Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Local performer-slash-comedienne Jessica Delfino (and Alex M. Smith) is heading to the Gulf on a dual-pronged mission to both volunteer in oil cleanup, and to capture the BP crisis firsthand for her new documentary.  The feature-length film is called Dirty Rainbow: Crisis in the Gulf, and will focus on “the people of New Orleans and [...]

[This post is slightly NSFW] Saturday afternoon was the second annual World Naked Bike Ride through Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.  This particular leg of the trek was filmed in and around St. Mark’s near Cooper Square.  Many thanks to Robert Carmona for his colorful video reporting.

Last week, some anti-BP wheat-paste surfaced in the intersection of East Houston and Lafayette, just a stone’s throw from the gas station itself.  The hyperlocal backlash to the environmental catastrophe continues.

BP is in a world of shit right now, and last night, dozens of New Yorkers mobilized to the BP gas station at the corner of Houston and Lafayette to protest. It was a press field day.  Reporters and photographers outnumbered actual activists, whose efforts closed down the station.  Many scantily clad men and women [...]

Shocking!  In a city that exploits every nook and cranny for advertising dollars, it’s definitely rare to see a subway entrance without some sort of billboard to welcome straphangers.  Like this one.  The Broadway-Lafayette access point adjacent to BP on East Houston recently lost its television-screen billboard.  It hadn’t been working for weeks. Looks so [...]

Yesterday afternoon, both EV Grieve and Curbed noted the boarded-up Mobil Station at the crazy intersection of Pike Street and East Broadway. This morning the scene was very somber, thanks in part to the driving rain. Pumps are stripped bare and all relevant pricing and company signage is gone. With the loss [...]