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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, October 26, 2017

One October

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Rachel Shuman is the director of the film One October , a time capsule of New York in 2008, "when gentrification is rapidly displacing ...
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Monday, October 23, 2017

Tales of Times Square: The Tapes

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Author and musician Josh Alan Friedman was working for Screw magazine, covering the Times Square beat through the late 1970s and early 80s,...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

HiFi Bar

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VANISHING Last night, word circulated on social media that HiFi Bar on Avenue A is closing. HiFi was Brownie's from 1989 until 2002,...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Deconstructing the High Line

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Next Tuesday, October 24 at 6:30pm, the editors of the book Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevat...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Native Leather to Carmine

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Last month I reported that Native Leather is closing after 49 years on Bleecker St. As owner Carol Walsh told me, "I was heartbroken w...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Chelsea Deli & Bakery

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VANISHED Peter writes in to say: "The much-loved Chelsea Deli and Bakery on the southeast corner of 23rd and 8th has just closed for ...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Moe's Meat Market

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VANISHING I wrote a piece for the Times this week about the closing of Moe's Meat Market, a butcher shop on Elizabeth Street turned i...
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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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