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.
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- De.Corday
- Charlote de Corday, a figure of the French Revolution, was a rebel against the rebellion, an individual in a war of sides. Charlotte de Corday has thus become my nom de guerre as an individual caught up in a world that speaks in borders rather than content. I am quite simply a student of philosophy and theories of government, a musician and a coffee addict, returned to my native urban New Jersey to find a place rapidly gentrifying, changing, growing--whatever you want to call it, only to move to Brooklyn and act as the other side of that coin. I am trying to make art after four years of academy, trying to feel for an ever elusive home... also trying to keep my car running. Trying to live and work and create in a way that each is copacetic to the other two. I currently write freelance and work for a newspaper in Lower Manhattan.
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don't be an ass
or be an ass, but also utilitarian.
future headline: "Clinton Hill Resident Starts Literary Magazine" ??
just sayin'.
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.
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.
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.
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