Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Kay: Did you know that the New York Times has launched 2 local online sections? One is on Fort Greene. It launched yesterday.



me: Ouch. Welcome to the right side of the tracks.

5 comments:

CJN said...

don't be an ass

gyra said...

or be an ass, but also utilitarian.

future headline: "Clinton Hill Resident Starts Literary Magazine" ??
just sayin'.

De.Corday said...

that won't make the rent go up quite so much as a daily report on the goings ons of the neighborhood by the national paper of record.

No One Line said...

Meh. Old news. Or rather, a sign rather than a cause of recent gentrification. And by recent I mean in the last ten years.

Rents are going down across the city, by the way.

In a recent internet conversation I mentioned a bike shop in the LES and somebody said, "There's a bike shop on my old street? Wow, gentrification has really gotten out of control." My response was, "Woah, what, are you writing from 1994?"

It's not always easy to avoid the "gentrification is: changes that have taken place since I've been here" mentality, but it's pretty important to.

De.Corday said...

I see and agree with a lot of what your saying. but there's a history of the NYtimes saying and doing a lot of fucked up things regarding the ft.greene / clinton hill / bed stuy area (calling one of the country's oldest black communities an "outpost" for one thing), and so when an entire blog is dedicated to yuppie living in Ft Greene, I think its fair to actually call that gentrification.