is New York City dead?

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.

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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’.

complaining "ny is boring now, the art/creative/whatever scene sucks"

the writer doesn't even seem to go this far -- he's just upset that the 'queers and artists' moved out of the east village and left him behind in the 1990s

i moved to the East Village in '89, so by Jeremiah's logic I have seniority over him. So then: if he did not have such a pronounced investment in shaking his fist at the sky Job-style, it would behoove him to realize that it is time for him to go. The neighborhood is fairly or unfairly not for him any longer, and he should move to a neighborhood (perhaps Brownsville or East New York is suitably gritty for him?) or another town. But then, it seems that inveighing on this matter gives his life meaning and he would be lost without doing so.

By my reckoning, the fuckin' EV sucked many many years ago, so I left. Yet Jeremiah and another former ILXor each have a identity built around impotent indignance regarding the neighborhood's former status… I wonder if either have ever attended a communiry board meeting? Not as easy as complaining on the internet, mind…

I know people who laugh heartily at the prospect of the East Village having retained any kind of ineffable bohemian character in the early 90s. And I seem to be recall that Jeremiah is a mental health professional of some sort? I can't imagine a personality less ill suited to offer even tempered, considered counsel…

it's a very fading mentality to stake a place out and then never ever leave.

that's BS iatee

felicity lived in the east village in the late 90s.

Queens content on his blog 2 weeks ago

https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/01/neirs-tavern-saved.html

"‘there’s nothing in nyc worth considering outside of manhattan’."

god, what an asshole.

i was reading this thing in eater about Taco Chulo in wburg (which I am pretty sure I have never eaten at) closing and they were lamenting that all the hipsters left and now all the families in the condos only want to stay in and order delivery.

yes, iatee sure is when he makes up shit

xp

I had dinner there last night incidentally xp

Morbs Jeremiah is pretty open about not having any interest in the New York outside of the borough he chose to be a transplant in, no need to go search through his blog to find the 3% of token outer borough content

sort of like your token participation in Occupy WS

lmao

If only iatee had camped out for another two weeks we’d have full communism today

well he had to go make coffee for Hillary

there was still bohemian shit in the EV, i'd say into the early 2000s.. the Slipper Room seemed like the death knell but it wasn't quite the end. You'd still have nights where you could wander through people's apartments, doors open, connected backyards, people passing through. Stereototal washed up for awhile, one of them became a bouncer at Luna Lounge.. a friend of mine had a guitar repair shop on Ludlow. her own shop! on Ludlow! it was never open. She lived on Orchard. I think she moved out in like 2002, 2003? I asked why and it wasn't because they had raised the rent on her yet, it was because she said the neighborhood sucked, the weekends were terrible, just overrun with abrasive douchebags.

that's the reason HiFI closed too. It wasn't the rent, the neighborhood just changed and wasn't interested.

lol I'm sort of mixing up EV and LES.. shows what a new yorker i am these days 🙄