So many other blogs and outlets have already addressed it (including a nice, detailed piece in the Times), but I'd like to also weigh in on the end of photographer Bob Arihood's Neither More Nor Less. As Colin Moynihan said in the afore-cited Times piece, there are certainly more than enough bloggers squawking about all things East Village (myself among them), but exceptionally few of them could ever hold a candle to the gritty, front-line depiction of life on those streets as Arihood. It's one thing to bitch & moan about the shuttering of age-old dive bars, dusty record shops and other indicators of the neighborhood's oft-rhapsodized dying character, but Arihood's reporting dealt primarily in genuine, unflinching human stories. Moreover, Arihood treated his subjects with an empathy and dignity they're sadly not likely to find elsewhere. I understand his reasons for discontinuing the weblog, but that doesn't make me any less sorry to see it end. The picture atop this post is a typical one of Bob's. I strongly recommend checking out his work. Here's hoping it stays online.
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