – is...

We'll always have Caffe Buon Gusto. Well, this is actually starting to get entertaining... During the April CB3/SLA meeting, the owners of graffiti and homeless hotspot Caffe Buon Gusto on Avenue B at Fifth Street were no shows... aside from a beer and wine license within a resolution area, they were also on the...

No sweat? Former Dolphin Gym for lease. Signs up are now at the former Dolphin Gym on Avenue B near Second Street... As you may recall, the gym quickly shuttered back in February . Anyway, um, not sure how viable retail is here... in the basement of a former gym? (Sounds like the perfect home for the next Mad Dog Room...

Bar 108 Still Out of Business. At this point, it's probably safe to say that Bar 108 at the corner of Thompson and West Houston is out of business.  Since news broke back in January that the year-old watering hole closed, the space has remained a forsaken shell of its former self.  A few hype posters still...

2nd Avenue Subway Stop During the Rush. This is a prime example of why you should avoid the 2nd Avenue/Lower East Side subway stop during rush hour.  But especially when it's raining.  Bottlenecks inevitably form thanks to the cramped subway platform and one narrow staircase to service half the station; it's almost...

On a Leash, Delancey Edition. This is not the first time (and won't be the last) that we've encountered children on leashes around the neighborhood.  Something just doesn't compute here.  Seriously, what kind of childhood behavior could warrant such cruel punishment?

Early Edition: May 19. 

Paul Flaherty+Chris Corsano+Okkyung Lee. Thu., May 20, 8:00pm - Separated by nearly 30 years, New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano—freshly returned to Massachusetts after a half-decade of globe-trotting—continue their now decade-long partnership. Flaherty's rich, visceral lines, melodic ideas...

The Proclaimers. Thu., May 20, 9:00pm - If you've ever been to a wedding, chances are you've participated in a 'round-the-room conga to "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," the propulsive love-at-all-costs guitar ballad by Scottish pop duo the Proclaimers. Comprised of identical twins Charlie and Craig...

Barb Jungr. Daily from Wed., May 19 until Sat., May 22, 7:30pm - Barb Jungr reprises the inspired show she premiered earlier this year at the Cafè Carlyle. The spirited chanteuse sings ditties you've heard before but never expected to hear this way. She gets so deep into her...

Pearl Jam. Thu., May 20, 7:30pm - Lately, Pearl Jam have been playing 29-song marathons with two encores. Their most recent release, last year's Backspacer , was one of their strongest in years, so they're well equipped to pull it off. It doesn't hurt that Eddie Vedder's voice has become...

The Piano Teacher. Thu., May 20, 7:00pm - Dir. Michael Haneke (2001). This tale of a former musical prodigy and her controlling mother provides a lurid study in sexual pathology, as well as a tour-de-force role for Isabelle Huppert. Michael Haneke—who orchestrates Elfriede Jelinek’s supple,...

Anderson Twins. Thu., May 20, 8:00pm - Symmetry this perfect could only be found in jazz; the Anderson Twins, true to their name, are identical brothers and 23-year-old saxophonists, both of the clout to study jazz at the Juilliard School and perform professionally in various outfits around...

LCD Soundsystem. Daily from Thu., May 20 until Sun., May 23, 8:00pm - The homecoming concert series by DFA disco dork and reigning dance-floor kingpin James Murphy’s flagship project LCD Soundsystem marks the proper release of his third album, This Is Happening, after a high-profile and...

Tabu. Thu., May 20, 8:00pm - Dir. F.W. Murnau & Robert Flaherty (1931). The most subtle of German Expressionist filmmakers collaborated with the father of American documentary film on this brooding tale of love and death in a South Seas paradise. Bucking history, Tabu was shot...

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