A Chance for Cobble Hillers To Be In Pictures
Film maker Chris Chambers is shooting a short documentary about Cobble Hill for a website called www.inmanstories.com. The documentary is part of a series of pieces focusing on neighborhoods in transition. He’s looking for residents/locals to interview to get a sense of the texture and flavor of the neighborhood. This would consist of an informal…
Film maker Chris Chambers is shooting a short documentary about Cobble Hill for a website called www.inmanstories.com. The documentary is part of a series of pieces focusing on neighborhoods in transition. He’s looking for residents/locals to interview to get a sense of the texture and flavor of the neighborhood. This would consist of an informal interview at a person’s home and a visit with him/her to a favorite local spot. The shoot will take place in Cobble Hill on Wednesday, January 11th. Interested? Contact Chris Chambers at chchamb@yahoo.com or by phone at 323.828.1367.
Even though I had to leave CH 3 years ago when my landlords sold their brownstone and I found myself completely priced out of anything nearby, I feel the need to defend my old neighborhood (loved the nanny comment, though.) Although my block was certainly in the thick of gentrification, at least 50% of the homes were owned by older, (originally) middle-income Italian-american owners who had lived there for decades and were a big presence in the neighborhood and on the street. Friends who still live on the block tell me tht this number is now slightly less (and is continuing downward of course), but the “transitional” feel (old world to new, middle to upper class) of the neighborhood very much remains. Just wanted to make the point that rampant Bugaboos and destination dining may spell the beginning of the end, but they don’t tell the whole story. Where homeowning populations are involved, transition thankfully takes its own sweet time. And as demonstrated by the Fort Greene debates elsewhere on these pages, transition itself is rarely as dialectically obvious as black/brown-to-white, poor-to-yuppie.
I think the filmmaker is at least 15 years too late.
Is this some sort of joke?
I think in transition is code for gentrifying, although from the looks of the neighborhoods profiled on the web site itself, the subject neighborhoods gentrified decades ago. Berkeley? Wicker Park? Noe Valley?
Great nanny joke
Very funny comments — I was wondering the same thing…
Jamaican to Tibetan nannies.
What sort of transition is Cobble Hill going through? Wealthy to super-wealthy?