Wasted Booze

I was walking up Avenue A this afternoon, when I saw this unfinished bottle of booze on the fence:

On the fence. 

Who doesn't finish this quantity of booze?! It's not even a shot!

Bland Fence

It's hard to be sure whether this fence here on St. Mark's Place is in the process of being painted, or if the paint is being stripped off to allow the metal to rust, and look… rustic:

Hard to be sure.

(It's weird how they stopped at the bendy bar!)

I'd like to think the fence was being primed for painting, and that isn't the final color.

It's pretty bland, no?

#eastvillage #stmarksplace #fences #paint #bland

Cup On Fence

This is a little something I like to call "Cup on Fence":

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

This post was brought to you by Tompkins Square Park, and by Avenue B, and by McDonald's Mobile Order & Pay, and by litter.

#eastvillage #tompkinssquarepark #avenueb #mcdonaldsmobileorderandpay #litter #fences

Chucked Corral

I was walking along East 6th Street a couple of weeks ago, when I saw this bicycle, still chained to this bicycle corral, in the dirt past this fence:

Still chained.

Here is a close-up:

Close-up.

What can be known is that those locks held up admirably! When the thief could not remove the bicycle from the corral, he just tore the corral out of the sidewalk. Walking away from the scene of the crime, discovering how difficult it is to carry a bicycle corral with a bicycle still chained to it, he chucked it over the fence.

Whoever owns this bicycle needs to replace the right pedal — it's might rusty!

#eastvillage #bicycles #bikecorrals #6thstreet #fences #dirt

Makeshift Memorial

I was walking through Tompkins Square Park recently, when I saw this makeshift hanging on a fence behind some benches:

Behind some benches.

Here is a close-up:

Close-up.

It looks some kind of Italian renaissance painter, or something!

#eastvillage #benches #fences #flowers #memorials #tompkinssquarepark #italianrenaissance

Art Imitates Anti-Pigeon Contraption

I was walking across East 7th Street last night, when I saw this sign:

Sign.

I looked around me for the fence being described, and I found it:

Fence.

It's a good thing that sign was there, or I would never have known that was art, and not just some kind of contraption put up to keep pigeons out!

We need more signs like this, to point out all the other works of art that oftentimes get missed, due to their looking like heaps of scrap metal and such.

(I just want to say how cool it is that my favorite computer program designed its logo to honor this artist!)

Ai.

#eastvillage #7thstreet #adobeillustrator #aiweiwei #fences #publicartfund #signs

Securing The Fence

I was rounding the northeast corner of Tompkins Square Park this past Friday, during the rainstorm I mentioned in an earlier post, when I saw this:

Lock securing fence.

It's a padlock!

Here is a close-up:

Close-up.

It's comforting to know that the fence protecting Tompkins Square Park from theft is itself protected from theft!

#eastvillage #10thstreet #avenueb #fences #locks #rain #signs #tompkinssquarepark

Banana On A Fence

Long ago, I had a blog, and one of  the features of that blog was a series called "Banana Peels", which consisted of pictures of… you guessed it: banana peels!

I thought about that when walking across East 4th Street recently and spotted this banana on a fence:

Banana on a fence.

It's funny to think that this banana once grew on a tree in Central America, was picked, shipped to North America, and made its way to the East Village, only to be abandoned on this fence.

Ha!

#eastvillage #4thstreet #bananas #abandonedfood #fences

Fence For Sale

As I wrote in both Vandals & Vendors and Itinerant Bookseller:

Since the closing of our local Chase Bank, the corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place has become a very popular location for vandals and itinerant street-vendors alike.

The final installment of the Itinerant Street Vendor series focusses on this blue picket fence:

Blue picket fence.

Here is a close-up of the sign:

Close-up.

The funny thing is: it's left unattended at night, and no one's stolen it!

It's hard to imagine where you would put this thing.

#eastvillage #secondavenue #stmarksplace #fences #signs

Rose on a Fence

One of the benefits of local Citibike stations being closed for the recent Grinding Existing Asphaltic Concrete Wearing Course Project HW2CR16B is that East Villagers have even more reason to use the most beautiful Citibike station probably in the entire city!

I am referring, of course, to the New York Marble Cemetery station, on East 2nd Street.

This past Tuesday, when I locked up my Citibike, I was in for an even greater treat:

Rose taped to fence.

How goth!

East Villagers will be sad when this station closes!

#eastvillage #2ndstreet #citibike #fences #goth #newyorkmarblecemetery

Trash & Graffiti

Whenever you see a building with a lot of graffiti on it, you usually see trash in front of it also.

One example is the ugliest building in the East Village.

Another example is this one, on St. Mark's Place:

Trash and graffiti.

