Longtime neighborhood chronicler, Bob Arihood, is remembered by friends at a small gathering outside Ray’s Candy Store.

(via BoweryBoogie)

Photo: Ray holds up the Daily News cover featuring Milton Glaser’s “I ♥ NY More Than Ever” design, a twist on his iconic logo revealed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Glaser updated his design by adding a smudge to the lower corner of the heart and the words ‘more than ever’. 

From an interview with Glaser at DesignBoom:

‘I love NY more than ever’, why a a variation of the icon?

The only subtlety is the wound, which is located on the lower ‘west side’ of the heart. The shaded portion represented the very area in lower manhattan where the once proud world trade center twin towers stood until a pair of hijacked passenger jets slammed into them. Showing a wounded heart is important. To attain healing, the first thing one must do is to acknowledge that there’s pain. Unfortunately the department of commerce seemed tepid to adopt this creation. That’s why I sent the new logo to the ‘New York Daily News’, which lost no time reproducing it and using it to wrap the newspaper. Close to a million copies of the logo circulated around the city, turning up on windows, lampposts and subway walls.

Read the rest of the interview here.

(Originally posted at 8:46 AM, September 11, 2010.)

rhymeswithtongue:

There are two things you can always count on in the East Village: teenagers lined up on Saint Mark’s to buy “tobacco” pipes, and Ray’s Candy Store open to fry up beignets to satiate your late night munchies. Even though evacuation zone B is only two blocks away, Ray’s stayed true to his word: 

@RaysCandyStore: Been open 24/7/365 for 37 years. Will take more than what #Irene was laying down to close these doors!!! Come stop by! #evbizopen

Thank you for your faithful service all these years, Ray!

OM NOM NOM!!!

Previously on the venerable Ray’s Candy Store

rachaelpie:

neighborhoodr-eastvillage:

Everything is Made With Love at Ray’s Candy Store

— via Lindsay at Single Linds Reflex

Previously on Ray’s Candy Store

I remember Ray’s, I was too short to see past the counter so I would always stand on the ledge and even then I was on my tip-toes.

I always like hearing rachelpie’s musings from when she was a youngin’ in the neighborhood…

Snapped this a few weeks ago at Ray’s. For you:

Photo: The next generation at Ray’s!

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Arthur (1981)

Tonight at sundown.

Part of the Summer Movie Series at Tompkins Square Park.

Remaining schedule of films:

Aug. 4 — Pope of Greenwich Village

Aug. 11 — Kickass

Aug. 18 — Rosemary’s Baby

Aug. 25 — The Godfather 

Sept. 1 — Stake Land

More info at http://filmsintompkins.com

Stop by Ray’s for some snacks beforehand.

He got an ‘A’ on his DOH inspection.

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Everything is Made With Love at Ray’s Candy Store

— via Lindsay at Single Linds Reflex

Previously on Ray’s Candy Store

aversecontrol:

Fried oreos. Way too close for comfort.

At Led Zeppole

328 East 14th Street between 1st and 2nd

New York, NY 10003

On Twitter @ledzeppolenyc

Carnie chic — the latest craze sweeping across the East Village!

And as per Twitter, Ray is selling fried oreos now, too, to go along with his beignets.

Try ‘em both today at Ray’s Candy Store

113 Avenue A

New York, NY 10009