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Class Divide

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Class Divide , a documentary about hyper-gentrification in Chelsea, the High Line, and the impact of stark inequality on both rich and poor...

Time Warp

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There's a new zine in town. Time Warp , its editors say, will be "a sort of rallying cry, to pull people together and to inspire Ne...

Meisler's Sassy '70s

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Recently, Bizarre Publishing released photographer Meryl Meisler's book of photos, Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy '70s Suburbia and...

Cinemaniacs

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If you've ever been to a movie at the Museum of Modern Art (or Cinema Village or Film Forum) you may have encountered a cinemaniac. Obs...

One-Thing Wonders

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The following is a guest post by Mitch Broder, author and blogger . It’s unlikely that nineteenth-century New York had an oatmeal saloon, bu...

The Lost Arcade

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The Lost Arcade , a new documentary film by Kurt Vincent and Irene Chin, tells the story of the legendary Chinatown Fair. On Mott Street sin...

Goldsmith's Capital

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This month, Verso Books publishes Kenneth Goldsmith's Capital , "a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York." I...

This Land Is Not For Sale

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Opening October 15 at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery is Brett Amory's "This Land Is Not For Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Fut...

On the Stroll

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After 20 years of working on Wall Street, Chris Arnade walked away in 2012, disillusioned with the business. He kept walking, all the way to...

"One Track Mind" Screening

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On October 7, at 6:30 p.m., the Transit Museum will be screening Jeremy Workman's award-winning documentary "One Track Mind," ...

NYC RIP

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Photographer Miron Zownir has just published NYC RIP, a collection of photographs capturing the "day-to-day lunacy" of New York ...

Pizza Rat Plushie

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By this point, you are all familiar with Pizza Rat , the little rodent that could, made world famous for his or her New York-style moxie in...

New Mini New Yorks

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You first heard of Randy Hage's incredible New York City miniatures on this blog back in 2010 when I introduced him with an interview o...

Drop Dead Perfect

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From Park Slope to Key West: Everett Quinton’s Incredible Journey guest post by Tim Cusack Everett Quinton, former lead actor and artistic d...

Found Dope 2

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In the 1980s, artist Candy Jernigan collected detritus from the streets of the East Village. For her piece Found Dope 2 , currently hanging ...

Broken Angel

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Last month, the Times reported on the transformation of Broken Angel, a wildly creative Brooklyn treasure, into high-priced condos . Wrote ...

Stink

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Romy Ashby writes the blog Walkers in the City , which you should know about if you don't already. She has just published a novel called...

A Conversation on Gentrification

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I chatted via email with DW Gibson , author of the recently published book The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in...