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).
