Please, please, please don't let those Waverly/Beatrice types take over the wonderful Fedora restaurant. [Eater]
Miracle: A used bookstore is coming to Avenue A. [EVG]
If everyone obeyed the (unwritten until now) sidewalk rule of "Stay to the right," the city would be a better place. [BB]
Steve Stollman's automats, moved from Houston St., are being pushed out of Harlem. [NYT]
When German McDonald's makes cupcakes about New York neighborhoods. [Eater]
Jane Jacobs on the bad gentrification: "when a place gets boring, even the rich people leave." [Atlantic]
Going to Puglia Ristorante. [LC]
If Tina Fey had a penis, she'd stick in one of Greenpoint's Peter Pan donuts. [GPs] via [Eater]
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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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