Hallowed Ground: A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the "Ground Zero Mosque." [DL]
"Between the pedestrian malls and fancy sandwich shops, the signs are unmistakable. New York City is going Euro." [NYO]
Fat Beats record stores to close. [Stupefaction]
"Back Rent Kills East Village Mom-and-Pop Shop Village Fabrics" and "the whole neighborhood is going to crap." [RS] via EVG
Spike Lee: "the Brooklyn I grew up in is not the Brooklyn today... I just think that when you move into a neighborhood, you can’t necessarily come in and just change all the culture at the same time. That’s my only problem with gentrification." [TONY]
Indie Press Night at Word. [Word]
Bed bugs helping to chase out rent-regulated tenants--and raise the rents. [BU] via Curbed
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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 Village Fabrics story breaks my heart. I wish I had $20K to blow on fabric...
ReplyDeletei recently saw this bike-sharing in montreal (bixi) and i was thinking that soon, bloomberg will be copying this. and here it is.
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