The once-wonderful Gordon Novelty Shop is getting filled--with fancy kitchen wares from Williamsburg, because food is New York's fetish. [Racked]
Ed Hamilton talks about the Chelsea Hotel demolition--and we learn what a PFA is--on the Mike & Judy Show. [M&J]
Check out Death and Life on the Bowery: an interview with Drew Hubner and Ted Barron. [NSTAW]
Bloomberg gets heckled and shouted down by crowd in Harlem. [RS]
Signs of Coney's Club Atlantis resurface. [ATZ]
A new batch of ghost signs. [FNY]
Script in New York neon signs. [NYN]
The last remnant of Mars Bar fades away. [EVG]
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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
"Bloomberg gets heckled and shouted down by crowd in Harlem."
ReplyDeleteHe's lucky all he walked away with was a heckling. I've seen people lobbing used diapers at politicians who talk a mile of trash.
He wasn't too popular at BAM either.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to give Bloomberg some credit. The reality is that people like him have been running this city for some time, but they've not been going to events in Harlem to get heckled about it. Their puppet politicians were doing that instead. In 2001 it became important that a member of the overclass himself was seen as visibly taking charge, and I've always been curious about the reasons for that change.
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