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Jeremiah's
Vanishing New York

a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
2007 - 2021

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Last Supper at The Riviera

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VANISHING The Riviera Cafe will have its last day of business tomorrow, on August 31, as previously reported here . So I went for a last m...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Poetry and Punk

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This summer, Columbia University Press published Do You Have a Band? Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City by Daniel Kane. I asked Daniel a...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

Clayworks

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VANISHING Clayworks pottery shop and studio has been on E. 9th Street since 1974. In mid-September, it will be forced to shutter. In ...
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Exorbitant Rent

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The Golden Food Market on 7th St. and 1st Ave. shuttered suddenly a few weeks ago. As Grieve reported at the time: An LLC bought the bui...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017

St. Mark's Starbucksed

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We knew it was coming, but still. To stroll out of Tompkins Square Park on a hot summer evening earlier this week and see a Starbucks, smack...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Village Voice

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The Village Voice is vanishing from the streets of New York--and something critical will go with it. Yesterday, the Hollywood Reporter a...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Taxi Parts

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Two years ago, a little taxi parts shop called, aptly, Taxi Parts, was forced out of its long-time home and moved to the East Village. Now i...
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Jeremiah Moss
THE BOOK:
"We should all buy Jeremiah Moss’s book, Vanishing New York." --Sarah Jessica Parker

“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and cheap pierogi.” --Vanity Fair

"a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus Reviews

THE BLOG:
"the go-to hub for those who lament New York's loss of character." --Crain's

"No one takes stock of New York's changes with the same mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit as Jeremiah Moss." --Village Voice, Best of NY

“Jeremiah Moss…is the defender of all the undistinguished hunks of masonry that lend the streets their rhythm.” --Justin Davidson, New York Magazine

"One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification." --The Atlantic, Citylab

"Hyperbolic and combative, tireless and passionate." --Salon
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