After six years of living in Hell Square's ground zero?Ludlow and Rivington?former Observer editor John Vorwald realizes he's too old for the Lower East Side's perpetual Mardi Gras. He breaks up with the 'hood in an open letter printed in the Times: "You gussied yourself up with shiny new hardware: Thor, Fat Baby, Spitzer’s. Hordes of banker boys in J. Press checked shirt/chino uniforms and manicured necklines swarmed to you faster than to the promise of a government bailout." #whitewhines. [NYT]
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