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The Village itself is dead. Half the apartments are empty all but a couple weeks a year as rich owners purchase them as stores of wealth and places to stay when they come into the city. The artists, etc are long gone as are the chess and smoke shops. The dive bars have been replaced with ATMs and bank branches or sit vacant. The whole vibe is gone. I lived there for years back in the day. Sad, but true.
The Village itself is dead. Half the apartments are empty all but a couple weeks a year as rich owners purchase them as stores of wealth and places to stay when they come into the city. The artists, etc are long gone as are the chess and smoke shops. The dive bars have been replaced with ATMs and bank branches or sit vacant. The whole vibe is gone. I lived there for years back in the day. Sad, but true.
Shame, sad and a shame. Even the gays have mostly abandoned or otherwise left West and Greenwich Village. True they are still down there, but the place is not what it once was.
Eighth Avenue is either a total wasteland of retail (from Sixth to about Fifth), or an extension of NYU campus (Sixth really onto Third avenues).
Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Seattle P-I, and The Independent (a quality British paper) are all gone in print. Just a testimony to the dismal economics of the news business, when the cost of quality journalism has gotten more expensive while advertisers are moving en masse to the Internet, where they can target their ads more precisely and very cheaply to the prospective buyers they want. A few big papers like the Washington Post, New York Times, LA times, Wall Street Journal have managed to have their cake and eat it too (print and online versions) either because they've figured out how to make the Internet work for them or they're blessed with rich owners. But I fear we're going to see more papers fold or go digital only because the economics for print just don't work like they used to.
The VV was really good paper in its prime, though as other have said, its now a lot less than it used to be. Maybe without the costs of putting out a print edition the Web version can beef up its news and features and return the paper to its glory days.
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The NY Times is hurting also, but have managed to hold on, but mostly because they can actually get some people to pay for their on-line version (but the paywall is EXTREMELY easy to beat.) The WaPo is only still around because Bezos wants it for his mouthpiece.
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The NY Times is hurting also, but have managed to hold on, but mostly because they can actually get some people to pay for their on-line version (but the paywall is EXTREMELY easy to beat.) The WaPo is only still around because Bezos wants it for his mouthpiece.
New York Times seems to have stopped using pay wall, at least for the time being. You can click onto any story now from the NYT and do not get the message about cookies, limits, or whatever.
One thing liked about VV is that they put archived back issues online for access with no charge. It is such fun to go back to 1970's, 1980's or even before and see issues from those years.
The real estate sections are especially enlightening. When you look at how much was available and the rents in some areas that were suspect then.....
Last issue was today. Go pick up a copy or two as a collector's item.
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