tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833828641565056402024-03-10T13:49:03.119-04:00Jeremiah's Vanishing New Yorka.k.a. The Book of Lamentations: <br>a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinctJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger3221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-88534009102914408632022-07-09T11:34:00.002-04:002022-07-09T11:34:27.015-04:00Feral CityMy new book, <a href="https://griffinhansburywriter.com/feral-city/" target="_blank"><b>Feral City</b></a>, hits the shelves October 4, 2022. You can <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393868470" target="_blank">pre-order it today</a> from your local bookshop and wherever books are sold. Thank you!
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<b>What happens when an entire social class abandons a metropolis? This genre-bending journey through lockdown New York offers an exhilarating, intimate look at a city returned to its rebellious spirit. </b> </p><p> The pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in America. In this innovative and thrilling book, author and social critic Jeremiah Moss, hailed as “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), explores a city emptied of the dominant class—and their controlling influence. “Plagues have a disinhibiting effect,” Moss writes. “As the normal order is suspended, the repressive force of civilization lifts and our rules fall away, shifting the boundaries of society and psyche." </p><p>In public spaces made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss experienced an uncanny time-warp. Biking through deserted Manhattan, he encountered the hustlers, eccentrics, and renegades who had been pressed into silence and invisibility by an oppressive, normative gentrification, now reemerging to reclaim the city. For one wild year the streets belonged to wandering nudists and wheelie bikers, mystical vagabonds and performance artists working to disrupt the status quo, passionate activists protesting for Black lives—along with the everyday New Yorkers who had been pushed to the margins for too long. Participating in a historic explosion of activism, resistance, and spontaneity, from queer BLM marches to exuberant outdoor dance parties, Moss discovered an intoxicating freedom. Without “hyper-normal” people to constrain it, New York became more creative, connected, humane, and joyful than it had been in years. </p><p>Moss braids this captivating narrative with an account of his renewed sense of place as a transgender man, weaving together insights from psychoanalysis, literature, and queer theory. A kaleidoscopic vision of a city transformed, Feral City offers valuable insight into the way public space―and the spaces inside us―are controlled and can be set free.
<b> </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>PRAISE</b> </p><p>“In its gentle way this is the most radical book I have read in a long time. It’s a tale of daily resistance. There could be another world, and Feral City in all its thoughtful scrappy investigative feeling is a utopian map for a future I would want to inhabit. It’s composed uncannily, yep, rhizomatically, out of Jeremiah Moss’s own hands-on evocation of home, the disordered place where we’re playing and marching.” <b>—Eileen Myles</b> </p><p>“A sublime and furious love letter to our city during the plague—to the months when we reclaimed our streets and lived most vividly even in the midst of death. A must for every New Yorker, and for everyone who has ever loved a place.” <b>—Molly Crabapple</b> </p><p>“Jeremiah Moss grapples with what happened when the private sector left the city at the height of the pandemic, and the people who share public space were left behind. Feral City asks the most complex questions: Who is the center of our culture? Who just owns the apparatus? What confrontations are necessary for our integrity as a collective? This story is a memory, a documentary, a personal journey, a political manifesto, a searing critique, a human embrace.” <b>—Sarah Schulman</b> </p><p>“The saddest and the most exhilarating book you will read this year. It is an epic of a liberated city, a philosophical investigation, a love poem addressed to at least a million New Yorkers, and a hex flung at those zombies Moss calls the Normals.” <b>—Lucy Sante </b>
</p>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-27871771630976850792021-06-07T21:32:00.002-04:002021-06-07T21:48:11.630-04:00The Battle for Public Space<p class="MsoNormal">As New York City reopens after lockdown, it is also closing down. During 2020, especially from spring to summer, many New Yorkers who ventured into the streets found a joyful and communal openness to the city, in the midst of so much anxiety and grief during the pandemic. In public parks, we gathered together, in mixtures of races and classes, to play music, dance, and connect politically for actions we hoped would change the world for the better. Coalitions formed. Empathy increased. Friendships were made. As spring 2021 came, this vibrant new life continued--but the city is working hard to shut it down and "get back to normal." </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">This repeated demand for normal always reminds me of the words from author and activist Sonya Renee Taylor: “We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was never normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate, and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature.” </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">As I've biked through Manhattan, participating in protest marches, talking with many people in different areas, I've watched the suppression of open New York day after day. Not everyone is aware of the ways City Hall and the NYPD are working hard to clamp down on our public spaces, the commons that belong to all of us, along with other spaces that were transformed during lockdown into something local and liberated. And while officials claim that the crackdown is due to music, substance use, and crowding, it is clear that the police are targeting some groups and not others. While they suppress Black, brown, queer, trans, and homeless people, they apparently do nothing to stop the upper-class, young white people who have returned from their 2020 escape from New York to drink, vomit, fight, scream, blast music, and crowd the streets of gentrified neighborhoods like the East Village. Let's not pretend otherwise. <b>Who is the city reopening for?</b><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Much more analysis on this topic will be in my next book, "Feral City," and while I'm still busy writing that, here is a brief timeline of recent events in the spring of 2021. There is a definite pattern.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWKtG7Jlbif2nlxhvExmr1rOKAntNNXIT1fEi766OE9bbjUCN_bwt_ouPSIejDT6WfsSCzSKlYfDqGFRK3XOWTIe1js4rmk9pLw874VhZVVT0QKhiRTuxHWFYK7LsEZlYRF2XmckS_7Ue/s2048/DSC07258.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1633" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWKtG7Jlbif2nlxhvExmr1rOKAntNNXIT1fEi766OE9bbjUCN_bwt_ouPSIejDT6WfsSCzSKlYfDqGFRK3XOWTIe1js4rmk9pLw874VhZVVT0QKhiRTuxHWFYK7LsEZlYRF2XmckS_7Ue/s320/DSC07258.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>March:</b> On sunny days, life returns to Washington Square. In the dry fountain, young people ride their skateboards, play music, and hang out. Older people sit with them and enjoy the energetic, friendly mix of races, classes, and ages. It is much like the summer of 2020, when the park was full of New Yorkers, joyfully connecting and appreciating one another. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwumcgkmv2wFG1AKBhR_qy7x0KKFrar9344FjCVn9xNXeCBEVt0WvL9O8IbeSXcsCG59Fgokzfxi4261d3XUbPIibO4cDYSUiZ1xjrpSfMGJgWQOJBAHYDRV9JT2NvSGVjoU1hAEiR4DOK/s2048/DSC07336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwumcgkmv2wFG1AKBhR_qy7x0KKFrar9344FjCVn9xNXeCBEVt0WvL9O8IbeSXcsCG59Fgokzfxi4261d3XUbPIibO4cDYSUiZ1xjrpSfMGJgWQOJBAHYDRV9JT2NvSGVjoU1hAEiR4DOK/s320/DSC07336.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>April 8:</b> Even though the weather is chilly, the fountain water is turned on, effectively getting rid of the culture it had been fostering. For weeks, few people approach the fountain because it’s too cold. The water, turned on early, is a device of social control. It's nothing new. Racial mixing in the Washington Square fountain has been controlled before; for example, in 1961 during the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/04/09/135240040/how-the-beatnik-riot-helped-kick-off-the-60s">police riot against folksingers</a>. Race and class mixing is a very dangerous combination--it leads to compassion, coalition, and movement against the ruling classes. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I speak to some of the young artists (most of whom are people of color) who have been selling their work in the park all through the pandemic. They tell me the park police have been intimidating them and giving them tickets for selling art. One artist says he feels so uncomfortable, he's thinking about leaving. (I have not seen him since.) Getting rid of people, of course, is the goal.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPLp-XdLj9sOjyqfQwv4e3UVSGkPSydwTHfz3BtoBGP7g7k6Rl8atj2QxWO-b77hM9LMteAoqj_ot3BzWxRmZlLOk0ZCg-VuB6fWLGe66JdY2q7uRGjHxfE4SXmEWpbNIchsVYEpEo5G2p/s2048/DSC01842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1962" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPLp-XdLj9sOjyqfQwv4e3UVSGkPSydwTHfz3BtoBGP7g7k6Rl8atj2QxWO-b77hM9LMteAoqj_ot3BzWxRmZlLOk0ZCg-VuB6fWLGe66JdY2q7uRGjHxfE4SXmEWpbNIchsVYEpEo5G2p/s320/DSC01842.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>April 11: </b>People play music and dance at night in Washington
