Showing posts with label la plaza cultural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label la plaza cultural. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Public Art Award

Art for art's sake is all well and good, but art for recognition's sake is even better!

Just such recognition recently took place at the La Plaza Cultural community garden, on Avenue C and East 9th Street.

Behold:

Public Art Award sign. 

No doubt this sign is to recognize the discarded refuse from thirty years ago that adorns the fence surrounding the garden:

Discarded refuse.

This just goes to show you what you're up against in the public art arena. Sewer artists have some stiff competition!

#eastvillage #9thstreet #avenuec #communitygardens #laplazacultural #publicartaward #signs

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Sidewalk Damage

Even when trees die and are carted away, the damage they leave behind remains.

Behold, outside La Plaza Cultural community garden, on East 9th Street and Avenue C:

Sidewalk damage.

I am the Larox. I speak for the sidewalks!

#eastvillage #trees #laplazacultural #9thstreet #avenuec #sidewalks #communitygardens

Monday, March 12, 2018

God Friended Me

Another exciting film shoot is going on!

The working title of the program is "God Friended Me".

No Parking.

The following streets are unavailable for parking during this time:

No parking.

It looks like they're filming in some of the most desolate parts of the East Village!

Desolate East 9th Street.

With the success of NBC's "The Good Place", it looks like CBS* is looking to cash in on religious-themed programming. What better neighborhood than the East Village to film in!

*I know this from a picture I didn't post.

#eastvillage #avenuec #9thstreet #godfriendedme #cbs #nbc #filming #laplazacultural #thegoodplace

Friday, October 13, 2017

NSFK

I was walking across East 9th Street nine days ago (what a coincidence!) when I saw this banner on the fence of La Plaza Cultural, announcing what looks like the least kid-friendly Kids Halloween Party in the history of halloween parties:

Banner on fence.

Here is a close-up of the person being strangled:

Close-up.

I passed by there again last night, and saw that they've made progress on decorations:

Decorations.

More decorations.

It's fitting that the graveyard is where the weeping willow tree stood until recently — see how much more room there is now?!

#eastvillage #9thstreet #avenuec #laplazacultural #communitygardens #kidshalloweenparty #nsfk #weepingwillows

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

No More Weeping

About ten days ago, the weeping willow tree inside the community garden La Plaza Cultural, that was scheduled to be cut down, was cut down.

Here is a sign announcing the down cutting:

She is sick.

RIP? Thank you?

Weird!

Here is what La Plaza looks like now, from Avenue C and East 9th Street:

Whoa — the sky!

Here is the new view of the building across East 9th Street, from inside the garden:

Across East 9th Street.

The lumberjacks did such a good job of carting everything away, you'd never know there was a tree there to begin with!

With the tree down, these signs were now visible:

Take a peace.

Wood chips and even branches were available to take home! Can you imagine having a tree branch in your apartment?!

They should have had a bonfire instead — that would have been great! People could have cooked vegan hotdogs, vegan marshmallows, made vegan s'mores…

Here is another sign that is now visible:

Now visible.

I wonder if the cat died from tree poison, or if someone abandoned their already-dead cat there, and with the tree now gone, it was discovered?

Sure, blame the tree!

#eastvillage #9thstreet #abandoneddeadcats #avenuec #communitygardens #laplazacultural #signs #trees #weepingwillows

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Solar System vs. Universe

I was rounding the corner at Avenue C and East 9th Street yesterday, when I saw these two signs on the fence outside the La Plaza Cultural community garden:

Two signs.

Garbagia Universe was some sort of event taking place inside the garden — I didn't go inside to see.

Our Solar System? I don't know if the two were connected, but I can tell you this: That's an old map of the solar system — it still shows Pluto as a planet!

