Nationally, Kate Rogers did the story at CNBC's Squawk Box, interviewing the folks at Avignone Pharmacy and Jim's Shoe Repair.
And Dan Mannarino's got it at the WPIX 11 Morning News. He visited Bleecker Street and talked with Avignone pharmacy:
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Yep. I saw it in the Nightly Business Report on the PBS station.
ReplyDeleteNow if only the MAYOR and CITY COUNCIL would listen and DO SOMETHING.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, their acceptance of landlord and real estate industry money precludes them from taking positive action to help small businesses or preserve the integrity and character of communities.
New legislation that makes it ILLEGAL to accept money from those interests and that disallows ANY politician accepting employment from those interests after they are out of office would be a big step toward stopping this shit, but by then, there'll be practically NOTHING left of New York worth saving....
better late than never.
ReplyDeleteGonna gave to wear that on my jacket, along with Thanks Giuliani who opened these flood gates, and thank you Bloomerberg, you assisted in the death of all these businesses...
ReplyDeleteAlso saw a write up about Vanishing and SaveNYC on Salon.
ReplyDeleteSynergy!
Great it is getting so much coverage!
ReplyDeleteI would love to use the hope-laden catch phrase, "better late than never", but that's not realistic thinking after 2001. You see that when a landscape physically undergoes drastic changes (buildings torn down and replaced by high rises thereby transforming the skyline, we can go on and on.....), the ghosts of my old haunts vanish with it. So you see, I feel the words are no longer applicable at this advanced point in time. And the who the hell am I to make such a rash statement? I'm one of the most native New Yorkers out there. We are a proud but rapidly dying breed. Save what? I can't hear you. These are the hollow cries of the living non-natives who are incapable of embodying the soul of New York. What was cannot be repeated.......and it was phenomenal. :)
ReplyDeletejeremiah, i heard your radio interview tonight. excellent! well worded. i am (hate to admit) an entire generation older than you. i am also 4th generation new yorker. NY always changed, but this is a trans national corporate takeover demolishment. it happend across the US many years ago. mainstreet USA was destroyed relpaced by malls&parking lots. it happend in very beautiful colonial cultured cities in mexico. (5sq miles of neigborhoods knocked down in several weeks then on to the next). much worse than in NY. if they could build a superhighway thru central park "they" would do it. "they" are entities, not people. they are all connected. best that small businesses sign a long lease w/option to renew @ a rent cap. im sure all these ugly banks are tax writeoffs. how many banks/cellphone stores do we need? how much junk yogart can people eat. its all bullsxxt. same damn stores worldwide. welcome to "corporate communism". look alike eat alike think alike: eminent domain for the greater good? job creation? seriously? please......
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