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First, Below 14th closed up shop, but we didn't mind, 'cos it was replaced by Curbed. Besides, there were other great Lower East Side blogs. EBway.org, for instance – but this weekend we were told that they're moving to Argentina. Never mind, there's still Tale of Two Cities, right? Wrong. Even felixsalmon.com is planning its move out of the LES, albeit just a couple of blocks north to 3rd and B. Pretty soon, all LES bloggers will be confined to one raucous apartment on the third floor of 203 Rivington Street. The rest of the LES will be a blog-free zone!
The really tragic thing is that no one came up with a name that captured the synergy between the LES and the blogosphere while it was going on. (Remember "Silicon Alley?") It's going to be hard to remember its significance sans a catchall proper noun.
Maybe we could try to come up with one in hindsight. How 'bout "The Bowery Blogs?"
Posted by: Sterling on May 3, 2005 07:20 PMOh, sorry 99, Felix was talking about NOTEWORTHY bloggers.
Posted by: Sterling on May 4, 2005 06:44 PMPhew -- looks like I'm getting out just in time! You haven't moved into The Coda, have you, 99?
Posted by: Felix on May 4, 2005 07:56 PMThe Coda? Is that the place that sells live ducklings? I'm in the walkup just north of the electrical motor supply (which is just north of Arthur's Dress Shop). I was going to move to 2nd Street, but I heard all the losers were heading south of Houston.
99 -- I don't suppose you've seen the film Pieces of April since you moved into your new digs, have you? Do me a favour, rent it (it's really not that bad) -- you might get an interesting surprise...
Posted by: Felix on May 11, 2005 03:57 PMWho cares where bloggers live? LES, NoHO, Tribeca...? The whole point of blogging here is to generate the underground (and sometimes overground) buzz around people, events and places. Plus, Silicon Alley was just a moniker for Net branding. The blogosphere moves too quickly to ever be branded anything. Unless you're Nick Denton, and eager to group your blogs for ad dollars. In that case, it works. :-)
Posted by: Dfactor on May 13, 2005 04:07 PMFound it for $7 at Kim's. For lightweight fare, ehh. I'd say it's The Daytrippers Get Cancer. Except The Daytrippers seemed more plausible. Plus, Parker Posey is way more LES than Katie Holmes.
Anyhoo, the corner building featured isn't much closer to my current place than the bldg on the SE corner of B and 2nd was to my old apartment -- it was the loft in 200 Cigarettes. Not to mention that just about every inch of lower Ave B. was in the movie.
But neither measures up to the place I left, which was filmed by Woody Allen three times (none of which occurred while I lived there). The hotel room in Mighty Aphrodite? My old kitchen. The walls they built are still there.
Posted by: 99 on May 25, 2005 08:31 PM