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]
My mom enjoyed reading the article. Better than looking up her funds/stock symbols. It’s in the real estate section, what were people expecting?
Pierre;
I stand by what I said above. If you want to believe it is driven by personal hate or jealousy, so be it.
Regarding my comments about the TV produced by this guy. I understand that this is a matter of taste, so I’m just stating my opinion. However, let me suggest to folks that the cultural self-loathing shown in his remarks in this article just “might” inform his work.
Put another way, I’d be willing to bet money that this couple shield their children from many of the types of shows with which they are associated.
Don’t see what is jealous about the responses, PdT.
I don’t care if my neighbors are from Denmark, Detroit or Dyker Heights (or whether or not they are the same color as I am) as long as they are good people & good neighbors.
33 going on 11. what’;s your point?
*rob*
Wow Benson enough with the hate already! Sometimes the jealousy here is palpable.
NY Times did a wonderful job capturing a DIVERSE and vibrant block which is not very commonly seen even here in Brooklyn. Cry all you want the diversity here is not made up but real…folks from Japan, Granada, Denmark, New York, PR, etc…what is the problem dude?
Yeah the media exec’s comment was a little off but stop with the silly personal attacks. Crap TV ? What are you watching? The guy makes great TV by all rational and objective metrics…Sopranos ring a bell?
This was an excellent article and the multimedia stuff was awesome.
Especially like how a Danish family immigrated to a rough area of Brooklyn and made it home….that in itself is a unique NY story!
We will be moving to South Portland but you know what? Not insulted at all:)
Rob how old are you?
^^Wherever you go, there you are.
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‘I didn’t want them to grow up in SoHo or TriBeCa in a ghetto of people who, probably, I’m perceived as being. We are a family of white people in strollers; we don’t want to be surrounded by families of white people with strollers.”
Why do some people of this demographic try so hard to distance themselves from their own type to feel like they are giving their children and “education”. If enough white families with strollers bug out and move other places, then you have that same society in another place.
When I see comments like this it reminds me of the old Monty Python hermit colony skit where a hermit who can’t stand society drops by another hermit’s hovel to borrow a cup of goat milk and gossip about the hermit up the hill.
tho, i guess i did move to park slope cuz i didnt want to be around too many other people who are like me lol. so maybe they have a valid point hahah
*rob*