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Posts published in January, 2012
On First and Sixth, the Cars Align
By DANIEL MAURERWhat are the odds? Two of our favorite green machines on perpendicular corners.
Ramones Style Comes at a Price
By STEPHEN REX BROWNA leather jacket worn by a member of The Ramones is up for auction.
Judith Malina’s Lower East Side
By ANGELA CRAVENSWith a new play out, the legendary actress, writer, and director tells us about her favorite spots in the neighborhood she considers her spiritual home.
Workers Picket Outside Saint Brigid’s Church
By SUZANNE ROZDEBAElectrical workers say they were laid off and replaced by non-union labor.
The Day | Hearing on Sixth Street Penthouse Addition Today
By DANIEL MAURERA roundup of today’s news, including a new project from a Prune partner, a hearing on rooftop additions, an exhibition of Lower East Side photography, and more.
Street Scenes | De La Vega, Snowbound
By MEAGAN KIRKPATRICKThe photography of Meagan Kirkpatrick.
Data Shows Bars With Most Noise Complaints, But Is It Just Sound and Fury?
By NICK DESANTISRecently released 311 complaint data reveals a veritable who’s-who in the neighborhood’s ongoing struggle with nightlife. Is it a signifier of which bars are the noisiest, or which neighbors complain the most? Or both?
Back Forty Loses Chef, The Smile Expands
By DANIEL MAURERPlus another morsel of food news: Acme relaunches.
Biscuit Blitz: How Does 7-Eleven’s $1 Biscuit Rank?
By KIM DAVISKim Davis samples the biscuit at 7-Eleven to find out how it stacks up against all the others in the neighborhood.
David Amram: Ringing the Bells of Freedom in 1950s East Village
By DAVID AMRAMIn an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the legendary composer remembers collaborating with Beat legends and jazz masters in the 1950s.
The Day | Third 7-Eleven on the Way
By DANIEL MAURERA roundup of this morning’s news, including another L train death, continued opposition to a historic district, a new development on Avenue D, a Yippie in trouble, and more.
Ed Sanders on EVO and ‘The New Vision’
By ED SANDERSThe former frontman of the Fugs and owner of Peace Eye Bookstore recalls the rise and fall of The East Village Other.
John Jonas Gruen on The East Village Other’s Manifesto
By JOHN JONAS GRUENAn excerpt from “The New Bohemia”: John Gruen, chronicler of a burgeoning neighborhood, on how The East Village Other was a response to West Village gentrification.
EVO Columnist John Wilcock Interviews John Wilcock
By JOHN WILCOCKJohn Wilcock on why he quit the Village Voice to become a columnist for The East Village Other. Plus: an excerpt from his book, “Manhattan Memories.”
Dan Rattiner on the Founding of The East Village Other
By DAN RATTINERLittle is it known that Dan Rattiner, doyen of Dan’s Papers, helped launch the East Village Other alongside its more celebrated founders, the late Walter Bowart and the late Allen Katzman.
Death on L Train Tracks
By DANIEL MAURERThe police and FDNY say that a person was struck and killed by a Brooklyn-bound subway train near the Third Avenue station shortly before 8:21 a.m. this morning.
Metro PCS Store Robbed Again
By DANIEL MAURERA Metro PCS store on East 14th Street near First Avenue was robbed again last night, two weeks after a pair of men held it up at gunpoint.
Viewfinder | A Burning Passion
By RALPH FELDMANThe photography of Ralph Feldman, a former firefighter and artist who documented the fires on and around his block in the 1970s and ’80s.
Street Scenes | Construction Bottleneck
By CLINT MCMAHONThe photography of Clint McMahon
Police Seek Suspect in Brazen Attempted Robbery
By STEPHEN REX BROWNA man is said to have locked a 31-year-old woman in her bathroom as he ransacked her apartment.
