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
Guys you’re all wrong. Gentrification starts the minute I start looking for a building to buy. And if *Rob* has something nasty to say it’s time for me to buy another.
> Your neighborhood begins to be mentioned on Brownstoner in
> an increasingly non-derisive manner.
Until such point that the derision increases again (see Park Slope Effect).
And the #1 reason to believe your neighborhood has become gentrified……….
A brownstoner End-Of-The-World Party is hosted within walking distance of your home.
the grocery stores in park slope suck. I went to a grocery store next to the myrtle JMZ stop and it was great and had awesome produce and a butcher. I was blown away.
and yes Stella is a beer made in Belgium. Just because a cheese is made in Wisconsin doesn’t mean its awesome cheese.
Crime blotter notes a stabbing relating to two grocery store customers fighting over the last serving of foie gras.
Your neighborhood begins to be mentioned on Brownstoner in an increasingly non-derisive manner.
Someone actually yells “Biff” to someone across the street.
🙁
Your new neighbours’ names are Jonathon and Dave.
Increasing number of stoop drinking arrests involving Sauvignon Blanc.