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Jewels memorial in Tompkins Square Park

September 23, 2013 3 Comments

Friends of Joel Pakela gathered for a HOWL at Tompkins Square Park / Memorial for L.E.S. Jewels in his honor on Friday evening. Pakela, a well-kn0wn East Village crusty punk who went by L.E.S. Jewels, died a week earlier after being found on the sidewalk on Avenue A across from the park, smelling of read more here »

Mick Jones rocks new Joe Strummer mural

September 20, 2013 2 Comments

Mick Jones of The Clash helped dedicate the newly painted mural to his former band mate Joe Strummer at E. Seventh St. and Avenue A on Thursday evening. As a crowd of a few hundred looked on, the mural was unveiled to cheers. After a quick pose in front of the mural for everyone’s read more here »

Cooper Union panel will look inside the surveillance culture

September 20, 2013 No Comment

With surveillance the hot topic due to recent news stories about the N.S.A., East Village Internet pioneer Paul Garrin will be moderating a free panel discussion on “Ethics, Law and Surveillance Culture,” at Cooper Union’s Great Hall, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., on Mon., Sept. 23. The press release for the event is below: read more here »

Music, puppets, yoga and more at second annual LUNGS gardens festival

September 20, 2013 No Comment

LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) is holding its second annual Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens at the end of the month. LUNGS was founded in spring 2012 by longtime East Village resident and gardener Charles Krezell, who is associated with De Colores Garden on E. Eighth St. Within months, he united most area gardens read more here »

‘Mosaic Man’ will show how it’s done at garden workshop

September 20, 2013 No Comment

On Sun., Sept. 29, at 6 and B Garden, at E. Sixth St. and Avenue B, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Jim Power, the East Village’s “Mosaic Man,” will be holding a mosaic workshop and also creating a special sign for the garden. “I’ll do the ‘6 and B,’ and everyone else can read more here »

L.E.S. Jewels, godfather of crusties, is dead at 43

September 19, 2013 14 Comments

BY GERARD FLYNN AND LINCOLN ANDERSON | Joel Pakela, a.k.a. L.E.S. Jewels, was the leader of sorts of the East Village’s homeless crusty punks, which he liked to call the “gutter pirates.” Last Friday night, Jewels, 43, was found by Ninth Precinct police on Avenue A across from the park, “smelling of alcohol.” Suffering from unspecified “health read more here »

More photos from the L.E.S. Jewels memorial on Avenue A

September 19, 2013 1 Comment

The memorial to L.E.S Jewels, at Ninth St. and Avenue A at the entrance to Tompkins Square Park, drew a steady stream of mourners and onlookers on Sunday. But the memorial somehow got a bit chaotic and messed up at some point, according to Kaos, Jewels’s good friend, who was trying to put it back read more here »

Quinn and Gottfried shoot down Kurland’s claims about hospital

September 12, 2013 4 Comments

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED SEPT. 9, 2013 | BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Christine Quinn and Assemblymember Richard Gottfried recently each accused City Council candidate Yetta Kurland of lying by saying she forced the state Department of Health, through a lawsuit Kurland filed, to admit it must provide a hospital at the site of the former St. Vincent’s read more here »

VIDEO: Councilmember Margaret Chin election night victory speech

September 12, 2013 1 Comment

de Blasio ‘embraces’ lobbyist for Rudin condos at St. Vincent’s site

September 9, 2013 2 Comments

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio recently slammed his rival Christine Quinn over the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital within her City Council district three years ago, charging that she didn’t do enough to save the historic hospital. But now, as seen in this exclusive photo for The Villager, de Blasio has read more here »