*Everyday Chatter

Check out this collection of old signs hiding under new signs. [NYN]

A scientific study on the douchiness of the rich. [DM]

Nostalgia is good for you. Don't let them tell you otherwise. [NYT]

The hyper-gentrification of Long Island City, photos by Nathan Kensinger. [Curbed]

Remembering the Astro Tower. [ATZ]  

Mars Bar--two years later. [GL]

A reader lets us know that Pepe Verde, opened in the Village in 1998, closed recently. The space is being marketed with the empty restaurant next door.


A Red Lobster is opening next to the venerable Apollo Theater in Harlem. [HB]

The Met's Punk show "captured about as much of the genuine spirit of Punk as, say, Disney World's "It's a Small World After All" ride captures the authenticity of the planet's cultural diversity." [FP]

Q&A with Nick Zedd. [EVG]

Some folks in Chelsea are trying to get a park built on 20th Street and they're asking for your help. [20thSP]

Meanwhile, developers by the High Line are trying to take a park away from the poor residents of Fulton Houses. [CN]

Besieged West 28th Street and the High Line get another whoop-de-doo luxury giant. [Curbed]


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