The Yanomami Struggle art exhibition showing at the shed through April 16.
Indigenous people to the Amazon rainforest.
The Yanomami Struggle is showing at The Shed through April 16. The NYT has written about it. The Yanomami People a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in villages in the Amazon rainforest, and Claudia Andujar is a renowned photographer. The exhibition shows Andujar’s photographs of the Yanomami and native Yanomami art pieces collected by Andujar over five decades.
The purpose is to show a vision of Yanomami culture, society, and visual art. It looks like tickets are $10 and include a tour.
Are we getting a boutique wine shop on 28th & 10th?
Sign spotted on the Death Ave window.
Based solely on this fancy sign posted on the Death Ave window, we may be getting a “boutique wine shop” on the corner of 28th & 10th. Let me know if anyone has information on this that we can share with the block.
Sex and the City reboot filming on our block on February 13.
“And Just Like That” on HBO Max.
“And Just Like That,” the reboot to Sex and the City, is filming on our block on February 13 (sources say that “NCP” is the code name for the reboot). It is in its second season on HBO Max. Filming as usual at an extremely early time in the morning.
Hudson Loud opens on 28th & 10th.
Weed shop opens on our block.
A smoke shop called “Hudson Loud” opened a little while ago on the corner of 28th & 10th, right next to Death Ave (where Luke’s Lobster used to be). By smoke shop I mean that it sells marijuana and CBD things like bongs, pipes, gummies, etc. The first legal marijuana dispensary opened in NYC in December 2022, and so I believe that this is one of the many less-than-sanctioned shops that popped up around the city since the state legalized marijuana in March 2021.
New staircase to the High Line under construction.
Did we need a new staircase?
We are getting a new staircase up to the High Line on the southwest corner of 28th & 10th, right where Il Piccolo’s heated patio used to be.
I suppose the problem with living on a block for too long is that you start becoming resistant to change, so my feeling on the new staircase must be evidence that I’ve been here for too long. Sure our existing staircase to the High Line (top right) looks a little like the entrance to a dungeon, but that’s our entrance to a dungeon!
The signs posted outside say that construction is anticipated to be complete by this Spring, but that strikes me as extremely ambitious. It’s also not clear to me what is going behind the brick wall in the rendering, but I will update here to the extent I find out more.
Il Piccolo on 28th & 10th closed last week.
End of an era.
Il Piccolo closed last week after many years—at least four based on how many years I’ve been on the block. This sucks because Il Piccolo used to be an incredible space with a heated outdoor patio that stayed open throughout lockdown. The food was good too, and while I wouldn’t make spending $20 on avocado toast (Il Piccolo called it “Avocado w/ No Breaks”) a regular thing, I highly enjoyed making it an irregular thing. This place will be missed.
“Billions” filming on our block on Friday, February 3.
Billions comes back to the block.
Billions season 7 is filming on our block on Friday, February 3. They’ve shot on our block before, and those long trucks you seeing parked on the block (top right) are basically the actors’ dressing rooms.
A lot of the time they label the individual doors on the trucks by the names of the characters (Bobby, Taylor, Chuck, etc.—for those who watch the show), so you can whether your favorite actor is going to be on our block on Friday.
Hot Girls Against Dicktators?
Hard to argue with them, I suppose.
So this sticker is stuck on the fencepost on the southwest side of 29th Street and 10th Avenue. Hard to argue with the concept on a superficial level—hot girls against dic[k]tators.
Evidently the website is some sort of fundraiser to raise awareness about an armed conflict that broke out near Armenia in 2020. Well, hot girls against dicktators, consider at least one person on the block moderately more aware of this issue.
Dog food truck!
Outside the dog park on 23rd & 11th.
So evidently there are such things as dog food trucks, and I know this because I saw one a few days ago outside of the dog park on 23rd & 11th. The truck is called the “Woofbowl Fast Food Truck,” and you can read about it here. Only in New York.