Square Park, much like they did throughout the summer of 2020. After midnight,
the NYPD performs a massive raid with what look like hundreds of officers in
riot gear and on bicycle. They chase people out of the park and through the
streets around NYU. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNi772Dj8QA/" target="_blank">Watch video of the raid on Instagram</a>)<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>April 21: </b>Mayor de Blasio announces a major initiative to
bring tourists back to New York City. The marketing campaign has a budget of
$30 million.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>May 1:</b> All of the sidewalk vendors along Canal Street and 34<sup>th</sup>
Street are cleared out. Mostly Black and brown New Yorkers and immigrants, they
have been here since early in lockdown 2020. One block of Canal had become so
culturally inflected, it was informally named “Little Senegal.” In both
locations, police officers tell me “these people are not allowed here anymore”
and “It’s a new initiative.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWHeyosscUVtLAJGQ-c2spnZ1t3urAMUX1MoFu7NLA_h2COf3kU26SaSIyDfEkfGLqGeIBYYoLmhyphenhyphen9AD4uTSMgtY-N9QwixU5nruNQdRvQkS7nWLiCdalWcONhTvJc7EUlKbUiFoJo6jo/s2048/DSC00704.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1651" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWHeyosscUVtLAJGQ-c2spnZ1t3urAMUX1MoFu7NLA_h2COf3kU26SaSIyDfEkfGLqGeIBYYoLmhyphenhyphen9AD4uTSMgtY-N9QwixU5nruNQdRvQkS7nWLiCdalWcONhTvJc7EUlKbUiFoJo6jo/s320/DSC00704.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>May 3: </b>Governor Cuomo announces a “major reopening” for New
York on May 19. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>May 6: </b>In the Village, Christopher Park is closed early and
padlocked, but only on Thursdays at 4:00 or 5:00pm, just before the Stonewall
Protest has its weekly rally, an event that has been going strong since July
2020. In addition, Federal Park Police are stationed with a car outside the
park and they routinely go in to patrol. Parkgoers report feeling intimidated.
Some leave, some relocate to Washington Square. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">All through the pandemic,
Christopher Park has been a haven for queer people, including many Black and
brown and transgender New Yorkers, who gather here for music, dance
performances, and camaraderie. The parkgoers are also of different classes,
from middle-class to poor and homeless, and everyone mixes in a friendly
atmosphere. More than one park-goer tells me the park closure is connected to
the Stonewall Protest because local residents—perhaps people who left New York in 2020 and
have now returned—have been complaining. I watch one young woman complain to
the Federal Park Police that she feels “afraid” of the people in the park and
suggests they are breaking the law by drinking outdoors and playing music (two
things that white, upper-class people do all over town during the pandemic).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRlkoCU8aPcWn71YkzCded91QHqEE0FlRsD932lLFSeuaAfjJeZg-NZ5kRx6R0ZjZL1U23uNR9MZeyJYdoFe3FaSWNnYzaUoZbxvXXuw6M6JEpb5gZAvY0GFWgsTsgKK3TtUb9Ja2lyx-/s4896/DSC01046.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRlkoCU8aPcWn71YkzCded91QHqEE0FlRsD932lLFSeuaAfjJeZg-NZ5kRx6R0ZjZL1U23uNR9MZeyJYdoFe3FaSWNnYzaUoZbxvXXuw6M6JEpb5gZAvY0GFWgsTsgKK3TtUb9Ja2lyx-/s320/DSC01046.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFok6Odp-iqX5hpPm8r3Zxx8Pq1mmu5yd-Xl_2LXMQbMfh8D9Xz10AHY4pvrsZu6F0jtz_HawCQRljD8rIcIsH1MhU2kaI2_VvHcFopj-WPjOo2YVkg7WwsaOfts8LhNaCmNYzHH2QtUM-/s4896/DSC01224.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFok6Odp-iqX5hpPm8r3Zxx8Pq1mmu5yd-Xl_2LXMQbMfh8D9Xz10AHY4pvrsZu6F0jtz_HawCQRljD8rIcIsH1MhU2kaI2_VvHcFopj-WPjOo2YVkg7WwsaOfts8LhNaCmNYzHH2QtUM-/s320/DSC01224.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>May 19: </b>Major reopening of New York City</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>May 22:</b> The NYPD performs another massive raid of Washington
Square Park, showing up again in riot gear. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPNBVpypOa1/" target="_blank">Watch video on Instagram</a>.)<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>May 28:</b> After many <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/washington-square-park-drug-den-horrifies-greenwich-village/" target="_blank">complaints</a> from well-organized neighbors, many of them property owners, the northwest corner of Washington Square Park is
barricaded shut and drug users are pushed out. These people have been in this
corner of the park for at least a year. They stayed to themselves and could be avoided, but now they move out
to other sections of the park and the Village.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Same day, a 10:00 p.m. curfew begins for Washington
Square Park on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, two hours earlier than
usual.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>June 2: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Parks Enforcement Police officers and
NYPD launch a sting to ticket bicyclists who ride through Washington Square
Park, something people have been doing without incident for the past year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>June 3: </b>Hostile architecture is added to the circular area
by the Garibaldi statue where skateboarders congregate. Large concrete planters
are placed strategically to stop people from skating.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74FTNKMDAnxZINRRLqWy2XyF1cwag_XKGHlxVtkWIb1LHvDMlbgK9MR6t9VFedp8wTbyC23pVcwXXYZUpuyFZSKDm39MFeD_3BC62MDE0DvX85n6DHiGe7QwF-FYgiPR3FbiUDVi2t1HV/s2048/DSC02020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74FTNKMDAnxZINRRLqWy2XyF1cwag_XKGHlxVtkWIb1LHvDMlbgK9MR6t9VFedp8wTbyC23pVcwXXYZUpuyFZSKDm39MFeD_3BC62MDE0DvX85n6DHiGe7QwF-FYgiPR3FbiUDVi2t1HV/s320/DSC02020.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>June 4: </b>The NYPD erects a large digital traffic sign by the
Washington Square Arch, spelling out the rules in light-up letters: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No Skating, Bicycle Riding. No Alcohol. No
Sound Devices</i>. Dozens of police patrol the park at night, telling people to
turn off any music. At 10:00 p.m., when curfew begins, cops in riot gear close
the park. People leave without incident. Some go to Union Square Park, which is
also closed, surrounded by police barricades. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dp_VFg9TFg-f7xjKjZuAQ38L5L_VsowhwAeY45kv2ZUZ8m38BtCWkotmJYJ9WnnV_7-hpdn8r1_wEFs0UVq5woL2TfOVW4hc8Cduzopfmf-hOJD430Oh0WHEiNYWwtbpry42f0WuCVf-/s4896/DSC02170.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dp_VFg9TFg-f7xjKjZuAQ38L5L_VsowhwAeY45kv2ZUZ8m38BtCWkotmJYJ9WnnV_7-hpdn8r1_wEFs0UVq5woL2TfOVW4hc8Cduzopfmf-hOJD430Oh0WHEiNYWwtbpry42f0WuCVf-/s320/DSC02170.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsRpziHhSCv6txvfo-nIPPmO7y_ewL0_b89PpbtaHWj5XvMyIz3ZGZB-OeqVs1wwaddZLH8JRMcm0byJTJkDBqLSBv1gRutgBKuFV-THz3Etp3xahkJcv8_oI8r06icF76HnWybPSU_Vl/s4896/DSC02238.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsRpziHhSCv6txvfo-nIPPmO7y_ewL0_b89PpbtaHWj5XvMyIz3ZGZB-OeqVs1wwaddZLH8JRMcm0byJTJkDBqLSBv1gRutgBKuFV-THz3Etp3xahkJcv8_oI8r06icF76HnWybPSU_Vl/s320/DSC02238.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXJL_vHTXeIm8EvGmzVMebPy-nwJG-s0jn1uS4899g3_bHTIYd2Z56S9LFDmEfn7JSC-FAA4tgwLlQb1ByPMwT6rc43fkE7uC4zWNrxI6GdUVpZ-ajpWcxSCkX_MP_g7tn7B-x5iv_6ON/s2048/DSC02250.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXJL_vHTXeIm8EvGmzVMebPy-nwJG-s0jn1uS4899g3_bHTIYd2Z56S9LFDmEfn7JSC-FAA4tgwLlQb1ByPMwT6rc43fkE7uC4zWNrxI6GdUVpZ-ajpWcxSCkX_MP_g7tn7B-x5iv_6ON/s320/DSC02250.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>June 5:</b> In Tompkins Square Park, the police stop the band
Pinc Louds from playing music. They shut the park down at 10:00 p.m., even
though no curfew has been announced.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Activists arrive at Washington Square to protest the curfew.
