Wednesday Links
For Tight Times, Office Space on Flexible Terms [NY Times] PS 29 Improvises to Watch Inauguration [NY Times] Obama Has No Quick Fix for Banks [NY Times] East River Bridges Hazardous for Biking, Walking [NY Post] ‘This Old House’ Makes Debut in Brooklyn [NY Daily News] City Planning Certifies Coney Island Plan [Brooklyn Eagle] Lots…
For Tight Times, Office Space on Flexible Terms [NY Times]
PS 29 Improvises to Watch Inauguration [NY Times]
Obama Has No Quick Fix for Banks [NY Times]
East River Bridges Hazardous for Biking, Walking [NY Post]
‘This Old House’ Makes Debut in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
City Planning Certifies Coney Island Plan [Brooklyn Eagle]
Lots of Laptop Thefts in Park Slope [Brooklyn Paper]
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Well I can’t join that campaign because virtually everything I buy is used – cars, books, furniture.
I do make exceptions with toiletries and food.
Amazon takes a cut and so do all the other sites. I don’t know what it is. Most booksellers list simultaneously on all the major sites. Most independent bookstores that sell used books, such as the Strand and Powell’s, also sell through these sites.
If you want to help authors, publishers, and independent brick-and-mortar booksellers of NEW books, do not buy used books online.
But it’s all disappearing — pretty soon we’re going to be reading all books and newspapers on the Kindle or something like it.
Mopar – Do they get the same deal tho? My impression was that this is not so.
Ditto, the independent booksellers sell on both Alibris and Amazon. My bf is one.
I don’t think that was him, but enjoy the books!
hey dittoburg- just went to Alibris and bought 3 of them (wow! great prices! Now I can feed the need). can’t wait.
do you know if he was the reporter who wrote an article on NY Harbor and all the mysteries in it? It was for one of the papers (Post?) and talked about a horse that was at the bottom. But it was so beautifully written- wish I had had the brains to keep it.
greenwood i see that too all the time! especially with ipods.
*rob*
I read that Joseph Mitchell became depressed as the New York he knew disappeared. He ended up with a monumental writer’s block, just sitting in his office – 15 years or something silly. And after he died his family found all sorts of odd stuff labeled and kept in his house, like old Hudson ferry terminal door handles and bricks from a demolished tenement, like he was intending to rebuild the old city himself.
Anyway, his books are great.
Thanks, dittoburg! I’ve never tried alibris but I’ll check now. I was born and raised here- it kills me to see all the old, weird wicky parts get lost or torn down. There is so much history on every street and it just breaks my heart over and over again to see how pieces of it are destroyed. It isn’t that nothing new should ever be built, or change made- its the way it gets done.
Forgive me for sounding ignorant on this, I really can’t remember the details but years ago I read a James Baldwin book (can’t remember which one. Perhaps one of you know) about a young Harlem man who takes a girl to Coney Island. She’s never been out of Harlem, never seen the ocean. she disappears and never goes back. That just sort of symbolized places like Coney Island for me- the magic pulled you away. Now everything is cushioned and buffered and plasticized and dry as dust. Sorry- NYC is a passion and I see too much of its character disappearing.