is New York City dead?

every time i post about this i’m like “everyone on the west coast has been experiencing this forever, idiot, welcome to reality” don’t worry

the sky is a normal color classic or dud???

classic, that sky was freaking me out yesterday

^Seconded

Searching for an old email this popped up in the search results, from 2005
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Free Party @ the Candy Store
This Saturday (9/24) from 8pm till late
127 Henry Street, Ground Floor
Between Pike (Allen st) and Rutgers (Essex st)
Take the F train to East Broadway and walk one block downtown
212 203-9585 if you have any questions

Expect wine & beer and great tunes� As well as many funky NYC people!

apparently The Candy Store is now an art gallery called Situations.

The load cars sound like they’re taking huge shits

Bringing my teenage sons for a quick NYC visit on July 15-16 (passing through as part of a longer road trip). I have some thoughts about places to take them/things to do, but if you know of cool summer stuff going on lemme know. Also, for the one who's a vinyl collector and noise music fan, what are the best options for music stores these days?

Attorneys General (David Grubbs, Alan Licht and Ian Williams from Battles) are playing P.I.T. in Williamsburg the night of the 15th. Mama Tried has a matinee that day with Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Lupo Citta (Chris Brokaw), and Rider/Horse. Both are no cover/pay what you will. P.I.T. is a book and record shop and fine for teens, and MT seems to be chill with parents having kids (shows are on a patio next to the BQE).

Great jazz show that day at Public Records: Irreversible Entanglements Speak Easy Vol 1, with Moor Mother, IE, David Murray and other people, but that's 21+.

Cool, thx!

I recommend a walk through Times Square at night

If you'll be over in Bushwick, the Johnson location of Brooklyn Record Exchange is my favorite used vinyl spot in the city. (Material World, not far from there, might be stronger on noise.) But I wouldn't schlep over here if you weren't already doing some fun summer stuff in the nabe!

We'll definitely be in Times Square — we're going to see the Peter Pan Goes Wrong show — but they've seen it before. They were actually both born in NYC, but we moved away when they were 5 and 2 respectively, so I try to bring them back periodically so that they feel at least a little connected. Being New Yorkers by birth is a point of pride for both of them.

if you guys are gonna be in brooklyn at all, the captured tracks store in greenpoint is prob my fav record store rn. i’m not a noise head but they have a lot of diff stuff there tho it’s not a huge place. it’s also a nice area to walk around in general. in manhattan it’s hard to go wrong w academy records

i’d also do some snooping around city websites like summerstage or the city parks website, there’s often stuff happening even in smaller parks around the city. i.e. that weekend at a park in bed stuy there’s a free concert w/ noname & georgia anne muldrow. there might be something happening somewhere that is up their alley — there’s tons of places that do outdoor films, lincoln center etc — and a lot of that stuff is free

oh record runner is another good one in manhattan, it’s got a huge basement so it’s easy lose an hour in there flipping thru records

i heard there's a cool new art gallery called Situations.

sorry, Jordan S. is otm about free outdoor shows, and probably also Academy though Downtown Music Gallery is still a place that has noise records afaik.

yeah i’m not an expert on where to get noise records specifically… i basically only buy turn of the millennium rap and r&b records. but those places i mentioned are just good generalist shops

hey, i don't buy records at all really what do i know. the record collectors in my orbit never mention DMG, but Record Grouch and Academy (the one in Brooklyn) come up a lot.

but like i haven't been to Brooklyn since 2004.

i actually think all the corny tourist stuff in NYC is a lot more fun. Times Square was great when the Polynesian was still open, you could get blasted on rum and then go bowling at Bowlero with the theme lanes or go to the arcade, then play with toys at the Disney store at 1am. You should def hit up something like ZeroSpace, it used to be in Times Square but it looks like it's in Brooklyn now. You can go up to the top of the Empire State building reaaaaally late at night when it's deserted, i think the observation deck is open until 2am. Prob not cheap for 3 ppl but it's fun.

I want to go to the observation deck at Hudson yards, edge I think it’s called

Oh, that could be fun. We did Empire State Bldg. on a previous visit.

You should try and see shucked

I'd like to see that but I think the Peter Pan show is more up my kids' alley. More people getting hit on the head etc.

Shucked has a lot of butt jokes

The captured tracks shop is currently flooded so is check before going.

