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Jeremiah Moss, pseudonym of Griffin Hansbury, (born 1971) is an American poet, writer, psychoanalyst, social worker, and social critic. He is the author of the blog Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.[1][2]
Hansbury revealed his identity as Moss in 2017.[3][4]
Early life and education
Moss grew up in Massachusetts.[5] He moved to New York City's East Village when he was 22, inspired by New York writers like Frank O'Hara and J.D. Salinger.[6]
Hansbury earned a Master's degree from the Creative Writing Program of New York University.[6]
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
Moss created Jeremiah's Vanishing New York in July 2007. The first post mourned the loss of the iconic speakeasy Chumley's in Greenwich Village.[3] The blog chonicles the rapidly changing New York City streetscape through posts about closed and potentially closing old time businesses. The blog had 2,700 posts as of April 2015.[5]
The name of the blog comes from the name of the main character of a never published novel Hansbury wrote about a dyspeptic East Village resident.[3] he chose the name Jeremiah, as a nod to the prophet Jeremiah, who he said “was the prophet of doom who nobody listened to until it was too late.” He decided to not use his real name because he thought it would disrupt his day job.[7]
In 2014, he began a movement to save the Café Edison, a long-running restaurant on West 47th Street popular with people who worked on Broadway. He promoted the hashtag #SaveCafeEdison and organized lunch mobs.[3] The effort did not succeed, but it lead Moss to begin to actively campaign against the forces that were driving the changes he dispised, instead of simply writing about them.[8]
Moss advocates for the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, a New York City Council bill first introduced in 1986 that would mandate arbitration in the renewal of some commercial leases. He believes the bill would prevent the loss of many small businesses.[5][9]
Publications
As Hansbury, he published Day for Night, a collection of poems in 2000, and The Nostalgist in 2013, a fictional look at post 9/11 life in the city.[10][11] In 2017, Moss published the book Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul. The book details the view of Moss that contemporary New York is being destroyed by what he calls “hyper-gentrification”.[12][13]
Moss is currently writing a book about life in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic titled Feral City.[14]
Awards and honors
As Hansbury, Moss has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1999 and 2005.[15][16]
Personal life
Hansbury is a transgender man, transitioning in 1995.[6]
Books
- Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul (Dey Street Books, 2017)
- Feral City (WW Norton, 2022)
References
- ^ Rosenberg, Zoe (June 19, 2017). "'Vanishing New York' blogger Jeremiah Moss reveals his identity". Curbed NY.
- ^ "Author Imprint | Jeremiah Moss Talks Gentrification in "Vanishing New York" | Season 2017 | Episode 4" – via www.pbs.org.
- ^ a b c d "An Activist for New York's Mom-and-Pop Shops". The New Yorker. June 19, 2017.
- ^ Grabar, Henry (2017-08-18). "What Is Jeremiah Moss Really Pining for When He Decries the Loss of Old New York?". Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ a b c "Jeremiah Moss, author of Vanishing New York: 'What's more destructive than Aids, crack or crime? Gentrification'". the Guardian. April 8, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Jeremiah Moss, the man who wants to save the New York everyone loves". Australian Financial Review. November 2, 2017.
- ^ Berger, Paul (October 28, 2007). "Witness to What Was, Skeptic of What's New". The New York Times.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (April 3, 2015). "A Cranky Blogger Crusades to Preserve the Ordinary in New York". The New York Times.
- ^ Jennings, Rebecca (2021-01-04). "The case for optimism about the future of cities". Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ Hansbury, Griffin (2012-10-03). The Nostalgist. MP Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-84982-254-1.
- ^ Hansbury, Griffin (2000). Day for Night: Poems, 1993-1999. Painted Leaf Press. ISBN 978-1-891305-21-4.
- ^ Bellafante, Ginia (September 27, 2017). "Tracking the Hyper-Gentrification of New York, One Lost Knish Place at a Time". The New York Times.
- ^ Kaysen, Ronda (August 11, 2017). "A Book From a Blogger About Disappearing New York". The New York Times.
- ^ "March 2021 Program | Chicago Psychoanalytic Society".
- ^ "Directory of Artists' Fellows & Finalists" (PDF). NYFA. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ^ "NYFA FELLOWSHIPS, 1999". ArtNet. 1999-05-27. Retrieved 2022-02-09.