tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post3796043483845780597..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: *Everyday ChatterJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-12605302213165890012012-12-07T21:54:22.245-05:002012-12-07T21:54:22.245-05:00The Observer article is excellent, and one of the ...The Observer article is excellent, and one of the commentators gave a shout out to this site.<br /><br />Combined with the WNYC article, the impression is unmistakable that Manhattan has turned into a sort of carless suburb, in large part to the reversal of the exodus to the actual suburbs in the 1970s, but without any changes in values that prompted the parents of these people to move to the suburbs in the first place.<br /><br />But the return of a sort of 50s style conformity and blandness is nationwide, and has been noted by other cultural commentators without reference to New York, where the change has simply been the most dramatic because parts of the city had been so at odds with the dominant culture. Which means that though I keep on wanting to run screaming from the city, I'm not sure if it would really be better elsewhere. You still stumble on surviving bits of pre-hypergentrification New York on occasion.Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-87817668050852979002012-12-07T18:10:03.299-05:002012-12-07T18:10:03.299-05:00Less dreamin', more grumblin'.Less dreamin', more grumblin'.vidvedg 417noreply@blogger.com