tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post5806565958017402692..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Vanishing AnniversaryJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-517721379345700642014-08-02T10:52:34.766-04:002014-08-02T10:52:34.766-04:00Dear Jeremiah,
happy belated anniversary. I find...Dear Jeremiah,<br /><br />happy belated anniversary. I find your blog very therapeutic, as I am still in the grieving process.<br /><br />I was evicted from my East Village home last year. As painful and exhausting and expensive as that was--the destruction of what I felt was historic, comforting, intrinsically NYC hurts me even more. I feel the NYC I knew morphed at hyper-greedy speed into something alien. I no longer feel at ease in my former neighborhood of almost 25 years, until I see the few neighbors and businesses that are still around. And in my conversations with them, those people are counting the days as well.<br /><br />I just wanted to share this: the vanishing that broke my heart was when Carl Fischer, where I used to browse through and find and buy sheet music, became a gym. This is compounded further because the opera house that was my artistic home, where I sang for seven seasons, the Amato Opera Theater... the lovely mural is hidden under an NYU dorm building and the actual opera house is in a state of disrepair. Perhaps, though, I should be glad it has not become something like a Walgreens, but be allowed to decay in relative peace.<br /><br />--Former East VillagerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-57019208321307877972013-12-15T14:03:51.324-05:002013-12-15T14:03:51.324-05:00Hello Jeremiah, I love this blog. This feeling of ...Hello Jeremiah, I love this blog. This feeling of nostalgia for the city I've lost, even though I still live here, is very strong, and it's nice to read the words and see the pictures of someone who shares those feelings. Keep posting!!Veronica Lawlorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975450201946374054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-320479733603984982013-11-20T17:08:00.464-05:002013-11-20T17:08:00.464-05:00Jeremiah,
I'm traveling to NYC for the week o...Jeremiah,<br /><br />I'm traveling to NYC for the week of Christmas and I'm looking for some interesting sights to see & photograph in the early morning hours. <br /><br />Any recommendations?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-55127321628186003902013-01-16T11:10:56.205-05:002013-01-16T11:10:56.205-05:00Jeremiah--The thing is, there used to be a Howard ...Jeremiah--The thing is, there used to be a Howard Johnsons on Sixth Avenue (before it became Avenue of the Americas) near 8th street. My father took me there sometimes on Friday nights, when I was 8 years old and attended PS 41---and without a word between us--I already knew it was a corporate invader on the neighborhood and part of the destruction of 8th street which soon followed.<br /><br />So, the existence of HJ's on Times Sq. was already part of how the place became primed for Middle America, and Disney-ready. I can't quite find this lament....<br /><br />More than love your work. It's actual food. Thnx.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-13053708327349231072012-11-30T22:28:45.540-05:002012-11-30T22:28:45.540-05:00About the disappearing "red sauce" place...About the disappearing "red sauce" places: I am from the south and have been here about 8 years. There is an authentic Italian trattoria in mid-town East called Pizza Rustica. I only eat the pasta and the eggplant - they have a steam table of Italian food every day at lunch. It's around 44th and Second ave. Also Roberto's in the Bronx is still open. That place is unbelievable.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12167142041697090341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-22427443847444752512010-07-19T11:15:27.207-04:002010-07-19T11:15:27.207-04:00A not so happy anniversary Jer. Fortunately there&...A not so happy anniversary Jer. Fortunately there's still a whole city out there Uptown and in the boros that the yunnies fear to tread.3FingersBrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649489054233971302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-74822372171055945332010-07-05T20:40:32.040-04:002010-07-05T20:40:32.040-04:00charlie, i don't know Pete's. can you tell...charlie, i don't know Pete's. can you tell us more? i'll check it out.Jeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-49047310299651758302010-07-05T17:32:11.106-04:002010-07-05T17:32:11.106-04:00Have you written about Pete's leaving us last ...Have you written about Pete's leaving us last week--on 68th Street and Columbus. Some found is smelly and rude; others had their fun times there. Would be interesting to know the full story of its demise, though it clearly belongs to a grittier Columbus