New York's Own Main Streets
After all that talk about Main Street from politicians these last weeks, the NY Times checks in on New York’s own literal Main Streets. In fact, there are five of them, one in each borough. In Queens, Main Street cuts through Flushing, and shifts from an Asian to a Jewish population. In Staten Island, the…
After all that talk about Main Street from politicians these last weeks, the NY Times checks in on New York’s own literal Main Streets. In fact, there are five of them, one in each borough. In Queens, Main Street cuts through Flushing, and shifts from an Asian to a Jewish population. In Staten Island, the six-block-long Main Street sits in the Tottenville neighborhood, and up in the Bronx, it’s hidden in Edgewater Park, “a former campsite turned into a neighborhood.” So what about our own Main Street? No sign of economic hardship here. “The preferred mode of transportation is the stroller, coming in all sizes,” they write. “‘It was crack city down here,’ one resident said. ‘Now it’s million-dollar condos.’
Foreign and Familiar: Main Street, New York City [NY Times]
Photo by dumbonyc.
Homeless use to sleep on the waterfront that is now the Brooklyn Conservatory Park. Have you not seen Coming to America!
Wow… Brooklyn’s Main Street sorta sucks. Two blocks of cold warehouse buildings doesn’t exactly scream Main Street USA.
“‘It was crack city down here,’†one resident said. “’Now it’s million-dollar condos.’†—- article says guy works on Main St. not lives there I believe.
And the guy makes the line up (or NYTimes did).
Never was ‘crack city’. But it sounds good and fits stereotype rather than reality of gentrification.
And if I read the article I would have seen it. Duh
There is a Main Street on Roosevelt Island
Having just moved to Main St. DUMBO and working in the financial district, I found it very ironic when people lambasted the saving of Wall St. while Main St. suffers.