Friday Blogwrap
Living Storefront. Photo by TrespassersWill. Greening of South Slope Going Just About As Planned [Curbed] Submarine-Like Vessel, 3 Men Found in Brooklyn [Gothamist] Stuy Town “park” – harbinger of Atlantic Yards? [AY Report] Living the Brooklyn Dream: Own Your Own Bar [Eater] Bushwick Apartment Roundup 8/3/07 [Bushwick Blog] Smoke Joint: Not Quite an Expansion [Clinton…
Living Storefront. Photo by TrespassersWill.
Greening of South Slope Going Just About As Planned [Curbed]
Submarine-Like Vessel, 3 Men Found in Brooklyn [Gothamist]
Stuy Town “park” – harbinger of Atlantic Yards? [AY Report]
Living the Brooklyn Dream: Own Your Own Bar [Eater]
Bushwick Apartment Roundup 8/3/07 [Bushwick Blog]
Smoke Joint: Not Quite an Expansion [Clinton Hill Blog]
Brooklyn Gentrification’s Human Toll [Gowanus Lounge]
Someone tell the chick from the AY blog that a park can be privately-owned. Her useless semantic argument is baffling.
Sorry for the repeat. Our trusty intern who does the blogwrap must have missed it when we ran this photo earlier week!
This kind of greening would be a terrific, major improvement on the awful cinderblock building in Clinton Hill that was discussed earlier this week.
Actions speak louder than whining.
Cool wall. Where is that?
re: “gentrification,” etc… some of ya’ll might remember, or be interested in this–
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9921,lobbia,6033,5.html
it wasn’t an entirely new story then & it’s certainly not now.
Maria, while I agree with your implication, those biases are hardly restricted to the issue of gentrification. To give a small example outside Mr B’s main turf, how much have we read elsewhere about “luxury” Greenpoint, “hipster” Greenpoint, “dogshit” Greenpoint etc ad nauseum & how little is written about Latino Greenpoint… which might still be more numerous than all of those others combined? Some of those Mexican groceries do AMAZING cooking, for example, yet they get hardly any attention. To a certain extent that’s good, because they aren’t under any pressure to cater to an outside audience but it does present a distorted picture of what is really there.
Or, how about this: when was the last time you read about a “Spanish” bar or club in, say, Williamsburg, although some have existed for decades & new ones continue to open? We can extend this across the borough, across all sorts of ethnicities. (& heck, even Italian WB & Greenpoint aren’t exactly overexposed.)
What’s the answer? Raising your unique, voice, as you’ve done & hope others listen, & perhaps learn to see through their inherited cultural biases. See the constant complaining on Kensington blog for an example; they live in one of the best, most diverse food areas of BK & it’s still not… Park Slope enough for some.) If worse comes to worse, you & others need to start your own papers, newsletters or websites that WILL be attentive to reality as we know it to be.
wwib
gentrification ohh who gives a damn when it’s other people, but when the people are white it becomes a story..
Yup, I just double checked – it was used on Tuesday. Still, worth an encore.
Didn’t you use that picture already this week? Not that I’m complaining – it’s pretty cool.