"Windsor Terrace parents are throwing a tantrum at the Oak & the Iris Café, claiming that they have no right to cancel their weekly sing-a-longs just because their precious kids were breaking property." [Gothamist]
Homeless shelter becomes "gay hotel," complete with undulating hallways. [Curbed]
Elle magazine offices besieged by bed bugs. [RS]
Fans of Max's Kansas City get a book and an exhibit. [Stupefaction]
An ode to the "truck bomb." [EVG]
Greenpoint's Manhattan 3-Decker lives. [NYS]
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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 frattiness of the East Village has been at different levels in three zones for over a decade, most intense west of 2nd Avenue, least intense east of Avenue B, with a sort of mixed zone in between 2nd Avenue and Avenue B.
ReplyDeleteBut I've noticed in the last few months that everything has been dialed up a notch in all three zones. West of 2nd Avenue has gone from mostly fratty to all fratty, everywhere, just about all the time (with the Mars Bar being the one holdout). The in between zone has gone from pretty fratty to mostly fratty, and I'm getting worried about east of Avenue B.
No wonder the commentators on EV have been getting so cranky.