At least two readers took Time Out NY to task for loading its "Has Manhattan Lost Its Soul" issue with luxury condo and chain-store ads. Asks one reader, "Why couldn't this issue also be devoted to the advertising of small businesses? Just one measly issue offering reduced-rate full-page ads for some of our good ol' homegrown New York entrepreneurs. For shame, TONY." This is an excellent suggestion, especially now that we know, from her passionate words at the Lost Soul MAS talk, that TONY president Alison Tocci longs for a city filled with thriving small businesses. Alison, are you listening?
A dream come true? New York considers a law against standing around like an idiot and gawking while blocking traffic on the sidewalks. I've got a few more suggestions for pedestrian behavior. [City Room]
Hooray for one mom who had this to say about uptight Village parents protesting the S/M leather fair this weekend: "This is the West Village. It's been like this for decades...Now all these families moving in trying to pretend it's the suburbs. If the culture of the West Village bugs them then move to New Jersey." Amen! [AMNY]
Take a tour of the Masonic Hall--anytime. [Blog Chelsea]
MAS sums up the press they got on their Jane Jacobs NY Soul discussion, including this blog's take, among many others. [MAS]
This guy is covering the vanishing downtown scene in his blog. It's good to see more people working to preserve our vanishing city--even if it's only in cyberspace. So give him a visit. [Flaming Pablum]
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- Jeremiah Moss
- THE BOOK:
"We should all buy Jeremiah Moss’s book, Vanishing New York." --Sarah Jessica Parker
“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and cheap pierogi.” --Vanity Fair
"a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus Reviews
THE BLOG:
"the go-to hub for those who lament New York's loss of character." --Crain's
"No one takes stock of New York's changes with the same mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit as Jeremiah Moss." --Village Voice, Best of NY
“Jeremiah Moss…is the defender of all the undistinguished hunks of masonry that lend the streets their rhythm.” --Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
"One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification." --The Atlantic, Citylab
"Hyperbolic and combative, tireless and passionate." --Salon
Cheers back'atcha, Jeremiah! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteSorry, Jere, gotta agree with commenter #22, Erin, in the City Room piece about sidewalk stopping. In Rude-y's first term, his fascist proclivities reached the point where I predicted he would next try to tell us when and where to walk. Sure enough, his first piece of business in term 2 was the pedestrian "restraint" railing on Fifth and Sixth Avenue. We need more unfettered movement in a city where every square inch is being turned into an exclusive corporate space for advertising and commodification, with the rest of us not wearing our passes. Free people have the right to stop and gawk, and free Noo Yawkers have the right to tell them to fuck off!
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