The Coney Island Gift Shop now offers pieces of the destroyed boardwalk in a bottle. Visualingual calls it "a useless fetish object that capitalizes on the nostalgia surrounding Coney Island." [VL]
Life inside a Greenpoint trailer. [NYS]
On the Bowery, Koolhaas argues against preservation: "If you preserve something, it becomes conserved and then something artificial." [WOBA]
Tattooing on the Bowery. [BB]
Sign the petition to support Max Fish. [TLD]
Answers to the Flaming Pablum before and after NYC photos quiz. [FP]
Boating the lake in Prospect Park. [CR]
Read artist Donald Judd's 1989 essay about his cast-iron building on Spring Street. [DO]
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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
An architect railing against building preservation is just as self serving as Dunkin Donuts when they rail against mandatory displayed calorie counts.
ReplyDeletePresentations like that remind me of why I can't stand the fucking New Museum.
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