Jeremiah's
Vanishing New York

For its opening weekend, Hudson Yards, aka Dubai on the Hudson, is crammed with people. They walk the glistening floors of the luxury shoppi...

Next Tuesday, October 24 at 6:30pm, the editors of the book Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevat...

In 2015, the Chelsea restaurant La Lunchonette was forced to close , thanks to the High Line Effect . It had been in business there, and bel...

For years, the block of West 28th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues was a quiet one, wide open and low rising. It was auto-body shops, ...

You can now take home a piece of La Lunchonette. Owner Melva Max is selling many of the items from the restaurant this week. She writes on F...

When La Lunchonette closed on New Year's Eve , forced out of business after the landlord sold the building, I wondered what would replac...

You may recall that last fall I reported that La Lunchonette would be forced to close, thanks to the High Line Effect that is sweeping smal...

Veterans Chair Caning opened for business in New York City in 1899. Since the High Line opened and the Hudson Yards monstrosity began to ris...

About a decade ago, Damon Hoydysh, founder of Highline Studios , climbed up onto the old, pre-gentrified High Line and shot a whole bunch of...

VANISHING When Melva Max and her husband Jean-François Fraysse moved their restaurant La Lunchonette from the Lower East Side to the remot...

Brian Rose's book Metamorphosis: Meatpacking 1985 & 2013 is about to come off the presses. It features incredible photos of the mea...

After being forced to close in March 2013, after 34 years in business , the Rawhide bar was set to become a California pizza chain. That did...

Award-winning Village Voice cartoonist M. Wartella has just published a book of his work, Wartella's Strip Show . I picked one up rece...