David Cross, comedian and EVGrieve reader (what am I, chopped liver?), is
fed up with life in the East Village:
"...there's a big, huge 7-11 with big, beautiful 7-11 signs. There's an IHOP on 14th Street, Subway sandwiches all over the place. The thing is, I left Atlanta a long time ago and I'm spending way too much money to live in Atlanta again, you know? I mean it really is...it's just...
It's mildly heartbreaking. It's just becoming more and more like a mall. I might as well be in St. Louis. It's very, very quickly, rapidly losing a lot of its character." [
Gothamist]
Upper West Siders are nauseated by the
"garish" and "too suburban" new candy shop coming to their neighborhood--and it's called Sugar & Plumm Purveyors of Yumm. [
DNA]
Thomas Beller tells of
life in the laundry room of a half-gentrified old NYC building. [
PRD]
BMW Guggenheim Lab feels very proud of itself. [
EVG]
After a painful, 5-year struggle,
Our Lady of Vilnius is coming down. [
NYT]
Visit the most
adorable abandoned building in the city. [
SNY]
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