Today’s guest on the show is Jeremiah Moss, author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul. We met up in Tompkins Square park to talk about the suburbanization of New York, the importance of policy, monoculture, Jane Jacobs, eminent domain, the impact of the High Line, Coney Island, neoliberalism, poor doors, colonial myopia and hyper-gentrification. I think it is safe to say that you should listen to this episode, twice. Enjoy.

Learn More

1. Jeremiah Moss Author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul(publisher Harper Collins)
2. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
3. Paperback coming out on July 24th
4. Vanishing New York Blog by Jeremiah Moss

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Show Notes

• Twitter: @jeremoss
• Facebook
• How did we get here?
• How did NYC lose it Soul?
• What is NY Soul?
• The Secret Movie
• Al Diaz New York Said Episode
• The Museum of the City of New York
• New York is feeling less like New York.
• What do you miss about New York?
• Do you want to be a New Yorker?
• The suburbanization of New York
• Why do you want to change New York?
• Chain stores are not home or soul?
• East Village, Manhattan
• Tompkins Square Park
• Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)
• Streets of New York – North Tompkins- Just another NYU Journalism Projects Sites site
  Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988
• What is left to love about New York?
• Affordable Rent
• Police State
• Mayor Rudy Giuliani
• Missing the local places
• Random acts of violence
• “Anything can happen…” old New York
• Guardian Angels
• Who is Mad Max?
• African American Migration from Jim Crow South
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – by Isabel Wilkerson(A TED Talk by the Author)
• Community is absent
• Let’s take care of each other; there is a personal responsibility to each other when you are a New Yorker
• The Sidewalk Experience
• The Importance of Policy
• The city is always changing, let’s evaluate that assumption and not be lazy as to why
• Bushwick, Brooklyn
• The G-word: Gentrification gen·tri·fi·ca·tion (noun)
• 1. the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class  taste.
• 2. the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite.
• The monoculture
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities – by Jane Jacobs
• 5 Things in NYC We Can Blame on Robert Moses by Phillipe Martin Chatelain
• What makes a healthy City?
• Business Improvement Districts (BID)
• Property Owners Spend on Quality of Life (But Is That Fair?) NYTimes Article on BIDs
• What is ‘Eminent Domain’
  Eminent domain is the power the United States government, states and municipalities to take private property for public use, following the payment of just compensation.
• The Iron Triangle ( A documentary)
• Willets Point, Queens (aka The Iron Triangle)
• Atlantic Yards
• State looks to seize properties in the path of Pacific Park
• Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure Hit & Run Blog by Anthony Fisher
• The High Line
• 1999 Friends of the High Line is founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, residents of the High Line neighborhood, to advocate for the High Line’s preservation and reuse as public open space.
• What are catalysts for hyper-gentrification?
• Air Rights Transfers
• Special West Chelsea Rezoning District
• Columbus Circle
• Sanitized Vertical Suburbia
• “We need cities where difference can co-exist with difference.” Jeremiah Moss Quote
• “You need dirt for things to grow.” Jeremiah Moss Quote
• Manufactured Experience – GMO Experience
• Demolition Man (film)
• Coney Island
• Fred Trump Real Estate Developer
• Horace Bullard Real Estate Developer
• “The mugging of a city, this city is being robbed by greed… at the expense of culture.” Amon Focus
• Nostalgie De La Boue – Yearning for the mud in French
• Why do we seem to like to destroy things in the middle of the night?
• Harlem’s legendary Lenox Lounge is being demolished: The site is rumored to give way to a massive Sephora By Ameena Walker
• Big bank takes little bank
• Progressive
• Neoliberalism
• Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world The Guardian.com by Stephen Metcalf
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Historic Win and the Future of the Democratic Party
  Come November, Ocasio-Cortez is almost certain to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Will her democratic-socialist identity push the Party to the left? The New Yorker ByDavid Remnick
• The important fight
• Change that needs to happen on a global scale
• What can we do?
• a. Become conscious
• b. Talk to each other and challenge ignorance of issues
• c. Elect politicians that are not taking money from corporations and real estate developers
• d. Support policies like the Small Business Jobs Survival Act
• e. Commercial Rent Control
• f. Affordable housing not tied to big development
• g. Support Vacancy Tax
• What the heck are poor doors? (you don’t even want to know)
• Whenever there is a discussion on Urban Development ask yourself 3 questions:
• 1. Who is it for?
• 2. Who does it attract?
• 3. Who does it displace?
• Trees, bikes, and Wi-Fi
• What is your intention?
• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
• Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
• Colonial Myopia
• A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and The Search for Authenticity by Japonica Brown-Saracino
• Madison Square Park
• Cultural Capital vs. Financial Capital
• Anywhere USA
• Mon-culture wants to turn everything into itself
• Good place to get a meal in New York:
• 1. Julius Restaurant
• 2. Donohue’s Steak House
• 3. Margon New York

