{"id":312227,"date":"2026-08-03T04:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:12:24","slug":"ev-grieve-rush-hour-on-2nd-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312227\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Rush hour on 2nd Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhx5saYrcJ3dQTUhn1SHxZSbhHYfor77Kj8kPoEw7ra8drv4Fx4jWAFCpEd1lLRldrqgNb5Yos8ctox0sbtdetY74FzOr5bxFhXRlOI0Jn2UlYRuryW9-jWg4HLfyq3RuZ7uCAxm7g7MMDW58rm4K59GWH882aoy_uTRF97pQ9P1K63GmD_zEWRp9Sf0p4\/s2272\/viruswalk_8-1-26_r_w_071.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/viruswalk_8-1-26_r_w_071.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Stacie Joy<\/p>\n<p>During Rush&#8217;s 50th anniversary four-night residency at Madison Square Garden, fans can also pick up merchandise at a temporary pop-up shop at 20 E. Second St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the former Karma gallery space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shop is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We stopped by this morning to check out the fans &#8230; and found a line stretching back (and across) the Bowery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiAQ8DdW9BSNKIcf6L3wN4bKHqW0IWPpSjb220W8mfTC7PQOXCQd7Ya5Fpg3NclbDa7hMh_iUoKD9Ude7B25Lca6S_Z1tw49uTysSNWH85iBH5EA0SCK_zGIQxiPoXMQ9o-khkF7hCOEiAfqOvGTSv62bF-elnaaAsmnO59Db6VBHzgTyvTGmKuKDkQNyQ\/s2272\/viruswalk_8-1-26_r_w_117.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/viruswalk_8-1-26_r_w_117.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many already had tickets for one (or more) of the band&#8217;s Garden shows but still wanted to stop by the pop-up to browse the merch and soak up the atmosphere.\u00a0The crowd reflected Rush&#8217;s broad appeal across generations. One mother-daughter pair complimented us for including &#8220;multigenerational female Rush fans&#8221; &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9I-Rcv-bVL5IGG-JaHoeWi8JDSL53_50EhlmNxJ2uZdNSYnFHZWvssEFZE9E_CaLJRA5lCE_BpyPGpyB_YqHly5TbJ5Fl3CT1PtBunOqJOA2UwE0uh3kRHDa1wqcpJRAkAFS2aGA2pi1LxRGWXnG49rEEB2Gal6J-WcimGR5jbALRNoFP3yR69ktzXl0\/s1704\/viruswalk_8-1-26_r_w_105.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/viruswalk_8-1-26_r_w_105.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans were eager to show off their purchases, which ranged from T-shirts, hats and books to baby onesies. A zip-up hoodie drew admiring looks \u2014 and some sticker shock \u2014 with a $100 price tag.<\/p>\n<p>The mood throughout the day was upbeat, with plenty of conversations about favorite albums, past tours and plans for the weekend shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Stacie Joy During Rush&#8217;s 50th anniversary four-night residency at Madison Square Garden, fans can also pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}