The excellent blog Lost City has now been lost from the city. Brooks says goodbye. [LC]
Historic ghost sign disappears from Houston St. [EVG]
The new South Ferry gets a Jetsony space station. [Restless]
The iguana from lost 61 5th Ave. gets a new home. [CR]
Gay youth shelter vandalized in Queens. Rally tonight. [HP]
The owner of Apotheke, the "speakeasy" on the wondrous Doyers St., has been arrested for his cocktail-fancy fire shows. [Eater]
Coney needs mermaids! [ATZ]
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- 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
In reference to the end of Lost City...as one of his fans detailed, the onslaught that has done so much harm to NYC in the past 10 years is coming to an end. It won't happen overnight, but it is happening. And not just here. The global economy is teetering on the edge of destruction, and all of the hubris and greed and vapid bloat that accompanied the credit and housing bubbles will wash away as the need for extreme austerity sets in. I'm generalizing, but to all those who mourn the death of New York, the pendulum always swings back. Yes, we'll be stuck with acres of abandoned luxury condos in various states of disrepair, but if you've lasted this long, hang on a bit longer. The sun always looks largest and most colorful just before it sets. And the culture of mindless, homogenized emptiness will also fade, and the city will be waiting for it's long lost children to reclaim the streets and alleys and rooftops.
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