obviously the real story here is, "who is gavin degraw?"

That pic... Does he have a sore in his mouth or something?

A great number of the comments made here are quite sick to say the least.

THIS IS NOT THE FUCKING EAST VILLAGE YOU DUMBASSES!!  Clearly this happened in the very problematic Lower East Side...which has been taken over by hoodrats and underaged punk mother fuckers from NJ!! Shit, they probably followed his drunk ass out of his bar, The National Underground, in where else.....the LOWER EAST SIDE....

Damn, NYC is changing for the worst because of stupid and poor idiots.

1st Avenue and 5th Street is very much the East Village. Most people these days consider the Lower East Side to be everything below Houston from the Bowery eastward.In any case, the LES is *hardly* problematic, and the NJ problem you refer to seems to be more symptomatic of the West Village, near the PATH train stations.  

- from a 5 year resident of the East Village and a 5 year resident of the LES

LOL @ NYC trying to blame it on New Jersey.
"The Greatest City In The World"?
I fondly remember when the gay guy got beat up outside of McDonald's in The Village & all of you were on here screaming about how it must, must be one of those assholes from NJ. Alas, the actor was from....................... Brooklyn. Get the fuck out of here.

A more detailed account...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes....

I'm trying to follow you.

Are you saying they followed him from his bar and beat him up on 1st ave and 5th?  Or are you saying they beat him up elsewhere and he doesn't exactly remember where, and is just guessing at 1st and 5th?  Because if it's the former, then that's considered the East Village, no?

And the idiots you refer to, are you speaking of drunks like Gavin or the dudes he says put the beat on him?

Maybe he should hump (er I mean convince) Ryan Murphy into putting his music on Glee so that he can get exposure to a wider audience.

Had this dude had a 9-5 job like I do, he wouldn't have been out at 4am on a Monday morning. Another rich guy getting beat up, who cares?

You don't say? I'm glad you're finally pointing out the fact that famous people get attention others don't get. This is really something nobody has pointed out before. Thanks for teaching us something new today!

No thank you for keeping me in check. Glad I have you to keep me grounded and put everything in perspective.

It actually had nothing to do with famous people getting attention, mostly that I don't care about people who have it made while I have to slave at work and bills to pay. Whether they be famous or not.

chancho2000 doesn't care.

*writes this in the gothamist logs*

"It actually had nothing to do with famous people getting attention, mostly that I don't care about people who have it made while I have to slave at work and bills to pay. Whether they be famous or not."

I see. But yet here you are crying about one of those people.

That is a half block from the ninth precinct. Amazing.

These violent crimes against homosexuals really need to be stopped.

At least he might rustle up some royalties from this tussle.

He walked 15 blocks at 4am after a brutal beating? It can be hard to get a cab at 4am on a Sunday. That's the entire East Village, though.

even famous ppl get beat up when drunk wandering around at 4AM - wow shocker

Feel bad for the guy, even if he's sporting his skully in 90+ degree weather.