Artisanalization, germophobia, and class shifts are killing the hot dog: "'a staple of New York...it’s the way New York is.' But the way New York is has been changing." [NYT]
Check out this film footage of the Lower East Side in 1967--before it contracted "corporate herpes." [DM]
How did I miss the transgender Jesus in Tompkins Square Park? [EVC]
East Village woman is swimming to Coney Island to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of a similar swim. [EVG]
Mary Cantwell at the Chelsea Hotel in 1978. [ENY]
What is a "real looking Brooklyn working class type"? Ask CBS. [LM]
Goggla posts her "Confronting Comfort" protest coverage. [TGL]
Celebrate Historic Coney Island Sunday 8/28 from 1pm-5pm at the First Annual HISTORY DAY at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park & The Coney Island History Project.
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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
Good riddance to the dirty water method of "cooking" hot dogs. That's not "killing the hot dog," that's making it edible. Meat belongs on a flame, not in a lukewarm bath. (If cooking meat on a grill is now "artisanal," then I'm Julia Child.) As a NYC tradition, watery hot dogs are no more worth keeping around than the clamhouse mafia hit.
ReplyDeleteIf you read the article, its clear that what is disappearing is the dirty water dog, not the hot dog.
ReplyDeleteEssentially, hot dog vendors in New York boiled hot dogs in dirty water, instead of grilling them like in other cities, due to a regulatory quirk. The regulations changed, and so did the method of cooking hot dogs.
This is really nothing to complain about at all.
If you want to complain, complain about the pizza. Most of the pizza places in this city apparently get their ingredients from the same vendor. Several years ago that vendor cut costs, and the quality of pizza everywhere went down.