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Today’s guest on the show is Shantell Martin. How cool is that? Very. We had the opportunity to stop by Shantell’s studio at Mana Contemporary to talk about working with Puma, Kendrick Lamar, Tiffany & Co., living in Japan, making her way to New York, starting over, collaborations, finding the signature in her work, style, perseverance, and being nice.

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Photography by Emanuel Hahn

More about Shantell Martin

1. Website: https://shantellmartin.art/
2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shantell_martin/
3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/shantellmartin
4. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shantellmartinartist/
5. Tumblr: http://shantellmartin.tumblr.com/
6. Twitter: https://twitter.com/shantell_martin
7. Drip: https://d.rip/shantell-martin

Shantell Martin x Tiffany & Co. – Greenhouse

Show Notes

• PUMA x SHANTELL MARTIN
• Tiffany & Co. New Ways of Seeing
• THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT
• Hidden Oras Shantell Martin VJ
• Interview with: WBP Labs about Hidden Oras
• Digital drawing for a Japanese all women’s dance group called Mujer
• VJ in Day
• Japan, Tokyo
• Kendrick Lamar and Shantell Martin: Live in Miami | American Express Music
• Kendrick Lamar And Shantell Martin: Music Meets Art | American Express Music
• Faena Art Dome

1800 Tequila Artist Series x Shantell Martin Who Are You

• Miami Art Basel – New York Said 
• A Very Fine Line
• South East London
• You are affected by your environment.
• Wasn’t in the Club
• Fancy Art School Shantell graduated from with honors Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, England. She graduated with honors in 2003.
• History of Anime
• Anime
• Monster
• Monster Anime Trailer – English Dubbed (Episode 1)
• .005 Fine Point Pen
• Accordion Foldout Book
• 27 Diaries
• Wave Coloring Book
• DJMag
• One of the World’s “Top 10 VJs” to Perform at Digital Graffiti-May 7, 2009
• She’s drawing, she’s not using mixers

• For a little bit of the VJ discussion surrounding visual art & music during 2009
• Current Screening On the March – Shantell Martin
• The Americans aren’t that bad, they’re actually quite nice. 😉
• Yokota Air Base
• Multi-colorful Cereals? Fruity Pebbles
• American Dollars
• On holiday, you’ll love New York
• The reality of living in New York versus Visiting
• The Social Security Office in NYC
• Lining up for the DMV, the IRS, or the Social Security office is not a holiday.
• Surviving New York
• When You Don’t Think About It because you are struggling to struggle.
• MTA Card
• How to get around New York
• Shantell’s Advice before moving to New York, “Date the city.”
• “Luck is the result of hard work and practice over a long period of time and I think it is the same with opportunity.” Shantell Martin Quote
• “…You just never stopped.” Shantell Martin Quote
• You iterate

Wave Coloring Book by Shantell Martin

• “Every brand under the sun wants to collaborate with an artist but they don’t want to bring the responsibility with that to the artist” Shantell Martin Quote
• Don’t be afraid to share knowledge and information.
• All the Eyes Looking Left Sometimes
• Shantell Martin in Color VJING FOR LIGHTS AND COLORS. THE SKETCH PROJECTOR OF SHANTELL MARTIN
• “There’s no such thing as mistakes, there is only enjoying the process.” Shantell Martin Quote
• “I am a huge proud dyslexic.” Shantell Martin Quote
• Dyslexia
• Here Now
• Walk Talk Make Share
• Be More, Do Less
• Open Your Door Find Out More
• Big Lesson “Be Nice”
• Here’s what happened after the interviewA week in the Life – Episode 017 | Nuff Said

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Recorded right in midtown at a spot called Grind.NoMad, today’s guest on the show is Martha Cooper. In this episode we talk about the Peace Corps, traveling across Asia, publishing books, capturing the Yakuza, anthropology, street play, photography, National Geographic, the New York Post and documenting graffiti culture as well as street art. Read the Show Notes