The police hit back violently with what look like hundreds of riot cops and SRG
troops on bicycle. Parkgoers and protesters are pepper-sprayed and beaten. Once
people are out of the park and the entrances are barricaded shut, the police
charge, chasing people down Thompson Street, all the way to Houston Street, in
a panicked stampede in which at least one person is trampled. In total, 23
people are arrested.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLtNKpvjwmo7Tckrl952oMIJhMfmeCzxOO_hxQJA0yGAFj5ZZgDz3JDyCOw4f6h7Zm3EZfrnqBl0RLZ2bXtAiGhmCbjtmH0oPHylQjqZKb3UpNVy3VvUrxkXRQFi9vl88PYQQP2pr7CyAz/s1202/Screen+Shot+2021-06-07+at+9.18.00+PM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLtNKpvjwmo7Tckrl952oMIJhMfmeCzxOO_hxQJA0yGAFj5ZZgDz3JDyCOw4f6h7Zm3EZfrnqBl0RLZ2bXtAiGhmCbjtmH0oPHylQjqZKb3UpNVy3VvUrxkXRQFi9vl88PYQQP2pr7CyAz/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-06-07+at+9.18.00+PM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBC-BUu9yhHufptBKNUErT1jUE7rfL15oYQAi8xgT1b4-SVWYCUWw-v1zV0yZ5hVadVR0vXHtJFYYIO2melPOl73QnCNt5jDaPAqb_oKsNmMiIrxdcM4wh4DbtI6IN-CfeLU5wPrsIxiVK/s2048/IMG_0332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBC-BUu9yhHufptBKNUErT1jUE7rfL15oYQAi8xgT1b4-SVWYCUWw-v1zV0yZ5hVadVR0vXHtJFYYIO2melPOl73QnCNt5jDaPAqb_oKsNmMiIrxdcM4wh4DbtI6IN-CfeLU5wPrsIxiVK/s320/IMG_0332.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>June 6:</b> In Tompkins Square Park, a Queer Prom is stopped by
the police and the park is shut again at 10:00 p.m
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">At Washington Square Park, after a negative backlash from
mayoral hopefuls and other politicians, the police do not enforce the curfew.
While several police vans are lined up on blocks nearby, they do not enter the
park and people are free to play music and dance. It feels again like the
joyful freedom of summer 2020.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQF7ydL98cPkMtYiiDeowP4Hz6gNAsB1auqB1k7k9JuDhPjrZOfhbfpVYfHHQZfwF2SwIl_VOSohHPDjJU7pD32UjCpQ_jA6YUL1hrnfMR7rVlB0AFVcqc1mbvcYWSqmQ_16dKgm1R2i6o/s2048/IMG_0455.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQF7ydL98cPkMtYiiDeowP4Hz6gNAsB1auqB1k7k9JuDhPjrZOfhbfpVYfHHQZfwF2SwIl_VOSohHPDjJU7pD32UjCpQ_jA6YUL1hrnfMR7rVlB0AFVcqc1mbvcYWSqmQ_16dKgm1R2i6o/s320/IMG_0455.jpg" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>June 7: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A police spokesperson tells The Village
Sun, “<a href="https://thevillagesun.com/police-washington-square-curfew-being-reassessed-park-stayed-open-sunday-night" target="_blank">Reassessment will be made</a> on the closing time of the park,” but Mayor de
Blasio says he will <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-07/nyc-mayor-backs-washington-square-curfew-amid-political-backlash" target="_blank">keep the 10:00 curfew</a> in place. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The latest news is that the NYPD has gone to the home of one of the
June 5 Washington Square activists and put him under arrest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style><p></p><p></p>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-32322587379411367032021-03-13T09:02:00.001-05:002021-03-15T08:55:31.270-04:00Eisenberg's<p><b> VANISHED</b></p><p>One of the greatest, and one of my favorites, has gone. After temporarily shuttering during the pandemic, <a href="https://eisenbergsnyc.com/flatiron/" target="_blank">Eisenberg's sandwich shop</a>, near the Flatiron since 1929, has closed for good. A For Lease sign is in the window.<br /></p><p>
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I went by yesterday and talked with building manager Jackie Valiente who told me that <b>she and the building owner would love to save Eisenberg's, but they need someone to take it over and keep it as it is.</b> "Someone who wants the old Eisenberg's," she said, "the old concept of New York." That concept, said customer Arnold Engelman, is simple. "Eisenberg's is what New York's all about," he told me. "People gathering in places they know, knowing the owners and the owners knowing them. This doesn't exist anymore."<br /><p></p><p>Arnold has been coming to Eisenberg's since he was a kid, growing up on 11th Street. Jackie has been eating at Eisenberg's since 1976. It's the kind of place you keep going to forever, always getting your favorite dish. I first went to Eisenberg's in 1995. I worked nearby and my boss took me, saying I had to have the best tuna salad sandwich on earth. He was right. I've never ordered anything else at Eisenberg's. It's been the tuna sandwich for 25 years.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3VFOBvr3CrOulsi84rckw60AvhvFSCvzZ0AGEljIv0TDZMGbXbEr5CoEZW1cLavenn7G2YsUDlxHm1Tyzbio7rgN_aVFd4AWV0skDaemL5QD58TuQOd6pk6VIdeti8k1rMx_lhfu3i0A4/s4896/DSC07675.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3VFOBvr3CrOulsi84rckw60AvhvFSCvzZ0AGEljIv0TDZMGbXbEr5CoEZW1cLavenn7G2YsUDlxHm1Tyzbio7rgN_aVFd4AWV0skDaemL5QD58TuQOd6pk6VIdeti8k1rMx_lhfu3i0A4/s320/DSC07675.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>When the place <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/05/eisenbergs-sandwich-shop.html" target="_blank">sold in 2018</a>, I panicked. I told the new owner, hotelier Warren Chiu, not to fuck it up and he didn't. He let it be. But the pandemic was too much to keep it going. I got take-out from Eisenberg's as much as I could during the spring and summer of 2020--and worried each time that it was my last dish of tuna salad sandwich, chips, and Cel-Ray from the place. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiEGHQOInzX4Dsj_Qnf_lFM5E47Jz1CAob2mGKqR5_OV-tjD5IXVCF6cy-uGANbcvlGjuSa-5h4BhmCJCDS5Rywn_nIn3CwpC4lUb0LjwQeRHLklipkM3_sgEovoqlVwH8rQoeVBhipgi/s1698/Screen+Shot+2021-03-13+at+8.58.25+AM.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiEGHQOInzX4Dsj_Qnf_lFM5E47Jz1CAob2mGKqR5_OV-tjD5IXVCF6cy-uGANbcvlGjuSa-5h4BhmCJCDS5Rywn_nIn3CwpC4lUb0LjwQeRHLklipkM3_sgEovoqlVwH8rQoeVBhipgi/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-03-13+at+8.58.25+AM.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last meal, with Purell<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p>Is there a chance for a Hail Mary?<br /></p><p>"Tell people we need someone to save Eisenberg's," Jackie told me. Angels have shown up before. When Josh Konecky took it over about fifteen years ago, he kept it as it was--greasy and authentic--and people flocked, crowding the red swivel stools for miles. Recently, customers stepped in to save the Astor barber shop, taking it over and leaving it just as it should be. This can happen and it needs to happen for Eisenberg's--soon.</p><p>The shop's slogan is "You either get it or you don't," and Jackie says, "We need someone who gets it. Or else there's no use." Unfortunately, <b>"The only offers we've got are from a pizza place and a Starbucks." </b>Either option would be an absolute tragedy and a slap in the face of this legendary and greatly beloved spot. </p><p>If you're an angel and you "get it," please step up and save Eisenberg's. If you're a pizza place or Starbucks, please fuck right off and die. </p><p>Jackie says the best way to reach out is to contact the brokers at Cushman & Wakefield: Sean Moran 212-841-7668 or Molly Sandza 212-841-7955.
