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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

Monday, December 23, 2019

Chelsea Flea Market

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VANISHING The Chelsea Flea Market on 25th Street between 6th and Broadway has been in business since 1976. Now we hear it is coming to an ...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Colony to CVS

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When the great Colony Music was forced to shutter in 2012 by a massive rent hike , after 60 years in Times Square, its space in the Brill B...
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New Chase

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When Coffee Shop on Union Square closed in 2018, we heard it would be turned into yet another Chase Bank branch . That signage is now up: ...
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Monday, November 4, 2019

Enz's

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VANISHED Guest post by Larry Baumhor The owner of the first punk rock boutique in New York, Mariann Marlowe is packing her bags and endi...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

Paris Reprieve?

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Deadline reports that the Paris Theater, shuttered by a non-renewal of its lease, will re-open -- at least temporarily. It will "b...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

Thrift & New

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VANISHED The little, one-story antiques shop known mostly as Thrift and New, located on 9th Avenue and 43rd Street in Hell's Kitchen, ...
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

The Hole That Was St. Denis

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A dream-like dispatch from author Elizabeth Wurtzel (who lives above the hole in the ground that was the St. Denis building, whose illustri...
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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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