Sleep-Overers Graffiti Joe Strummer Mural

East Villagers love street art — they also love graffiti! So what's better than a mural with graffiti on it?!

This is the beloved Joe Strummer mural on the wall of the beloved Niagara, on Avenue A and East 7th Street, graffiti'd Sunday night, August 9:

Beloved Joe Strummer mural, with graffiti.

Here is a close-up of the graffiti:

Close-up of the graffiti.

My psychic-detective abilities tell me that a malcontented sleep-overer — and anarchist! — scrawled this. My psychic-detective abilities also tell me that this was not the result of being refused service!

Not good enough for A-in-a-circle… in the East Village Today!

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Fashionably Late

East Villagers are always fashionably late. If you say something starts at 1:00pm (a punk rock concert, for example) people will not show up until 2:00.

Likewise, if you say something starts at midnight Friday morning (a sleep-over along East 7th Street, for example), no one will show up until Friday night!

This was the scene on East 7th Street this morning:

East 7th Street, toward Avenue B.

East 7th Street, toward Avenue A.

This was the only campsite:

The only campsite — unfashionably on time!

The Parks Department must have thought more people would show up, because they locked the entrance on 7th Street:

East 7th Street entrance to Tompkins Square Park, closed.

I'm sure a lot of people will show up tonight though — it's a lot easier to wake up on the sidewalk when you don't have to go to work!

East Villagers love to go to work refreshed!

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Tompkins Square Park Sleep-Over Tonight

Tonight is the first night of the big Tompkins Square Park sleep-over! According to earlier pronouncements, it starts at midnight Friday and goes till Sunday morning.

I wrote about this back in July, and I thought there would be more promotion, but there really hasn't been any. There's a Facebook page, but you'd already have to know about the sleep-over to know about the page, and there haven't been any signs at all!

I passed by this morning, thinking people would be staking out their claims to prime sidewalk space, but nothing:



I thought I saw a campsite, but it turned out to be garbage dumped overnight:

Not a campsite.

Then again, East Villagers love to procrastinate!

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