Watch Out for the Swarming Volvos
Wrapping up what will heretofore be known as class warfare week on Brownstoner…We followed Set Speed’s post on Tuesday about the punk rock ass crack phenomenon (huh?) and wound up reading this excerpt from Hip Hop Diary that was written back in February in response to the Clinton Hill profile in the Times: If the…
Wrapping up what will heretofore be known as class warfare week on Brownstoner…We followed Set Speed’s post on Tuesday about the punk rock ass crack phenomenon (huh?) and wound up reading this excerpt from Hip Hop Diary that was written back in February in response to the Clinton Hill profile in the Times:
If the median income in this area is a bit over 40 grand, and the median price for a small-ass condo is half a million and it’s over a million for buildings, who’s buying property here now? And what does that bode for the neighborhood’s celebrated “economic and cultural diversity?” You know what I see when I walk around here now? Tons of not-exactly-fresh-outta-high school Pratt students (getting an MFA must be the same as getting an MBA was 20 years ago). Rich white dads with baby backpacks. People standing in front of the Clinton-Washington stop asking for directions to Myrtle Avenue. Nannys wheeling children in expensive strollers. And lots and lots of Volvos. They’re already swarming. I’ve gotta get out of here.
Comment: Hey, don’t look at us, we’ve got a used Subaru.
Biggie Shoulda Been Buying Real Estate [Hip Hop Diary]
Recurring Ass Crack Theme [Set Speed]
Good luck evaluating neighborhoods from the confines of lovely San Diego but let me tell you Google maps will tell you nothing about a neighborhood. I’ve lived in Clinton Hill for years now and hell yeah there are “projects.” You surely don’t have access to NY1 News in sunny SD but let it be known that the serial rapist they’re looking for strikes on the upper west and east sides (not Clinton Hill last I heard).
I THINK VOLVOS ARE GREAT. THE HEATED SEATS KEEP MY NANNYS ASS WARM WHILE SHE’S DOUBLE PARKED IN FRONT OF THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL, WAITING TO PICK UP MY NO NECK MONSTERS. ALSO GET A STATION WAGON. YOU CAN FIT A DOUBLE WIDE STROLLER OR A BUGABOO FROG IN EASY.
Excellent post by Volvo Owner. Class warfare is so entertaining.
I dunno what it is about the Volvo. I don’t own a car yet (thinking about buying one soon), but I am deeply attracted to the Volvo XC Wagon. In Park Slope it’s like a requirement – you can’t buy a brownstone in PS unless you have a Volvo (or an SUV substitute). Some co-ops will permit Suburu owners (just like some of them permit less than 20% down). But, those are the smaller, less exclusive co-ops.
What I think I said was not so unusual anymore to see the expensive stroller set but hardly the
predominant group in area.
To the other remark – projects not really in Clinton Hill but plenty along Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene.
As a white dude who lived in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill back in the 80’s, I want to remind everyone if it wasn’t for all those rich Asian Pratt art students, an entire generation of crack heads would have been denied a source of income, and the means to buy more crack. You would never believe how many of my friends would get mugged at the bus stop on Myrtle Ave.
Crack Heads made it possible for me to buy my house at a super cheap price and now sell it if I wish at a million more than I paid for it.
I disagree that it is unusual to see such folks. Just walk around on the weekend when people are not at work, you’ll see just what the person is talking about. Still very economically diverse though, with a lot of buppies thrown in too and more and more artsy types and same sex couples. Really nice place to live I think, just need to improve the public schools.
I live in Clinton Hill and I don’t even know where the projects are that the poster below is referring to. Where exactly are all these projects? Clinton Hill is a small neighborhood dominated by brownstones and some old apartment buildings along Greene Ave, not projects.
It’s “class warfare”. Someone here uses quotes like a punk rock ass crack freak.
Agree, Clinton Hill is still totally projects land