From the New York Daily News: "Brooklyn gentrification meets resistance from longtime Latino residents in South Williamsburg" Hey hipsters, keep your skinny jeans out of my Southside Williamsburg neighborhood. A local Brooklyn Latino organization wants to help long-time residents take back the community before hipsters and their trendy bars and overpriced clothing stores wipe out the area's Latino... [more]
From the New York Daily News:
"Brooklyn gentrification meets resistance from longtime Latino residents in South Williamsburg"
Hey hipsters, keep your skinny jeans out of my Southside Williamsburg neighborhood.
A local Brooklyn Latino organization wants to help long-time residents take back the community before hipsters and their trendy bars and overpriced clothing stores wipe out the area's Latino culture for good.
"When you wake up one morning and you see the corner bodega is now replaced by a fancy cafe or restaurant and you see your neighbors being pushed out because they can no longer afford the rent, all of a sudden you've lost your friends," said Luis Garden Acosta, head of El Puente. "You begin to wonder, 'Am I next?'"
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/16/2011-09-16_street_fightin_longtime_latino_residents_trying_to_keep_hipsters_from_turning_so.html#ixzz1YQBejS7G
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Boo Hoo. This is how the world works in NYC. Eventually, your subculture gets "pushed out" in favor of a new subculture that has more money. Welcome to reality.
Don't want to move? BUY YOUR APARTMENTS. Or cough up the higher rent. It's what everyone else has been doing for centuries.
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Response by stevejhx
about 14 years ago
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I thought you were moving to Pennsylvania?
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Response by NYCMatt
about 14 years ago
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What gave you that idea?
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Response by mutombonyc
about 14 years ago
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Ever been to WilliamsBurger?
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Response by falcogold1
about 14 years ago
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Interesting change in Billyburg aroma.
Once the smell of rice&beans mixed freely with oder of over cooked red meat, candy and horseradish.
The hispanic population cohabitated with the jewish orthodox population in a peaceful harmonic way.
Now the hipsters will integrate. The key is identifying likes. I think the meeting place might be lax hygine and a disregard for conventional deoderant. It's a match made in olfactory nirvana.
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Response by mh330
about 14 years ago
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If its any consolation, its only a matter of time before the hipsters can't afford it either, and will be fully pushed out by the upper east side set.
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Response by Wbottom
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but for west of lex, UES is cheapest psf in mainstream manhattan
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Response by khalid_1
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It kind of sux. But on the bright side, there is plenty of space in Brownsville and East New York, come on down, we need more neighbors! :-)
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Response by somewhereelse
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Surprisingly, I agree to some degree here with Matt. For slightly different reasons.
If not for the new people moving in, we wouldn't have had a lot of the neighborhoods we're complaining about losing. This is the way the world works
There would be no chinatown if it didn't push out jews and italians. Soho would suck. Black people wouldn't live in Harlem (must of the stock was built for whities).
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I thought you were moving to Pennsylvania?
What gave you that idea?
Ever been to WilliamsBurger?
Interesting change in Billyburg aroma.
Once the smell of rice&beans mixed freely with oder of over cooked red meat, candy and horseradish.
The hispanic population cohabitated with the jewish orthodox population in a peaceful harmonic way.
Now the hipsters will integrate. The key is identifying likes. I think the meeting place might be lax hygine and a disregard for conventional deoderant. It's a match made in olfactory nirvana.
If its any consolation, its only a matter of time before the hipsters can't afford it either, and will be fully pushed out by the upper east side set.
but for west of lex, UES is cheapest psf in mainstream manhattan
It kind of sux. But on the bright side, there is plenty of space in Brownsville and East New York, come on down, we need more neighbors! :-)
Surprisingly, I agree to some degree here with Matt. For slightly different reasons.
If not for the new people moving in, we wouldn't have had a lot of the neighborhoods we're complaining about losing. This is the way the world works
There would be no chinatown if it didn't push out jews and italians. Soho would suck. Black people wouldn't live in Harlem (must of the stock was built for whities).