Petrus Stuyvesant's Pear Tree

As you probably already know, East Villagers love trees — they're crazy about them! This is nothing new.

I was walking down Third Avenue recently, when I saw this plaque on the wall outside the beloved Kiehl's, dedicated to a tree:

Plaque.

Here is a close-up:

Close-up.

But what's that?!

Poorly placed quotation mark.

What a poorly-placed quotation mark!

There needs to be a Typesetting Society, that fixes other Society's bad plaques!

#eastvillage #kiehls #plaques #signs #thehollandsociety #thirdavenue #kerning

Allen Ginsberg Plaque

Today was the day for memorial plaques!

This is a memorial plaque dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, at his former apartment building on East 3rd Street:

I wonder how it's determined who gets a small, red, oval plaque, and who gets a larger, bronze, rectangular plaque? Probably the organization purchasing it. All I know is that the East Village loves tombstones!

Oh yes, this is what it looks like inside his old building. You can almost imaging you're Allen Ginsberg himself, coming home!

Be careful Allen, the floor's wet!

#eastvillage #3rdstreet #allenginsberg #plaques

General Milan R. Stefanik

At the Avenue A and East 8th Street entrance to Tompkins Square Park, to the left as you enter, on the ground, there is a plaque honoring General Milan R. Stefanik:

General Milan R. Stefanik plaque.

Astronomer, Soldier, Czecho-Slovak, Patriot. In that order!

Opposite that plaque is the base where another plaque once lay:

Base with missing plaque.

I wonder who it honored, and why it was removed?

The East Village is full of such mysteries!

#eastvillage #milanstefanik #plaques #tompkinssquarepark