The must-see Save Coney! video is here.
Saw this one coming from a mile away: Marc Jacobs grabs the lovely Biography Bookshop space. Luckily, the shop is staying in the Village. [Racked]
Gowanus saved from Whole-Foodization. [Gothamist]
In NYC Prep: "The city is a capitalist hell, with mood lighting, frenetic shopping, and '18-year-old girls who cry when they lose their eyeliner'... a symbol of spiritual emptiness, an island of lost souls, almost submerged in colorful cocktails. And much of America wants to laugh at New Yorkers suffering for their sins." [NYM]
Peering into a Village garrett and recalling when "residents were relics...of an earlier West Village populated with artists and marginally employed eccentrics," instead of people who work for Barneys corporate. [NYT]
Another homeless person beaten by young males off Tompkins Square Park. [NMNL]
Check out The Hermit--an ode to EV eccentric Edgar Oliver--at the Hot Festival.
North Brother Island--it's for the birds. [13]
Discover "gangsters, murderers, and weirdos" of the LES. [GNY]
Duane Reade changing their slogan from the too-true "Everywhere you go" to "Your city. Your drugstore." [NYT]
New York correspondent Simon Houpt says "Goodbye to All This" and returns to Canada. [G&M]
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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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