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vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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In case you're left without a place to
feast tomorrow, try some of these locales for homemade-like...
cooking. The Howard Johnson's menu looks good. Chilled fruit cup with sherbet. Mince pie. Freshly baked rolls and butter. Orange drink! Mints! ...
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Happy Thanksgiving
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vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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The Papaya King on 14th and 6th is
shuttered . The neon lights are off, the shades...
are down, and the interior is a wreck of packing boxes: Walker in the City visits Bleecker Street and the author responds to all those many Marc Jacobs stores: "I ...
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*Everyday Chatter
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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We asked and we have received. Mike Joyce,
creator of the "More Jane, Less Marc" guerrilla postcard...
campaign, has put his catchy slogan on a t-shirt. I interviewed Mike last month after spotting his postcard in the Village and (offline) begged him ...
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More Jane Ts
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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Loving the Garment District : "The area still
has pungency. It has not surrendered to the great...
anaesthetizing march of modernity. It has not chased its working class to faraway suburbs. It has not become a hollow movie-set version of an authentic ...
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*Everyday Chatter
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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After 20 years on the street level of
the Chelsea Hotel, Dan's Chelsea Guitars is moving ....
Luckily, they're only going 52 1/2 feet away. They are moving into the much smaller sliver of a room that once belonged to the Balabanis tailor shop. The ...
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Chelsea Guitars
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 in a bookstore. Long and narrow, with high ceilings, Westsider is packed to the rafters ...
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Alex's "Then & Now" revisits Soho. [ FP ] On the Bowery with Metropolis magazine, the Cooper Square Hotel "appears to be a cartoon illustrating the evils of overdevelopment ." [ EVG ] Drinking at the Nancy Whiskey bar. [ COS ] Someone doesn't like the proliferation of Mr. Brainwash ...
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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. Multitasking and ...
A&E
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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Victoria's Secret turns thongs into cupcakes --"Love at
first bite!"--because vaginas are infantile and cute enough to...
bite?: Alex's "Then and Now" covers Noho and Soho. [ FP ] Grieve gets some graffiti love . [ EVG ] Coop hotel revelers party ...
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*Everyday Chatter
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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Continuing the Book Week theme... 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 iPod in the ...
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On the Train
The score : Smartphones 3 (count 'em!), Books 1. "The old, weird LES" still lives at the Mr. Lower East Side pageant. [ Interview ] & [ Voice ] Party tonight at the Cooper Square Hotel to celebrate the unveiling of their "lame attempt to suddenly try to fit into the neighborhood." [ EVG ...
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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. I can breathe there. To think of bookstores vanishing from the ...
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Marc Jacobs
More photo-tacular "Then & Now" from Alex in NYC. [ FP ] Check out " Only in New York ," photos of the city at MCNY. [ Stupefaction ] Brian Berger interviews Jonathan Lethem on Chronic City. [ WWIB ] Old and new side by side on W. 23rd, as the glassy "Modern23" abuts a classic: City ...
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vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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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 in time, stomping on the grave of The ...
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Buy Some Books
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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Sunday begins Indie Bookstore Week NYC --go buy
some books! But, ummm...spotted in the Strand's window, a...
signed first edition of Sex & the City for $175 : Digital billboard at Hudson and Canal "an absolute menace," especially for "the ...
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*Everyday Chatter
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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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 if this could be true--maybe a fro-yo shop ...
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New David's
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
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After I announced the Decapitator's treasure-hunt yesterday ,
readers and bloggers hustled to find the altered magazines....
The Voice got one. So did Tokion . And AnimalNY came up empty. After a couple of tries, I managed to score one of my own. It's ...
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*Everyday Chatter
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
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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 ...
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Obsolete
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com - 18 days ago
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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 ! In June, Environmental Graffiti wrote, "Kissing couples, beautiful ...
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The Decapitator
High Line condos just keep getting shinier and glassier. Here's HL23 with its quilted-metal, space-age skin and sloping windows that you know no shades will ever cover--because hovering over the High Line is the perfect spot for showing off your goods : from my flickr The Starlite Lounge, ...
