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And so, skipping over a few blocks, we come to the last block of our East Village walk, just before crossing into the Lower East Side.
The most you could say about the Best Hou keeping sign is that it seems misplaced. In fact, Nice Guy Eddie could probably teach GE a thing or two about housekeeping.
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Here we are, as promised at Luka's first apartment house in New York. Possibly the most boring building of the entire blog. She went on to better things.
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Right next door is the unused former Public Bath, bringing a little architectural class to the block. But how about a little color?
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Okay, here's some. This is AAA Glass Plus. When I enlarged this photo, look what I found.
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This is the entrance to Tompkins Square Park, and if I read this correctly, this lady is a couple of moves away from a checkmate and is leaning back, enjoying the situation. Unless I'm wrong.
The link above is the official City Parks link, but you may prefer this New York Times article, which is about a walk taken in the East Village with Clayton Patterson, apparently a well-known documentarian of this area.
If you have no time to be following links, just know that this park hosts the Howl Festival, during which Wigstock has appeared, but not this year, and the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Keep these in mind for next year; they've come and gone this year.
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The two-week deadline is looming, so I'm going to have to ditch some photos. But first, this street scene with truck. You didn't think I'd do the whole East Village walk without a truck shot, did you?
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Although I consider myself a pretty brave eater, it's possible my standards for sushi are a little finicky. Funky is not what I'm after. But if you're young and fearless, you may agree with these reviewers. Among other things, they like the DJ and the sake bombs.
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Sometimes you just have to put a photo up and leave it at that.
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We have now come to Alphabet City, a subset of the East Village. It's obvious why it's called Alphabet City (Avenues A-D), but I have been trying to find out when it got its name, with no success. Anyone out there know?
Here's something that's bothered me forever. Why didn't they start the numbered avenues in the west and go east, instead of going from east to west? When you read a map, it's backwards. Why wouldn't you start the numbers at the left, the way we read? (AND of course, the Avenues A-D go west to east, the right way.)
This is Etherea, a small and well-regarded record store.
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