Sunday, August 07, 2011
"Let 'Em eat Cake/Eat the Rich/No Comfort Zone " Street Party : Part3
Around 9:45 PM the street party left the BMW Guggenheim Lab for the old Mars Bar. Mars Bar is no longer with us but there is still the sidewalk . Inside the old bar there was some old wine too .Purloined , this wine became the liquid faire of the evening . Ending the party with a revolutionary fervor in a fine drizzle with bad wine , really bad wine seemed fitting .
A couple of guys argued a bit , a fire extinguisher was tossed aggressively . Folks continued to drink , Jewels urinated . When the wine was consumed folks left , some heading to Ray's. Jewels and Penley made it to Ray's but Jewels quickly passed out in a familiar doorway . Lucy expressed herself and the "Let 'Em Eat Cake /Eat the Rich/No Comfort Zone street party was finished .
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"Let 'Em Eat Cake /Eat the Rich/No Comfort Zone" Street Party : Part 1
A group of 20 or so gathered Saturday night just in from the corner of 2nd Avenue and 3rd street . A familiar group that's been seen many a desperate Saturday evening at the 7th street and Avenue A entrance to Tompkins Square Park . A mix of aging Yippies , Slaktivists,Communists , anarchists and assorted others .Posters were made , folks socialized and then moved 2 doors east and effected a small anti-gentrification ritual in front of the Economakis Mansion . John Penley then led a march to the BMW Guggenhein Lab a couple of blocks down 2nd Avenue .
BMW
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Old and New in Astor Place
Confronting Comfort on Avenue A
He said that he had found the plastic container a few minutes earlier on Avenue A. He noted that his fortuitous discovery was indeed most utilitarian . He intended to use the plastic pickled ginger container as a portable stool this afternoon at the Riot Reunion in Tompkins Square Park .He also enthusiastically volunteered that if drinking all those Reunion beers and later all the free beers at the "Let 'Em eat Cake /Eat the Rich/No Comfort Zone" street party at the BMW Guggenheim Lab created a need , he would use the covered container as a portable toilet .
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Playing the Game at the BMW Guggenheim Lab
Friday, August 05, 2011
Thursday Sweep and Man with Large Knife in Tompkins Square Park
Thursday evening shortly after 7PM 5 police vehicles including one un-marked vehicle entered Tompkins Square Park . With red lights flashing the vehicles rolled slowly through the more infamous sections of T.S.P. , that is Crusty Row and the chess tables . A man was reported to be on the loose somewhere near the chess tables with a large orange handled knife .
While 9th precinct personnel at the chess tables were looking for the man with the knife another NYPD narcotics unit was conducting a traditional Thursday night TSP sweep .Members of this unit very dramatically collared a drug sales suspect just outside the park on the Avenue A side walk .
The man with the knife was not found .
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Wednesday Night at 7th Street and Avenue A
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Street Photography on 7th Street
BMW Guggenheim Lab Tuesday Night : Confronting Comfort on Houston Street
Brando From a Bar Stool at 2A
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Avenue A Portrait
Monday, August 01, 2011
Sunday Afternoon in Tompkins Square Park
Another old style hard core concert afternoon in TSP Sunday .Some Crustys asked for some time on stage too .They were denied the use of the stage so after the concert they performed acoustic at the roots of a large elm tree . Some of the Old School objected to their presence and let them know it .One of the Crustys was punched in the face , they all left immediately .
After the concert , the afternoon segued to a colorful catharsis for a more bourgeois group of 200 or so at the Mad Hatter's tea party .Alice of course was there , dressed in blue .Towards the end of the tea party a guerrilla band of saxophonists that call themselves the Baritone Saxophone Army crashed the tea party. Music was made , the Red Queen gasped.
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