Nabe News: March 9
Posted: March 9, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Power button condoms, Ess-a-Pickle named, and Mercury Lounge building sold, all in today’s neighborhood news roundup!
Coming Soon: Hester Street Fair
Posted: March 9, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Grub Street is reporting that a new Hester Street Fair is coming to the empty dead-end park space at Essex Street. It will be a seasonal flea market of sorts, running between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Bowery Boys Exhibit at Deitch Projects
Posted: March 9, 2010 at 6:33 am
Deitch Projects in SoHo is busy with one of its final gallery events before an anticipated June closure. Dubbed Bowery Boys, the exhibition features new paintings by Rosson Crow, and will run though March 27. And, as reported a couple months ago, the concrete canvas that they maintain at the corner of Bowery and East Houston will allegedly be hijacked by Shepard Fairey sometime after March 31.
Tags: 18 Wooster Street, art, Bowery Boys, deitch projects, Gallery, Os Gemeos, Rosson Crow, shepard fairey
Flag Above Nathan Straus Playground
Posted: March 9, 2010 at 6:18 am
Mounted to the side of 176 Rivington Street, overlooking Nathan Straus Playground, is this rotting piece of artwork. It portrays a blue Puerto Rican flag with an inscription in Spanish reading, “tell the drugs, no, and life, yes.”
Tags: 176 Rivington Street, drugs, flag, graffiti, Nathan Straus Playground, Puerto Rico
Billy Gibbons Returns for Varvatos Ad
Posted: March 9, 2010 at 6:18 am
After a six month hiatus, ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has returned as the proverbial mouthpiece (beardpiece?) for the John Varvatos brand. Much like last time, this current ad in the Houston/Greene Street bus stop definitely subtracts from his badass quotient.
Tags: 122 Spring Street, 315 Bowery, Billy Gibbons, john varvatos, ZZ Top
Russian Orthodox Cathedral Considered for Landmarking
Posted: March 9, 2010 at 6:13 am
In an email blast from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), Andrew Berman reports that the Landmarks Preservation Commission finally set a date to hear the proposal for the Russian Orthodox Cathedral on East Second Street. Date of the hearing is slated for Tuesday, March 23.
