St. Mark's Place has been given the gaudiest makeover this side of the new Pitchfork Media site, as the last ten years has seen the shuddering of such staples of the famous East Village street as Joe's CDs, Coney Island High and, most recently, Kim's Video, the three-floor monolith of music and film appreciation that has since been whittled down to a skimpy new location and an even skimpier CD collection and, apparently, no more vinyl. It's truly sad to see such an authority of music shopping in the New York City area, somewhere I have been to countless times over the last 15 years, get hobbled in such a drastic way.
This TV demo for a music-related travel show called Rock Junket, featuring a two-minute segment about the Physical Graffiti building on St. Marks, one of the last bastions of the original street, was filmed in 2007, when Kim's still stood in its original location neighboring Trash and Vaudeville. It's too bad this isn't made into a real show on the Travel Channel or something. I would watch it. -Ed.
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