Saturday, March 01, 2008
17 Days More ...
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Amy is reading from the text of a children's story that she and the love of her life , dearest friend and companion , Jewels , are writing together . A story about an island of monkeys that is invaded by pirates . Amy is doing the illustrations and Jewels , poet that he is , is doing the rhyming . They are working together by correspondance : Jewels is currently incarcerated at Rykers Island ... but that is soon to change .
In a bit more than 2 weeks (on or about 18 March 2008 ) Jewels will cross the bridge that connects Rykers to the mainland of NYC and walk back into civilian life . Then he will have served 8 months of a 1 year sentence . Commonly those who behave well at Rykers are released after serving just 8 months of their 1 year sentence . Jewels has been a good boy and thus will be out early .
Returning to civilian life may not be so easy though , he will not have his own place to stay and he will not have an income . He can stay with Amy at her dorm for 3 days but then he will be on his own . Will he head to Tompkins Square park where he has some freinds ?
Jewel's freinds in TSP want him to come down right-away . According to Amy , they have a big party in mind for him with booze , coke , assorted other drugs and strippers .... just exactly what he needs the least . The last place for Jewels to be is TSP and avenue A , the place where his drunken hijinx got him arrested 19 July of 2007 , pictures of which arrest were posted here at NMNL .
Amy believes in miracles affirming that they happen all the time . We certainly hope she is able to work one here for her and Jewels .
Friday, February 29, 2008
The "Mars Bar" : From the Inside Out ...
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It was a cold and windy Thursday night ; not so many people on the street... we ended -up at the "Mars Bar" . A friendly place ,we felt at home and had a shot of Bushmill's and a couple of Buds ... cheap too.
In our estimation a venerable and worthy drinking establishment but perhaps a reality that many of the recently arrived East Village upper crust would not be prepared to honestly embrace and suffer .
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Tompkins Square Park Night
Nit-Picking at McDonald's
From the Back Door
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Downtown Scenery
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"Avalon-Christie" interior ... a guaranteed "Jetson's family" pleaser . George and Jane are all smiles on this one .
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Vertically integrated "American Apparel" on Orchard at Houston ...and the red-pantied one , where's her head ? Vertically integrated up where ..... ?
Saturday Night Fights ....
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It seems from our street observations and police communications that there were more than the ususual number of fights this last Saturday night .There were disorders including fights all evening long . Too many for the police to attend all of them in time to do at least a little good . We certainly were not able to get to many but we did ,in our prowlings , see remnants of crowds and several sections of freshly blood-splattered sections of sidewalk .
From the street we could see that there were more people out than usual .There were nearly constant traffic jams on avenue A and some side-streets . Police communications were active constantly reporting disorders all over the East Village. Disorders occuring usually propinquant to a bar or club .
We didn't get many pictures Saturday night . Of the pictures that we did get , the ones above ,we took after a fight outside a bar named "Ice " on 2nd avenue between 1st and 2nd streets shortly before closing time . This fight , between a patron and a bouncer , drew a large and , according to witnesses and police , unruly crowd . According to witnesses at the scene ,three bloodied individuals were taken to hospital by ambulance .
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