Gawker
gentrification
Posts Tagged “
Gentrification
”
gentrification
One Full Pack Of Anything But Newports, Please
"In Bedford-Stuyvesant, a glitzy housing complex has risen in a neighborhood where cigarettes often get sold singly. It's a test of coexistence." Yuppies and loosies together? That'll be the day. [LAT]
"In Bedford-Stuyvesant, a glitzy housing complex has risen in a neighborhood where cigarettes often get sold singly. It's a test of coexistence." Yuppies and loosies together? That'll be the day. [LAT]
Gentrification
Prepare To Be Robbed, IKEA Customers
The first-ever IKEA store is opening in the borough of Brooklyn tomorrow, a development which has the local media all atwitter. Close to 40 people have lined up for the chance to be the first ones in the rapidly gentrifying Red Hook neighborhood to buy mass-produced Swedish furniture. To celebrate the occasion, the gruff and hilarious Park Slope guy who goes by the name of Blognigger (just to make you uncomfortable) has posted his own Onion-esque take: "Red Hook Blacks Line Up to Rob First 100 IKEA Customers." But he doesn't forget to make the scheduled robberies a multicultural endeavor for the Curbed.com-reading gentrifiers themselves, too: More »
gentrification
A Black Park Sloper's Thoughts on The Real World Brooklyn
We stumbled onto the words of an angry, succinct blogger who calls himself Blognigger; he's black and a software engineer and lives in Park Slope. He's at the forefront of several wars: he's black in America, and in a mostly-white neighborhood, which he will soon have to leave: "I make $106,000 a year, and I'm a pauper in Park Slope. No, literally - we have to leave. I have two kids and my rent has just been raised to $3500 a month. I've lived here since 1999 (when 5th avenue was still a total shithole), and now I'm going to have to uproot my family and move out of brooklyn... I can't afford to live here anymore without my wife doing online surveys and shit to supplement our income." But what are his thoughts on the Real World decamping to downtown Brooklyn for their upcoming season?More »
Toxic Dirt Patch to House Fancy Building
We'll be laughing at the fools sitting up in 8-story building soon to be built on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. The site of a former paint factory, it's supposed to be poisonous. Or was. This will also displace many people—well, just one person: Angel Hess, who lives there in his van, called Purple 53, at least part of the year. [Curbed]
We'll be laughing at the fools sitting up in 8-story building soon to be built on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. The site of a former paint factory, it's supposed to be poisonous. Or was. This will also displace many people—well, just one person: Angel Hess, who lives there in his van, called Purple 53, at least part of the year. [Curbed]
we hate your kids
Why You Should Get Knocked Up Today!
It is spring, the season of fecundity. With that in mind, parenting website Babble presents us with 45 reasons to have a child—now! (I can think of only one: tax write-off.) We've highlighted four and added one of our own. Hey, did you know? These days, you can "buy a breast pump the size of a stopwatch." More »
gentrification
They're Just Going To Put It Back Up The Next Night...
An ad for some new condos advertises "Rooftop Cabanas," Lofts," "Open Space," and "KILL YUPPIES." Whoops, that last one was just some graffiti, and it's popping up everywhere on obnoxious ads for the luxury condohotels that will soon price the residents forced to look at them right out of their neighborhood. City Council Member Peter Vallone wants the construction site owners to be responsible for removing the graffiti from their sites, or pay a fine. [via Curbed, who has more fun photos like this one.]
neighborhoods
The Lower East Side: Not What It Used To Be
The Lower East Side is changing! You blink once, and the neighborhood has gone from an immigrant-packed hovel of tenements to a rich jerk-packed hovel. Of condos! The National Trust for Historic Preservation has just named the entire freaking neighborhood one the nation's 11 most endangered places: More »
urban anthropology
Even Hippie Housing Schemes are Expensive
What are "co-housing enthusiasts," asks the Brooklyn Paper? They're "a group of Brooklynites who want to buy a nice building near Prospect Park and share common areas with like-minded friendly people." They are sad living alone in tiny apartments and want friends! A co-housed building is a cross between a "commune and a condo." One place starts at around $600,000 a unit. There are communal meals, but no free love. (Sure, that's what they say now; we'll check back in six months.) [Brooklyn Paper]
gentrification
Has the Chelsea Hotel Kicked Out Their Douchey New Management?
