*Everyday Chatter

Chelsea Hotel residents call on Patti Smith to cancel show for Chitrit. [LWL]

Sad shutter signage from Rocky's in Little Italy, as the 30-year-old small business has been booted to make room for newcomer Balaboosta:


A helpful guide for zombie texters. [NYT]

The Bed Bug Club (pic) has vanished. [LC]

On New Yorkers' passion for mega-supermarkets. [NYer]

Village Farms, formerly the Loews Hollywood, is being demolished on Avenue A. [EVG]

Eerie photos of Bloomfield, Staten Island. [NK]

A neon relic in the Bronx. [NYN]

Listen to photographer Frank Jump talk about Fading Ads of NYC on Leonard Lopate. [WNYC]

Frank also has a book of the city's ghost signs--order it from St. Mark's or find it today at the Strand.

TG170 closes for good after two decades on Ludlow. [BB]

On nostalgia and other things--blogger Joe Bonomo interviews me for No Such Thing As Was.

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