Serious Food Wastage

I was walking across East 6th Street this past Sunday, when I passed this table outside the beloved Sidewalk Cafe:

Abandoned food.

Not only did these people not finish their brunches, but they left the check where some ragamuffin could take it!

It's a good thing East Villagers aren't ragamuffins — (but they sure are food-wasters)!

#eastvillage #6thstreet #abandonedfood #ragamuffins #sidewalkcafe

Mess O' Bikes

I was walking across East 4th Street the other morning, when I saw this mess o' bicycles outside the beloved East Village Farm, at the corner of Second Avenue:

Gaggle of bicycles.

It's possible the mopeds belong to the Farm, to be used when delivering nuts, or beers, or cigarettes, or health foods, or dairy, or organic and raw food, or vegan foods, or health and beauty aids!

So next time you hanker for a hunka cheese, call East Village Farms — 24 hours delivery!

#eastvillage #eastvillagefarm #secondavenue #4thstreet #bicycles

Andy Warhol is Missing

Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall

This is crazy —

I was walking up The Bowery yesterday morning, and I took this picture of a mosaic of Andy Warhol on the side of the beloved The Standard hotel:

Andy Warhol mosaic.

…and I had this whole story written in my head about how to the right of the mosaic there were these tiles that are now missing, and how Andy Warhol was not from the East Village, and how he never lived here, and how East Villagers love people from outside the East Village, and how no one from the East Village ever becomes famous… all of it true!

But then, this morning I was waking up The Bowery again…

Well, take a look:

The mosaic is gone.

The mosaic is gone!

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can take down murals of famous non-East-Village artists. There is a pestilence upon the East Village Today!

#eastvillage #andywarhol #mosaics #thebowery #thestandard

Seedy Venue

A gypsy must have put a curse on the store next to the beloved Sidewalk Bar and Restaurant, on East 6th Street — nothing ever stays open here for long!

Today, it's just another one of the eyesores East Villagers love so much:

Eyesore.

Here's a picture of the inside:

Inside.

It looks pretty seedy to me!

#eastvillage #6thstreet #closed #graffiti

Trash In Transit

As you may recall from my post Duelling Photographers, I was on St. Mark's Place this past weekend.

While any reason is a good reason to be on St. Mark's Place, mine was to see what was going on inside the former location of the beloved Trash & Vaudeville!

Behold, if you will:

Inside Trash & Vaudeville.

East Villagers can't wait till Trash & Vaudeville reopens in their new location, and they're able to buy Sid Vicious t-shirts again!

T + 8 days and counting!

#eastvillage #stmarksplace #trashvaudeville #sidvicious #tshirts

The Same Coin

East Village coolness is like the two sides of a coin.

One side is heads:

Heads.

and the other side is tails:

Tails.

If you look carefully, you'll see that this is the same spot, taken from two different angles!

Only one of these pictures would make it onto a brochure promoting East Village coolness — if you guess Tails, you're right!

East Villagers love squalor!

#eastvillage #cool #graffiti #squalor #stmarksplace #yaffacafe

Los Muchachos Supermarket

Regular readers of this blog will surely remember the beloved Avenue C Deli Corp — who doesn't remember the day their door was closed?!

I was walking past there, oh, about eight days ago, and it looks like their door is closed forever now:

Avenue C Deli Corp closed forever.

It's weird how they only took half their awning with them — it's even weirder how beneath their awning was a much cooler sign: Los Muchachos Supermarket!

I passed by again a few days later, and saw signs of activity:

Signs of activity.

I thought about crouching down and taking a picture under the plastic tarp, but I didn't know if there was a vicious guard dog inside!

East Villagers are keeping their fingers crossed that an exciting new shopping venue opens here soon!

#eastvillage #avenuec #avenuecdelicorp #bodegas #losmuchachossupermarket #signs

Pedestrians Break Out

I was walking up The Bowery the other morning, when I saw this malformation at the East 6th Street crosswalk:

Crosswalk malformation.

East Village pedestrians are sure to be confused when they reach this point — what's happening to the boundaries?!

#eastvillage #thebowery #6thstreet #crosswalks #pedestrians

Broken Frame

East Villagers all know that everything looks better framed — that's why a picture is so much more interesting than the subject itself!

But what happens if the frame breaks? I was walking across East 3rd Street the other morning, when I saw this:

Still-life with broken frame.

And how did that vinegar bottle not break?!

#eastvillage #3rdstreet #frames #abandonedfood

Duelling Photographers

I was walking across St. Mark's Place yesterday, when I passed by a photographer. There's nothing unusual about that! He was talking on the phone to someone, saying he was working on a project in New York, blah blah blah. Nothing unusual about that either!

Regular readers of this blog know that I have to take pictures of other photographers, so I did!

Behold:

A photographer.

I tried to pretend I hadn't just taken his picture, by fiddling with my phone-camera, but photographers have a sharp eye, and he was not to be fooled! While I was fiddling with the buttons on my phone, he sidled along to my left and took a picture of me!

But photographers have a sharp eye, and I knew what he was doing, so I looked up and grinned just as he snapped his picture!

"Nice phone case!" he said, before we parted.

"Thanks!" I said.

Photographers are very congenial… in the East Village Today!

#eastvillage #photographers #stmarksplace #phonecases