*Everyday Chatter

Meet Larry Hagberg, New York City blacksmith. [13]

A Jesuit school for poor boys leaves the LES where there aren't enough poor: "It used to be you could see drug deals in the park and hookers with johns...Now it’s high-rises, hotels and more construction cranes." [NYT]

Clinton and E. Broadway bodega forced out--coffee fetishist shop to come? [TLD]

Looking at the making of Ragtime on E. 11th. Thanks to high-rise development, says one interviewee, it could not be done today. [Vimeo]

Isn't it time for lunch at Eisenberg's?

photo: Verplank, VNY flickr pool

In the East Village, don't cut your lips on a beer-can popsicle. [EVG]
The Windsor Terrace and Kensington areas of Brooklyn still have some great old signage. [FNY]

"Fresh Meat" in the Meatpacking District. [GVDP]

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