Interview · moment 15 of 15
Old New York Movie Recommendations and Condos of the Living Dead
from Antiseptic New York · #9
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4 minGuest
They recommend gritty old New York media like Last Exit to Brooklyn, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, and the documentary Terminal Bar, then discuss developer Tony Goldman's SoHo revitalization versus today's homogenous glass condo towers, citing an article called 'Condos of the Living Dead.'
- 44:12Tim recalls seeing the tail end of old New York and remembers his mom covering his eyes at naked billboards during auditions.
- 44:33Documentary about a rough Hell's Kitchen bar near Port Authority Terminal that changed its identity based on whatever fad came through.
- 45:07Tim recommends watching Terminal Bar, a creepy but great documentary about all of New York.
- 45:18Story of a stripper whose dead face remained on club billboards for two years before the family got them taken down.
- 46:08Old club spaces used to accommodate massive dance floors where four thousand people could play volleyball, nothing like that exists in clubs anymore.
- 46:35People living in these new condos are boring and bland, vacationing in other people's lives and hurting New York.
- 46:49A.A. Gill wrote an article called "Condos of the Living Dead" about glass condos going up everywhere and how homogenized and weird the city is becoming.
- 47:09Developer Tony Golden, a family friend, helped develop SoHo and South Beach by letting artists rent spaces free for a year to create cool neighborhoods.
- 47:31That model of creating neighborhoods through artist development doesn't exist anymore in New York.
Terminal BarA.A. GillHell's KitchenTony GoldenTaxi Driver