Two Cups on a Fence

I was walking up Avenue A this afternoon, when I saw these two cups on the fence that surrounds Tompkins Square Park: 

Two cups on the fence.

Seeing trash discarded so carefully is not surprising; East Villagers are adept at stacking trash.

What is surprising is that the wind, or some passing miscreant, didn't knock them down!

It makes me think these had just been placed there, only moments before.

Pointless Bird Spikes

Most people don't think of bird spikes as pointless — their pointiness is their very reason for existing!

These bird spikes, however, are completely pointless:

Pointless bird spikes.

In case you can't see what I'm talking about, here is a close-up:

Close-up.

Maybe they're not meant to keep birds away; maybe they're meant to keep people from discarding their cups in that particular spot!

#eastvillage #birdspikes #3rdstreet #abandonedcups #pointless

The doDo Bee

I was walking across East 6th Street, oh, about nine days ago, thinking to myself: "What can I write about the abandoned cup with a straw in it that I saw on top of a trash can receptacle on East 7th Street yesterday?"…

Abandoned cup with straw.

… when suddenly I saw this:

What's that?!

"I've seen that face before", I thought to myself, and then I knew: "I don't have to worry what to write about the abandoned cup, I can write about the doDo bee graffiti off to the side of the cup, that appears here as well!"

So, this is a post about the doDo bee graffiti.

If you look closely at the doDo bee, you'll see that its body is a heart:

Heart.

And the signature is hard to read. Maybe it's JeDo. Or deDo. I don't know. For now, I'm calling it doDo!

Then tonight, I saw this, also on East 6th Street:

This.

I announced to my Snapchat followers that this was another doDo bee, but on closer inspection, I see that this is not the doDo bee, but an imposter!

The doDo bee graffitier is going to have to start putting a registered mark beside his work.

Sound advice, from East Village Today®!

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UPDATE 4/29

After discussing this in the comments below, I am prepared to say that the last picture is a genuine doDo bee!

#eastvillage #jodobee #graffiti #abandonedcups #6thstreet #7thstreet #registeredmark