dr. who fans camped out since last night and lined up for the premiere of season 6 at village east cinema
(via ev grieve)
![[photo: the Alamo, also known as the Astor Place Cube, © NYCfoto]
In the ’80s Avenues A through D, or “Alphabet City,” were progressively scary. No limos on these blocks then, no 5-star restaurants with waiting lists. I preferred it rough ‘cause it kept the East Village unpopular. The upside now is that Avenue C, or “Loisaida,” retains the good civic feeling EV once had, with community services, fairs, and gardens. It’s also heavily Latin and worlds away from NYU-ified Second Avenue.
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Once poor and marginal, EV is now the mecca of the nouveau riche. Gone are the edgy times in New York when Times Square was seedy, the seaport stank of fish, and the nervous stayed uptown.
East Village: 1980s By Marilyn Recht](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj6qdprMu81qa2c94o1_400.jpg)
[photo: the Alamo, also known as the Astor Place Cube, © NYCfoto]
In the ’80s Avenues A through D, or “Alphabet City,” were progressively scary. No limos on these blocks then, no 5-star restaurants with waiting lists. I preferred it rough ‘cause it kept the East Village unpopular. The upside now is that Avenue C, or “Loisaida,” retains the good civic feeling EV once had, with community services, fairs, and gardens. It’s also heavily Latin and worlds away from NYU-ified Second Avenue.
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Once poor and marginal, EV is now the mecca of the nouveau riche. Gone are the edgy times in New York when Times Square was seedy, the seaport stank of fish, and the nervous stayed uptown.
The East Village art scene—that heady mid-eighties era when uptown collectors elbowed out Avenue B junkies—is about to be memorialized was memorialized by a New Museum show.
One of the more pointed critics of the time recalls the worst excesses of that art movement—and the (infinitely cooler) neighborhood that it eclipsed.
An abandoned building in Alphabet City, June 1986. (photo: Q. Sakamaki/NYT)
“Before long he gravitated toward Tompkins Square, the neighborhood’s central gathering spot, where he found a lively mix of people. There were law students, punks, poets and older, lifelong residents who could remember the days of the New Deal.”
New York, New York what have you done?
You’ve wrecked me ‘til I have become
(photo via Bob Arihood/Nadie Se Conoce)
where i’ve been camping in since who knows when, and on where i’ll be for st. patrick’s day. there or maybe here.
(pic via sally davies photo)
2 AM Thursday Morning in Tompkins Square Park (photo by Bob Arhihood)
icycle audi (photo/steve sandberg via ev grieve)
![alphabet city, summer 2000 (via nadie se conoce)
[the decade of gentrification]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leav941HXv1qa2c94o1_500.jpg)
alphabet city, summer 2000 (via nadie se conoce)
[the decade of gentrification]
on a comely note…wednesday evening on stuyvesant st. and 10th st. (via ev grieve)
A typical local market in New York City, on 9th St and 2nd Avenue in the East Village
“Academics have a word for what the neighborhood has become: a nightscape. Bars and restaurants were once peripheral to the main drag’s primary economic drivers: supermarkets, coffeehouses, boutique shops, record stores. But in post-industrial cities, nightlife has grown into an industry in its own right. As in any industry, shop owners tend to cluster. A century ago, that meant the creation of a Garment District. Now it means the creation of a Party District.”
— Sara Laskow/Capital New York
Partying In The East Village (The Daily Dish/Atlantic Monthly)
(Photo by Christopher Shoenbohm)
