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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    bay ridge is also quite white
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    Also, I love that the Salkin managed to conveniently forget about all of the, you know, successful comedians working in Brooklyn. Have these people even heard of Union Hall? He whiffed it yet again. All the whitewashed comedians live in the whitewashed neighborhood. I wonder what these sound like as they go to press. (*whoosh*).
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    Image of Ron Draper Ron Draper
    10/12/09

    @Foster Kamer: Foster, Foster, Foster. You failed to figure out what the secret of this article really is. It's actually gussied-up real estate porn all over again. Look at how many times he talks about rent, neighborhood features, and living situations. It's all about cheap rent in Astoria.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    Twelve years ago, when I moved to Astoria, realtors advertised it as 'New York's best kept secret'. Now there's a gastropub and an organic burger place on my block.

    You can draw your own conclusions.

    Also, thank Jesus for rent control.
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    Image of NotCoolEnough NotCoolEnough
    10/12/09

    @Private Hangnail: I just ate at the burger place last night. I'm a lifelong Queensie, and I'm super happy that queens is still not considered hip. The better to keep the hipster riff raff out.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    Oh, God. I can't believe I didn't look at the byline. I can't believe I didn't look at the byline. I cannot. Believe. I did not. Look at. The byline.

    My week is off to a bad start. File under "Opportunities, Missed." Also, out of the 14 official months I lived in Astoria, eight of them were the most depressing in my life. Greeks, Gays, boyfriended Girls. To think I gave up a master bedroom with my own bathroom under the BQE a stone's throw from the Walt Whitman Houses ($650) to live in a railroad 1.5br/1b in the most lukewarm neighborhood in this city ($875) still embarrasses me. Depressing.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    10/12/09

    @Foster Kamer: I'm glad you left it for me though.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/12/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: The post, or the apartment? I need to stop being so selfish with the Seymore Hersh of the Styles Section. He's a gift to us all.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    10/13/09

    @Foster Kamer: gosh you two are cute! this is almost like when Ian and Moe communicated via the comments!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    I can vouch for Blissville being a veritable orgasmatron. Enter at your own risk!
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    As a 4 year resident of Astoria I like that this article does nothing to make the neighborhood seem appealing the "wrong sort pf people", namely, the folks who ruined Brooklyn.
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    10/12/09

    @lionel-mandrake: hmm, the editor won't let me correct, so, that "pf" should be "of".
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    Image of CJ Disaffected CJ Disaffected
    10/12/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Oh please, the people who ruined Brooklyn got bored of Queens years prior. Trust me, no one wants to live in your boring ass borough, relax!
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    10/12/09

    @CJ Disaffected: I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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    Image of CJ Disaffected CJ Disaffected
    10/12/09

    @lionel-mandrake: As an ex-resident of queens (both LIC and Astoria) and a current resident of Brooklyn I can honestly tell you that there is no one here in BK right now that is even giving a LITTLE thought to heading up north where you are. There are pretty fundamental differences between the neighborhoods and the type of people who live in each. Trust me when I tell you that the annoying trust-fund hipster brats are not going to suddenly decide they want the quiet life and head up to Astoria.
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    10/12/09

    @CJ Disaffected: As a former life-long resident of Brooklyn, who watched neighborhood after neighborhood get swallowed up by the great gentrifying monster, and saw that the gentrifiers didn't bring useful things with them; only pretension, cute cafes, maternity stores and some sort of belief that they "discovered" the borough, like it didn't exist before they laid their fabulous, entitled eyes on it. I can say with a fair degree of certainty that young white people of all stripes are the death of authentic New York neighborhoods.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/12/09

    @CJ Disaffected: You say that as if it weren't something to be celebrated with fireworks.
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    Image of Urbania Urbania
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    Astoria Rocks. So much so that calling it "unlikely" in reference to many things, like entertainment, dining, art, or neighborhood bonhomie, is laughable.

    That is all.
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    Image of drewonline drewonline
    10/12/09

    In reply to Aspiring Young Whites Found in Neighborhood Full of Same
    Agreed. Having lived there for 7 years now, this is not a trend.
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    10/12/09

    @drewonline: The NYT yet again reached into it's time machine and pulled out a story.
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    Image of The One The One
    10/12/09

    @greengrey: Does this mean that any day now, the NYT will do a story on this new musical fad known as "hip hop"?
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