Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

L F Anderson said This Is A Very Important Book!. This book is a mind opener. While those of us who have lived in New York for countless generations have been aware that the city changes over time, and seldom overall for the better, we disconnected the earlier patterns of urban destruction from the accelerated pace that we've seen in the past generation. But Moss has traced the current trend of massive destruction of so much of the physicality of the city to long term goals dating back at least a century. The only difference is that the pace in recent years has been accelerated.One hopes that this book is widely read, and shakes pe. "Up there with Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."" according to Amazon Customer. As seminal a book as Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," only with a greater sense of urgency, about the deadening homogenization of New York and other great cities. Astonishingly well-rersearched but without pedantry and leavened with personal observations of an adopted New Yorker, this book is a not so much a love letter to vanishing New York as a cris de cœur.. Great read! Long live the best city on Earth. J. Spence Pre-ordered and received today. I live in Manhattan this has so far been an addicting read. I can feel and share the authors pain for the lost vibe of the city, especially Manhattan and Brooklyn. Highly recommend checking this book out if like he states you romanticize Woody Allen NY themed films and can appreciate why the gritty Travis Bickle NYC is worth missing, despite the positive changes the city has made since those periods.

But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the one percent can afford.A Jane Jacobs for the digital age, blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss has emerged as one of the most outspoken and celebrated critics of this dramatic shift. In prose that the Village Voice has called a "mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit," Moss leads us on a colorful guided tour of the most changed parts of town—from the Lower East Side and Chelsea to Harlem and Williamsburg—lovingly eulogizing iconic institutions as they’re replaced with soulless upscale boutiques, luxury condo towers, and suburban chains.Propelled by Moss’ hard-hitting, cantankerous style, Vanishing New York is a staggering examination of contemporary "urban renewal" and its repercussions—not only for New Yorkers, but for all of America and the world.. In Vanishing New York, he reports on the city’s development in the twenty-first century, a period of "hyper-gentrification" that has resulted in the shocking transformation of beloved neighborhoods and the loss of treasured unofficial landmarks. An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in th

Jeremiah Moss bears witness on our behalf, and puts it all into brilliant perspective.” (Andy Cohen, host and executive producer, “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen”) . “I haven’t read a more impassioned book in over a decade. Grab a knish and settle in.” ( Charles Bock, New York Times bestselling author of Alice and Oliver)“A vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud.” (Kirkus)“One of the most thorough and pugnacious