MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Tired of "winning": New York vs the Monoculture
By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/19/2018 - 8:21am |URL:
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/
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On same topic but with leaving out a lot of the old tymie lefty grudges: Will Retail Apocalypse be good for the arts in NYC?
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 12:15am
If you haven't been to NYC lately, here's a good photo, from the side, of the Hudson Yards developments the Harper's author is complaining about, a kind of mashup of the fictional Stepford and of Dubai has appeared in the middle of the Hudson River view of the Manhattan skyline within a couple years time. If you manage to find your way down into the streets around these buildings, which are way way on the west side in a big area that used to be empty, you find: no people. It's like Twilight Zone:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/28/2018 - 10:11pm