The Cooper Square Committee sent out an update on St. Mark's Books with this important note: "We believe that Cooper Union is stonewalling this issue, hoping our community will forget about the bookstore. We need you to send this petition out to all of your friends and family today. Help us reach 50,000 signatures by the middle of October."
Check out Karen Lillis' "Bagging the Beats at Midnight," a bookstore memoir by a former employee of St Mark’s Bookshop.
See the Safran Foer 9/11 trailer. [Gothamist]
Happy 85th Birthday to a long-time Ruby's bartender--last call will be Oct. 29. [ATZ]
The Mosaic Man makes a new bagel sign. [EVG]
A day at the races--remembering Steeplechase Park. [ShaunC]
Greenpoint's WASCO landmark to be an "eating and drinking establishment," but the "WASCO-mobile will live on. [NYS]
Occupy Wall Streeters in suits and ties. [NYM]
On the High Line: "The lush green artery is killing off a chunk of New York’s entrepreneurial and gritty industrial past as the real estate developers, landlords and other profiteers cash in on the city’s latest chic attraction." [AMNY]
...like Firestone Bear Auto and places like Poppy's and The Eagle and Folsom East and everything else that isn't luxe.
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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
What a wonderful Steeplechase Park
ReplyDeletepost, just gorgeous.
When I was a kid, my father used to
tell glowing tales of Coney Island, this brought it to life for me.
Thank you.