Black Basketball

I was walking past This Place, on East 2nd Street, one month ago to this very day, when I saw, of all things, a black basketball!

Behold:

A black basketball.

Black and green, to be precise.

This Place always has something going on!

#eastvillage #thisplace #2ndstreet #basketball

This Place

I've written about this place on East 2nd Street many times, but I've never known how to refer to it.

Until now!

Introducing: This Place:

This Place.

One of the reasons I write about This Place so much is that it's always changing, even in the picture above.

Do you see what it is? Here's a close-up:

Close-up.

A chain, attaching the handrail to the riot gates!

Incredible.

#eastvillage #2ndstreet #chains #thisplace

Don't Blink

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you blink, you'll miss it!

I was walking across East 2nd Street back on April 4, when I saw this blue tarpaulin draped over the awning frame of this place seen in so many other East Village Today posts:

Blue tarpaulin.

Oh, check that out on the door: a Christmas wreath!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Anyway, the very next day, I found myself walking down this street again, only to find… the tarpaulin was gone!

Gone.

It's hard to know if there were any changes made — who can remember what anything looked like yesterday?!

#eastvillage #2ndstreet #awnings #tarpaulins

Hypnotoad on East 2nd Street

I first wrote about this place back when East Village Today was new — today you might say it was East Village Then!

Well, I was walking across East 2nd Street recently, when I saw that the riot gates of this beloved place had changed again:

Riot gates changed.

Wait a second… what's that I see?

Hypnotoad.

East Villagers love Hypnotoad!



#eastvillage #2ndstreet #hypnotoad #awnings #artproject #riotgates

Plant Peace Trees

As soon as one art project ends, another begins!

There's always something cool going on here. I've taken many pictures of this awning frame, and the one to the right of it.

Two Boots Hanging From Awning Frame art project

Welcome to the Steam Powered Hour Underground Hoedown. I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds 19th-century and Southern.

Of course, no post would be complete without a picture of an open door!

There was sound coming from behind the curtain. "Pay no attention to… something."