Vanishing New York Backup

After being on its last legs for awhile, El Sombrero, aka The Hat , is leaving Ludlow Street. [ BB ] Remembering the Ludlow Street Cafe . [ FP ] Take a look at Ludlow Street 10 years ago and today. [ J&KM ] The Back Fence shuttered before it's officially shuttered. [ DNA ] Some guy is selling Brooklyn rocks as artisanal souvenirs. [ DM ] On the vanishing of the Blarney Stone . [ GAF ] 10/10 at Bluestockings: Join Cathryn of the Washington Square Park blog for the official release of Tales of Washington Square Park and a discussion about the city's privatization of public spaces. [ BSB ] 23-year-old Stuyvesant Stationery Shop to close. [ EVG ] Don't miss the latest installation of " Dirty Old New York "--a painstaking compilation of 1970s NYC movie scenes. [ OOS ]

The Village Voice has left the Village. [ GVSHP ] Volunteer for St. Mark's Books advisory committee --and help them fix their business so the East Village can have a bookstore for a long time. [ SMB ] Bloomberg "revitalizing" the Lower East Side --with a bunch of big, glass nightmares. [ NBC ] The hideous redesign of Astor Place has begun--the sterile corporate office park is on its way. [ Curbed ] RIP LES Jewels . [ EVG ] What's it like to be born in New York--and then priced out ? [ Salon ] Check out the Coignet Building documentary tonight at the Greenpoint film fest . [ GFF ] Watch this movie about seltzer man Walter Backerman. [ MS ] The Lyric Diner has returned to Gramercy: Photos: The daily life of the NYPD--in the 1970s . [ VE ] Welcome to Fear City --a survival guide to 1970s New York. [ Gothamist ] Willets Point on hunger strike against the city's eminent domain. [ youtube ] Bloomberg's Last Dump : The Great Upper Eas...

Wednesday, Aug 28, rally to keep Quinnberg out of office --5pm at 7th Ave and Greenwich. [ FB ] Greenpoint to get a massive condo tower complex complete with Poor Door . [ NYS ] A review of the Bloomberg years . [ NYer ] Cool and horrifying maps on how Bloomberg reshaped New York . [ NYT ] The truth about Bloomberg's record on affordable housing . [ Awl ] Even the milk is getting too expensive in East Harlem . [ NYP ] Confessions of a Harlem gentrifier . [ Salon ] Inside Red Hook's abandoned grain terminal . [ Curbed ] Cats in windows. [ TGL ] The ramen place that replaced 42-year-old Love Saves the Day has closed, after just a few years. And that's how this goes. [ EVG ] New murals and graffiti photos from NYC in the 90s. [ NYC90s ]

" Bill de Blasio will reportedly hold a press conference this Mon., Aug. 19, at noon, at the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital" ...and he'll be promising a new hospital. [ Villager ] A goodbye to Jackie's 5th Amendment . [ OMFS ] New owners to take over Kossar's Bialys . [ TLD ]  You still have a little bit of time to dine at the original Odessa before it's gone. [ EVG ] Watching the "Wall Dogs" paint. [ WIC ] " A New York socialite was living there [before] and her boyfriend, who happened to be well known graffiti artist, painted it as a housewarming," Young explained.  "I thought it was an asset for the right person. It was such a cute pre-war apartment, and it was just really cute to have this graffiti." [ DNA ] Young women dig through the garbage for spoiled cronuts . [ Gothamist ] New UWS development comes with a separate door for the poor . [ WSR ] Wayne Koestenbaum on Debbie Harry at the S...

The Nation endorses Bill de Blasio : "His candidacy is an opportunity for New Yorkers to reimagine their city in boldly progressive ways." [ TN ] You have a little more time to dine at the original Odessa before it closes forever. [ EVG ] Take a drive up Avenue D in the 1980s. [ BB ] Watch The Birdman in its entirety--the story of an East Village CD and tape salesman. [ Vimeo ] A Chelsea laundromat reveals its old sign. [ FNY ] Big NYC developers getting subpoenas, including Joe Sitt, to see if they got tax breaks in exchange for campaign donations. [ Crain's ] On the coming demolition of 5Pointz . [ UC ] Union Street mural painted over. [ HPS ] How landmarking helps affordability. [ Villager ] Today and tomorrow: Huge record sale at the NYPL. [ VF ] CBGB the movie, the trailer. [ youtube ] "If any middle-class presence in a diverse neighborhood is evidence of gentrification ...then it's impossible for a middle-class person not to gen...

