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Jeremiah's
Vanishing New York

a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct

Saturday, July 9, 2022

Feral City

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My new book, Feral City , hits the shelves October 4, 2022. You can pre-order it today from your local bookshop and wherever books are sold...
Monday, June 7, 2021

The Battle for Public Space

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As New York City reopens after lockdown, it is also closing down. During 2020, especially from spring to summer, many New Yorkers who ventur...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Eisenberg's

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 VANISHED One of the greatest, and one of my favorites, has gone. After temporarily shuttering during the pandemic, Eisenberg's sandwich...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Waste

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This article in the Guardian begins, "On a damp and humid Thursday afternoon Manhattan’s Union Square is looking sorry for itself. The...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Bluestockings

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The wonderful, radical, fiercely essential, collectively owned Bluestockings bookstore and activist center is leaving. "This is not...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Odessa

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VANISHING UPDATE: False alarm! Now they say they're just renovating . Back in 2013, the old Odessa closed . This Odessa was also kno...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Washington Square Bloodied

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In the aftermath of yesterday's incident of police brutality against New Yorkers participating in the Queer Liberation March for Black ...
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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
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