Is aspirational shopping finally dead? [NY Times]
Sophie's Bar, "the last peg of a dying neighborhood," is up for sale and here's another inside scoop. [Villager]
Is Florent, the original Meatpacking pioneer, the Queen of the neighborhood since 1985, really to close? Not without a fight. [Eater]
The Wackness may be the first movie to wax nostalgic for New York in the 1990s: "To transform the city to its less gentrified self, the filmmakers threw more garbage on the street, sprayed some more graffiti, painted a mural to Kurt Cobain and obtained a 'Forrest Gump' bus poster. 'There was this unspoken-of good will toward the time,' said Mr. Levine, who was in production the film earlier this week. 'Is the New York of today, which has a Starbucks on every corner, better than pre-1994?' He was proud of the fact that 'It’s one of the first movies to fetishize the 1990s.'" Oh, and it stars Mary-Kate Olsen, too. [City Room]
More college kids to come bulldozing New York neighborhoods. [AMNY]
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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
"Colleges and universities are forecasting unprecedented growth in the coming years."
ReplyDeleteNasdaq.
Housing.
Wall Street jobs.
Forecasts are just that. Considering how many of these 4-year alcohol binges were financed by the extraction of home equity, I'll short that forecast if someone securitizes it.
Painted a mural of Kurt Cobain? What a fuckin' crock. THIS IS NYC, NOT SEATTLE.
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Word is that the sale of Sophie's/Mona's happened this past week...and it's good news...the bar is staying in the family (read The Villager article and you'll know what I mean...)
ReplyDeletethat is good news, re: sophie's and mona's. does this mean bob's brother bought the places?
ReplyDeleteYes, this is my understanding -- Bob's brother Rich and a partner...
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