Bob Arihood, a photographer who ran the essential East Village blog Neither More Nor Less for five years, reportedly died of a heart attack in his East 4th Street home. According to EV Grieve, a makeshift memorial of candles and flowers now sits at Ray's Candy Shop, one of his favorite haunts.
EV Grieve best explains why Arihood was crucial in documenting the ever-evolving East Village:
For the past five years, Bob chronicled the comings and goings of the East Village on Neither More Nor Less. His site was essential viewing every day. He seemed to deem himself a social scientist more than a journalist at times. His work was invaluable for showing the changes in the East Village, starting with the eviction of Jim Power and others from 120 St. Marks's Place.
The neighborhood was better off with his reporting, because no one else did what he did. Documenting 3 a.m. fistfights on Avenue A. Police searches in Tompkins Square Park. Comings and goings on Crusty Row. He captured the absurd, the ugly, the every day that makes the vanishing East Village unique.
