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Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York
Personal blog · vanishingnewyork.blogspot.comculturehistory
Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York is a personal blog at vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com about culture and history. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by one commenter for a 2007 post about wooden water tanks on New York buildings, in a thread on water tank oversight. The comment itself does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations: a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct 2007 - 2021
What Hacker News says?
They put a new tank on a new building in 2007 http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2007/09/wooden-water-ta...
Comment linking /2007/09/wooden-water-tank-tops-nyu.html
on “Lax oversight, dubious testing in water tanks pose health risks”Submitted Vanishing New York as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zombie Urbanism as a story · 2 points
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