tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post6639463823927875328..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: DeRobertisJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-48800259196654275732014-12-01T05:01:52.809-05:002014-12-01T05:01:52.809-05:00The population culture is changing. They don'...The population culture is changing. They don't care about old, mom/pop businesses. Also the middle class will disappear because, people will sell out to the high end developers to make a quick capital gain or the 'poor' will take over and make a 'ghetto', then gentrification comes in. Either way no middle class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-28056546785884231752014-11-30T16:09:42.041-05:002014-11-30T16:09:42.041-05:00I completely agree with the poster at 5:24. It'...I completely agree with the poster at 5:24. It's hard to listen to the owners of the store as they lament the homogenization of the neighborhood when they themselves are contributing to the unfortunate process by cashing out on high property values. If, in another case, a landlord did this in spite of the store owners, we would all stand against their decisionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-13086571700497982502014-11-28T15:54:53.520-05:002014-11-28T15:54:53.520-05:00I certainly love DeRobertis. For personal sentime...I certainly love DeRobertis. For personal sentimentality Venetos would also be a big hit.<br /><br />DeRobertis is like a jewel box.<br /><br />I will pay them a visit this week.Questiniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06225633428852696530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-33355255523088588992014-11-28T09:40:41.295-05:002014-11-28T09:40:41.295-05:00I have been moaning about the closure of DeRoberti...I have been moaning about the closure of DeRobertis but the poster at 5:24 makes an interesting point I hadn't considered. So many of the small landlords who own buildings in the neighborhood are selling out for big bucks. I guess the money is tempting and most of them don't live in the neighborhood so maybe they don't care what happens as a result of them cashing out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-28786350906291362822014-11-26T17:24:19.269-05:002014-11-26T17:24:19.269-05:00I wonder: does the author of this blog support the...I wonder: does the author of this blog support the family's right to sell the building for $12m?<br /><br />I ask in the context of proposing a regulatory framework to save small businesses - because, of course, these small business are folding under the crushing weight of real estate values that come about from family's selling their old buildings for $12m. <br /><br />This gets to the ugly truth of our era of hyper-gentrification: for every TD Bank & Starbucks going in, is an old-line NYC landlord who's making $$$ thru escalated rents or selling for a massive profit. <br /><br />Specifically: if the people selling this building did not also run the shop, wouldn't they be excoriated here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-13645788653872154522014-11-26T14:51:26.050-05:002014-11-26T14:51:26.050-05:00typo--thankstypo--thanksJeremiah Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-30126192058471962392014-11-26T14:36:42.022-05:002014-11-26T14:36:42.022-05:00That half-dollar is from 1821, not 1921, so it wou...That half-dollar is from 1821, not 1921, so it wouldn't have been in the floor for 93 years. From what I read, the building was built in the 1850s so it's not unlikely that it was put in there when the floor was put in.Mitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-26485691305414995022014-11-26T14:13:52.291-05:002014-11-26T14:13:52.291-05:00'Starbucks makes it this way.'
Both the c...'Starbucks makes it this way.'<br /><br />Both the cappuccino and the city.<br /><br />I would say it never ends, but unfortunately we both know that is not true; there aren't enough places with character and history left to make this an indefinite march. At some point in the next 5 years, there will be no need to update this blog anymore, and if you choose to keep it up, it will serve as an encyclopedia on the death of NYC exclusively in the past tense and nothing more. I hope you will because even now while there are scraps left, I find myself needing constant re-affirmation that it wasn't all a fucking figment of my imagination.JAZnoreply@blogger.com