Enjoy a payphone tour of Third Avenue with Anna Jane Grossman. [Obsolete]
Brilliant: Get your souvenir miniature of the recession's failed glass towers. Boym also makes "Buildings of Disaster." [Curbed]
Revisiting the Times' "Rooms" of the city. [NYT]
St. Marks' newest burger joint goes up for beer license Monday--but they're already selling beer. [EVG]
"Downtown is dead," says Alex... [FP]
...but it lives on in the new film Downtown Calling, a look at NYC from 1977-1985. [Stupefaction]
Looking forward to the Cambridge Companion to the literature of NYC. [P&W]
A particularly icky NYC Rhymology. [NYCR]
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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
I like the Madonna artwork.
ReplyDeletei don't like Madonna, but I like Downtown Calling. Okay, "Vogue" was pretty great.
ReplyDeleteI used to like "Vogue" until I saw "Paris is Burning," which basically exposed Madonna as less of a chameleon and more of an appropriator.
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