The longtime manager of bohemian artist enclave the Chelsea Hotel, Stanley Bard, was ousted last year, leaving the door open for total capitalist tightasses to take over and evict long-term tenants. Today, the Chelsea Hotel blog reports that the new management team might be on their way out. Who to blame? More »
we hate your kids
Every Single Annoying Trend Converges with Organic Preschool
Overparenting. The green movement. Gentrification. Obsession with organic food. The result was perhaps inevitable: "Le Petit Paradis," a new organic preschool to open on the Upper East Side. Activities will include building a gigantic bubble in which to live during adulthood, effectively shielding oneself from the outside world. Seriously, though, it'll be run by a Frenchwoman and will feature "environmentally friendly wall paints, bamboo floors, and low-flow toilets," for those who know how to use them. Said headmistress was inspired by "'the Al Gore movie" and "dying polar bears." [Intelligencer]
gentrification
Chelsea Horror Hotel
It's been a bad trip for the legendary bohemian Chelsea Hotel ever since longtime kooky owner Stanley Bard was kicked out as manager last year. As the Observer reports, Bard re-appeared to shoot an interview in the lobby of the hotel recently, and the following anecdote illustrates perfectly how the new corporate management are just complete tightasses: "The new management comes running out of the back and is like, 'You can't shoot that here!' said the writer Ed Hamilton, a 13-year resident of the iconic lodge on West 23rd Street. 'He tried to charge Stanley $600 to film in the lobby.'" [NY Observer] There are also several new books out or forthcoming about the Chelsea Hotel:More »
parochial news
Big Ol' Barnes & Noble Closes in Chelsea
The Barnes & Noble bookstore on 21st and Sixth closed on Monday after fourteen years in the neighborhood. "We can't pay those kinds of rents," a bigwig told City Room. When you're finished mourning and moaning, please be sure to visit one of the eleven other Barnes & Nobles in Manhattan and Brooklyn. (What kind of New York do we live in when otherwise sensible people get upset over the demise of a big-box corporate bookstore?)
hipsters
Trouble Brewing with Hipster Kickball League
"I signed up with some friends to play kickball in McCarren (because running and drinking outdoors is fun!)" writes a tipster. "I was worried that I wouldn't be diehard enough for the people who normally turn out for this league, and Christ Almighty, I think I was right. The E-mail below is from a self-described "league vet" who needs to get a fucking life..." The email below proves that people have no idea how difficult it is to organize a Brooklyn kickball league these days... More »
trends
The Creative-Underclass Expats in Berlin, Again!
Berliniamsburg: everybody's doing it! The European sister of Williamsburg is perfect for a perennial trend piece on the antidote to gentrification: you know, just chillin' while being a beatiful loser or an artist or a creator in Berlin. (Even me. I'm so going on vacation in two weeks!) And then T magazine tortures us with photos of two stylish musicians in a Berlin apartment to stab for. As it turns out, "What New York was in the 80s, Berlin is now," is a cliche, according to an interviewee. More »
the whites
Rich Babies Run Thugs Out Of NYC!
"Now demographers say Manhattan is increasingly a borough of babies, and more and more of them are white and well-off." We've been saying that for years! But these demographers are talking about the actual kind of babies, ones that drool, whine, and live in expensive apartments, but are not the full grown adult versions. The Washington Post, in the cute way that it always hops on NYC trend coverage several months or years after it becomes passé up here, finds that Manhattan is no longer "an island of adult vices," home to "hustlers, runaways, addicts, murderers." No, today this gritty island enclave is being overrun by wealthy Caucasian toddlers! More »
corrections
This is Not a Crack House
Last week, annoyingly one-named reporter for The New York Times, Toure, wrote about his middle class guilt and snitching to the cops about a crack house on his block. The article was illustrated with this photo of some handsome residences in Toure's neighborhood. But, oops! More »
existential crisis