Help save Manhattan's only LGBTQ bookstore . [ VV ] "The MoRUS Film Fest will kick off with a bang this weekend with the 25th Anniversary Tompkins Riot Reunion Films." [ Villager ] A goodbye video to Big Nick's . [ vimeo ] Ancient, hand-painted Utah House sign destroyed by the Market Cafe. [ NYN ] Carroll Gardens loses another old Italian businesses-- Mastellone's has closed. [ CGP ] Check out El Barrio Tours and help take the film and dialogue series to cities all across the country dealing with gentrification. [ IGG ] Saying goodbye to the 5 Pointz graffiti mecca. [ Curbed ] 7B/Vazac's and a life in the movies. [ EVG ] A collection of 80 amazing photos of the city in the 70s and 80s . [ SC ] The Eagle sign --plucked. [ OMFS ] Inside the Strand 's Central Park book stalls. [ UC ] Rents are skyrocketing. [ Gothamist ] Get your Disney-inspired " Times SquareLand " t-shirt right here. [ RB ] The great JJ's Navy Ya...

Gorgeous, wonderful, should-have-been landmarked Eagle Clothes sign goes into the garbage heap. [ NYN ] After 22 years, Splash is closing because "maybe we don’t need gay bars." [ Next ] "In our current desire to acquire civil rights equal to the straight community, we have chosen to assimilate and to clean up our act . When I recently explored some of my old haunts, I was amused. The Anvil is now a gentrified, chic restaurant, complete with white linen tablecloths and candles. The waterfront along the Hudson River has become the lovely, serene High Line public park." [ HP ] Bloomberg's massive rezoning of Midtown really just not a very good idea. [ Curbed ] Latest word on Odessa closing : August 15. I hate this shit. [ EVG ] Sex & the City “might as well have been a tourism campaign for a post-Rudolph Giuliani, de-ethnicized Gotham awash in money." --Brett Martin [ NYer ] Lovely photos of Hart Island --and its Potter's Field. [ UC...

Check out this collection of old signs hiding under new signs. [ NYN ] Nostalgia is good for you. Don't let them tell you otherwise. [ NYT ] The hyper-gentrification of Long Island City , photos by Nathan Kensinger. [ Curbed ] Remembering the Astro Tower . [ ATZ ]   Mars Bar --two years later. [ GL ] A reader lets us know that Pepe Verde , opened in the Village in 1998, closed recently. The space is being marketed with the empty restaurant next door. A Red Lobster is opening next to the venerable Apollo Theater in Harlem. [ HB ] The Met's Punk show "captured about as much of the genuine spirit of Punk as, say, Disney World's "It's a Small World After All" ride captures the authenticity of the planet's cultural diversity." [ FP ] Q&A with Nick Zedd . [ EVG ] Some folks in Chelsea are trying to get a park built on 20th Street and they're asking for your help. [ 20thSP ] Meanwhile, developers by the High Line are tr...

July 18: Your last chance to tell NYU where to stick it . Say NO to their 2031 plan! [ FASP ] July 24: See "El Barrio Tours: Gentrification in East Harlem " and be a part of the neighborhood discussion. [ EBT ] July 28, August 3 and 4: Celebrate punk rock and the riots in Tompkins Square Park. [ FB ] Performance art and neoburlesque return to the LES with COW. [ EVG ] Orchard Street is still Orchard Street--here and there. [ HNY ] Landmarks approves transformation of Coney Island Child's into a theater--apparently to be patronized by dimwitted-looking people. [ Brownstoner ] Unfinished memoir published posthumously from Bob Guskind , blogger of Gowanus Lounge. [ UV ] Take a walk on 18th Avenue . [ OMFS ] That vanishing of gas stations around the Village and Chelsea has been halted, slightly, by the return of a gas station--that lost Lukoil on 8th Avenue and Horatio is now a Mobil. And they look very happy to be here: photo: Thomas Rinaldi

From blogger Cathryn Swan, check out Tales of Washington Square Park , "your official guide to that historic park by the editor of the Washington Square Park Blog." [ Bgirl ] The Yippie Museum Cafe is closing this weekend. [ EVG ] Luxury businesses cannot afford Soho anymore. [ NYO ] "the MTA will vacate its headquarters buildings in Midtown Manhattan by the end of next year and award a long-term lease to a developer expected to demolish the buildings and redevelop the premier location with modern Class A offices, a hotel, residential tower, or a mixture of uses." [ MTA ] The glory of 1980s Staten Island . [ Slate ] Take a walk on the Crack Tracks of the Bronx. [ JKM ] A Brooklyn alley is being revived as a hipster market --and somehow Vesuvio got stuck in there. [ NYDN ] Say goodbye to those little metal tags at the Met. [ NYT ] Looking at Stonewall 's neon signs. [ NYN ] A sad farewell to Blarney Cove . [ GL ] A sad shot of what's...

