Closing Bell: Gentrification Indicators
Over on Nostrand Park, they’re trying to put together a list of indicators that your neighborhoods being gentrified. The author suggests three (including coffee shops and blogs) and luckily no one’s mentioned flea markets yet. Other suggestions? Photo by rymerster
Over on Nostrand Park, they’re trying to put together a list of indicators that your neighborhoods being gentrified. The author suggests three (including coffee shops and blogs) and luckily no one’s mentioned flea markets yet. Other suggestions?
Photo by rymerster
Higher rents and a changing economy has meant the Polish community around Third Ave is fading. A recent article tried to dub this area “SunSlope,” a mash-up that might rival coffee shops and affordable housing forums in the gentrification game.
Hear one long-tome resident talk about changes in the neighborhood here:
http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/interactive2010/2009/11/20/the-polish-of-south-brooklyn/
Here’s a look at the other perspective:
http://vimeo.com/6816546
I think some of you gentrifiers are confusing Brooklyn Cyclones hats with Red Sox hats. Get a clue.
wow, “tumbleweaves” I’ve actually seen those on multiple occasions in my neighborhood, very funny. And it’s hard to find diet soda. But there is a bakery and a dry cleaner.
Finally finding a decent place in new york that you can afford, at a good price, and bloggers protesting…”for that, over there?!”…hipsters jogging at midnight down Myrtle…fear of fast food…somebody stop me!
gentrification is a figment of your imagination.
Lol,
“And the #1 indication of gentrification – some b— from corcoran invents a new name to market your neighborhood…”
I’m behinning to hear I moved to EAST Prospect Heights not Crown Heights! Lol!
But they said UNCOMMON INDICATORS, all the indicators mentioned seem to be common from reading the thread. Perhaps it was meant as uncommon the what the previous residents or that community were used to?
I must admit, by the time I have moved anywhere in New York City, there has ALWAYS been a newly opened Sushi restaurant there.
Now that I’m lactose intolerant, I could careless about fresh goats milk.
saminthehood: true.
Red Hook still have one bank: Soveriegn Bank.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Christoper. Therefore, African Americans should” reclaim” the west village– land where, before any white person or any other group for that matter, wanted to live, work or build , a black community “thrived”…during slavery and right after slavery ended. Also, the Native Americas should take there land back–ALL OF IT… including Fort Green, Red Hook etc… it’s reclamation…right??