It's Friday and that generally means that I take the easy route and highlight a bunch of links to items around the web that caught my eye (y'know, in lieu of composing something original of my own). But what can I say? It's been a busy week. Anyway, please enjoy…
First up, Greenwich Village Daily Photo looks at the storied legacy of Pier 54 (that's my picture of same above). It may look like a fairly innocuous stretch of rotting concrete, but it's got quite a back story.
Next up, you may remember my heartstring-plucking reminiscence about Bleeker Street's Pizza Box of a while back. Well, breathe easy – Pizza Box is still there, but that `hood is up in arms about a newly proposed high-rise that's supposedly going to be erected in the neighboring vacant lot (which used to play host to a great, sneaker shop). Learn the whole saga here.
EV Grieve revives the age old debate about whether the East Village should be considered part of the Lower East Side.
A little further up and cross town, it seems the Empire Diner is the latest Manhattan institution in trouble.
On the music front, Bowery Boogie handily exhumes Metallica's fabled Lower East Side photo shoot.
Glen E. Friedman remembers Cheech & Chong.
Nick Rombes shares his favorite Theoretical Girls song with everyone.
And "The Death & Resurrection Show," the long-in-the-making documentary about Killing Joke now has its own Facebook page and just uploaded a lovely collection of stills and captured images from the film.
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