You can help the flower man who was horribly injured by the drag racer on Second Avenue this week. [ GF ] "Our great, global cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself." [ FT ] There's nothing organic about this global hyper-gentrification . [ CL ] Rally this Sunday to stop another 7-Eleven from invading the East Village. [ No 7-11 ] Stop the high-end privatization of Washington Square Park. [ WSP ] Success! "The potential demolition of PS 199 on 70th street and PS 191 on 61st has been averted." [ WSR ] Check out Dirty Looks: On Location, "a series queer interventions in New York City spaces." [ DL ] June 23: Say goodbye to the founder of City Reliquary as he moves to Hawaii--it's a Luau! [ CR ] Andrew Berman celebrated by Vanity Fair for being "savvy and pugnacious enough to recognize that there is no respite for the preservationist, ever, from those who would make the Village ...

Meet Mr. Tish and Adrian, two octogenarian drag queens still reigning over their Greenwich Village stoop. [ WIC ] Ray's Candy gets a new lease! [ Villager ] June 26: That's the last day for the Blarney Cove . Bloomberg uses our hurricane anxiety to propose a new luxury "neighborhood" to be built "on landfill along the East Side of Manhattan from the Lower East Side to Battery Park, as a way of protecting the area from future hurricane storm surges." [ HP ] All about the Birdman documentary. [ EVG ] a barber stops to watch St. Anthony go by Does anyone remember the mystery gospel trio of Bleecker Street ? Listen to these street recordings from 1990. [ MNYGT ] Check out PopSpots --where the original locations of record cover photos are found. [ PS ] NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan wins a Village Award , and much deserved for all their important work. [ GVSHP ] A map of bohemian Greenwich Village in 1925. [ Slate ] Circo's Pastr...

"Facebook Inc. is moving its New York office south and nearly doubling its space, marking the latest technology company to set up shop in the city's Midtown South neighborhood." And by "Midtown South" they mean the East Village . [ WSJ ] The New York City Marble Cemetery is open tomorrow. [ NYCMC ] Check out " The Birdman ," a film about the man behind Rainbow Music, a "hoarder's paradise" in the East Village. [ vimeo ] Go to the 9th Street Bakery , buy something, and say goodbye. Sunday is the last day. [ EVG ] Enjoy some rather vivid photos of Katz's pastrami-eating contest , by Tim Schreier. [ Flickr ] " New York City has drastically changed , I don’t mean a block or two here and there but entire communities have been erased, as if they never did exist in the first place." An interview with Mick Dementiuk. [ LM ] Visiting the ghost of Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field . [ NSTAW ] Folsom East Tea Dance : “W...

Save Pino's Prime Meats from eviction. [ Petition ] Ask the DOT to give Frank's Bike Shop some space from the Citibank bikes. [ Petition ] Save the Children's Magical Garden . [ Petition ] 7-Eleven is not New York--go away: The great Odessa on Avenue A may be closing soon. I can't look. [ EVG ] Go see the 1980s/90s NYC show at the Whitney .  In Williamsburg, you can learn to make your own boots . [ NYS ] Malcolm Gladwell blasts the NYPL: "Luxury condos would look wonderful there." [ HP ] Nude art drawing protest against the Citibank bikes. [ Gothamist ] On the Central Park 5 . [ LOM ] June 18: Robert Herman talks about his great street photographs shot in the city from the 1970s to today. [ APANY ] " If These Knishes Could Talk ," the documentary that chronicles the New York accent, will have its Manhattan premiere at Quad Cinema on Friday, June 21st at 7:30 pm. 19th century cemetery discovered under endangered East Vi...

God's Love We Deliver is bringing a 14-story luxury condo to Soho , and it will be named after fashion mogul Michael Kors. The people are not happy. [ Gawker ] On the New Bowery: Coney Island Applebee's donates money and the use of their "private terrace" to the Mermaid Parade--how kind of them to "support" the culture they're helping to kill. [ BW ] There's going to be a documentary about Streit's Matzo factory --and you can help. [ KS ] Max Fish will be gone from the LES by July's end. [ TLD ] On the demise of Joe's Dairy : “What we see happening in the neighborhood is hypergentrification."  [ Villager ] Meet Eak the Geek. [ EVG ] Say hello to Pretty, the Coney Island cat . [ ATZ ] The illegal, unethical, immoral eviction of Willets Point continues. [ CBS ] This weekend, tour Newtown Creek and have lunch at the Goodfellas diner. [ OS ] Praising dairy restaurants at the B&H . [ Tablet ] Karen Lillis on...