I haven’t been but Ergot Records looks like the best record store in Manhattan, or perhaps NYC, or maybe the world.

Also check out Love Not Money.

Anyway NY has an amazing amount of great record stores right now.

Tipsy, in the department of too many good options: Marcia Griffiths is also playing a free concert on the evening of the 15th in Prospect Park, with Brown Rice Family.

Anyway NY has an amazing amount of great record stores right now.

I now have a record player for the first time in about 10 years. My nearest record store in Hoboken is certainly a lot more bustling now than it was 10 yrs ago. Lots of kids in there browsing the records when I visit now, vs. when it used to just be a few crusty old-timers like me.

Oh man, if I was solo that Marcia Griffiths show would be very appealing. Probably a bit of a sell to the kids tho, especially for the ride out from Manhattan.

The records stores sound great Dan, thx! Hadn't even heard of either of those.

Is Tunes the store in Hoboken still?

There’s also Iris Records in Jersey City

Love not money is pretty new. My good old friend Joshua Gabriel with the help of Andy from Cake Shop. Those are just two good options downtown. The Brooklyn options are insane.

Ergot is good. Downtown Music Gallery is the classic. For newer stuff, you could check Stranded on 5th Street?
Brooklyn Record Exchange also good, especially the Bushwick location.
Deep Cuts in Ridgewood probably has some noise records.

The P.I.T. in Williamsburg (south side) is a cool leftist bookstore that also has a bunch of records and stuff, as well as hosting musical performances (of all kinds but often improvised music.)

What about the Grouch?

Been meaning to get to PIT because they keep booking Baltimore’s Smoke Bellow who I love. PIT is booked by/worked by Jim from Sunwatchers.

Grouch definitely has lots of noise but especially the more academic side of avant-garde music iirc. they have a 2nd location now also, open during shows at 411 kent ave.

Dan is like the secret agent man of record stores in bk respect

Flood reports and sh1t

I just follow them all in social media. I don’t actually ever go to record stores. Except the academy in 18th at because it’s across the street from my job and hip Brooklyn record nerds don’t go there so I’m always finding cool post punk or whatever.

Now if only I am get captured ephemera to write me back about selling all my posters.

Is Tunes the store in Hoboken still?

Yes, still going strong.

2010-2013, when the market for physical media was nil, I would go to Tunes once a week and would find absolutely amazing shit every time…

Oh Eric Adams. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/nyregion/mayor-adams-photo-venable-fake.html

In Mayor Eric Adams’s first month in office, he was confronted with a tragic crisis: the deaths of two New York City police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance in Harlem.

Mr. Adams, a former police captain who campaigned as a Democratic crime fighter, quickly sought to humanize the killings. The loss of the officers, he said, reminded him of the 1987 line-of-duty death of a friend, Officer Robert Venable.

“I still think about Robert,” Mr. Adams said at a news conference at City Hall. “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.”

A week later, Mr. Adams posed for a portrait in his office, holding a wallet-size photo of Officer Venable after The New York Times had requested to see it. Mr. Adams has since repeated the moving anecdote in media interviews and at a Police Academy ceremony last June, where he again displayed Officer Venable’s picture.

But the weathered photo of Officer Venable had not actually spent decades in the mayor’s wallet. It had been created by employees in the mayor’s office in the days after Mr. Adams claimed to have been carrying it in his wallet.

The employees were instructed to create a photo of Officer Venable, according to a person familiar with the request. A picture of the officer was found on Google; it was printed in black-and-white and made to look worn as if the mayor had been carrying it for some time, including by splashing some coffee on it, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Is Tunes the store in Hoboken still?

Yes, still going strong.

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It's always somewhat eerie to be reminded I'm not the only current Hoboken ilxor

I went to Pier Platters once. Probably after it’s heyday and not long before closing though.

Walking to work this morning and noticing tons of new stores opening soon and development in the stretch of lower 5th ave between 23rd st and 14th. I work in Flatiron two days a week and this strip has had tons of vacancies for years but now seems to be filling in. Still plenty of empty office space I'm sure and this is def anecdotal, but I find it curious.

Of course Bed Bath and Beyond is gonna sit empty for a decade.

lots of tourists in that area due to the Harry Potter thing on 22nd (and the flatiron, and eataly...)

New York Magazine's "New Glut City" article: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-office-real-estate-rechler-rxr-project-kodak.html