New Yorkers will spend hours talking about how unique and special bodegas like other cities dont have grocery stores
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
180 points (98.9% liked)
Chapotraphouse
14172 readers
573 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It hasn't been since Tin Pan Alley. There's only a brief period like say ~1880 to ~1930 where NYC was genuinely the cultural capital of the US. Before the civil war, the US was too divided to have a single cultural capital and NYC didn't stand out as a cultural capital of the north. The 1930s was the golden age of Hollywood.
When NYC was the actual cultural capital of the US, a typical cultural export would be some vaudeville act by Yiddish-speaking performers or some super early silent film filmed by Edison. The dominant musical genre was ragtime.