Jeremiah's
Vanishing New York

The Gowanus building that houses the excellent Two Toms Restaurant is up for sale. A tipster on Twitter alerted me to the Trulia listin...

In Williamsburg, the Whisk kitchenware shop is being driven out by a massive rent hike. They've only been around for a decade, but even ...

Reader Mark Satlof writes in: " Court St. Office Supplies here in Downtown Brooklyn is going. They say they will be closing in about...

VANISHED It's the little places that make a neighborhood function like a neighborhood. Bodegas and other small, affordable markets are...

VANISHING Brooklyn music bar Hank's Saloon will close by the end of 2018. On Facebook , the owner writes: "the building was ...

VANISHING Frankel's clothing shop has been in Brooklyn for a very long time. Tucked into the shadows of the Gowanus Expressway in Sun...

The first building in the luxury mega-development replacing Williamsburg's Domino Sugar factory is now seeking tenants. 325 Kent just p...

VANISHING "I stay here," says Krystyna Godawa. "I'm not moving." For the past ten years, Krystyna has run the Pa...

From the Times , the view of gentrification from Cherry's Unisex in Bed-Stuy: “Gentrification is always on the periphery, always in th...

Tomorrow evening, January 31, the NYPL's Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar, Hugh Ryan, will be presenting on " The Queer Histories o...

This past fall, the journalist, author, and Village Voice editor Neil deMause published The Brooklyn Wars , the story of 21st-century hype...

VANISHING Publishers Weekly reports today that Brooklyn's beloved and excellent bookstore BookCourt will be closing at the end of thi...

Gleason's Boxing Gym , in DUMBO before it was fashionably DUMBO, moved locations yesterday. It hasn't gone far, just around the co...

Last week, Curbed shared photos from the marketing materials for the new luxury development of the former Domino Sugar refinery . The place...

Park Slope has a new Starbucks. A gigantic Starbucks. It recently opened on the corner of 7th Avenue and 9th Street in a part of the neighbo...

VANISHED Reader Christine writes in to let us know that Rocco's Calamari of Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn has closed abruptly aft...

It is 1996 and I’m in love with Coney Island. I’m in love with its decrepit, ancient buildings, crumbling but also vibrating with color and ...

Gentrification is slow. Hyper-gentrification is fast . We're really not dealing with old-fashioned gentrification anymore, as much as pe...