I Heart Matt Starr's New York

Coffee with the poet, publisher, promoter and Paddington Bear super fan

It’s easy to think New York City has run out of romantic weirdos who live to create. You look around and see chain stores and read about the wildly high rents, and you have to wonder what artists could actually afford to live anywhere in the five boroughs at this point. That James Murphy line about “the boring collect” rings in my ears whenever I walk t…