Ave era :)<br /><br />CharlieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-50861588897668997962010-01-29T19:33:36.781-05:002010-01-29T19:33:36.781-05:00thanks Roberta and welcome. i have seen what they ...thanks Roberta and welcome. i have seen what they did to the playhouse. they're just full steam ahead...Jeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-37963997997908547182010-01-29T18:54:25.761-05:002010-01-29T18:54:25.761-05:00Wow, just read The Voice and found your blog. I a...Wow, just read The Voice and found your blog. I am hunkered down in the West Village in my old law tenement, fighting the LL for essential services, watching the succubus NYU rip down historic buildings (have you seen what they have done to the Provincetown Playhouse?) and wondering if there is anyone else who could possibly be as horrified as I that this City I love so dearly is being homogenized so quickly and ruthlessly. Thank you for your blog. I feel less alone now. BTW, the recent demise of Jeollado, my favorite cheap sushi restaurant, is a loss from which I won't soon recover.Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12772944427050353722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-65124615583709774482010-01-11T11:52:35.387-05:002010-01-11T11:52:35.387-05:00Thanks for your tireless efforts, "Jeremiah.&...Thanks for your tireless efforts, "Jeremiah." Your blog is such an indispensable resource for those of us amazed and disgusted by what has happened/is happening to the last liveable redoubts of<br />Manhattan (and beyond). I tend to think of myself as someone who has become hardened to the uber-gentrification and neo-suburbanization of Manhattan (and beyond), but I suppose it is testament to my ongoing moral sensitivity that I am still amazed by just how unapologetically social Darwinist many (not all) yunnies are. (Some of them are merely clueless.) On this theme, I posted a rather long blog entry at http://fortgreenebk.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/avalon-fort-greene-growing-like-a-weed/#comment-1646<br /><br />Please keep on doing what you do so well, if for other reason than our collective existential relief!<br /><br />GluelickerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-62067863687975208242010-01-01T10:00:44.317-05:002010-01-01T10:00:44.317-05:00Does anyone recall Peter Missing and the foundatio...Does anyone recall Peter Missing and the foundation?Pier Angelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12173736896915972265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-52456046017086873002010-01-01T09:58:40.078-05:002010-01-01T09:58:40.078-05:00Does anyone have any recollection of Tent City, Li...Does anyone have any recollection of Tent City, Life Squat,3bc,c squat or the riots?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-75381030247206513332009-11-23T15:09:44.764-05:002009-11-23T15:09:44.764-05:00Brooklyn here I come. happy Bloganiversary.
Is NY...Brooklyn here I come. happy Bloganiversary.<br /><br />Is NY the kind of place an artist can come to without knowing anyone and get involved with something?Joseph Steelehttp://www.getonthewall.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-84784986750366834892009-11-23T08:58:27.563-05:002009-11-23T08:58:27.563-05:00Happy Birthday Baby!!!Happy Birthday Baby!!!Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587238399511427894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-92182086284234209322009-11-23T08:57:26.039-05:002009-11-23T08:57:26.039-05:00Edge--there has always been "EDGE" in Br...Edge--there has always been "EDGE" in Brooklyn--fuggetaboutit-sadly--I love the Brooklyn Nobody loved--maybe a new song Jer--I Loved The Brooklyn Nobody loved--immigrants on the street--not so much to eat--putting food on the table--look Ma--I am able--just a random Ditty.<br />Brooklyn--Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587238399511427894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-78781146360520325172009-11-23T01:26:14.149-05:002009-11-23T01:26:14.149-05:00well, I love what your block man. and as I foreign...well, I love what your block man. and as I foreigner who visited the city a few times finally moving here this June I have to say the phenomenon you are recording is intensely felt.<br /><br />but you are not suggesting what we should do or try and do to reverse the process. you should. I find there is still a lot of New York out there (and not just in Brooklyn) worth fighting forAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-57779654042723316182009-11-22T22:12:02.960-05:002009-11-22T22:12:02.960-05:00well, there's still some edge here--but you...well, there's still some edge here--but you'd better look for it in Brooklyn.Jeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-32976068168601562672009-11-22T18:35:33.074-05:002009-11-22T18:35:33.074-05:00Jeremiah!
