If you thought those SATC fanatics were a nightmare, just wait. The Gossip Girls are about to take over your neighborhood. [Curbed]
An interview with Reverend Billy (for Mayor): "The people we think of as our leaders, the Charlie Parkers and the Allen Ginsbergs and the Zora Neale Hurstons and the people we think of as having created this amazing city... You look at their lives, they were bouyed up by their neighborhoods. And their neighborhoods have been allowed to die. Now we have silent neighborhoods where you can't live for less than $200,000 a year and there's no culture at all." [RS]
Made in New York: bath fixtures. [CR]
The Olympic Restaurant--where the EMTs eat. [EVG]
Letting it all hang out high-end style--put an ASS CHAIR in your condo. [Restless]
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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
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