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Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Insane: City wants to split a luxury condo building into separate zones, allowing the rich kids go to the nearby in-demand public school while the affordable-rental (steerage) kids have to trek across town.
Source: downtownexpress.com
One option for zoning Lower Manhattan’s elementary schools would cut through the Whole Foods building, giving luxury condo owners the key to P.S. 234 while the middle and low-income renters would go to the Spruce Street School half a mile away.
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York If you haven't yet seen the interview with the real man behind Wall Street's "Sad Panda," take a look now.
Source: gothamist.com
Be warned: this video of Sad Panda will melt even the coldest of hearts. The fact is that Sad Panda (sometimes Spongebob Squarepants) is actually pretty sad, and that makes us Sad Humans.
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Westsider Books: The tallest bookshelves in town
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
On the Upper West Side, across from Zabar's, a bookstore has stood for more than three decades in one incarnation or another. Today it's Westsider Books and it has pretty much everything you could want ...
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Source: gawker.com
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Jeremiah's Vanishing New York More book stuff: How reading electronically keeps you distracted and primed to consume.
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
While we're on the topic of vanishing books, the Times has a piece about how consumers actually prefer reading "books" on their tiny smartphone screens, where they can do "everything." But it's the doing everything, combined with reading, that defeats the purpose of the book. ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Kafka on the 1 Train
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
The other night, while riding the subway, I sat across from a man and a woman. They were strangers to me and to each other.The man was double-fisting electronic gadgets--a Blackberry in one hand and an ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York The dark side of cute--a must-read, very smart article from Vanity Fair
Source: www.vanityfair.com
From world affairs to entertainment, business to fashion, crime to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst that drives the popular dialogue globally.
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York As Biography Bookshop turns into another Marc Jacobs, there's bookbook
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
On a hectic day, just stepping into a bookshop, without even opening a single volume, will calm me. There's something about being in the presence of all that effort, all that possibility. I feel myself expand in the company of books. ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Celebrate Indie Bookstore Week by buying some real books--those things made of paper.
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
Yesterday began the first Independent Bookstore Week in New York City. There will be parties, free cookies, bagels, readings, and more at indie bookshops all over the city--check out the calendar here.Just ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Proliferation of French bulldogs signal the gentrification, Manhattanication of Astoria. Says real estate guy, “For decades, Astoria has been waiting in the wings to become the next Manhattan."
Source: www.nytimes.com
Yodel-ay-hee-hoo! The number of French bulldogs, a small breed with a language of its own, is growing in one Queens neighborhood.
Source: www.youtube.com
This man ran a bike repair shop in the abandon NW corner of C & 7th in the late 80's. When he needed to straighten out a bike frame he would wait for a bus to stop across the street & stick it under its' tire. ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Indie Bookstore Week NYC starts this Sunday with free bagels, cookies, readings, parties, and more...go get some books.
Source: ibnyc.wordpress.com
We’re hard at work loading in listings to our events calendar for Independent Bookstore Week NYC. There are fantastic literary programs happening throughout the city, plus some special sales, promos, special displays and events for kids too. ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York The new David's Shoe repair shop looking okay so far...
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
Last month I reported that David's Shoe repair in the East Village was being gutted and that David's grandson--also named David--promised to reopen as the same business, just renovated. Some folks wondered ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York Discuss and debate "Obsolete" at Word in Greenpoint.
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
Anna Jane Grossman will be discussing her book Obsolete at Word Bookshop in Greenpoint tonight at 7:30. Click over to Word for all the info.I asked Anna, who grew up in Manhattan throughout the 80s and 90s, what she will miss the most of the things disappearing from the city. ...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York London's Decapitator arrives in NYC and the heads are rolling...
Source: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
The Decapitator, an anonymous graffiti artist who has been attacking ads in London, Sao Paulo, and Paris, has arrived in New York--and, just this week, heads have started to roll!photos from my flickrIn ...
