NYC does graffiti real good. Here’s some more I spotted on 2nd Avenue when I was wandering the East Village.
I don’t know how much is professionally done, but I suspect most of it. But it does have that gritty look that is so good.
-H
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More East Village Murals and Graffiti
January 12, 2008East Village Murals
January 11, 2008I’ve commented before about cool graffiti in the Village. It probably isn’t correct to call it graffiti, instead it is more of a cool mural that (I think) graffiti can/is be put on by amateurs without marring the product. It’s just too good to be randomly created.
If you look at the left portion of this picture, you can see the phone number to call for Lower East Side murals.
-H
The Fillmore East
January 10, 2008I ran across an area that I’m told is the old Fillmore East.
Wow.
It’s located on 2nd Avenue and 6th Street in the East Village.
It’s now a Emigrant Savings Bank location. It looks like it may have been torn down and reconstructed, and I’m told parts of it are apartments now. Everyone who was anyone in rock played there. Well, at least old rock and roll. The Allman Brothers, Jefferson Airplane, Doors, Led Zeppelin…the list goes on and on.
What I do know is that when I was a kid, the Fillmore East was supposed to be the coolest place anywhere. I was a long, long ways away (actually in Okinawa) and never dreamed that I’d visit.
And I guess I didn’t. Maybe I can go in and use the ATM.
-H
Albert’s Garden on 2nd Street
January 9, 2008Just a small little post about a small little garden in the East Village. Albert’s Garden, that is.
How small? Here’s what it looks like from across the street.
Yeah, it’s about two car lengths wide. It seems to be the location of an old tenement from way-back-when. Maybe it burned down or collapsed or otherwise was destroyed during the bad old 1970s and 80s. Whatever. It’s gone now and the Manhattan Land Trust has the area. In most places, this would be a vacant lot, but this is NYC and this is now a public garden.
Well, there’s not much growing there now.
It’s open four days a week between April and October.
In NYC, you take your greenery wherever you can find it.
-H
Greenwich Village Christmas Decorations
December 30, 2007Most of the NYC Christmas decorations that you see in public are done by companies or by the City. However, one area with some simple and effective decorations was done by homeowners (or perhaps by the cooperatives) in Greenwich Village on 10th Street.
It’s the simplest stuff that is generally the best. In the above cases, it’s just branches from evergreens (there’s a place selling Christmas trees just up a block and they lop off branches for this upon request – I know ‘cuz I saw them doing it). There are some decorative touches, but that’s all. I know some of them had lights intertwined in the branches, but I wasn’t there at night so I don’t know the effect.
I never noticed anyplace that’s decorated like the suburban houses where the homeowners go wild with Christmas stuff. I have to admit that I’m happy about that. Of course, it’s hard to compete with the Rockefeller Center tree and Macy’s windows.
-H
Famous Ankles 