goodbye, robert
I have been on the West Coast and completely out of the Brooklyn loop. I settled down tonight to catch up on some reading, only to hear of Robert Guskind’s passing.
I’ve been in Seattle visiting friends for the past few days. I lived here for close to 10 years, starting in 1995. I came in at a turning point in the city’s history, when things were still quirky and the city still had a ton of character. Gradually, like any city, I watched the culture become less unique and more smoothed out and cleaned up and, by design, less Seattle.
I mention this because Robert was an unique voice, a voice truly Brooklynian, stubborn, opinionated, passionate, committed. Even if I didn’t agree with him often I was glad that he was there. I was glad that he was writing. I was glad, always, that his blog existed. It was a very New York voice in a city that is losing the things that make it great every single minute of every single day.
And now another voice in this wilderness is gone. My heartfelt, deepest condolences to his friends and family and colleagues.
