Updated 10:06 a.m.
If you follow the Vanishing New York blog, Jeremiah catalogs all the doom and gloom stories in the media of what a recession/depression might mean for NYC (The end of NY as we have more recently known it… ? Yes. Please). He writes about why some people (his readers, for one, who have been watching our city … vanish) actually feel this turn of events might bring something back to New York City.
The more recent incarnation of NYC is too sterile, overly homogenized, massively commercialized. We need a bit more grit, creativity, diversity, art, community, some real bohemia (not a Marc Jacobs’ version) and less emphasis on GREED. Perhaps eventually even Mayor Bloomberg will catch on.
With that in mind, I share this story from this week’s New York magazine.
Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley was asked by an “Intelligencer” writer at an exhibit, “Tell us a recession story.”
To which, Rowley replied:
“I was in a taxi and the driver was smoking, so I said, ‘Well, you’re smoking; I might as well be having a drink! Too bad you don’t have a bar in here.’ The he moved his coat and he has a cooler and he’s like, “Do you want a Bud Light?’ The new New York!”
Photo: Joep R.
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Note: Reading some of the archives of the original Gowanus Lounge site, Robert Guskind’s blog, and his eclectic mix of entries, has inspired me to diversify my site a bit more. If you’d like to read some of them go to: Gowanuslounge.blogspot.com.