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<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2018/05/eisenbergs-sandwich-shop.html">Eisenberg's sold</a><br />
<a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2007/10/eisenbergs-sandwich-shop.html" target="_blank">Eisenberg's Not Vanishing</a><br />
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"This is not goodbye," <a href="http://bluestockings.com/?fbclid=IwAR3P1J2hwgqhG23_t94UfQ3CQPbEyrxChhk6vFnSnQ_LaZTLWW2f4g0zxIU">they write</a>. "This is 'wait for our new location announcement,' hopefully soon."<br />
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"Though we wish we were making this decision on our own terms, our decision has been forced by the demands of our landlord for more money and by their inaction on necessary repairs to the structural damage our wild little slice of space has endured over these last 21 years."<br />
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Let's hope they stay in the neighborhood of the Lower East Side, though that seems rather unlikely. UPDATE: So happy to hear that Bluestockings bookstore has the keys to their new home--still on the LES--at 116 Suffolk! Here's a chance to <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-new-home-for-bluestockings-in-the-les?fbclid=IwAR3VztEGLcftJClHlbG1SvTGYYIjsGTPaJmmOC1_vu2fIE4105pzlO5KKBU">send them some money</a> for their move. </p>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-84242517376616507562020-07-13T08:44:00.001-04:002020-07-17T14:10:12.053-04:00Odessa<b>VANISHING</b><br />
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UPDATE: False alarm! Now they say <a href="https://gothamist.com/food/east-villages-odessa-restaurant-not-actually-closing-just-renovating-owner-says">they're just renovating</a>.<br />
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Back in 2013, <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/09/odessa.html" target="_blank">the old Odessa closed</a>. This Odessa was also known as the "dark" Odessa. It was the first Odessa and the one I loved best. Now the new Odessa, also known as a the "light" Odessa, is closing.<br />
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<i>Odessa in miniature by <a href="http://callicoonfinearts.com/artists/nicholas-buffon/" target="_blank">Nicholas Buffon</a></i><br />
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When the old Odessa still existed, I didn't go much to the new Odessa because it felt redundant and too new when it opened back in 1990-whenever. Then, when the old Odessa closed, I went to the new Odessa (which was no longer new) because it was no longer redundant and, in fact, was one of the only places left in the East Village where you could get a simple diner meal and not be surrounded by the worst people.<br />
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Now it's closing. Their last day will be July 19.<br />
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You can't go inside to sit and eat because we're in a pandemic, remember? But you can order something to go and while you wait you can imagine that you're sitting inside, as if it's a normal day, in a normal time, and everything is not on the verge of disappearing forever.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-326747192338093682020-06-29T08:40:00.002-04:002020-06-29T12:53:51.494-04:00Washington Square BloodiedIn the aftermath of <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-officers-arrest-and-pepper-spray-queer-liberation-march-protesters" target="_blank">yesterday's incident of police brutality against New Yorkers</a> participating in the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality, someone has made a bold statement in Washington Square Park.<br />
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Early this morning, I went by the park to find the statues of George Washington on the Arch vividly splattered in blood-red paint. (Below his feet on one side, graffiti from weeks ago still shows "fuck12 since 1492.")<br />
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On the other side of the arch, more blood splatter. (Above more faded graffiti: "Stolen Lands FTP.")<br />
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Crime scene body outlines ring the fountain, one after another, their torsos and heads blasted with red as if shot dead.<br />
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While some of the paint was still wet, bits of rubber balloon left behind, detectives surveyed the incendiary work of graffiti art.<br />
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A cooler full of watery, blood-red paint stands open before the spectacle.<br />
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This will be temporary, paint washes off, but the lives lost to police brutality will never be made whole. This statement is a reminder that the city has blood on its hands. Yesterday's violence erupted when police arrested people for graffiti--and the crowd of queers resisted. We might <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/16/221821224/it-could-have-been-me-the-1983-death-of-a-nyc-graffiti-artist" target="_blank">remember Michael Stewart</a>, a graffiti artist killed by the NYPD in 1983. And Stonewall, as we all know, was a riot.<br />
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There's a tradition of putting political graffiti on the Washington arch. It has survived it. Many times. It'll survive again.<br />
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<i><a href="https://gvshp.org/blog/2017/12/06/new-york-city-from-the-1970s-to-9-11-through-the-lens-of-meredith-marciano/">Meredith Jacobson Marciano, 1978</a></i><br />
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<i><a href="https://www.6sqft.com/carole-tellers-changing-new-york-captures-the-citys-20th-century-transformation/">Carole Teller, 1980</a></i><br />
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<b>*UPDATE: </b>Within a few hours, the statue is made white again:<br />
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<i>photos of cleaning by Ann Pellegrini</i><br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-33577819751796310002020-06-10T21:36:00.002-04:002020-06-10T21:36:16.904-04:00Fear City: 2020In 1975, when Mayor Abe Beame planned to lay off thousands of firefighters, police, and other law enforcement officers, their unions, operating under the name Council for Public Safety, took revenge by printing up a harrowing leaflet designed to keep tourists out of New York. <br />
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Entitled “<a href="https://flashbak.com/welcome-fear-city-new-york-city-1975-399218/">Welcome to Fear City</a>,” it featured a grim reaper on the cover. The advice included: (1) Stay off the streets after 6 p.m., (2) Do not walk; (3) Avoid public transportation, i.e., "never ride the subway for any reason whatsoever”; (4) Remain in Manhattan, restricting your movements to Midtown only; and five more helpful tips written for the express purpose of scaring the daylights out of New York’s 16 million already nervous tourists. <br />
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Now someone quite clever, who knows their New York history, has revised the pamphlet for today. At a Black Lives Matter rally in Bryant Park, I came upon this new version, a Survival Guide for protesters in New York.<br />
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On the front, the old Grim Reaper skull has been refashioned wearing a police officer's hat with the letters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C.A.B." target="_blank">ACAB</a>.<br />
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Inside is a guide to what to do if you're arrested, how to deal with pepper spray and stingray trackers, what to wear to a protest, and more. <br />
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There's no credit for the creator of the pamphlet, but readers are directed to <a href="https://linktr.ee/acab">linkt.ree/acab</a> to make donations to the movement, sign petitions, and get more information.<br />
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Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-68596514285321604392020-06-10T12:07:00.004-04:002020-06-10T12:17:07.051-04:00Record Mart<b>VANISHED</b><br />
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After 62 years, Record Mart, "<a href="http://www.recordmartnyc.com/history.html" target="_blank">the oldest record store in Manhattan</a>," has closed.<br />
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<i>photo: <a href="https://twitter.com/bourgwick/status/1197995291275911169/photo/1">Jesse Jarnow</a></i><br />
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I was last inside Record Mart in December. I worried about it then and bought a few things. I also took this video. A little moment of joy under the ground at Times Square.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-62566795049562587032020-05-31T13:08:00.004-04:002020-05-31T13:27:35.104-04:00Downtown Protest for Black Lives MatterYesterday, I marched with the Black Lives Matter rally and protest that kicked off from Union Square and traveled to the West Side Highway and through the Village. I broke off there, but they continued their march, until night fell and they settled back at Union Square.<br />
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In the dark, the protest turned into a rebellion, some call it a riot, as protesters smashed and set fire to police vehicles and broke the windows of nearby bank chains.<br />
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I went back out around 10:30 p.m when the streets of the East Village were silent, except for the sound of police helicopters overhead.<br />
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Second Avenue was covered in trash and burned mattresses left on the sidewalk by the people who've moved out after coronavirus. Protesters had smashed windows and Link surveillance kiosks, leaving the streets littered with broken glass and the charred remains of mattresses.<br />
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On Broadway, between 8th and 12th Streets, the protesters were quiet behind a police barricade. Some lit fires in trash cans strewn into the street.<br />