I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, England....Jeremiah!<br /><br />I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. I booked tickets to come to NY in March, believing it to be the heart of edgy art and culture.<br /><br />I've been smashing up Newcastle with art involving diggers, car wrecking and a film I got national press coverage for: <br /><br />http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2009/11/01/newcastle-student-s-sex-show-passed-off-as-art-79310-25061937/<br /><br />Anyway, the same is happening here, too many 'creative spaces' and government funding to make things 'nice' but it just compromises the art!JosephSteelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245261329725873650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-53404369940189913552009-04-01T14:00:00.000-04:002009-04-01T14:00:00.000-04:00thank you very much for your blog. I lived in NYC ...thank you very much for your blog. I lived in NYC during the mid nineties, before the internet emerged, when I still had to use a daisywheel printer. I wanted to keep a journal of NY/Manhattan, but the cost of living, and the sheer time factor prevented me from realizing what you have realized here. I'm afraid to go visit NYC now; seeing how it's being decimated by "hizzoner". A bronx raspberry for him.<BR/><BR/>Yours PSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-28851433820250443152009-03-13T06:58:00.000-04:002009-03-13T06:58:00.000-04:00We were linked to this blog by a friend. We have t...We were linked to this blog by a friend. We have to say that the bulldozing of the Christopher Street piers, a place one of our bloggers called "the center of his Gay soul", was the shocking realization that brought us to our knees back in the 90s. It was then that what had been a mere inkling became an emotional breakdown for us. <BR/><BR/>Like you, we have turned away from the city. Several of us have turned away from the things we loved most, like clubbing in our case, because so many of our favorite places were brutalized during the Giuliani decade. We also saw most of our friends die from HIV/AIDS. For the longest time, we have felt like war orphans in our own city.<BR/><BR/>It's not a pleasant feeling.exModia Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341276587696562274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-63649223707603008432009-01-10T14:27:00.000-05:002009-01-10T14:27:00.000-05:00Thanks for the most interesting comments, from the...Thanks for the most interesting comments, from the southern tip of Africa. Nearest I've been to NY was Harpers Ferry: a worthwhile visit, too plus a stroll along a bit of the Appalachian Trail. Otherwise, USA for me was Pennsylvania, NY State, and Washington state -- I made excursions from Canada.Ian Buchanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00974374740716752127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-21380559411507130482009-01-04T17:48:00.000-05:002009-01-04T17:48:00.000-05:00Nice blog. I drove a yellow taxi in NYC six years ...Nice blog. I drove a yellow taxi in NYC six years at night and was fascinated by the many statues all over the boroughs. I always wondered where the City stored old statues, and wanted to inspect them and take photos. Have they destroyed the nice little terracotta factory beneath the Queensboro Bride on the Queens side yet?mikehavenar.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460617293025740069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-75423392176581590182009-01-03T12:54:00.000-05:002009-01-03T12:54:00.000-05:00Just found your site. NYer by birth, grew up in t...Just found your site. NYer by birth, grew up in the 1960s and 1970s on the upper west side. Prostitutes on 94-96 and B'way, Louis the Shoeman, bakeries, Hispanic and black gangs (Zulu Nation); last lived in town 82-83 (Ave. A - 13th) and 86-7 (Greenpoint).<BR/><BR/>To Jeremiah: Interesting grieving service, a public good. Thanks<BR/><BR/>www.paradigmfragment.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-72506264507126004192008-08-19T13:24:00.000-04:002008-08-19T13:24:00.000-04:00I moved to LA ten years ago, after 15 years in NYC...I moved to LA ten years ago, after 15 years in NYC. A good part of the reason, to be frank, was that I saw all this shit coming and couldn't stand the prospect of watching the coolest city in the world turned into a lifestyle destination.<BR/><BR/>When I first came to NYC, in '81, you could buy handguns in Times Square and, heroin on Clinto St. and if you hustled, you could find a trainwreck apartment on Avenue C that you can rent on two nights per week of bartending. Which left considerable time for reading, working on your novel and pursuing adventure.<BR/><BR/>Now of course, the handguns are safely in the African American and hispanic neighborhoods of the boroughs, heroin is sold out of briefcases. And the only people writing novels are trustfunders. <BR/><BR/>And I don't need to suggest the obvious correlation between the cost of living in NY and the quality of the novels that this great city once turned out.<BR/><BR/>LA is big sky country - gentrifying fast I suppose, but it's big and there's lots of neighborhoods. <BR/><BR/>Why mourn a dying city when you can participate in the building of a great global city - practically speaking less than 60 years old -- at just the beginning of its creative wave?Palmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07250439327686565515noreply@blogger.com