DEAR NEW YORK,
27 odes to NY institutions from some of the best people to have called the city home (Sally Singer on Film Forum, @frynaomifry on Walter Reade, @eileen.myles on Mogador AND E River Park…& so much more).
Thank you to everyone who contributed pieces on the Manhattan people & places (RIP Spain, Lucky Strike) they love most, to @carlglassmanphoto for his wonderful photo from above, to @aaronstern__ for being an indesign guru, and to Elinor Nauen who helped me every step of the way.
There are 212 copies and all of the proceeds are going to @gvshp_nyc . *The first printing sold out but taking preorders - link in bio 🖤
Is it possible to love a movie too much? What a dream to screen An Unmarried Woman & speak with @lilyrabe about her mother, Jill Clayburgh, & the performance of a lifetime for NY Stories with @metier . It’s the city at its very best, from One Fifth & dim sum & Prince St’s Food to loft parties & empty Soho streets & Italian ices in Washington Sq Park to the 6’2” real life therapist & New School professor, Penelope Russianoff, whose line I once snuck into a story for @study.magazine . Could go on & on but… Thank you @melissa.metier@sarabyworth (& @adriencothier_ for wetransfering it to me all those years ago) 🖤
Dream night hosting the very first NEW YORK STORIES with the forever ultimate @joanjulietbuck who read her 1983 Vogue essay about the city - a longtime favorite I found deep in the archive - & @metier .
JJB landed in New York at the age of 17 after receiving an invitation from Tom Wolfe: “Come to rotten Gotham.” As she remembers, many moons before becoming the editor in chief of French Vogue, “I could [have] a new life in New York. That was my destiny.” She brought Jackie O to Mr. Chow, hung out at Max’s Kansas City and the Factory, & ate tuna sandwiches with Tina Chow at Dover Delicatessen on Lex, all the while writing her unmatched “timestamps.”
A million thanks to JOAN, @melissa.metier , @sarabyworth , @grimmchristie & the all time NYers who came out on a rainy Monday evening to look through my old NY books and hear an old NY story 🖤
A year late but no better day to share — long live old NY, forever & ever & ever & ever..
Somehow I got to write 12 pages about speeding down streets in crazy yellow taxis and Frank O’Hara and his doorway to heaven and Lilac Chocolates and Le Fanion and Jefferson Market Library and the Village and the Village Vanguard and Guggenheim’s reading room and 3 Guys’ tuna sandwiches and Omen’s green tea ice cream and Mercer St Books and Odeon’s pints to go and a night out at the ballet after dim sum under the zodiacs and Raoul’s fortune teller and Pitti pasta and late night slices on sparkling sidewalks and remembering to look up & the best neon-lit skyline of all time & all the other endless spectaculars that make this city the greatest love of my life. Thank you one million times to @christopherniquet & @holidaymagazine
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