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I ate at Thistle Hill tavern a few weeks ago.
The food was excellent but portions were small. I had the same view of Vanderbilt when I ate there.
Is this a new trend or am I just ordering the wrong stuff?
Time for the ‘cities change, get over it’ discussion. Every urban area, not just NYC, has some parts that are gentrifying and some that are going the other way.
Donnatella, I hope you weren’t offended about what I wrote. When you mentioned your friend’s price point, I thought of my neighborhood–I pay less for a floorthrough with 1.5 bedrooms and I feel safe here, safe enough to let my 14-yr-old daughter travel alone.
When you posted more, I could see why what’s available here and the neighborhood in general wouldn’t work for your friend. The rest is just side comments that ran off your post but don’t say anything at all about your friend, just (to me at least) the nature of changing neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
Sorry if I offended you–I certainly wasn’t talking about you or your friend! I know (more or less) where you live, and it’s very close to where I used to live for many years.
During the 20 years I lived in Clinton Hill, I saw, just on my block, at least 10-15 families with kids, all black (mostly) or Latino, priced out of their apartments and replaced by white couples, some of whom have had a baby or two by now.
The fact is that Clinton Hill, the only neighborhood I can speak about personally this way, was a comfortable, safe place for working class black families to raise and educate their kids, just as Park Slope below 6th Ave. was for working-class Italian/Irish/Latino families. And most of them have been priced out. I speak with some knowledge about Park Slope–before I moved to Clinton Hill in 1989, I lived on Garfield Place between 5th and 6th Aves. The demographics are completely different now, and I don’t know that I would recognize the 5th Ave. of today from the 5th Ave. of 1988. Yes, it’s definitely nicer, and for sure there aren’t many empty stores as there were then. But it’s just not the same demographic.
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Says the guy living exactly where zillions of working-class families used to call home, many of whom were blockbusted out of their apartments.
fair enough, fair enough, i get your point. but i didnt move to a neighborhood and then wish that the people there would start leaving tho. im not saying you are doing that, but the way you say it makes it sound like you do. and you get the sentiment from a lot of people these days.
I ate at Thistle Hill tavern a few weeks ago.
The food was excellent but portions were small. I had the same view of Vanderbilt when I ate there.
Is this a new trend or am I just ordering the wrong stuff?
No prob, rf. 🙂
Oops, I keep posting my real name! Too much Yahoogroup confusion for me! Just call me rf!
Time for the ‘cities change, get over it’ discussion. Every urban area, not just NYC, has some parts that are gentrifying and some that are going the other way.
Donnatella, I hope you weren’t offended about what I wrote. When you mentioned your friend’s price point, I thought of my neighborhood–I pay less for a floorthrough with 1.5 bedrooms and I feel safe here, safe enough to let my 14-yr-old daughter travel alone.
When you posted more, I could see why what’s available here and the neighborhood in general wouldn’t work for your friend. The rest is just side comments that ran off your post but don’t say anything at all about your friend, just (to me at least) the nature of changing neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
Sorry if I offended you–I certainly wasn’t talking about you or your friend! I know (more or less) where you live, and it’s very close to where I used to live for many years.
Hey all,
Had an AMAZING meal at Thistle Hill Tavern last night. They’ve definitely upped their game since when they first opened a couple months ago.
HIGHLY recommended. It’s on 7th Avenue and 15th Street.
Burger is outrageously good. As was the fried fennel and the cheeses. And the cocktails.
Try it.
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*rob*, walking CDog this morning, I saw a mattress wrapped in industrial trash bags and duct tape. What do you suppose that means?
Bed bugs or someone was murdered on the bed.
*rob*
MM,
During the 20 years I lived in Clinton Hill, I saw, just on my block, at least 10-15 families with kids, all black (mostly) or Latino, priced out of their apartments and replaced by white couples, some of whom have had a baby or two by now.
The fact is that Clinton Hill, the only neighborhood I can speak about personally this way, was a comfortable, safe place for working class black families to raise and educate their kids, just as Park Slope below 6th Ave. was for working-class Italian/Irish/Latino families. And most of them have been priced out. I speak with some knowledge about Park Slope–before I moved to Clinton Hill in 1989, I lived on Garfield Place between 5th and 6th Aves. The demographics are completely different now, and I don’t know that I would recognize the 5th Ave. of today from the 5th Ave. of 1988. Yes, it’s definitely nicer, and for sure there aren’t many empty stores as there were then. But it’s just not the same demographic.
Roberta
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Says the guy living exactly where zillions of working-class families used to call home, many of whom were blockbusted out of their apartments.
fair enough, fair enough, i get your point. but i didnt move to a neighborhood and then wish that the people there would start leaving tho. im not saying you are doing that, but the way you say it makes it sound like you do. and you get the sentiment from a lot of people these days.
*rob*