UnsilentaCon. It could happen. (Photos: Konstantin Sergeyev/Taylor Davidson. Illustration: Daniel Maurer)
Once again, the East Village’s two Christmas traditions, SantaCon and Unsilent Night, are happening on the same day. UnsilentaCon will be upon us Dec. 12!
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Two suspects were arrested for stealing and crashing a Jaguar that had been in the process of being towed on Friday in Williamsburg. [The Brooklyn Paper]
At 5 am last Wednesday, someone tried (and failed) to break into a Java Street eatery with a sledgehammer. [The Brooklyn Paper]
For $3.3 million, you could live above the former home of an E. 1st Street hookah joint. [EV Grieve]
A shot of the livestream outside of Angelika.
The rumors are true: Shia LaBeouf is currently holed up in the bowels of Angelika Film Center, where over 70 people are lined up waiting for the opportunity to watch Nymphomaniac with him. The line has steadily grown since I showed up to his #AllMyFilms “performance” around 3:20 p.m., when there were just a few dozen stalkers patrons of the arts queued up.
(Film still via “Alone at Last”, Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong)
“At that time in New York things were really wild,” Emily Armstrong recalled of the ’70s punk scene. She and her partner, Pat Ivers, are old school East Village types– they truly lived the Downtown era, and lucky for us they documented over 100 shows at CBGBs, filming bands like DNA and unbelievable moments like Iggy Pop covering Frank Sinatra for their weekly TV show, Nightclubbing. After NYU’s Fales Library acquired their archive for the Downtown Collection, thousands of the duo’s film reels were digitized and, for a time, were part of a weekly column at B+B.
Alone at Last emerged out of that archival effort and now, after more than 30 years since the artists last saw them, the 1981 black-and-white vignettes featuring 52 people who were prompted to seduce the viewer, will be shown at Howl! Happening. The video series captures the last breath of the freewheeling ’70s Downtown scene right before AIDS hit. “People who have seen it feel that it’s a very interesting depiction of that culture, that moment, because it was truly a moment. Soon after it was shot, people realized what AIDS was. So having a lot of sex for pleasure was completely redefined: having a lot of open sex was suicide. Things really changed, really fast.”
Back when David Chang’s delivery service, Maple, came to Greenwich Village and the West Village, we noted that the LES and East Village were prime candidates for the next phase of expansion. That moment is now upon us: the service, which delivers daily specials made in a commissary kitchen rather than a restaurant, will be available everywhere below 14th Street starting tomorrow.
Slurping season is almost upon us, and this winter will bring more ramen options than ever before.
Ramen bowls at Noodle Beach. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Ramen by Mew
7 Cornelia St., nr. West 4th Street, West Village
The basement izakaya known as Mew, which opened two years ago in Koreatown, is expanding with a ramen joint on Cornelia Street. They’re shooting for a December opening, but have already started posting photos of dishes on Instagram, including soft-boiled eggs topped with sea urchin, chashu pork belly, nanbanzuke (fried salmon with a vinegar-sake marinade), and tonkotsu ramen.
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
A 21-year-old woman is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained yesterday around 4 a.m. outside of a S. 5th Street nightclub in Williamsburg. [News 12 Brooklyn]
Sapphire Soto, half of an alleged crime team responsible for $20K worth of stolen goods between late September and October, was arrested mid-robbery in Bushwick early Thursday evening. Her male accomplice managed to escape without arrest. [Metro]
The six-story mixed-use building located at 34 1/2 St. Marks Place is on the market for $9.35 million. [EV Grieve]
(Photo: Nicole Disser)
Last night the mask-wielding artists of the Bruce High Quality Foundation opened up the doors of their epic new studio space in Sunset Park. The excuses were a party and an exhibition featuring work inspired by French Baroque painter Nicholas Poussin’s landscapes, while the reason was fundraising for the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHFQU), an experimental, non-profit art school that offers free classes and an alternative to the MFA by separating art from careerism. Come January, BHQFU, which has had a home base in the East Village since 2013, will move its operations here to Sunset Park.
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
On Tuesday and Wednesday, city contractors uncovered two tombs filled with human skeletons in Washington Square Park. [NY Post]
Renderings and a $24.5 million listing price (for the retail space) were released for the Ben Shaoul-owned building at 100 Avenue A. [EV Grieve]
A proposal has been submitted for a 155-room hotel on West Street in Greenpoint, part of the former Greenpoint Terminal Market. [Brooklyn Paper]
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Former Mars Bar owner Hank Penza has died. He was 82 years old. [EV Grieve]
Just after 1 a.m. yesterday, a 33-year-old Bushwick man received a fatal gunshot wound to the head when the bullet crashed through the front door of his Menahan Street residence. [CBS NY]
Yesterday a wake was held for the seven-year-old Williamsburg girl who was removed from life support Friday after choking on a sandwich at school. [NY Daily News]