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Then a shift came and a stampede of protesters ran downtown, dancing and singing, in jubilation. They smashed the windows of the Wells Fargo bank in three loud whoomps and then continued down into SoHo, where they would spend the night smashing banks and looting major chain stores, including Adidas, North Face, and Urban Outfitters.<br />
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Walking uptown, another sudden shift came near 9th Street and I was caught in a group running in panic from the police. I pivoted and twisted my ankle as a bicycle cop tackled a young woman, pushing us both into the iron fence at Grace Church, where I managed to get away.<br />
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This morning, the damage up and down Second Avenue in the East Village and Broadway into SoHo is considerable. While the group hit a few small businesses, they mostly targeted banks--I counted 11 smashed and/or covered in graffiti--and large corporate chain stores.<br />
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The targets seem consistent with the overall messaging of the protesters. <br />
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The Adidas store, looted:<br />
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Clothing hangers litter Houston Street:<br />
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In the Journeys store, among the broken glass, a message left behind:<br />
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Swatch store, looted -- emptied out:<br />
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Starbucks smashed:<br />
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Bank of America smashed:<br />
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In the middle of Broadway, in front of Bloomingdale's, a mini police car sits charred and turned on its side:<br />
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At least 5 polices vehicles were left smashed and/or charred by fire. Most can be found parked on University Place just below Union Square:<br />
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Messages were spray-painted onto Broadway in Union Square and onto the Citibank:<br />
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Including one for Governor Cuomo:<br />
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Most of the graffiti around town was anti-cop, anti-capitalism, and in memory of George Floyd:<br />
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This one says, "We'll change the world with flowers or we'll change the world with guns":<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-81730039469711079542020-05-29T14:14:00.002-04:002020-05-29T14:15:08.467-04:00Foley's<b>VANISHED</b><br />
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Another small-business casualty of the coronavirus shutdown, <a href="https://www.foleysny.com/" target="_blank">Foley's pub on West 33rd </a>has closed for good.<br />
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This afternoon, owner Shaun Clancy posted a sad <a href="https://twitter.com/FoleysNY/status/1266403932156370945">video on Twitter</a> to say, "Foley's won't reopen. Just with everything that's going on, there's just no way that I see that we can do it."<br />
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He thanks his customers and family, and concludes, "This is the end of the inning, but not the end of the game."<br />
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Foley's, located in an antique barroom featuring many original features, overflows with a stunning array of baseball memorabilia.<br />
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I've enjoyed a few burgers there over the years and once got <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2015/02/foleys.html" target="_blank">an impromptu tour from Shaun's father, John Clancy</a>, who pointed out the pistol he got from mobster Frank Costello and told about his days working at Toots Shor's, serving Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason.<br />
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Foley's was a true New York original. Pour one out.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-77253856790063526382020-05-25T21:54:00.001-04:002020-05-25T21:54:02.868-04:00New York in the Time of a PandemicWhat's it like on the streets of the city during the pandemic? In my recent travels, mostly around Manhattan, I've seen so much of the beauty, spontaneity, and eccentricity that makes New York feel like New York.<br />
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I am <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mossvanishingnewyork/">posting the photos on my Instagram page</a> and hope you'll take a look. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25C8OTwy534Sl14I9wteZ2Vlug6gvxiNZ9PhauXV3bf70VHQ8KmI3qKLaFveWGxVlA1yaVCJ8X5a7CvTTKASlPc7fsRJ8jEpso-OLhHj5LWKnwhLgHutuZNmpdTqkQkzOfjONwQNwTn1b/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-05-25+at+9.52.20+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1190" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25C8OTwy534Sl14I9wteZ2Vlug6gvxiNZ9PhauXV3bf70VHQ8KmI3qKLaFveWGxVlA1yaVCJ8X5a7CvTTKASlPc7fsRJ8jEpso-OLhHj5LWKnwhLgHutuZNmpdTqkQkzOfjONwQNwTn1b/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-05-25+at+9.52.20+PM.jpg" width="320" /></a>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-73940824829513244192020-05-19T07:17:00.003-04:002020-05-19T07:36:32.657-04:00John Jovino Gun Shop<b>VANISHED</b><br />
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John Jovino, the oldest gun shop in the United States, has closed for good after 109 years in business in Little Italy.<br />
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Founded in 1911 by John Jovino, and <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/03/guns-of-centre-market.html">originally located in the gun center around the corner</a> on Centre Market Place, the store was purchased by the Imperato family in the 1920s and has been run by <a href="https://www.guns.com/news/2014/03/06/john-jovino-gun-shop" target="_blank">Charlie Hu</a> since 1995. It's been featured in many films, including <i>Mean Streets</i> and <i>Serpico</i>, and its famous wooden revolver sign has been a landmark in the neighborhood for over a century.<br />
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<i>Charlie removed his mask briefly for this socially distanced shot. </i><br />
<i>All photos by Stacie Joy.</i><br />
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Charlie, also known as "Gun King Charlie," was packing up the shop this week and graciously consented to speak with Vanishing New York about the end of an era. Stacie Joy visited with her camera and listened to Mr. Hu tell his story. Like many small business people who are forced to close, having a compassionate ear is an important part of saying goodbye.<br />
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"I turned away interviews from NBC, CBS, CNN, and the <i>New York Times</i>," Charlie said. "I only want to talk to you. I’m very emotional right now, as you can see, I am having a rough day. Everything is super sad. I'm glad you are here."<br />
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Charlie recalled the difficulties of running the shop years ago. The Italian mafia and the Chinese gangs both wanted protection fees, but Charlie refused. When they threatened him, he told them, “If you want to shoot me, shoot me right here,” and pointed to his heart. You had to establish toughness back then and Charlie was tough. “I don’t care," he told the gangsters. "I don’t give a shit, you do what you want.” They left Charlie alone. He outlasted them.<br />
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As a Chinese immigrant, and the first Chinese gun dealer in the U.S., he faced racism and hatred on a regular basis. He recalled how people would come into the shop and give him trouble for not speaking English with his wife. They threatened him, spat on him, called him racial slurs, and told him to "go back to China." But Charlie was tough. He outlasted them.<br />
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Charlie showed off the gun he keeps holstered at his hip. A Beretta 84 .380 pistol, it was clearly loved, oiled and cared for. He keeps it with him all the time and even featured it on <a href="https://neighborhood-spot.com/product/jovinoblacktee/" target="_blank">the shop's iconic t-shirt</a>. <br />
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“This is my gun," he said, pointing to the shirt. "It’s my design and it’s been the same price from the beginning. The price never increases and never decreases." <br />
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Charlie's phone kept ringing, as phones do on the last days of small businesses. Each time, it was another member of NYPD's top brass calling to check on him, ask how he's doing, and thank him for his decades of service.<br />
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Over the years, Charlie gained many friends in the NYPD, as he worked hand-in-hand with law enforcement to keep illegal guns off the streets. Charlie is proud of this--and of his dedication to the shop.<br />
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"All my life," he said, "I've never taken a vacation or a sick day. I never had any violations. And now this is the end of the world. My whole life went into this."<br />
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As he put away the many awards he received over the years, tears rolled down his cheeks and into his mask. It was not his choice to close the shop. This is not how he wanted it to end.<br />
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The rent, he said, is the number one reason for closing. And then the coronavirus, shutting down business. There's also the trouble with regulations, the slow-down in shipments of ammunition, and people buying on the Internet instead of from their local shop. Finally, Charlie said, “I’m old, I’m 74 years old, I was born in 1946, I am old.” <br />
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He'll be retiring after this. He hopes to travel, once the restrictions are lifted, and he's getting offers to teach and advise for security firms in Asia. He's considering it. But saying goodbye hasn't been easy.<br />
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A text came into his phone from his boss, Mr. Imperato.<br />
