[Looks like fall, feels like summer]
City temporarily removes Jim Power's 9/11 mosaic on Astor Place (DNAinfo)
Penny Arcade on the vanishing downtown scene (The Observer)
Video! "Where You Been So Long" by Eden and John's East River String Band with Robert Crumb (YouTube)
New York is the most rude and arrogant state! (New York)
Remember Loew's Avenue B (Off the Grid)
A new anonymous Twitter account arrived today...
I feel so empty inside. @evgrieve
— 51 Astor Place (@51deathstar) August 21, 2013
New Bowery shanty (BoweryBoogie)
Controversial LES property owner buys more LES property (The Lo-Down)
A few more lost record stores (Flaming Pablum)
Thompson Street laundromat disappears (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
At the annual Johnny Ramone tribute (Rolling Stone)
From a reader:
"My partner and I found an obviously abandoned or lost housecat (had a collar on, box trained) at a construction site next to Bar 169 on East Broadway yesterday. We took her home as she was emaciated and needed some TLC."