NYC
sugar headache
If you look closely, you’ll see that there are “nostalgic candy mixes” for each decade. Amazon, which also sells them, describes the 1950’s mix thusly:
This swell medley of sweets is guaranteed to bring you back to an unforgettable decade where Moms stayed home, girls wore poodle skirts and the boys revved the engines of their [...]
corner store
Can’t see what that says? Let’s zoom in:
So, a high-end clothing retailer moves into the space a neighborhood Brazilian joint occupied for fifteen years—which it had to leave because of an unaffordable rent increase—and decides to pay tribute to its beloved predecessor. I’m pretty sure this is what guilt-ridden gentrification looks like. I guess it’s [...]
In Obit, Matt Katz rues the death of idle time, and Matt Flegenheimer reports on the closing of NYC restaurant Gino’s, a place that stayed “frozen in the ’40s”:
Gino’s eldest loyalists have lived through crippling wars, sea-changing revolutions, 12 presidential administrations — every verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, whom they’ve [...]