tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post6403931906024402880..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: HiFi BarJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-18000331181882871582017-12-20T15:18:59.894-05:002017-12-20T15:18:59.894-05:00I never went to Hifi. Brownies was a great venue t...I never went to Hifi. Brownies was a great venue though. I saw Cave In there, Botch/Isis. Lots of fun.Dave.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10097727652262770105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-47695431365121286082017-10-26T09:40:53.350-04:002017-10-26T09:40:53.350-04:00Mike Stuto wrote "Take your insults elsewhere...Mike Stuto wrote "<i>Take your insults elsewhere. The only solipsistic attitude here is yours.</i>"<br /><br />This sort of Trump-ian bitchy defensiveness is endemic today, and does nothing for the art of dialectic. A criticism is not an insult, except to those with the mentality of a typical guest of the Jerry Springer show. If you disagree with what I say, I'm happy to hear it. Your quote, to which I responded, didn't include the caveat that you were only referring to the time you lived in the East Village. It is, by definition, however, solipsistic to refer to the history of an area only by the parameters of your own time living there.Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07860208585189661470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-53360702867479549262017-10-24T11:53:41.631-04:002017-10-24T11:53:41.631-04:00"Not accurate, yet typical of the short-sight...<i> "Not accurate, yet typical of the short-sightedness of solipsistic New Yorkers, who are only interested in the world as it directly relates to them." </i><br /><br />I was referring to changes in the time that I've lived here. Has there not been a disappearance of blue-collar and bohemia in the past 20-30 years? Was it primarily farmland or forset in 1989? Take your insults elsewhere. The only solipsistic attitude here is yours.Mike Stutohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13073826086195825004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-84079883927373449342017-10-20T13:58:13.867-04:002017-10-20T13:58:13.867-04:00I miss Brownies. Fuck this town!I miss Brownies. Fuck this town!Tom Sgangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010433060305759041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-15127783636330270452017-10-19T16:06:10.203-04:002017-10-19T16:06:10.203-04:00The East Village *I* remember is from an even earl...The East Village *I* remember is from an even earlier time, the 1960s. So this place was after my day.<br /><br />I remember Les Deux Magots, the first paperback book store in the USA, etc.Andrew Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09303874382474271502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-18112959429882371932017-10-19T11:26:49.587-04:002017-10-19T11:26:49.587-04:00Appreciate this comment, I think you nailed it. I ...Appreciate this comment, I think you nailed it. I feel lucky that I got to experience some NYC Bohemia in my early 20s. How could one not see this coming. Cristine's Buddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764687031880578795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-54734820339942435232017-10-19T10:38:15.714-04:002017-10-19T10:38:15.714-04:00This sucks, but it's understandable. I'm g...This sucks, but it's understandable. I'm getting tired of this city. Time for the newbies to take it and run, and for me to find someplace that's still cool.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09876016557456927299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-91581520468951291172017-10-19T10:22:50.130-04:002017-10-19T10:22:50.130-04:00"According to Stuto, the area went from bohem..."<i>According to Stuto, the area went from bohemia and blue collar to something he never imagined would occur at his doorstep.</i>"<br /><br />Not accurate, yet typical of the short-sightedness of solipsistic New Yorkers, who are only interested in the world as it directly relates to them.<br /><br />The neighborhood went from forest to farmland to an early form of suburbia to lower working class neighborhood to slum to bohemia. Now it's a bourgeois simulacrum of a Midwestern middle class idea of "downtown," much as Epcot Center would portray it.<br /><br />Personally, I'd like to see it return to forest.Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07860208585189661470noreply@blogger.com