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Laments like this by @jeremoss while heartfelt r ahistorical. It's been ever thus in NYC. The new arrives, the old dies, changes. The city is bigger than we are. Dissing Amazon babies sounds awkwardly like dissing LES Jews & Italians. We r all immigrants.
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@jeremoss Moss derides the culture of the new arrivals, perhaps rightly. It is after all a culture of money & comfort. The lament feels genuine. But the tone of disdain feels over(t)ly nasty & provincial. No one owns NYC by birthright. That is it's beauty. It is a living organism.
@jeremoss Also Moss spends most of essay attacking the luxe lifestyle of the arrivistes & no time discussing the city policies that brought them. There are reasons y the wealthy came to NYC. (See: the Bloomberg mayoralty.) To blame people for coming & not the reasons they came seems off.
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