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Jeremiah's
Vanishing New York

a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
2007 - 2021

Thursday, February 10, 2011

*Everyday Chatter

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"Local" discovers dive bars --finds them not as luxurious as hotel bars and Keith McNally restaurants, which don't smell yucky...
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Mean Streets 2011

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With all the recent agita about the San Gennaro Feast, with the pressure from the new Nolitans to shorten it, to stop it, to turn it into ...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

*Everyday Chatter

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The Homemade A Effect is sort of like the Hundredth Monkey Effect , whereby "learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group o...
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Penguin Pool Murder

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Thanks to reader Fabulous for turning us on to the 1932 film The Penguin Pool Murder , which features several rare interior shots of the old...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

*Everyday Chatter

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Indie bookshops may be making a comeback. [ Crain's ] A night out with JD Salinger , New York, 1952. [ Gothamist ] A look back at jazz ...
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Homemade A's

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Since the city Health Department started publicly grading restaurants in July, displaying letter grades in their windows, the blue letter A ...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

*Everyday Chatter

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Murray Hill...the new Times Square? As gentrification has changed the sex trade, Murray Hill is not only the city's frat-boy center, it...
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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
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