Don't forget--this Sunday at 6pm: Mob The Hat . Tell them "Jeremiah sent me" and get a free margarita! Give this long-time local business a shot in the arm. They will gratefully appreciate it. As with Bill's Gay 90s , the trendy new owner of Lenox Lounge thought he was getting the interior fixtures--but the true owner took his decor with him. Said the new guy, "It’s like buying a car, and you come back and the seats are gone, the tires are gone." Oh fucking well. [ NYT ] Great article on the travelers, aka " crusties ," of the East Village. [ Villager ] What do you miss most about Soho in the 1970s ? [ SMP ] 1980s NYC on Super-8. [ FP ] Enjoy Grieve's round-up of Out and About interviews . [ EVG ] A last-remaining low-rise strip of Delancey has sold. [ BB ] What's happening to our libraries ? [ OMFS ] Check out the Downtown Literary Festival . [ MJ ] Zamperla actually believes: "We are saving Coney Island . An...

Today: Go to the Broken Angel Eviction Party. [ FB ] Su Friedrich on the decimation of Williamsburg. [ NYT ] Papaya King is coming to St. Mark's Place. We approve. [ EVG ] Russ & Daughters on Leonard Lopate. [ WNYC ] The East Village is now the noisiest neighborhood in town. [ AMNY ] St. Mark's Bookshop on their story, e-books, and the East Village: "It’s not the neighborhood for poor, struggling artists, which it always had been. No matter if you were a filmmaker, an artist, a writer, or theater person, you gravitated towards the East Village because it was community of like-minded souls. You could be poor here." [ PS ] Domino Sugar factory cuteness on film. [ ANY ] Before he's done, Bloomberg races to rezone about a million more blocks of Manhattan for about a million more glass towers. [ DM ] A Greek souvlaki tycoon is saving Hinsch's. [ BP ] What if Bleecker Bob's gets sucked into a fro-yo vortex? [ DNA ] Gentrifying the deeper ...

The Vanishing NY Facebook page is almost at 6,000 likes. If you like this, you'll like that--with more updates and more discussion. Please "like" it right here . " Judith Malina will not go gentle into that good night. The fiery 86-year-old director of the Living Theatre is losing both her apartment and the Lower East Side home of the world renowned theater troupe she co-founded 66 years ago." [ JDF ] Bloomberg to hatch a totally invented upscale new "community" in Greenpoint . [ GPers ] Planet NYU and the mutiny within. [ Voice ] NYU boots 40-year-old liquor store. [ Villager ] Jefferson condos desecrate corpse of East Village with smarmy ad campaign. [ EVG ] The real problem with gentrification --monotony. [ NR ]  More gentrification on fast-changing Clinton St. [ BB ] " Gut Renovation , a new documentary by filmmaker Su Friedrich, opens March 6 at Film Forum and takes a hard look at the changes that Williamsburg has unde...

Follow "No 7-11" on Twitter and on Facebook for updates on the war on Sevvy. Saturating Manhattan with its chain stores is 7-Eleven 's #1 priority. [ EVG ] The East Village fights back against 7-Eleven. [ NYT ] They used to say " It's better than a bank ," and now? "...a bar owner applying for a liquor license recently used 7-Eleven as a scare tactic. 'We had an applicant come to us and say, 'If you don't approve my license, I know the landlord is also talking to 7-Eleven .'" [ Crain's ] Bleecker Street Records may be vanishing next. [ DNA ] Landlord doubles the rent on 87-year-old 9th Street Bakery --closure imminent. [ EVG ] "The southern end of the High Line will soon transform dramatically, as what are now some of the most open and exposed parts of the park will be surrounded on all sides by large new developments." [ GVSHP ] Middle-class in Manhattan? Maybe, maybe not. [ NYT ] When a busine...

Every year, at the end of the year, we take a look back at what's been lost over the past 12 months. Some of the losses were big ones, some smaller. In chronological order (more or less), the ones covered here: The Holiday Cocktail Lounge After an illustrious history that included literary legends like Allen Ginsberg and W.H. Auden, after a few recent years of struggle, the great Holiday succumbed. It's been gutted and will be turned into a fish n' chips gastropub kind of thing. The Holiday had been here since 1965. La-Rosa Cigars This half-century old shop shuttered and left Manhattan for the Bronx, which is not exactly vanishing, but still--it was booted from a prime spot to the periphery. Atlas Meats In its never-ending vanishing act, the Meatpacking District demolished this Depression-era building. A glass tower is coming. Manganaro's After 119 years in business, Manganaro's Grosseria closed their doors and sold their building. After a painful...