The streets are a dead umbrella graveyard!
Photo via @KristinaLuca
March 13, 2010
March 11, 2010
Blockshopper: 51 Condo Sales in the East Village within Last Year. Median Price? $875K
According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 51 condo sales in East Village in the past 12 months, with a median sales price of $875,000.via manhattan.blockshopper.com
Ray made the front page of The Villager this week in a nice write-up on Monday’s event.
Thanks to Associate Editor Lincoln Anderson for the story, and more so for coming out and showing support.
We also appreciate the shout-outs for The Official “Save Ray’s” Clothing and Accessories Line!
Read the full story here.
Ray’s building to get a “facelift,” but will it be uplifting for business?
Ray came into work Monday to learn of facade repairs on the building that houses his store on Avenue A, which is meant to begin this week and last supposedly through the next five months or so.
While an aesthetic improvement to the exterior of one’s building might be welcome on most occasions, that the storefronts will now have to deal with scaffolding obstructing their entryways in the prime summer months in an already difficult environment for businesses in the area means they’re none too thrilled about the timing.
It’s not just Ray’s store that is affected, as his building has a rather large footprint. I can’t imagine Yuca Bar is too happy —- might scaffolding preclude them from setting up outdoor seating (see picture below)?
Again, not the best timing. Not the biggest nuisance, but it certainly can’t be good for business…which is the last thing Ray or his neighbors need right now.
Somebody fetch the shoe polish…we’re gonna need to make Ray a sign:
Photo: “I Assure You We’re Open!” sign from Clerks
March 10, 2010
You know it’s almost spring in New York when…
You know it’s almost spring in New York when you spot a dude in the East Village wearing a kilt and a tourist in Union Square in jorts.
Bring it on Mother Nature…I’m ready for more sun.
March 8, 2010
March 8, 2010 - EAST VILLAGE: Announcing The Official “Save Ray’s” Clothing and Accessories Line!
Launching today, there are over 50 items available —- from t-shirts, buttons, hats, and mugs, to, of course, thongs —- all featuring Conrad Oakey’s original logo design!
For children of all ages! On sale now, with 100% of the proceeds going to Ray!
Check out the shop here.
Show your support today and help Save Ray’s!
(P.S. - Spread the word!!!)
Follow the latest on Ray’s on Twitter:
And on Facebook:
You can also donate to Ray via a PayPal account that’s been set up, as well.
Be sure to check in on Foursquare when you go to let your friends know where y’at.
About Ray’s Candy Store:
Ray’s Candy Store has been a pivotal part of the Lower East Side for 30+ years.
He is being threatened with imminent eviction. The loss of Ray’s Candy Store would be a terrible blow to the neighborhood, but more importantly it would leave 77 year-old Ray Alvarez (who is in the midst of legal battles to get the Social Security he is entitled to) with no income.
To read the latest, go to http://neithermorenorless.blogspot.com
If Ray has touched your life, or even if he hasn’t, please donate whatever you can, however small, to help save his shop.
See also:
Benefit for Ray’s Candy Store: Tonight, Monday, March 8, 7:30 P.M. @ The Theater For The New City
Date: Monday, March 8, 2010
Time: 7:30 pm - 11 pm
Location: Theater For The New City
Street: 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th St.
City/Town: East Village, New York City
Ray’s Candy Store is the latest neighborhood business that is under threat of eviction due to escalating rent hikes. 77 year-old Ray Alvarez has had his store at 113 Avenue A for over thirty-five years. Now, he is in danger of losing his home because he’s finding it difficult to make the rent. His store personifies what used to be a real neighborhood place. All kinds of people from the elderly Ukrainians, the Puerto Ricans, the hippies, the punks, the yuppies and the hipsters, etc…all use Ray’s Candy Store for food, cigarettes, coffee and just to be downright neighborly. It’s one of the rare places in the city where all can gather and all can feel welcome. This benefit is in the old “rent party” tradition of raising money to help one of our own to stay where he belongs, to remain an essential part of the community.
Suggested donation of $15.00 sliding scale from $5 to $15 (feel free to donate more if you can afford it…).
Show Schedule
7:30 D.J. DiDi of the Brazilian Girls
7:45 Ms. Marilyn singing her smash hit “My Man Ray!”
8:00 Rev. Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir
8:20 Janine Otis
8:35 Joff Wilson of the Bowery Boys
8:50 Marni Rice
9:05 Blind Boy Paxtion
9:30 East River String Band
10:00 The Bill Murray Experience
10:30 D.J. Didi
11:00 End of Show
Promises to be a wonderful evening.
Come one, come all!
Can’t make it?
You can donate via PayPal here. Just send to saverayscandystore@gmail.com
Thanks in advance goes out to organizers Barbara Robin Lee and Francisco Valera.
Full event details and RSVP here.
For more info on the “Save Ray’s” movement, visit the “Save Ray’s” Facebook page or Bob Arihood’s Neither More Nor Less blog for the latest news.
(Original “Save Ray’s” logo design by Conrad Oakey).
Today in 1968, Famed Concert Venue, Fillmore East, opened on 6th St & 2nd Ave. It closed on June 27, 1971.
Fillmore East was entertainment promoter Bill Graham’s late 1960s – early 1970s rock palace in the East Village area of the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.via en.wikipedia.org