If they put a fence in front of the building, that would keep the graffitiers away.

Then they could put the trash cans into those garbage can bins.

Tidying up the East Village, one ugly building at a time!

#eastvillage #fences #graffiti #stmarksplace #trashcans

Re-Parcelling Second Avenue

Ever since the aftermath of the Second Avenue explosion and fire around this time last year, the vacant lot that was left behind was undifferentiated; it was a single lot.

A little while ago, it was re-parcelled:

Re-parcelling fence, view 1.

Re-parcelling fence, view 2.

It's important to know where the property lines are, so you know where to position the rat traps!

It looks like the rats come from the property on the corner (the left side of the picture) — the traps all point that way!

#eastvillage #secondavenue #fir, #eastvillageexplosion #fences #rattraps

Ta Da!

It's finished! The new fence in front of Orchard Alley Community Garden on East 4th Street is finally finished!

First, here is a picture of the fence being offloaded from a truck, exactly one month and one day ago today:

Fence being offloaded.

Next, a picture of the fence behind the perimeter fence, exactly one month minus one day ago today:

Fence behind perimeter fence.

Finally, what East Villagers have been waiting for since October, the new fence:

The new fence.

Isn't it beautiful?! It makes me proud to live in the East Village… Today!

#eastvillage #4thstreet #fences #orchardalley #renovations

Fence Sparks

Work continues apace on the new fence construction at Orchard Alley Community Garden, on East 4th Street.

Yesterday morning, workers were sawing through iron rods, probably to reinforce the concrete they will soon pour.

Here is what that looked like:

Nothing spruces up a neighborhood like a black, wrought-iron fence!

#eastvillage #4thstreet #orchardalley #communitygardens #fences

Perimeter Fence

Regular readers of this blog will no doubt remember the post A New Fence, that I posted yesterday, about the new fence being put up in front of the Orchard Alley Community Garden, on East 4th Street.

In that post, I mentioned a perimeter fence that would be erected during the installation of the new fence. Today I have a picture of that perimeter fence:

Perimeter fence.

Do you see how the sun glistens off the yellow leaves and yellow caution tape? Truly beautiful!

For those who want to see more of the perimeter fence, I prepared a video. Enjoy!

#eastvillage #4thstreet #communitygardens #constructionsites #fences #orchardalley

A New Fence

The residents of East 4th Street, between Avenues C and D, were surprised this morning to wake up and find that the fence in front of the Orchard Alley Community Garden was being taken down:

Fence being taken down.

But fear not, East 4th Streeters — the fence is being replaced! The new fence will look more like the nice fence down the block in front of Parque Tranquilidad (photo compliments of Google Maps!):

Parque Tranquilidad fence.

While work is taking place, a perimeter fence will be erected to protect passers-by:

Perimeter fence, on the ground.

Hopefully, they will level the soil, that rises up nearly six inches at the front:

Nearly six inches.

Making the East Village a better place for everyone, once fence at a time!

#eastvillage #4thstreet #communitygardens #constructionsites #fences #orchardalley #parquetranquilidad

Rickety Old Fence Gone From East 9th Street West Virginia Building

Stop the press!

I almost didn't walk down East 9th Street this morning. I wanted to see if the cool old pickup truck was back home yet, and I saw right away that it wasn't. But I didn't want to backtrack to First Avenue, so I continued down 9th Street, where I saw this:

The rickety old fence is gone!

The rickety old fence is gone!

For those new to the East Village today, this is what this building has looked like almost since the beginning of time:

West Virginia building with rickety old fence (taken back in November).

Who is responsible for this, I wondered? The answer was immediately obvious:

IA sign fastened to window bars.

It's IA, otherwise knows as Interior Alterations.

First, they removed the rickety old gate and fixed the broken concrete steps, now they removed the rickety old fence. I mean, there's really no reason to call it the East 9th Street West Virginia building any more!

I wonder what they have in mind to do with the space?!

My mission to restore the East Village to its once-pristine glory continues!

#eastvillage #9thstreet #disrepair #fences #renovations #westvirginia

Darn Fine Woodworking

I was walking across East 5th Street about 25 days ago, when I saw this:

Truck behind piece of fence.

What first caught my attention was the way the wood was cut to allow the truck door to open. Darn fine woodworking there!

Then I noticed that the fence put up to block access to the truck cab was only two section wide! Strange, no?

So what holds it in place, I wondered? Upon inspection, I discovered it:

Twister-tie holds truck mirror to fence.

What's the purpose of that fence, to begin with? Is the door to the truck unlocked?

East Villagers love fine woodworking!

#eastvillage #5thstreet #trucks #fences