Lined Up For Hot Dogs

When walking around the East Village, it's common to see people lined up to spend their money — at the beloved Plum, at the beloved Big Gay Ice Cream, and now even at the beloved Crif Dogs, on St. Mark's Place!

Lined up for hot dogs.

They even wore their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes!

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I Can See My Reflection In It

I passed by Crif*Dogs again this past Sunday, only to find someone out spraying the sidewalk again:

Spraying the sidewalk.

You can see the remains of some cleaning substance in the gutter.

East Villagers love clean sidewalks!

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Icing the Sidewalk

Today, as I was walking across East 9th Street, I saw someone outside the famous Crif*Dogs icing down the sidewalk!

Making the sidewalk slippery.

Temperatures are expected to dip below freezing tonight — be careful when you walk by there!

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Welcome to the East Village

I crossed Avenue A at St. Mark's Place this morning when I saw this mosaic in the pavement, where I've not noticed a mosaic before:

Mosaic in the pavement.

"Welcome to the East Village". I don't know if you can see the "to the" below the "welcome", but it's there.

A mosaic like this should be over at Third Avenue, or on Houston or 14th Street, not on Avenue A. People should be welcomed at their point of arrival! Just this morning I saw a bicyclist go through a red light at 14th Street and Second Avenue, and an East Villager, who was crossing 14th Street, welcomed him!

At the bottom/left it says "Crif Dogs", which is a hotdog restaurant on St. Mark's Place. At the bottom/right it says "LES", which means "Lower East Side".

I wonder if it was put there by the Mosaic Man? East Villagers love his work!

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