Jeremiah Moss

Jeremiah Moss, pseudonym of Griffin Hansbury (born 1971), is an American poet, writer, psychoanalyst, social worker, and social critic. He was the author of the blog Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, which ran from 2007 until 2022.

Hansbury revealed his identity as Moss in 2017.

Early life and education Moss grew up in Massachusetts. He moved to New York City's East Village when he was 22, inspired by New York writers like Frank O'Hara and J.D. Salinger.

Hansbury earned a Master's degree from the Creative Writing Program of New York University.

In 2014, he began a movement to save the Café Edison, a long-running restaurant on West 47th Street popular with people who worked on Broadway. He promoted the hashtag #SaveCafeEdison and organized "lunch mobs" (flash mobs which would order food from the restaurant in order to support it financially).

Moss advocates for the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, a New York City Council bill first introduced in 1986 that would mandate arbitration in the renewal of some commercial leases. He believes the bill would prevent the loss of many small businesses.

Publications As Hansbury, he published Day for Night, a collection of poems in 2000, and The Nostalgist in 2013, a fictional look at post 9/11 life in the city. In 2017, Moss published the book Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul. The book details Moss' view that contemporary New York is being destroyed by what he calls “hyper-gentrification”.

In October 2022, Moss published a book about life in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic titled Feral City. The book criticizes the gentrification of New York.

Personal life Hansbury is a transgender man, transitioning in 1995. Moss has lived in a rent-controlled East Village apartment since the late 1990s.

Books Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul (Dey Street Books, 2017) Feral City (WW Norton, 2022) Some Strange Music Draws Me In