Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Another old school bus shelter holdout along the M15 route has succumbed to Cemusa glass.  A new structure was assembled last week at the East Houston stop, but is still pretty bare-bones.  Proper bus stop signage is not yet in place, but of course the ads are.

Defying the odds, the unique corner newsstand at the junction of West Third and Sixth Avenue was revived earlier this week.  For a little over a year, the green box had fallen into disrepair, papered with stickers, flyers, and the like.  But now it’s back, having dodged the Cemusa glass bullet.

The latest old-world neighborhood newsstand to succumb to the antiseptic touch of Cemusa was located at the northeast corner of Grand Street and Bowery.  Situated on a such a narrow slice of concrete, the newly-erected glass enclosure seems to inhibit the flow of human traffic.  Not only that, given its close proximity to the front [...]

There’s a new glass-box addition to the seedy northeast corner of Bowery and Delancey.  With the Bowery Ballroom and JMZ subway entrance mere steps away, the powers that be considered this a high traffic spot for a shiny Cemusa Newsstand.  Just what the already-narrow sidewalk needs.

Like a pestilent parasite, John Varvatos continues to feed off the rock-n-roll aesthetic to peddle its highly overpriced product. Perry Farrell, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and Franz Ferdinand all succumbed to the haute couture. Next up, the bearded Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. This particular advert was spotted in the Cemusa bus shelter at the [...]

Cemusa is no stranger to controversy regarding the rapid takeover of their soulless street furniture. In the recent past, the Spanish company has been plagued with improper spelling and incorrect street designations. And now there is another issue, albeit less egregious. In passing the “upgraded” bus shelters around the neighborhood, we’ve noticed a lack of [...]