Remembering when the Upper West Side was all "decaying tenements packed with poor Puerto Rican and Negro families and the gathering place of drunks, narcotics addicts and sexual perverts." [NYT]
On "Gentrification and Its Discontents" bemoans "all this bellyaching about authenticity and lost soul." Apparently, the city never had a soul to lose. [Atlantic]
Good news from the daughter of vanished Master Shiki. She comments that Shiki is happy in Japan.
Terrible news: "Gino’s Makes It Official: May 29 Is the End." [CR]
Victory for the EV: Last night's "Community Board 3 SLA Committee meeting was possibly historic" = less noise for Ave A. [Blah]
"Our world is getting louder, a bone-crunching and I.Q.-lowering fact..." [NYT]
Banksy gets dissed. [Gothamist]
Skateboarding advertising thing brings wheels back to (nearby) Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion (once a roller rink). [RS]
Best headline: "Cowboy Confronts Man-Boobs." [NMNL]
Enjoy three clips from Frank O'Hara. [P&W]
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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