The Occupation of Wall Street continues. [CR]
So just how well did St. Mark's Books do on the Buy A Book Weekend? Your purchases bumped sales by a whopping 35%. Nicely done bibliophiles of New York! [RS]
Gothamist followed up, too, and reports that St. Mark's "had a very good weekend—it was extremely busy." [Gothamist]
Remember when St. Mark's Books = “Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz used to come in here every Sunday night and close the place down... Allen Ginsberg met Philip Glass in the store... William Burroughs used to come in every Saturday morning wearing a suit and carrying a cane and hat." [NYT]
The real original Ray's to shutter. [NYT]
Broke-Ass Girls: some new ideas for New York-based TV shows. [Restless]
In 2008, I did a post on vanishing parking meters. Now we hear the last working parking meter is being ripped from the ground for good. [Gothamist]
Will Life Cafe be split in two? [EVG]
Look out--Crown Heights gets its first Farmers Market. [BSr]
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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
It's "illegal for two or more people to wear masks"??? WTF? I avoid the Wall Street area because it looks so much like a war zone, with barricades and heavily armed cops everywhere. "The terrorists have won" indeed - we live in fear, cops treat us like cattle when we try to exercise our 1st Amendment rights, and the rich continue to profit from it.
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