If you’ve seen the signs, you know that a mysterious production called VIOLET has been shooting in the East Village recently, and if you were anywhere near the Horseshoe Bar, aka 7B, you may have seen that they were filming a “one-time explosion.” Turns out VIOLET is code name for the Netflix series Jessica Jones, starring Krysten Ritter. Like Daredevil, it’s set in the Marvel universe of superheroes, which sounds like one of the best reasons to blow the (fake) doors off of one of our favorite dives.
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Sorry Mr. Mayor, Horses and Buggies Have Spread to the East Village
Photo: Kate Beaudoin
When the smell of horse shit blasted us in the face as we walked through the East Village today, we wondered whether Mayor De Blasio had given up the fight to ban horse and carriages. Turns out it was just ABC filming its upcoming TV show Forever.
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