Tuesday, November 15, 2011

*Everyday Chatter

From the Occupy Wall Street librarians: "Call 311 or 212-639-9675 now and ask why Mayor Bloomberg is throwing the 5,554 books from our library into a dumpster." [BB]

Rebuild the library tonight at 6pm. [OWSL]

The Houston Wall shows up in a Scorsese fight scene--it's "an architectural extra in two classics of American cinema." [BR]

Sad scenes of the dismantling of Paul's Daughter at Coney. [ATZ]

Spend a week in New York culture with the Paris Review's Sadie Stein. [PRD]

Don Delillo talks about his new book. [AP]

Peek into the home libraries of six authors who still love real books. [FT]

RIP John Leeper, bartender at the Grassroots. [EVG]

Walking on Williamsburg's Berry Street. [FNY]

Park Slope's Dunkin Donuts conversion of Tonio's coming along. [HPS]

11/20: Union Docs presents "Block by Block: New York Street Historians." [UD]

11/30: Harvey Wang's photo show opens at the Tenement Museum:
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3 comments:

  1. maximum bobNovember 15, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    For what it's worth, here are a few
    of the indispensable titles in MY
    library:
    Low Life Luc Sante
    Up In the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell
    Gangs of New York Herbert Asbury
    Heart of the World Nik Cohn
    The Secret Parts of Fortune Ron Rosembaum

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  2. Laura Goggin PhotographyNovember 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM

    So sad/angry to find out about all those books...as well as Paul's Daughter. It's getting harder to stay positive about things when so much is being destroyed on a daily basis.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 16, 2011 at 6:42 AM

    It's still unclear as to what is happening with the OWS library. According to Gothamist, the city is saying that the books have not been destroyed. They are just sitting in a storage facility.

    http://gothamist.com/2011/11/15/occupy_wall_street_library.php

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