Cranky US blogger campaigns to preserve NY's small businesses

New York

HERE's an old story: Your favourite dive bar/record shop/little Cuban restaurant gets turned into a Citibank/Apple store/luxury condominium. You pass through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, then inevitably settle into acceptance.

For nearly a decade, Jeremiah Moss has been telling that story on his brilliantly dismal blog, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, a digital obituary …