As you get all pumped up for this weekend's blog-tacular New York Lost conference, here's me and Grieve in conversation with its organizer, Bryan Waterman. [P&W]
Chumley's is rising from the dead--looking for liquor license. [Eater]
Uncovering a once-opulent theater inside an Avenue A bodega. [EVG]
Miss Heather tells it: How the Post poaches from blogs. [SJ]
Broke kids gear up to drink beer and watch circus acts at a Fuck the Recession party.
Jane Hotel says it's just a bunch of well-connected rich people who want them out. Yes, and don't forget the people who started the fire. [NYP]
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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
The store that is on the site of the former theater isn't a bodega. A rather large greengrocer/market.
ReplyDeleteGreat interview. Just one thing.
ReplyDeleteSTOP WITH THE PINK SHIRTS ALREADY. I wear pink shirts, I LOVE PINK SHIRTS, if you disparage them again I will hunt you down and make you wear all of my pink shirts simultaneously like some Barbie-themed layer cake at a sweet sixteen bash.
Don't hate the shirt, hate the playa.
That comment applies to Grieve as well, I'M WATCHING YOU TOO.
ReplyDeleteGrieve's the main pink-shirt guy. i just sing back-up on that one.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest Blog poachers are the AM and METRO New York papers. Bunch of rip of artists.
ReplyDeleteOk, have your damn pink shirts. But You GET NO PASS for those sandals.
ReplyDeleteI will condemn you for eternity for wearing sandals around the city.
What would Frank Sinatra be saying
about people in Manhattan wearing Sandals? or any other borough.
Disgrazia
OK, the pink shirts are awful but WTF at all this sandal hating lately? I just think "sandal" is too vague a descriptor to be a signifier of douchiness. There are Teva sandals on hippies, gladiator sandals on fashion-y types, jeweled sandals on the girlfriends of pink-shirted assholes ... I mean, ALL these people can't be douches.
ReplyDeleteContrary to the repeated comments from anon, there's good precedent for sandal wearing and sandal hating in NY history:
ReplyDeleteSandals were a big deal in the Village during the folk scene, esp hand-made.
Dylan most famously warned people away from wearing them, though, in Subterranean Homesick Blues. He was probably sick of all the posers cruising the Square in their new pair of sandals looking for the scene.
For what it's worth.
thanks for the bit of history, bryan. maybe one day, the pink-shirt controversy will make it into the books.
ReplyDeleteas for sandals, for me it comes down to a hygiene hazard. the sidewalks are covered with feces, urine, puke, and jagged bits of junk. i don't want my feet in that.
One of the reasons why I quit blogging (or more like "tumbling"), was that I could never go up to par with you and Grieve; I was mostly just copying and pasting your and Grieve's posts, and news/articles about NYC. I could never find my own voice. Also, I felt like a hypocrite railing on some of the places and people that have gentrified EV or NYC, yet I find myself going to those places with those newbies -- the gentrifiers.
ReplyDeleteAnyway great interview. Am surprised that you nor Grieve are not in the panel for Saturday. Would have like to see the men behind those blogs.
P.S. I also wear pink shirts, now and then.
ReplyDeletethanks esquared. you know, who's not hypocritical, or contradictory, here and there? this stuff is complicated and i am no absolutist. the main thing is to be conscious, to be aware, to think critically, and examine this stuff. i think, basically, that's all i'm trying to do here.
ReplyDeleteit can even be done in a pink shirt. (not that i have one, or anything.)
Sandals? I'd rather have my feet amputated.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to the blogging panel. There's a definite camaraderie amongst bloggers, though many have "met" only online. That much was clear to me from hearing people speak at the Memorial for Gowanus Lounge's Bob Guskind last March.
ReplyDeleteWill we see you there JM? More to the point, will we recognize you when we see you there?
i'll be the one in the burka.
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