The Denizens of South Elliott Place
This weekend The Times peels back the onion on South Elliott Place, revealing its melting pot credibility for all to see. There’s the immigrant from Granada who bought the tenement at #54 for $27,000 in 1971 and the successful television director who paid $2.7 million for his townhouse last summer. And the popular author who…
This weekend The Times peels back the onion on South Elliott Place, revealing its melting pot credibility for all to see. There’s the immigrant from Granada who bought the tenement at #54 for $27,000 in 1971 and the successful television director who paid $2.7 million for his townhouse last summer. And the popular author who owns the house at #63. And the offices of Spike Lee’s production company. You get the idea…Despite some of the fancier newcomers, residents of South Elliott appear to think of their block as not as gentrified as some others in the area: It’s a different culture around the corner, said one resident of South Portland Avenue. It’s more upscale and tony. There are a lot more real people that live on this block. Right, as opposed to all those fake ones on South Portland. Classic.
The Stories of One Brooklyn Block [NY Times]
Ugh. The lazy anonymous vitriol seems to be on the rise. The article was good. The block is great. The guy everyone’s bashing does some of the best work on tv and basically said he wants to live on this street because he loves this street. I wouldn’t want to live in Soho or Tribeca either. And neither would most of the ranters on this thread. And for the very same reasons. So give it a rest. Yuck.
Denton, I agree. It was grossly arrogant and insensitive of the NYT to list Lahiri’s address. Sometimes “the paper of record” appears to be run by a bunch of complete village idiots.
Haha:)
bowl of dicks we’ve been here since 2006 but sometimes the vitriol here is just too much you know.
“It seems as if instead of focusing on the very positives of the piece folks here are hung up on one silly off-hand comment from the film exec”
PdT, you must be relatively new to this blog!
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Ah okay Rob I understand. Sometimes your comments seem overly pediatric thats all
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I thought it was _really_ nice of the NYT to mention Jhumpa Lahiri’s _exact_ address. Given that in the part of the world she comes from, and what she does, I hope it esn’t come back to haunt someone.
is the dude from Granada or Grenada?
Ah okay Rob I understand. Sometimes your comments seem overly pediatric thats all.
Etson the crux of the article dealt with how great the neighbors are to each other helping with street cleaning, block parties ( yearly pig roast and Jewish family dinners), and overall camaraderie…this my friend is commendable especially in people from such diverse backgrounds and is in fact the POINT of the article.
It seems as if instead of focusing on the very positives of the piece folks here are hung up on one silly off-hand comment from the film exec which led me to suspect envy. But I agree with you 100% good neighbors regardless of origin is whats important.
Delep its in the Metro section and your mom is right the article was awesome and definitely more entertaining than stocks & mutual funds:)
Benson did you like anything about the article or te reporting?
24 comments and no one has said “asshat” in reference to any of these denizens. The article should have specified these folks’ rent or mortgage payment (+ maintenance).