Purple Magazine
— The Paris Issue #31 S/S 2019

bob nickas

a vist to paris text by BOB NICKAS What I like about Paris? That it’s still there. I live in New York, which is disappearing day by day. I’ve been here since 1984 and often travel. Whenever I come back, something has been lost, replaced by another shitty pile of “luxury living.” It’s a predictably boring rant, I’m aware. Yet in stark contrast to Paris — which I know almost as well as my own city, visiting since ’86, more than 30 years now — New York feels erased in a particularly reckless way. Let’s face it: developers are destroyers. Look at our fake president. Ever since plopping a blubbery ass on the throne, his “program,” or pogrom, has been to dismantle everything built prior, anything beneficial to people, peace, justice, and the environment. The only way for developers to make money is to keep building, for which you need…

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