is New York City dead?

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.

― o. nate, Tuesday, July 4, 2023 11:42 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

I work in an RXR building 2 days a week. Last week they had an ice cream social in the lobby. Free ice cream. Look what you're missing remote workers.

Same! I was in the office but didn't go.

311 is shit

311 is a joke in yo town

Second day in a row I’ve see a bee attacking a lantern fly. Go bees!

has anyone else noticed that the carroll street bridge has been out of commission for at least two years?

i moved back

$15 sandwich town

The bees are back in town
The bees are back in town

And if the bees wanna sting you better let 'em

carrol st construction will go on Forever

i actually have noticed that about the carroll street bridge

remembering now that i asked a construction worker about it early on and he said it would be done "by the fall." i guess he didn't say which fall

The fall of New York City.

Why is he like this

Mayor Eric Adams (D) opines on outdoor dining: “ ... You’re looking to date, you may drive by, you may see eye candy sitting down somewhere, you may want to park and come and slip them your number. Hey, listen, come have fun, man. Outdoor dining is the way to go.” pic.twitter.com/TqMCFWgtce

— The Recount (@therecount) August 16, 2023