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“You are completing the mission,” he told Charlie.<br />
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“Thanks, boss," Charlie replied. "With my tears.”<br />
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<b>Post Script:</b><br />
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I always loved seeing the three-dimensional sign and the colorful targets and posters in the windows of John Jovino. Last week, I wondered <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/05/jovinos-gun.html" target="_blank">what happened to the antique wooden gun </a>that hung from the sign.<br />
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On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Jovino-Gun-Shop/122009821191126">Facebook</a>, I read that Charlie sold it to a man who makes gun sculptures.<br />
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<i>via Facebook</i><br />
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He was very happy to get it and it's now sitting in a studio in Brooklyn before it is moved to Los Angeles. Another little piece of the city's heart.<br />
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For historical photos of the shop and its big revolver, see my <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/03/guns-of-centre-market.html" target="_blank">previous stories here</a> and <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/05/jovinos-gun.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<i>via Facebook</i>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-22774067994324955512020-05-18T14:37:00.006-04:002020-05-18T14:48:09.243-04:00Gem Spa Dismantling ContinuesThe dismantling of our dearly departed Gem Spa continues today. After <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/05/gem-spa-sign.html" target="_blank">yesterday's removal of the lighted signs and yellow awnings</a>, workers are carefully removing another, more delicate sign.<br />
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Previously hidden, the sign has GEM SPA painted on glass.<br />
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Owner Parul Patel tells me it appeared in a number of movies, including <i>200 Cigarettes</i> (which I recommend only for the scenes of the East Village in the 90s--<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2014/03/200-cigarettes.html" target="_blank">I wrote about it here</a>).<br />
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<i>200 Cigarettes</i><br />
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Parul told me the signs are safely in storage. She hopes that one day, on the other side of the pandemic, there might be another life for Gem Spa. Who knows? <br />
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In the meantime, there is still <a href="https://gemspanyc.com/">merch</a>.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-71636359112681757742020-05-18T07:35:00.000-04:002020-05-18T07:35:01.647-04:00Vinny PeanutsI missed this sad news, until I saw this memorial on a wall of plywood at Mulberry and Grand in Little Italy.<br />
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Vincent Cirelli Sabatino, lovingly known as Vinny Peanuts, died on April 13 from complications of COVID-19. He was 68 years old. His family posted the announcement on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-8mp3UhRow/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.<br />
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He ran Vinny's Nut House, a fixture on the corner for nearly 50 years. At the Feast of San Gennaro, the stand was always brightly lit and busy, with Vinny cutting big bricks of torrone with a knife and a hammer. It was a beautiful thing.<br />
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Vinny was one of the last holdouts of authentic Little Italy. As he told <a href="https://pavementpieces.com/as-little-italy-changes-some-resist/">Pavement Pieces</a> a decade ago, “There’s no more Italians left. There are no more stands like me. Before, there used to be 10 stands down just this one block that sold Italian food, just like mine. Now, I’m the only one left.” <br />
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I always got his lemon cookies, which were the best. Just the best.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-14058926256977215572020-05-17T15:30:00.004-04:002020-05-17T22:18:55.394-04:00Gem Spa SignIt's happening. Right now. The Gem Spa sign has been removed from the building. The yellow awning is going with it.<br />
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Thanks to Michael Quinn for sending in these sad shots of the wreckage:<br />
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The word "iconic" gets thrown around quite a bit when it comes to New York's classic small businesses, but with Gem Spa, it fits. <br />
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Earlier this month <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/05/gem-spa.html">we learned that Gem would be closing for good</a>, felled by greed and coronavirus crisis, after decades of standing sentinel on St. Mark's Place, and after a long battle in which many of us tried like hell to keep it alive.<br />
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As long as the sign stood, it felt like Gem was still there, just waiting for the shutdown to lift, and maybe there was still a chance.<br />
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This is truly the end. <br />
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And into a U-Haul:<br />
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Update: Parul tells me, "We will be auctioning the signs, the gates, the egg cream fountain, and old milkshake machine. We are also trying to get the egg cream counter out and will auction that too if we can get it out. We are sad to be taking them down, but I did not want to leave it for the landlord to throw in the garbage or use it in the next business that comes there if they rent it to someone. It is going to storage for now and quite a few people have already asked to buy it."<br />
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Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-39088332077847169892020-05-13T22:44:00.003-04:002020-05-19T07:59:26.723-04:00Jovino's GunWhat happened to the wooden revolver hanging off the sign of John Jovino's in Little Italy? (<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-jovino-gun-shop.html" target="_blank">See my update here on the fate of the sign--and the closing of the shop</a>.)<br />
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It was there and now it's gone. Maybe they put it away for safekeeping during the coronavirus shutdown?<br />
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Jovino's has been in business since 1911 and used to be around the corner on Centre Market Place, before the block was luxurified by the Novogratz family. (<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/03/guns-of-centre-market.html" target="_blank">I wrote all about it here.</a>)<br />
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I don't know how old this particular Jovino gun is, but an earlier version of it shows up in a photo by the great crime photographer Weegee, who lived in a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7V-pF3NpwoKFmkfxG8CW6SEHZ6igx8_oJCcjI-8MEXXgeA9C8hwhoGNmpGCWDN3FcGEdibFjJFms7W7A2oWMBci9f3UM1d1XBjpv7qMJMadH1iDwDngjWA2tYLp_hLbL1JRLxpBunRjE/s1600-h/Co-workers+gave+him+his+name+after+the+rage+of+the+time,+the+ouija+board.+His+prescience+was+aided+by+the+police+and+fire+department+shortwave+radios+he+installed+near+his+bed.JPG">one-room apartment</a> above the shop from the mid-1930s until 1947.<br />
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<i>Weegee</i><br />
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The gun also made an appearance in the 1973 Al Pacino movie <i>Serpico</i>. It makes for a very photogenic antique sign and I hope it returns.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-19317218838485745042020-05-12T22:01:00.000-04:002020-05-12T22:01:01.366-04:00Movie PopcornIf you miss going to the movies and enjoying a big bucket of popcorn, well, you can still enjoy one of those things. The wonderful <a href="https://www.citycinemas.com/villageeast/showtimes-and-tickets/coming-soon" target="_blank">Village East Cinema</a> is selling movie popcorn to go -- including big, big bags of movie popcorn -- every day from 4:00 - 7:00pm.<br />
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So why not get your buttery fix and support a historic and beloved East Village theater at the same time? Win win! (Get it at East 12th and Third Ave.)<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-75588078506250351522020-05-10T20:50:00.001-04:002020-05-10T23:24:12.287-04:00I Happen to Like New YorkEven though the <i>New York Times</i> and other major media outlets keep repeating the idea that New York City is dead in the coronavirus shutdown, let's not give up on it yet. There are signs of life out there. Even in grief and absence, the soul of the city is thrumming, playing in a lower register, quieter and more inward.<br />
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I made <a href="https://youtu.be/QqssmQl0d1g">this short video</a> from photos and films I've been taking around town since the beginning of the shutdown. The spirit of the city, the beauty and life, is here. You just have to look a little harder for it.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-60487521620261245062020-05-07T21:10:00.001-04:002020-05-07T21:18:41.588-04:00Gem Spa<b>VANISHED</b><br />
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Another nail has been hammered into the coffin of St. Mark's Place, and the East Village, as Gem Spa has shuttered for good.<br />
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The dearly beloved shop's owner, Parul Patel, confirmed the sad news. The landlord, she told me, would not reduce or freeze the rent during the pandemic shutdown, nor would he promise not to evict the business when they were late on rent at this difficult time. The debt just kept adding up and they could not go on.<br />
