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  1. Tracking the Hyper-Gentrification of New York, One ...

    VANISHING NEW YORK How a Great City Lost Its Soul By Jeremiah Moss Illustrated. 465 pp. Dey St./William Morrow. $28.99.. Bemoaning the changes that have plagued New York in recent years — the ...

  2. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    Vanishing New York is an insightful book about a complex topic by a frustrating author. My review is too long, but so is the book. So if you proceed to either one, you've been warned. Essentially a 420-page rant against the gentrification of Manhattan, VNY reminisces about the past, complains of the present, and shudders at the future. Moss ...

  3. a book review by Basil Smikle Jr.: Vanishing New York: How a Great City

    For politicos, the subtext reveals a requiem for the loss of liberalism. In a city with a 6-1 Democratic-to-Republican registration, voters chose 20 years of non-Democratic mayors in Giuliani and Bloomberg. But Vanishing New York isn't looking for a liberal hero so much as it just wants its city back—complete with all its wrinkles and warts.

  4. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    His writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, Salon, and The New York Review of Books. His blog "Vanishing New York" was frequently named a Best of New York by the Village Voice. He's been hailed as ...

  5. Vanishing New York by Jeremiah Moss, reviewed.

    In his passionate, sprawling, and often frustrating new book, Vanishing New York: How a City Lost Its Soul, he claims to speak for urbanites from London to San Francisco, decrying a global ...

  6. VANISHING NEW YORK

    Moss closes with notes on remaking New York so that less moneyed, less well-connected residents enjoy the same "right to the city" as his greedy villains. Maddening if you're not mega-wealthy, and a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud. Pub Date: July 25, 2017. ISBN: 978--06-243969-7.

  7. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    This book is a mind opener. While those of us who have lived in New York for countless generations have been aware that the city changes over time, and seldom overall for the better, we disconnected the earlier patterns of urban destruction from the accelerated pace that we've seen in the past generation.

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    Learn from 934 book reviews of Vanishing New York, by Jeremiah Moss. With recommendations from world experts and thousands of smart readers. Our Summaries; ... in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York. For generations, New York City has been a mecca for ...

  9. Vanishing New York : How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    "Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi" —Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York.For generations, New York City has been a mecca for artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be ...

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    Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul by Jeremiah Moss has an overall rating of Positive based on 9 book reviews. Features; New Books; Biggest New Books; Fiction; Non-Fiction; All Categories; First Readers Club Daily Giveaway; How It Works; SEARCH. Search . About Book Marks. Features.

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  13. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul|Paperback

    Jeremiah Moss, creator of the award-winning blog Vanishing New York, is the pen name of Griffin Hansbury. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Hansbury, he is the author of The Nostalgist, a novel, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.

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    Buy Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul by Moss, Jeremiah (ISBN: 9780062439697) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. ... starred review "Vanishing New York is an urban-activist polemic in the tradition of Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities: Every page is ...

  15. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    Jeremiah Moss, creator of the award-winning blog Vanishing New York, is the pen name of Griffin Hansbury. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Hansbury, he is the author of The Nostalgist, a novel, and works as a psychoanalyst in private ...

  16. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York

    In this innovative and thrilling book, author and social critic Jeremiah Moss, hailed as "New York City's career elegist" (New York Times), explores a city emptied of the dominant class—and their controlling influence. "Plagues have a disinhibiting effect," Moss writes. "As the normal order is suspended, the repressive force of ...

  17. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    His writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, Salon, and The New York Review of Books. His blog "Vanishing New York" was frequently named a Best of New York by the Village Voice. He's been hailed as ...

  18. THE VANISHING HALF

    Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish. The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. Desiree, the "fidgety twin," and Stella, "a smart, careful girl," make ...

  19. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York. New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social ...

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    Tessa Fontaine is the author of "The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts," which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers ...

  21. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    His writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, Salon, and The New York Review of Books. His blog "Vanishing New York" was frequently named a Best of New York by the Village Voice. He's been hailed as ...