...the young of Brooklyn, this peculiar generation of money-heads and ambition-addled professionals, will have a direct supply of their very own furnished line of sameness. Rail l Make a Better NYC
Yes, this is straight-up nostalgia, but! it does make me wonder where those real places, for those of us that crave them, are anymore: 1950s strip malls? Downtown Binghamton? Ring suburbs 5 miles outside the city core?
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Yes, this is straight-up nostalgia, but! it does make me wonder where those real places, for those of us that crave them, are anymore: 1950s strip malls? Downtown Binghamton? Ring suburbs 5 miles outside the city core?
Appropriately titled John. That was a great read. Makes me want to head to NYC for Rogosin's On the Bowery (1957), playing at MoMA tonight.
there's an entire new book of essays with a similar tone:
papressblog
the suburbanization of new york: is the world's greatest city becoming just another town?
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