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We all knew this was coming, though we hoped against hope. Many of us tried to save it--<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2019/09/gem-spa-to-schitibank.html" target="_blank">converted it into a Schitibank</a>, <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2019/09/gem-spa-cash-mob.html" target="_blank">cash mobbed it</a>, celebrated its bohemian history, raised money for it, even <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/03/quarantined-cash-mob.html" target="_blank">Quarantine Cash Mobbed it</a>--but in the pandemic there is no bouncing back.<br />
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<b>"It is heartbreaking," Parul told me. "We truly have the best customers in the world. We consider our customers to be family. I don't think any other business has seen this amount of incredible support and love."</b><br />
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Parul says she will keep the website going, with Gem Spa history and with merchandise for sale--<a href="https://gemspanyc.com/" target="_blank">check it out and buy some</a> while it lasts, to support the Patel family and help them recoup their losses. <br />
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Mom and pops, already struggling under high rents and difficult landlords, simply will not survive the coronavirus crisis. They could have--if the city had any real compassionate, progressive leadership.<br />
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For years, New York's City Council had the chance to protect small businesses like Gem Spa. They could have passed the Small Business Jobs Survival Act. They could have passed commercial rent regulation. But they didn't. They did nothing. And now the city's already strained mom and pops are dying under the unbearable stress of the coronavirus shutdown. When the city finally reopens, there will be nothing left but the chains.<br />
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As Penny Arcade put it on Facebook, <b>Gem Spa was "the beating heart of the East Village and The LES... No good can come out of it closing and, in the end, the erasure of history victimizes even the people who hurry it along."</b><br />
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<i>my last Gem Spa egg cream, Egg Cream Day, March 2020</i><br />
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In a recent <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca">article</a>, author Arundhati Roy called the pandemic a portal, "a gateway between one world and the next," in which humans have the chance to imagine a new world. The pandemic has brought the engine of capitalism to a halt, she says, "And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality."<br />
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It is too late for Gem Spa and many others, but it is not yet too late for New York. Now is the time to press for real change in this city. We must not return to the terrible normal. We must demand a new world.<br />
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<b>Previously:</b><br />
<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/02/gem-spa-not-closed.html" target="_blank">Gem Spa History</a> <br />
<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2019/09/gem-spa-to-schitibank.html" target="_blank">Gem Spa to Schitibank</a><br />
<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2019/06/gem-spa-to-citibank.html" target="_blank">Gem Spa Not Vanishing Yet</a><br />
<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2019/09/gem-spa-cash-mob.html" target="_blank">Gem Spa Cash Mob</a><br />
<a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/05/at-gem-spa.html" target="_blank">A Moment at Gem Spa</a><br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-26915534850285940042020-05-05T18:54:00.001-04:002020-05-05T18:54:09.787-04:00Paris Cafe<b>VANISHED</b><br />
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The <a href="https://pariscafenyc.com/">Paris Cafe</a> at South Street Seaport is no more. After being in business since 1873 and surviving the numerous trials and tragedies of history, including a <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2013/02/the-paris-cafes-twisted-road-back-after-sandy/">comeback from Hurricane Sandy</a>, it could not survive the coronavirus shutdown of the city.<br />
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On their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheParisCafe/">Facebook page</a>, they announced:<br />
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"To all our wonderful patrons and friends I would like to extend a sincere thanks and a fond farewell from The Paris Cafe. Through no fault of anyone but the outbreak of this virus we are unable to forge a way forward that makes economic sense. We had no option but to close our doors. Hope springs eternal and perhaps with a change in the economic climate we may find our way back. With all our hearts we say thank you for all the fun, friendships and laughter as well as the few shillings spent. My thoughts are with our lovely staff at this time and we would like to thank all who subscribed to our Go Fund Me fund which is gratefully appreciated by staff in need. Our friendships will remain strong and when the grey skies clear we will meet and be renewed."<br />
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<i>Lee Remick in front of the Paris Cafe, 1960 </i><br />
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<i>(thanks to a different Lee for the tip and the photo)</i>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-12960974765644432922020-04-20T08:57:00.003-04:002020-04-20T09:22:32.099-04:00Starbucks ReclaimedDuring the COVID-19 shutdown, some of the Starbucks outlets in the East Village remain open and some have closed for the duration. The one on East Third Street and First Avenue has closed.<br />
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It has been reclaimed by the homeless of the East Village, who have gradually constructed a large encampment around it -- a fate, however temporary, that seems somehow fitting for a chain location so hated by locals when it opened.<br />
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When this location first opened in 2012, it replaced The Bean, the locally owned coffee shop beloved by many.<br />
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East Villagers, angry that another corporate chain had replaced another local small business, protested by throwing eggs at the Starbucks and plastering it with posters that read, "Get the fuck out," among <a href="https://evgrieve.com/2011/12/east-village-rolls-out-welcome-wagon.html" target="_blank">other messages involving shit</a>.<br />
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<i><a href="https://evgrieve.com/2011/12/east-village-rolls-out-welcome-wagon.html">via EV Grieve</a></i><br />
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Years before, this location had been the Little Rickie shop. <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/02/little-rickie-vs-starbucks.html" target="_blank">Little Rickie was sued by Starbucks</a> in 1999 for selling stickers that changed the words on the Starbucks Coffee logo to say FUCK OFF. Starbucks sued a number of local businesses for distributing the stickers, including Alt Coffee on Avenue A.<br />
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Said the owner of Alt to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/11/nyregion/neighborhood-report-east-village-starbucks-was-not-amused.html" style="font-style: italic;">Times</a>, ''New York City is being mallified and when you start to sterilize things and limit choices, people in the East Village don't like it."<br />
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From the beginning of gentrification in the East Village, the removal of the homeless was a key strategy in turning the neighborhood over to corporations, big developers, and market-rate newcomers. That's what the <a href="https://gvshp.org/blog/2015/08/06/the-tompkins-square-park-riots-of-1988/" target="_blank">Tompkins Square Park riots</a> were all about in 1988--the city's NYPD swooping in to remove homeless people from the park, and the people fighting back against class war.<br />
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It's too early to know how the coronavirus shutdown will impact life in the East Village, and across the city, in the long-term. It is likely that many small businesses will permanently vanish, and that many chains will get government bailouts and remain. It's possible that all we'll be left with are Starbucks and others like it.<br />
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But, for now, there remains the possibility that some balance could return to our neighborhoods, once the tragedy of the pandemic recedes, that commercial and residential rents could come down, that big developers, corporations, and hyper-gentrifiers will lose some of their interest in New York, leaving space for mom and pops, artists, and other outsiders to return.<br />
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We have to find hope, even in the midst of so much uncertainty and pain.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-84321367385129994592020-03-26T15:58:00.001-04:002020-03-26T15:58:02.607-04:00Three Lives Goes OnlineGood news! You can still buy books from <a href="http://www.threelives.com/" target="_blank">Three Lives & Co.</a> and support them through the coronavirus shutdown of New York.<br />
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We do have some exciting news for all of you who have expressed dismay at our temporary closing. The coronavirus has managed something that big-box bookstores, online booksellers, superstorms, and building maintenance have failed to accomplish: driving us to the Internet! We have belatedly joined the twenty-first century and are introducing an online ordering system, which we hope will fill the gap between now and our reopening. Here is how it works:<br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUS297zZmIP44AvFo_XhVezMaA9FEstLB0nEObhlgWsQTtzg/viewform">You can fill out an order form here.</a> We will check on the availability of the books you want and get in touch with you directly to take your payment information. (We can only accept credit card payments at this time.) We are ordering from one of our regular distributors for direct delivery to our customers, which means we will be charging a UPS Ground fee of $7.95 for up to four books and $10.95 for five books or more.<br />
