Last typos of 2010

Spotted today, that “spcial mancure” to finish the year in style…

and this  – Tats Cru‘s mural – has no typos:

Happy New Year!

East Village thawing, ever so slowly

Clean-up effort on Monday…

… but still so much to do on Tuesday.

Pretty cold

December 26, 2010 in the Lower East Side

My favorite typo of the week

… and yes, it’s only Monday, but one has to find some levity in a moment when local “institutions” in the East Village are disappearing one after the other… This note, at “Elephant”, the Thai/French bar-restaurant on E 1st, thanking its “costumers”.

Fancy that: it will be reincarnated as an Italian resto-bar, courtesy of the people who transformed sorely missed Baraza into The Summit Bar, a “playground”, as the owner aptly describes it.

Other “institutions” that will not see 2011: Max Fish and Pink Pony, on Ludlow Street, both rumored to be closing down by December 31. And then there is the uncertain fate of Mars Bar, a symbolic loss for the good ol’/bad East Village. But hohoho, the murals keep on being topical:

Update: January 28 – Max Fish and Pink Pony have negotiated a one-year extension of their leases, and Mars Bar still offers its unique “day care for drunks”.