New York Magazine has gone too far. In this week’s issue, they actually published the address of Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Kraus’ house in Park Slope, as part of an article about New York Tribes and where they hang out. This location, the only personal residence mentioned in the piece, was listed in the "The Lit Guy" section. This section also included:
826 NYC (a.k.a. the Superhero Supply Co.)
372 Fifth Ave.
The storefront that houses the East Coast branch of Dave Eggers’s do-gooder tutoring outfit still offers McSweeney’s products and twee items (capes, utility belts) that’ll leave you pleased or irritated.
826 NYC (a.k.a. the Superhero Supply Co.)
372 Fifth Ave.
The storefront that houses the East Coast branch of Dave Eggers’s do-gooder tutoring outfit still offers McSweeney’s products and twee items (capes, utility belts) that’ll leave you pleased or irritated.
Rocketship
208 Smith St.
This year-old store in the heart of bookish Brooklyn seems to be the
nexus of comic (er, graphic-novel) fandom, with comic artists like
Peter Kuper and Jamie Tanner holding almost weekly book launches.Brooklyn Inn
148 Hoyt St.
Brooklyn lit hero and anti-Ratner agitator Jonathan Lethem, who lives
down the block, has been known to stop by this beautiful old
tin-ceilinged bar beloved of Brooklyn literary types. It even made a
(nameless) cameo in Motherless Brooklyn.Park Slope’s most famous literary denizens
(sorry, Paul Auster) snapped up this triple-lot brownstone last year
for $5.75 million.Rocketship
208 Smith St.
This year-old store in the heart of bookish Brooklyn seems to be the
nexus of comic (er, graphic-novel) fandom, with comic artists like
Peter Kuper and Jamie Tanner holding almost weekly book launches.Brooklyn Inn
148 Hoyt St.
Brooklyn lit hero and anti-Ratner agitator Jonathan Lethem, who lives
down the block, has been known to stop by this beautiful old
tin-ceilinged bar beloved of Brooklyn literary types. It even made a
(nameless) cameo in Motherless Brooklyn.
This post repeats itself. This post repeats itself.
Didn’t Brooklyn Inn also make a cameo appearance in the Wayne Wang/Paul Auster film SMOKE ? The bar scene (maybe it was the director’s cut) with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt..
Not mentioned and more far afield, Farrell’s was the setting for a 50s era bar scene in POLLOCK (right across the street from the same corner where Augie Wren shot his daily photos in Smoke…
Nothing new. NYM published the Foer/Krauss address–and price: $5.75 mil–back in October.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2006/10/jonathan_safran_foer_no_longer.html
What next–the White (now sullied) House?
Considering that this information is publicly available in online databases, New York Magazine didn’t publish secret information. I could give you JSF’s address right now from a quick search of a free database.