Damn this year went by quick. Too quick if you ask me but who is asking? Anyways… Juan and I are back with this year’s 2018 Year End Wrap Up. We met back up in Tudor City to reminisce about past episodes, the launch of Sunday Cigar and what we’ve learned along the way. Happy New York good people!

Show Notes

Show notes coming soon…

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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 Bobbito Garcia.

What’s up good people this episode is that kicks off to Third Season of the New York Said podcast. We drop a new episode every Tuesday… Lawd so that means this is episode 105. Time is flying and we sincerely appreciate your support on this journey.

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Alright…

The other day I headed to the Metrograph Theater in the Lower East Side to catch the premiere of Rock Rubber 45s, an autobiographical documentary by Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love. I’m not a film critic but I will say this, I friggin’ love it. I laughed a lot, had a ton of nostalgic moments plus I learn a ton of stuff about Bob that I did now know.

After the film, Bob and I kicked it for a few but he was gracious to give us access to record the Q&A after the movie.

It’s a documentary so I personally don’t think there are any spoilers or spoiler alerts because it’s info that supports the film. To be honest, it a great Q&A but nothing is going to beat actually seeing the film and listening to the music. Theres is a lot of excellent music in the film, that’s no surprise. It’s Bobbito!

Anyway, I’m outta here… enjoy!

Show Notes

1. Bobbito Garcia
2. Rock Rubber 45s Documentary
3. Rock Rubber 45s Playing at Maysles Cinema  Friday, July 6, 2018 7:30 PM  thru Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:30 PM
4. Nike Zoom Fly Mercurial Flyknit
5. Metrograph
6. Rep Reborn, Downtown: The Story Behind NYC’s Metrograph Theater by Vadim Rizov
7. Jake Perlin, Artistic and Programming Director of Metrograph and noted cinephile
8. From the Archives: First Person Singular, Autobiography in Film-June 30, 2016 | By David Schwartz
9. Autobiographical Film
10. Review: ‘Rock Rubber 45s’ Looks in the Mirror to Tell a Life Story By Glenn Kenny
11. NYT Critic’s Pick
12. Kickstarter for Rock Rubber 45s
13. 7th Boro
14. Doin’ It In The Park Film
15. Kevin Couliau, Director & Photographer
16. Stretch and Bobbito Film
17. Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives – Trailer – YouTube
18. National Public Radio – NPR
19. What’s Good with Stretch & Bobbito Podcast 2nd season starts on August 15th
20. Stevie Wonder Episode Mentioned– August 30, 2017
21. Uncle Drew (2018 Movie) Official Trailer
22. Charles Stone III, Director
23. The Roots
24. Jill Scott– American singer-songwriter
25. Rucker Park
26. Archival Consultant (an article)
27. Terabyte
28. Blessings of the Universe
29. Netflix
30. Not getting paid up front.
31. Cey Adams
32. Cey Adams- Artist (happens to have been a guest of the New York Said Podcast)…here’s the episode
33. Janette Beckman – British photographer
34. Charlie Ahearn Director
35. Charlie Ahearn Biography
36. Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer trailer
37. Wild Style Movie
38. Adobe Premier Pro
39. Frame.io: Video Post Production Collaboration Software
40. Max (software)
41. LaCie: Premium External Hard Drives
42. Where’d You Get Those? New York City’s Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 Hardcover – September, 2003 (Bobbito’s Book)
43. Emir Lewis Editor & producer (vimeo channel)
44. Sneaker Kingpin Fat Joe & Bobbito Garcia On “Its The shoes”
45. ’72 Hours’: Brooklyn Teen Caesar Winslow Has a Weekend to Settle His Affairs (Exclusive Video)
46. Meet the Director: Raafi Rivero
47. Raafi Rivero Director & Filmmaker
48. Mariah Rehmet Editor
49. Saboteur Media
50. DJ Stretch Armstrong on the 5 ’90s NYC Clubs That Shaped Him By Jake Boyer
51. DJ Rich Medina
52. Earl Manigault American basketball player
53. Ray Garcia
54. Bill Garcia
55. The University of Vermont
56. Harvard University
57. Francis Eugene Harper aka Hill Harper
58. Stevie Crashes The Wonder-Full Party & Makes Music With DJ Spinna
59. Wonder-Full part 1 – Stevie Wonder Party by Spinna & Bobbito
60. Pharoahe Monch – “Still Standing” feat. Jill Scott Music Video
61. ROCK RUBBER 45s title track produced by Bobbito García features guest appearances by 10-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri and 3-time Grammy Award winner Robert Glasper, as well as Latin Grammy Award winning violinist Mireya Ramos of the group Flor de Toloache and hip hop legend DJ Rob Swift on scratches.
62. Earthtones
63. Rich Medina And Bobbito ‎– The Connection Volume One (Modern Explorations In Afro-Beat And Afro Latin) 2009
64. r2 Records
65. Rich Medina & Bobbito, CONNECTED (album preview mix) on Soundcloud
66. The Maysles Documentary Center
67. Summer Stage (FREE EVENTS ALL SUMMER)
68. DJ Cucumber Slice
69. Claw Money New York-based graffiti writer turned fashion designer
70. Coney Island High
71. Pick Up Basketball
72. Ray Diaz, the founder and director of the Nike Pro City League
73. VIBE
74. Be Polite Dancer
75. Non Profits that you may donate to:
76. Soles4Souls
77. Healing Soles, Inc.
78. Samaritan’s Feet
79. Hoops for Hope
80. Hoops Africa
81. SEEDS
82. The soundtrack of our lives
83. I am going to go play ball but I sucked
84. Not afraid to fail
85. New Life
86. Footwork
87. Nuyorican Poets Cafe
88. Bobbito Garcia’s Footwork Sneaker Store LES NYC
89. 3rd Bass
90. Def Jam
91. MF Doom
92. KMD Hip hop trio
93. Pete Nice
94. Hard 2 Obtain Long Island hip hop group
95. Black Bastards Album
96. Kurious
97. Operation: Doomsday

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