{"id":859765,"date":"2026-09-25T04:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:16:12","slug":"ev-grieve-revisiting-out-and-about-in-the-east-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859765\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Revisiting Out and About in the East Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjSt03skd25j1GxQ7FhRN3I3RmLht7zSegROHVx8O2UVIc7rAaa5g5PfBJg159dAFzEEW0DcAf1_-hLiIuP7TxtRkZWeNXrcjPV6FPSG6fD08INul83AHwPB1f3uNraWZbCMyRYoyqNcmwfxFZ5Uihhk6bXY8J4e723aOMqzUhx68T2WmWCKDb9DB_3PsQ\/s2965\/oaa.png\" 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\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oaa.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2012 to 2017, East Village-based photographer James Maher contributed one of our favorite recurring EVG features: &#8220;Out and About in the East Village.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearly every week, James headed out with his camera, stopped someone who lived or worked in the neighborhood and asked about their life and the East Village.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 interviews later, the series became something of an oral history of the neighborhood, with residents recalling everything from the burned-out buildings and cheap rents of the 1970s and 1980s to the squats, artists, small businesses and community activism \u2014 and the changes brought by rising rents and gentrification.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also some Maher family history in the mix: His great-grandparents settled on Fifth Street between A and B in 1899, and his mother was raised at 507 E. Fifth St., above the space that&#8217;s now Sophie&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can spend quite a bit of time going down this particular East Village rabbit hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From 2012 to 2017, East Village-based photographer James Maher contributed one of our favorite recurring EVG features: &#8220;Out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-859765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}