Comments on: BusinessWeek Sells Bushwick Gentrification

By: mopar

mopar — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:14:58 +0000

The article actually seems pretty accurate, more so than most. The “young families” moving to Bushwick are Mexican immigrants — though I’m not sure that’s what the speaker meant. Durham is indeed experiencing a renaissance, particularly of the culinary kind, and nearby Carrboro. N.C., is also a fantastic place to live (also more affordable and a lot less annoying than Portland, Ore.). The inclusion of San Francisco’s Mission District is a mistake. It was cheap in 1989; now houses there go for over a million; even in Oakland, a shack starts at $750,000. Nothing in the Bay area is affordable.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:26:53 +0000

Thanks Sapienza. I didn’t know that.

It changes nothing. I still don’t like flavor then.

Go Blue team!

By: Jeremy Sapienza

Jeremy Sapienza — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:29:20 +0000

Dresden pwns. “Flavor” is always a euphemism for violence, filth, ill health, and poverty.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:07:43 +0000

Bushwick seems as if it still has plenty of “flavor” to me. If that means dog shit, gross greasy places to eat, unattractive and out of shape people, loud music and general grossness. What flavor is that? Ass?

By: Jessica E.

Jessica E. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:50:00 +0000

I love the urban legend of the ubiquitous hipster trust fund.

By: MoyJoy

MoyJoy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:06:34 +0000

Who cares about ‘flavor’. I want safety, stability and starbucks.

By: sweetser

sweetser — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:43:11 +0000

valuable contribution tee

By: Tee

Tee — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:12:55 +0000

All hipsters need to go home! HOOOOOOME!! They remove all urban flavor in the areas they invade and SWEAR they are doing neighborhoods a favor by being there. Go the fuck home and spend your trust fund money there! Bushwick once had FLAVOR, its been dulled to the point of no return! Stay in Manhattan if you want to be “hip”.

By: 911NewYorker

911NewYorker — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:21:08 +0000

“Artists turned around Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, and then Brooklyn’s Williamsburg in the 1990s. Now you’ll find them in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, and Astoria in Queens.”

Yikes…Bushwick & Bed-Stuy all in the same sentence!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:38:25 +0000

The article from South Florida is still my favorite. Buburg is the place to be!