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You also can use the form to request gift certificates, which we will send to you via U.S. mail. And you are always welcome to order by emailing us at info@threelives.com if you would prefer not to use the form. We recognize that buying books remotely is not the same as browsing our physical space – we are itching to return too! – but we hope this stopgap measure will keep you in literature for the time being.<br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-33844746295675594962020-03-23T09:12:00.001-04:002020-03-23T09:13:43.708-04:00Robert HermanThe man who jumped to his death from the 16th floor of his Tribeca apartment building on Friday night has been <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8141371/Haunting-words-suicide-note-left-successful-New-York-City-photographer-64-Robert-Herman.html" target="_blank">identified</a> as photographer <a href="https://robertherman.com/">Robert Herman</a>. He left a note that read, "How do you enjoy life?"<br />
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Since the 1970s, Robert was one of New York's consummate street photographers, capturing the day-to-day life of the sidewalks with his camera and, most recently, with his iPhone. I met him once or twice, we had a similar love for the city, and he was always lovely and kind. He will be missed, along with all the photographs he will never get to take.<br />
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What follows is an interview I did with him <a href="https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/12/robert-hermans-new-yorkers.html" target="_blank">here</a> in 2013, on the publication of <a href="http://www.robertherman.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0&a=0&at=0">his beautiful book <i>The New Yorkers</i></a>, a vivid collection of his work from 1978 - 2005.<br />
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<i>all photos by Robert Herman</i><br />
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<b>How would you say the city of today compares visually to the city you captured in your book? </b><br />
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The city I photographed in the early 80’s is almost gone. Back then, it was a city of small businesses and storefronts. Where I lived in Little Italy, the shop owners would invariably recognize you when you walked in. Soho today is mostly a mall made up of corporate stores. I miss the graffiti that made for compelling commentary when juxtaposed in a photograph. The city is safer today, and I like that, but it feels less quirky and less alive.<br />
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<b>I like the signage of the small, old shops, the clutter, which is lacking in the chains' facades. What do you think is the visual difference between small, independent stores and big, corporate stores? And what is the feeling those visuals give you?</b><br />
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The difference between the corporate stores and the independents is that the look of the signage and displays are determined at a corporate level and done for multiple stores at the same time. The local store owner is creating the look for their storefront locally, and in reaction to the environment and neighborhood. All of this is obvious, but it is the independents that create the feeling of specificity of place: "only in New York."<br />
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<b>When I hear "only in New York," I also think of the people--people looking interesting, doing interesting things that can't be seen elsewhere. Are the people of New York as inspiring as they used to be to your photographer's eye? </b><br />
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The big difference today is that so many people are looking at their phones on the street, which doesn’t make for a compelling photo. Also, everyone is much more aware of the power of imagery because of social media. It’s harder to make a candid picture these days. The iPhone is a good camera for that, because it doesn’t attract attention like a big DSLR. It doesn’t scream "camera!" I’m very excited about a new body of work I’ve been making with the iPhone over the past three years in New York and around the world.<br />
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<b>Can you tell us about that work?</b><br />
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The iPhone photos began when I learned about the Hipstamatic app. I liked shooting in a square format and this was an opportunity to do that without using a medium format camera, as I had in the past. <br />
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I started using the iPhone/Hipstamatic when I was in Johannesburg about three years ago. I wasn't comfortable using a big DSLR when shooting on the streets. So, to ease myself into it, I made pictures with the iPhone and was pleased with the images I was getting. After that trip, I began shooting this way because sometimes changing the equipment sparks a new way of shooting. Presently, I'm having a book of these photos designed. It will be the follow up to <i>The New Yorkers</i>. A street photography book for the 21st century.<br />
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Street photography presents the same challenges regardless of the technology used to make a picture. Be it a Leica M or an iPhone or a Kodak Instamatic. That is, being observant and making strong pictures. <br />
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<b>There's a Starbucks in one of them! What are your thoughts about having contemporary chains in your photos? Are they interesting in themselves as symbols of today's city?</b><br />
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Life goes on, change is inevitable. I like Starbucks' blonde. What can I say.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGBptlZHvjwIUX1tFCKbGwf0paZTvEKPBwPIb03hQ3Z5MLubKZxXbThLwsw4g33sQFotsdwwxYU1WED-57q4Ng9QokGCDBPvfGsxpOr_m-rSTp7xN1KfYjA1AiOyH1DA-9cAuIoN37Heh/s1600/IMG_7762-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGBptlZHvjwIUX1tFCKbGwf0paZTvEKPBwPIb03hQ3Z5MLubKZxXbThLwsw4g33sQFotsdwwxYU1WED-57q4Ng9QokGCDBPvfGsxpOr_m-rSTp7xN1KfYjA1AiOyH1DA-9cAuIoN37Heh/s320/IMG_7762-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpeg" /></a>Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-91971228099007830192020-03-22T13:11:00.002-04:002020-03-23T08:06:12.234-04:00Bookstores Are EssentialTo slow the spread of coronavirus, New York is now on <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-pause-coronavirus-covid-19-stay-home?fbclid=IwAR1kslj6qt_dcnyLtvbSJXIfpCP5QgMHA-aoh6x_weudCKg7-vEkC26_RC4">PAUSE</a>, which includes the closure of all non-essential businesses. Essentials include grocery stores, liquor stores, pharmacies, hardware stores, and restaurants and bars that serve delivery and take-out only. Bookstores, however, are not, even though they also have the capacity to serve delivery and curbside pickup with social distancing. <br />
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Rebecca Fitting, co-owner of Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore, is leading the charge to get bookstores re-classified as essential and keep them open during PAUSE. She has sent a letter to Governor Cuomo, signed by several local bookstore owners, making the case for their necessity.<br />
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<i>At Greenlight, orders packaged for pick-up at the door</i><br />
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"We are urgently asking that you recategorize bookstores across New York State as an essential service," the letter states. "<b>In New York, both schools and libraries are closed and Amazon has announced they are de-prioritizing books and are no longer actively shipping them to consumers</b>. This is alarming because at the moment, bookstores now serve as one of the last sources for New York’s students and families to access education materials. In addition, we also provide both children and adults with home education and entertainment materials which are a necessity during these long periods of social distancing and isolation."<br />
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As she notes, "<b>New York bookstores already have safe distance protocols in place</b>, many of which are offering curbside pickup or delivery, where there is no physical interaction with customers. Our products are sanitized and require no physical interaction when exchanged between employee and customer. In addition, having bookstores deemed essential services would allow us the ability to continue to receive and send shipments of books to our customers." <br />
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Finally, "Bookstores in New York are often family-owned businesses with close-knit teams. In all these cases, <b>we would have a skeleton crew and practice the utmost due diligence of social distancing, hand washing, and sanitizing processes</b>. This would allow us to continue to employ our staff and ensure the survival of our businesses too."<br />
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<i>curbside pick-up at Three Lives & Co.</i><br />
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Yesterday I picked up books curbside at Three Lives & Co. in Greenwich Village. When I arrived, the doors were open and a table blocked the way, covered in packages of pre-ordered books for pickup. It was quick, easy, and everyone kept their distance. <b>Today is their last day open and they are slammed with business--everyone is scrambling to get new books before shutting in</b>. <br />
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*Update* The time for making bookstores essential has passed, but some store owners say that, after a period of PAUSE, it might be possible to return to a delivery-only system. Stay posted.<br />
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<b>- Please continue to support your local bookstore through this time by purchasing gift cards for future use</b><br />
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- You can <a href="https://medium.com/@cristin.stickles/mcnally-jackson-books-in-the-time-of-corona-how-you-can-help-bb0ed529286e" target="_blank">support the laid-off workers of McNally Jackson here</a><br />
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<br />Jeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.com0