Vintage sleaze from 1950s Christopher Street. [VS]
In a follow-up to my story about the vanished Chico mural, DNA talks to an RCN spokesperson who says, "The bottom line is the building had illegal graffiti on it and we cleaned it up — period." [DNA]
...and Grieve finds an RCN tweet about "regular maintenance." [EVG]
Dan Clowes teams with Alexander Payne to bring his misanthopic Wilson to the big screen. [Deadline]
Sad, single-girl bedbug story: "bedbugs aren’t really that big a deal. But they are, I maintain, one of the lonelier afflictions out there." [NYT]
Visiting Esposito's pork store in Carroll Gardens. [NYT]
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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
speaking of being a single girl in nyc...
ReplyDelete"Being a new girl here is a lot to process. Your dopamine receptors are haywire from so much of what feels like the right kind of attention... You get sick from the options and the sleep deprivation and the vodka."
All the Young Girls (nyt opinionator)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/all-the-young-girls/?partner=rss&emc=rss