The Stage follows in the footsteps of its across-the-avenue neighbor, B&H, and installs a new sign that looks a lot like the old sign. It loses something, but remains true to the original:
Before (from Kitty Kowalski's flickr)
After
Ludlow at night: "Groups of teetering girls in cocktail dresses, who may have gotten lost on their way to the meatpacking district, are also swarming... a playground for 22-year-olds." [NYT]
Remembering when the music on Saturday Night Live was dangerous. [SYFFL]
St. Mark's has a moment of wonder: "some strange guy putting some kind of geisha makeup on." [SG]
The Kupferberg memorial: "the kind of event that could make an upper-middle-class twenty-something who lives in a market-rate apartment nearby—for example, me—feel that maybe, even now, there still is something to the idea of the East Village." [Tablet]
Penis wars on the Fairey mural and icy wars on Ave A. [EVG] & [EVG]
Tapestries from a bygone Village weaving studio. [BAT]
Get your anti-BP shirts on Orchard. [BB]
St. Vincent's wall of goodbye notes gets washed in green paint...
...but the fence out front gains a Ghost Bike with a very angry note, "If less [fewer] hospitals equal more dead Wall St. thieves, the correction is good--F--you NYC! 2010":
I'm OK with the new Stage sign... it should look nice and worn in not time...
ReplyDelete"The Stage"? How long has that been there? Is it anything like B&H?
ReplyDeleteI don't like the new Stage sign at all. The 3D element of the word "RESTAURANT" has been eliminated, while "Stage" has clearly been written with a font and not a hand. Such is the bland, sterile, personality-stifling corporate design world we live in.
ReplyDeleteYou scared me with the Stage pics...thought they were the next institution to fall, but no! I have to say I don't mind the new sign - it's a fresher version of the old and may draw new customers who might otherwise think it's a dingy old place.
ReplyDeletehow long has the Stage been there? i'm not sure--a long time. anyone know? it is sort of like the B&H, physically deep and narrow, with diner food. but it serves meat, unlike the B&H.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure the Stage was there 33 years ago when I moved to SMP & 2nd Ave. There used to be another place like that up on 2nd Avenue near the movie theater - long, skinny, counter only.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the The Stage info. It must have opened after I moved out of the EV, and, sadly, I haven't been back much since.
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