{"id":1414,"date":"2009-09-24T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2009-09-24T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:56:09","slug":"we-regret-to-inform-you-that-love-will-not-save-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"We Regret to Inform You That Love Will <em>Not<\/em> Save the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008_12_lsd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008_12_lsd.jpg\" alt=\"2008_12_lsd\" title=\"2008_12_lsd\" width=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big story on East 7th Street these days is the opening of Thom Mayne&#8217;s new student center for Cooper Union, on Third Avenue. It&#8217;s a pretty wacky extravagance, and it replaces a deadly dull building beloved by nobody. A block away, on the corner of Second, this story is reversed. Love Saves the Day, the iconic kitsch storefront that&#8217;s been a local landmark for decades, has given way to a humorless brown excrescence. New York is losing its history one shop at a time, a sad attrition that is the subject of <a href='http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/oct09_monologue2.pdf'>my new essay<\/a> in Print magazine, which doubles as a review of the new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesandkarlamurray.com\/JamesandKarlaMurraySTOREFRONT.html\">Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York<\/a>, by James and Karla Murray. One of its many lessons: You wanna survive in this town? Buy the building. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big story on East 7th Street these days is the opening of Thom Mayne&#8217;s new student center for Cooper Union, on Third Avenue. It&#8217;s a pretty wacky extravagance, and it replaces a deadly dull building beloved by nobody. A block away, on the corner of Second, this story is reversed. Love Saves the Day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Regret to Inform You That Love Will <em>Not<\/em> Save the Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}