is New York City dead?

The last time I was in a Fairway (UWS) was to get ingredients for a meatball lasagna my friend was going to teach me to make. That lasagna was like $60 in ingredients but it was f'ing delicious. TOP LASAGNA.

balducci's (rip)

There are still a few left iirc

one in the city and a few in the suburbs

Since my longtime landlord sold the eight-unit building to a mysterious corporate entity a few years ago, there’s been a revolving door in the apartment next to mine and the one below. The turnover happens every summer. So far, maybe because young men are known to be destructive, the new owners have only admitted young women, with one exception. By design, none of them stays for more than a year. The East Village is just a way station, empty of significance. My young friends who are queers and artists have never set foot in this neighborhood. It’s irrelevant to them. When I tell them I live here, they look confused. Why would you want to live there? The East Village is nowhere.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-36/essays/open-house/

what a drag it is getting old

or living in a dead, unaffordable city

with an utterly marginalized arts community

I read that open house piece an hour ago and I am still mad about the door slamming.

what an obnoxious article. yes, a neighborhood with 20 year olds is likely to have an increasing number of people named Hayley. they might even use amazon and have smart phones.

here's an obnoxious mayoral hopeful for you, whose words i feel viscerally

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/01/21/eric-adams-slams-gentrification-in-speech-says-go-back-to-iowa

yes, as someone who was of course born and raised in New York, you are one of the few with a birthright

lol non-obnoxious iatee

they might even use amazon and have smart phones.

so fuck them and their shitty jobs and 5 to an apartment idiocy

I thought the piece was very well written but there is something about being mad new transplantees not adapting to where they move and old transplantees not adapting to new environments. I was only mad about the door slamming. Always terrible. All neighbors are terrible.

I don't post tweets but this really spoke to me yesterday.

Someone: Im in town!

New Yorkers: OMFG!! That’s so great! Have fun!!!!

Phillip Henry
@MajorPhilebrity

I have friends whose apartment gets a steady stream of friends across the nation staying with them and all i can think is WHYYYYY

That article would be hilarious if it was a short story. The author really captures the voice of a motherfucking lunatic you'd pray not to be stuck next to on the subway.

what is their deal??? (xpost)

I have a formula on people staying with me depending on how well I know them, like them, how long they want to stay, what their plans are, if they are familiar enough with nyc.

Idk I have time for that article. I kinda felt that way 10 yrs ago while trying to get an apt anywhere in Pros/Crown Heights but we kept losing to younger ppl than us with more "liquid assets" than us, and parents who took them on tours of refurbished bldgs while asking why there wasn't a doorman. It was painfully alienating and I really felt it as a personal failure even though I knew that those 22-yr olds weren't putting down their own 4 months' worth of first+last+dep+fee. It still felt like my failure to be one of them was being aired all around me and my grubby self whose apt was furnished with "finds" and hand-me-downs. It felt like a different world.

there are two kinds of ppl in NYC

yeah the fact that they thought that anecdote about the couple and the cat was brilliant enough to share brought to mind Fran Lebowitz. good riddance to the deeply mediocre and self-important generation of new york transplants who think that complaining about cellphones is clever.

xps

my first nyc apt (illegal loft conversion in east wburg that years later had a bad fire) i thankfully found through cl and only needed deposit + first and he gave a free first month rent. I hadn't found all roommates yet and ph!l0h showed up while I was on the street moving in and ended up living there for several months.

it'd be a shame for iatee and unperson to be stuck next to the author on under a train

phil oh, i remember him!

I JUST realized it was written by the Vanishing NY guy. This all makes so much more sense.

both my first nyc roommates were through ilx. the other one lasted less than a month before leaving nyc.

Actually by that time I had lost my apt so I was couch-surfing and staying w ppl for a month at a time while my stuff was in storage and going apt hunting every weekend, getting ripped off by a broker we had to take to small claims court (and track down his shady as fuck business venture via searchable records to find ties to his dad's real estate company, then home address in Brooklyn Heights, and go there and KNOCK ON HIS FAMILY'S FRONT DOOR to get our money back--his mother cut us a check), and just generally doing shitty. Meanwhile Franklin Ave was getting hype and the hospital reopened as apartments and we just kept losing our bids on apartments. It was a tough 4-6 mos. Being un-housed really freaks me out still today.

my challop is it's insane to describe yourself or someone else as a "transplant", who gives a shit where you're from, people move all the time

we're full up and more

i know a kelsie who's lived in the east village for five years. not only does she have a cellphone, she's a poseur who never saw the velvets at max's kansas city

yeah, like the percentage of people living in any big city that weren't born in the city, or even in the country, is always high. and being mad when some 20 somethings move to a city that you moved to when you were a 20 something is, you know, a bit rich.

anybody who's never lived here has nothing to say, sorry

yep, just the same kinda change NYC has always seen except for the needle towers for oil sheikhs

i think all major cities are having the soul sucked out of them by ultraluxury condos and shell company foreign investors.

nope, apparently it's just old ppl complaining (see above)

i think all major cities are having the soul sucked out of them by ultraluxury condos and shell company foreign investors.

― Yerac, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:27 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is absolutely the case

anybody who's never lived here has nothing to say, sorry

I lived in Bay Ridge in 1990. I worked in an office on Columbus Circle and had to ride the R train all the way to the end of the line to get home at night. It sucked.

GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD

"Transplants" are good for NYC. Parked foreign capital in empty luxury apartments is just unabashedly not, in any way.

Transplants are why we have an economy, i.e. why we are New York City and not Detroit.

hmmm, i think i was the one that used transplants. It seems like he never uses it once in his essay.

"implants" is more like it

killed by transplants

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There's not much good about living in a city that no one wants to move to

why (non-rich) people still want to move here is what's confusing me

not leaving was the dumbest mistake of my life

"Transplants" are good for NYC. Parked foreign capital in empty luxury apartments is just unabashedly not, in any way.

yeah i never really understand how people dont see the dissonance between complaining "too many young ppl are ruining ny by moving here" while simultaneously complaining "ny is boring now, the art/creative/whatever scene sucks"

they’re actually just complaining about the fact that they’re not 20 anymore

i don't think moss is bemoaning the quantity of the young people, or the youngness of the people, so much as the quality of the young people. obviously the people who can afford to rent renovated market price apartments in the west village or williamsburg in 2020 etc are going to be nightmare pod people.

east village rather. w village ship long sailed surely

warhol moved to the city at 21, from suburban Pittsburgh

yeah, he's talking more about the quality of people able to afford to move to ny in the present day. Unfortunately that aesthetic of pleasant sameness and lack of niche interests is available everywhere. internet and globalization.

the vanishing ny blog always spoke from the perspective of ‘there’s nothing in nyc worth considering outside of manhattan’.