Just 20 years after this charming neighborhood video tour directed by Bram van Splunteren and led by Iggy Pop, this particular version of New York is all but gone. (Via Metafilter/Gothamist.)

Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo), sometimes receives telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town.