#eastvillage #9thstreet #avenuec #communitygardens #garbagiauniverse #laplazacultural #pluto #signs #solarsystem

Monday, July 10, 2017

Countdown to Treemageddon

While not an occasion for communing with one's inner goddess, the imminent demise of a weeping willow tree in La Plaza Cultural community garden, on Avenue C and East 9th Street, cannot pass unnoticed at East Village Today.

Here is probably the last picture of the doomed weeping willow tree with a chair in front of it:

Weeping willow tree with chair.

Here is probably the last picture of the doomed weeping willow tree with someone sleeping under it:

Weeping willow tree with sleeper.

East Village Today will follow events here as they take place.

#eastvillage #9thstreet #avenuec #communitygardens #laplazacultural #treemageddon #trees

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Appeal To EVT Readers

My contact at La Plaza Cultural community garden, at Avenue C and East 9th Street, tells me there will be some type of crazy ceremony there today at 4:00pm — on par with the crazy ceremony in Tompkins Square Park back in October, 2014!

I will be doing normal-people things today, so I can't go.

If you're in the mood for some silliness this afternoon, please take photos or videos and send them to me!

No close-ups, please — East Village Today is all about context!

That is all.

#eastvillage #laplazacultural #avenuec #9thstreet #communitygardens

Monday, November 9, 2015

La Plaza Cultural Goes Neon

I was walking up Avenue C yesterday, when I noticed this new neon sign inside La Plaza Cultural:

New neon sign.

It reminds me of the Bates Motel Vacancy sign in Psycho!

Oddly enough, the garden was not open, according to the old-fashioned sign hanging on the closed gate on East 9th Street:

Old-fashioned sign.

No matter, neon signs are cool!

#eastvillage #9thstreet avenuec #communitygardens #laplazacultural #neon #signs

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Avenue C Abides

High on the list of every East Villager's list of favorite movies is The Big Lebowski. One line from that movie is repeated throughout: "The Dude abides"!

In much the same way, Avenue C abides!

Everyone already knows how much cooler Avenue C is than Avenue A. As if further proof was necessary, here are pictures of the Halloween festivities at La Plaza Cultural, a community garden at East 9th Street:

Halloween festivities entrance.

Mr. Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man!

A spooky scary skeleton!

Rat Race Maze.

Ectoplasm Testing tent.

Yes, rather than set themselves up for being tricked, Avenue C'ers go all out to celebrate Halloween… in the East Village Today!

#eastvillage #9thstreet #avenuec #communitygardens #halloween #laplazacultural

Monday, September 21, 2015

Pinwheels and Yarn

East Village artists work in all sorts of media, from paint, to metal, to body fluids, to yarn!

This is woven into the fence at the La Plaza Cultural garden, on Avenue C and East 9th Street:

Pinwheels and Yarn
Pinwheels and Yarn
Everyone wishes for Pinwheels and Yarn
How do you measure its worth?
Just by the pleasure it gives here… in the East Village Today!
#eastvillage #pinwheels #yarn #9thstreet #laplazacultural #avenuec #artists

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

East Village Insane Anylum

No, not the entire East Village! Just La Plaza Cultural, a community garden on Avenue C and East 9th Street:

East Village Insane Asylum, on Avenue C.

This Sunday, October 26!

Creepy severed hand!

If you wonder whether you qualify for admission, you can check this list. There's something for everyone!

Reasons you might be admitted to the insane asylum.

East Villagers love Halloween!

#eastvillage #laplazacultural #halloween #avenuec #9thstreet #insaneasylum

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Halloween is Coming

East Villagers love Halloween! Here at Sheen Brothers on Avenue B and East 10th Street, there are plenty of pumpkins to be had for decorating, or making Jack-O'Lanterns!

Sheen Brothers pumpkins.

The community gardens have parties and haunted… vegetable plots!

Halloween at La Plaza Cultural.

According to the dog parade Facebook page:
"Gay Ross The Intern" from the Jay Leno & Chelsea Handler show will be this year's MC on Saturday, October 25th at Noon for the 24th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade.

East Villagers love Halloween!