New subways: Now complete with hall monitors. [NYT]
Coney's Astroland is vanishing as we speak. Don't look. [GL]
Status-seeking parents already lining up to shell out $1500 for a big Marc Jacobs stroller. Do not get in their way. [Racked]
The fate of shoeshine men in the big, sinking city. [NYT]
The latest blow to New York's "romantic urban neuroticism." [RS]
Another well-argued case against Bloomberg's way--to take home with you over the holidays and convince your family to vote him out. [EVG]
Flow on down the Flushing. River, that is. [FNY]
How Duane Reade serves our city as a Memento Mori, a reminder that all must die. [GVDP]
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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
Good links. Regarding Bloomberg - We have a year to shift the public's opinion of him as someone who has "saved" the city, to someone who does not understand 85% of that city. A sort of out-in-the-open whispering campaign is needed now; we don't have until next election to wait. My opinion, anyway.
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