Obama is reading Richard Price's LES novel, Lush Life. [Slate]
Standard Hotel promises to do their best to stop the free nudie show. That should be interesting. Will they use nude-detecting cops on the High Line? [Curbed]
For the love of a Red Hook slaughterhouse. [Eater]
"...if Manhattan gets to have shitty overpriced bars with obnoxious, inconsiderate patrons and their friends from Boston, well goddamn it LIC residents should have the same rights." [NYCB]
Guss' pickles get porny with Heeb. [Grub]
Lucy's fans get sad when their favorite bar goes on vacation. [EVG]
Yet another beating on 7th Street. [NMNL]
The New Yorker's Nick Paumgarten writes and talks about Governors Island. [GIB]
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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
Maybe that guy should have hit one of them with his beer bottles.
ReplyDeleteHe looks like Axel from 1991 Sega's Streets of Rage video game.