is New York City dead?

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

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

The actual funniest part of that is "you may want to park" — spoken like a true cop-turned-politician who never actually has to find a place to park.

I’m trying to imagine any of our previous mayors saying that and…nope, impossible

Ed Koch never rolled that way

It's kind of funny to imagine it in Bloomberg's fussy voice.

Tom Verlaine storage locker book sale, the Arkestra (free!) and I’m pretty sure D4n selz3r dj’d this weekend. And you wanna tell me nyc is dead.

Tom Verlaine storage locker book sale, the Arkestra (free!) and I’m pretty sure D4n selz3r dj’d this weekend. And you wanna tell me nyc is dead.

yesterday i saw billy harper, eddie henderson, george cables, cecil mcbee, billy hart, david weiss, donald harrison, and 75 dollar bill for free yesterday. (my last summer licks before they impose their onerous 'congestion pricing' to keep suburban motorists like me off their sacred shores. no way would i have gotten from marcus garvey park down to bryant park in time for the 75 dollar bill set w/o wheels.)

i can vouch that ian was indeed at the tom verlaine book sale! verlaine apparently had boundless curiosity; book subjects were all over the map. he seemed to have a deep interest in china. the bookstore owner relayed a funny story jimmy ripp had told him, where the band was in china for a gig and ripp suggested staying on for a week and exploring china. verlaine nixed it and said he wanted to get back to ny, presumably so he could go to strand and buy more books about china.

Marcus Garvey to Bryant is 20 minutes by train, 25 by bike (by conservative google estimate). Can't imagine driving is faster, but I don't drive.

Verlaine books were amazingly diverse, got a book of Norwegian photography and a Gary Snyder volume.

I did dj. Fun was had by most. And my kid did a lemonade stand today. Sold out in an hour. You can’t tell me NYC is dead. Money went to Hawaii fire charity and a snake refuge(opals business partner Pete’s idea).

what kind of books about China are we talking? i'm always looking for titles i don't already have about ancient China, as well as Chinese language & cosmology, especially if they're up to date. I'm not so interested in books about modern China. Should i reach out?