LES Girls' Club director gives the BMW Guggenheim Lab a dressing down: "It takes great chutzpah for an uptown museum and a high-end car company to promote community sustainability at the expense of...well, community and sustainability!" [EVG]
The mosaics of St. Mark's Place and more. [FNY]
Romy rescues a crawfish because, in part, it "was a thousand times more interesting as a character than any of the people in the restaurant." [WIC]
Adorable bodega cats stay cool in the heat. [BF] via [Eater]
Coney Island pier jumpers. [BB]
Slinging slurs for Little Italy feast-goers: "It was the kind of sausage-fest only a sewer rat could love." [NYP]
Bloomie's daughter publishes a "breezy, gossipy" YA "novel" about a girl whose father is "a blunt-talking Wall Street billionaire who lives in a Manhattan town house and “owns half of New York." [NYT]
When NYC published sleazy pulp. [VS]
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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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