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
The fried chicken sign changes from “Kennedy” to “Kentucky”.
*Cops give WARNING for smoking weed on street, instead of lock up.
*Baby strollers show up at the bar.
*New York Times available at bodega.
*Random gangs of dress shirts walking through your neighborhood around noon with blueprints pointing upwards.
*The prices plummet in your local grocery store…and it becomes somehow a much cleaner place to shop!
Yes Rob, the reason that people like my parents moved to neighborhoods like Marine Park (besides their obvious racism) is because, at least in the 70’s, early 80’s shit WAS that bad. It started in the 50’s when the trolleys disappeared and then garbage pickups were less and less frequent and then middle class professionals ran away to L.I. and Westchester and Jersey. After the riots of the 60’s I wouldn’t be surprised if there were neighborhoods w/out bakeries/convenience stores.
Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at November 3, 2009 4:48 PM
SOON TO RETURN IF THOMPSON IS ELECTED MAYOR.
we live in brooklyn… not afganistan! i cant for the life of me imagine there has ever been a neighborhood anywhere in nyc where there hasnt been a baker, dry cleaner, and a place to get unsour milk. was it that bad at one time? if it was that is horrible.
*rob*
Yes Rob, the reason that people like my parents moved to neighborhoods like Marine Park (besides their obvious racism) is because, at least in the 70’s, early 80’s shit WAS that bad. It started in the 50’s when the trolleys disappeared and then garbage pickups were less and less frequent and then middle class professionals ran away to L.I. and Westchester and Jersey. After the riots of the 60’s I wouldn’t be surprised if there were neighborhoods w/out bakeries/convenience stores.
Well, Stella is a Belgian beer so I don’t get the connection.
Tumbleweaves no longer blowing down the road on windy days.
guidos have nothing to do with gentrifaction. They’re the only people I know who drink Stella and that was a sign on gentrifcation. And guidos are a sign of all hell breaking loose in your area.
also Rob I work with some guys who grew up in harlem and they were talking about the shitty days and definitely didnt have a dry cleaner or a baker and good milk wasnt easy to come by.
All the things you want but too ashamed to ask.
When soy milk appears in the bodega, the game is afoot.
When rice milk appears, the game is over.