Friday Links
Downtown Brooklyn. Photo by abadcliche. Influence of Mayor’s Departing Deputy Is Seen in His Successor [NY Times] Longtime Vendors Pared From Flatbush-Caton Market [NY Daily News] Greek Group Wants to Save Astoria From ‘Hipsters’ [NY Daily News] Ask Babs: Will the New Coney Have Cachet? [NY Daily News] Anguish in Midwood Over Bhutto Assassination [City…
Downtown Brooklyn. Photo by abadcliche.
Influence of Mayor’s Departing Deputy Is Seen in His Successor [NY Times]
Longtime Vendors Pared From Flatbush-Caton Market [NY Daily News]
Greek Group Wants to Save Astoria From ‘Hipsters’ [NY Daily News]
Ask Babs: Will the New Coney Have Cachet? [NY Daily News]
Anguish in Midwood Over Bhutto Assassination [City Room]
New Condos Planned Near Parade Grounds [Brooklyn Eagle]
Marty on the State of the Borough [Brooklyn Paper]
NY’s No-Growth Population [NY Post]
Weekend Subway Guide [NY Post]
that hipster article is hilarious.
“Irish need not apply”
The renaissance where condos are built but no one buys them?
The “New Condos Near Parade Grounds” story and the “Flatbush-Caton Vendors” story take place a few blocks apart, and tell you all you need to know about the area’s paradoxes. Gentrification has always hit a speed bump here on the other side of the park; we’re not a bunch of empty lofts or abandoned brownstones waiting to be re-colonized, but rather a bristling and densely populated collage of hardscrabble and highly determined folks from all over the globe struggling to make a buck. I call this area ‘the front line of the American dream,’ and whatever slick-looking piece of crap Scarano builds on Crooke Avenue, the first residents will be sipping their cappuccino in a pocket of Flatbush that is both fabulous and still, definitely, rough around the edges. (But at least they can buy cinnamon for their cappuccino from the displaced Haitian street vendors.)
Outside of the city, Long Island, and Westchester – NY is a wasteland.
another condo development for the parade grounds area. the renaissance continues.