Local Group Sues Landmarks Commission
By Reid Pillifant
Archives for May 2009
The Morning Photo + Links
Photo: Guy Eppel
A smaller Starbucks explosion in Greenpoint [G’point Gazette]
The NYT’s City Room blog checks in at a W’burg bike shop [City Room]
Post-Memorial Day Morning Links + Photo
Photo: Fancy Lad
A wonderful annotated take-down of the press release for 44 Berry. [Brooklyn11211]
Zagat says Fette Sau is Number 1 in New York barbecue. [NY1]
The Great Out Doors: Street Art with Billi Kid and Luna Park
Graffiti as a form of public art can often be more eye opening than viewing artwork in a gallery. The unpredictability and displacement can surprise a passerby, provoking a reaction from revelation to revulsion. As a medium for street art, the door functions as a frame to enclose an image, but a show at Artbreak Gallery at 195 Grand Street in Williamsburg shows the door can be much more than that when it’s brought inside.
Street artist Billi Kid and street art photographer Luna Park curated the show, comprised of 27 doors by celebrated street artists. The artists used their doors as a canvas, executing artwork without worrying about the usual hindrances street artists encounter when they pour out their inspiration onto a public surface.
Yassy Goldie’s “GYJD” is loud and vulgar in its gold patent and pink leopard print recalling teenage splendor while questionably deconstructing and revealing stereotypes and cultural stigmas. The artist states “GJYD is a moke and mirror illusion that can change people’s perceptions and make them realize that most of their reality is smoke and mirrors.”
Grandma Rose’s Barely Ever Closes
When I saw the pizza ovens in the window and the sign saying “Grandma Rose’s,” I let out a yelp of joy. We’re going to have to rename Graham Avenue Pizzeria Row. John Ricco, the man bringing us Rose’s, hopes to open in about three weeks. And he plans to stay open late. Rose’s won’t close until 11pm Monday through Wednesday, 1am on Thursdays, and until the just-pre-dawn hour of 5am on Friday and Saturday nights — a godsend for those off the Graham L stop who have ever been plagued with post-party hunger.
Ricco, who has lived in Williamsburg all his life, decided to open up Grandma Rose’s in the space formerly housing the law firm of Crudo Crudo & Russo, after leaving his position as a stock broker at Bear Stearns in 2008.
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