Tension on Flatbush: "Maybe they are trying to bring a little bit of that Manhattan stuff to our neighborhood." [CNY]
New Brooklyn Magazine to feature column entitled "Self-Loathing Gentrifier." [NYO]
Visiting Bleecker Bob's record shop. [MAD]
Q&A with Miss Coney Island 2011. [ATZ]
When city businesses advertised on matchbook covers. [ENY]
The Lower East Side loses another poet. [EVG]
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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
I used to go to a small CD/music store on Bleecker, between Christopher and Grove. Is it still there?
ReplyDeleteSeeing those matchbook covers reminds me: remember when bars put PLASTIC stirrers in drinks, not those tiny straws? They were very different, various colors, many had name of the bar. They're like jewels. Wish you'd write about them sometime.
Once again, "goodbye to all that."
Anon 5:44 --
ReplyDeleteRebel Rebel shows upon Google Maps if you zoom in on 319 Bleecker Street, but I haven't been over that way recently, so I doun't know how current the photo is.