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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

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Pickle Trucks

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The Lower East Side has lost its classic pickle shops--as hipster Brooklyn keeps pickling artisanally--but the old pickle trucks keep coming...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bill's in Boardwalk

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The great Bill's Gay 90s is vanished and gone , carted away in dumptrucks after 88 years in business. It's another tragedy, another...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Broadway Danny Rose

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Woody Allen's 1984 movie Broadway Danny Rose is a great film for looking at a vanished New York, the world of old vaudeville acts and s...
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Friday, July 6, 2012

Watermelons Flying

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On yet another miserably hot summer day, the simple joy of watching men unloading watermelons from a truck can make all the difference. The ...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Savannah's CBGB

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From Savannah, Georgia, CBGB's lives--on a movie set for the 2013 film CBGB . (See EV Grieve for more.) Maya of Visualingual sends in t...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

*Everyday Chatter

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Hue-Man bookstore in Harlem to shutter --and St. Mark's Books has decided to move out by end of the year. To all of you Kindle people--f...
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Movie Star News

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VANISHING Regretfully, I report that Movie Star News in Chelsea is closing down. Once owned by the infamous Irving Klaw, photographer of the...
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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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