The importance of human continuity in a neighborhood. [NYT]
Yet another boutique hotel for the Bowery, this one on the corpse of the Salvation Army building. It has become boring. [Curbed]
Greenwich Village then and now, when a Master of the Universe knows the city waits for him with "legs spread, naked in furs, with lines of coke on the coffee table and a music video playing on the wall-sized TV." [Restless]
LES bar irks the neighbors. [BB]
Dash Snow tag discovered. [EVG]
"Long gone are McSweeney's days as a magazine for brilliant rejects." [NYO]
Brooklyn foodie culture is apparently "oversold, overblogged." [Grub]
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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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