Vanishing New York, Jeremiah Moss
Vanishing New York, Jeremiah Moss
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Vanishing New York
How a Great City Lost Its Soul

Author: Jeremiah Moss

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 15 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/28/2017


Synopsis

An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York

New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the top 1 percent can afford.

Blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss has emerged as one of the most outspoken and celebrated critics of this dramatic shift. He has spent the past decade observing and painstakingly documenting this sea change, and 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. 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.

About Jeremiah Moss

Jeremiah Moss, creator of the award-winning blog Vanishing New York, is the pen name of Griffin Hansbury. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and online for the New Yorker and the Paris Review. As Hansbury, he is the author of The Nostalgist, a novel, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Logan on June 19, 2018

Vanishing New York is an insightful book about a complex topic by a frustrating author. My review is too long, but so is the book. So if you proceed to either one, you’ve been warned. Essentially a 420-page rant against the gentrification of Manhattan, VNY reminisces about the past, complains of the......more

Goodreads review by Ally on October 13, 2017

I started reading this determined to not let Moss infect me with his nostalgia and hopelessness and by the end I was in tears, mourning the city I so dearly love, now that he has stripped away my blinders. I'm furious at our leadership for allowing everything that made this city be cut auctioned and......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on January 11, 2018

I enjoyed this book as much as I could, given the subject matter, which is, to put it plainly, the destruction of New York City by neoliberal-policy-fueled hyper-gentrification. Jeremiah Moss is a year younger than I am, and moved to the city in the year I first began to realize I would not be able......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 29, 2018

Vanishing New York could be a metaphor for all of America, as the rich have taken over. Caleb Carr’s “soul sucking transformation” applies nationwide; it is not just the Big Apple. The adult entertainment area of Manhattan has been cleaned up to make way for the squeaky clean and family friendly ima......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 06, 2018

3.5 stars, really. For anyone in NYC (and plenty of other cities) who wonders why there are so many empty storefronts and such a sad lack of small, local businesses (non-Starbucks coffee, real bagels, delis, dives and pizza), Jeremiah Moss of the fantastic blog Vanishing New York delivers the deeply......more