Folks Is Already Gatherin' in Anticipation of Ray's Spectacular 78th Birthday Burlesque Extravaganza , Monday Jan. 31 at 10:30 PM

... but Heraclitus Never Said that You Can't Step in the Same Pile of Dog Shit Twice

A Day Later In Tompkins Square Park

Ray's $4 "Aunt Jemima Breakfast for Tigers" with Egg ,Cheese and Choice of Ham ,Pastrami or Roast Beef and Any One of Ray's Many Special Sauces

The "Pee-Phone" in a Snow Storm

2 AM Thursday Morning in Tompkins Square Park

Red Tailed Hawk on Wing Among the Tree Tops of a SnowyTompkins Square Park

Two Guys From the Old Neighborhood Reunite at Ray's

Squirrel

Ray's $5 Roast Beef with Swiss on Toasted Rye

Sun and Tree

Ray's Aunt Jemima Beignets in Focus for Another Ray's Candy Store Documentary

Late Sunday Afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

Ray Raises Price of His Most Popular Aunt Jemima Beignets to Help Pay the Rent .

Avenue A Street Life

Scribblings

Saturday Night Amy Paints A Sign Advertising Ray's Aunt Jemima "Beignets"

Only at Ray's on Week End Nights : Amy's Aphrodisiac Brownies

Amy in Tompkins Square Park

Beer Swollen Bladder Voided Erratically on 4th Street Along Side the Calmer and More Elegant Salmon Paint Drip that Traces About Lower Manhattan

With Few Customers Friday Night , Ray Had Plenty of Time for YouTube Food Videos and Turkish Music

In Tompkins Square Park , Rat Tracks in the Snow Run from Rat Holes to Garbage Cans

Friday Afternoon at Crusty Row in Tompkins Square Park

Thursday Night Ray and Poet John Lesko Read Omar Khayyam Together

Thor-Grim ( Once Known as Biker Bill ) Says : " The Natural is Best , Natural Things ...Wear Your Snow Boots Tonight ... Build a House , Natural is Best"

Harry and Ray

Percocets Gone and It's Back to Booze for Avenue A Boy Wonder , L.E.S. Jewels

Tuesday Night on St. Marks Place

Grace Church Yard

Back in the Day When Ray Had Customers and Made Enough Money to Pay His Con Ed Bill and His Rent Too

A Man and His Rolls Royce on 4th Street

Key Food

Watching the Jets Between Fires

Cowboy Hoists What Remains of A Pint to Recently Deceased Caveman , Saturday Evening at Sophie's

Congratulations to Melanie for 2 Years of East Village Blogging

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L.E.S. Jewels Back From Hospital : "I Don't Have to Drink , I've Got 20 Percocets"

Wednesday Morning

Around Midnight in the East Village