Old Man in West Village Doesn't Realize He's Obsolete

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It turns out that not everybody minds the Marc Jacobsification of the Village (five stores and counting!). A Domino magazine blogger, in fact, can't get enough of it, and she expressed her love for the newish MJ store at West 4th and Bank Streets in a Daily Dose post meant to highlight the blog of one of the boutique's employees—a site where the MJ employee does things like post pictures of the old guy hanging out on the corner. The Domino post reads:

On the corner of Bank and West 4th is the new Marc Jacobs store. Some are getting their knickers in a bit of a twist about it because he has so many shops already, and the little hairdressers that was there before.....blah blah blah, yeah yeah yeah. So the bad hairdresser has gone and a troupe of young, charming and hilarious people have arrived all working in Marc's shop selling things one might want rather than a bad Hilary Clinton hairdo.

Racked has a great summary of the fallout, but basically the commenters went apeshit. Sample: "I love reading your blog posts, but this one does seem particularly mean spirited and misguided. I lived on 10th street for eight years and am struck by the contradictions: the people ginny documents in her blog are exactly the people being pushed out by companies like LVMH." It got to the point where the Domino blogger actually apologized for the original post. Isn't that cute? The West Village still thinks it has character.
· Corner of Bank and West 4th [Daily Dose]
· Domino Blogger Raked Over the Coals for MJ Post [Racked]

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