The Morgan stop used to be the stop where the last of the “creative professional” types would get off. (We need some inclusive name for these types — hipsters and/or yuppies just does not work for me.) We used to marvel when we saw them riding past the Morgan stop (at the time we lived near the DeKalb stop). Now the Jefferson stop is like the Morgan stop circa 2002. I wonder how the DeKalb stop has changed in the past year or so.
You have to understand that Armstrong has been the HIP dude in Bushwick, before anyone even thought of the area being hip.
Love seeing the masses of hipsters flooding the L line, and yes, we need more of them to live around Armstrong. Let’s get this guy a b/f before it gets too cold out! Hey with a rent stabilized apt. who knows how well the heat is going to work for the first time this winter!
The area around Maria park is constantly busy, and yes a few hipsters are seen around there.
It poses the question thought if these hipsters are mostly renters, and roommates, or actual homeowners, or longtime Bushwick devotees like Armstrong.
Homeowner or r/s tenant - more likely to make significant improvements to change the area.
Just look at all the marketing Armstrong is doing for that Thai restaurant, and all the alternative lifestyle that is also being welcomed around the park. Goodness, the kid is help tremendously with his efforts.
North Bushwick, unless it goes through some massive rash of condo conversions, will always be mostly renters because of all the multi-family buildings. Demand for services is what usually improves a shitty area; not so much individual actions.
How is Armstrong marketing a Thai place that doesn’t exist? And what “alternative lifestyle” is being “welcomed” with such abundance around the park so as to provoke such cheer, and what exactly did Our Dear Leader Armstrong do to help this?
You’ve got a point, perhaps the influx of more people into the northern area may be renters and demand for their services will cause business to open up, and since MHP is already a commercial area, it will come there versus SoBu.
Armstrong was marketing it by telling Lori about a place on Knick that was rehabed, and generally just hoping that something trendy would open. He was actually theorizing, dreaming…but it’s a good dream.
He was also hoping that his future bf or similiar people might move to the aera, because afterall when these people move in sometime the cute coffee shops, and business start opening up. Think Chelsea.
The park is an attraction, and since he loves this park and would liked ISP businesses might spring up there first.
I think Armstrong is playing a good role by welcoming such things, caring about where he lives. The guy has obviously paid his dues in Bushwick, and he’s not going anywhere soon, so he’s good for the future of bushwick.
Too bad he’s probably in yoga land right now, and can’t take a bow.
Sorry Armstrong, was just looking for a poster person to represent Bushwick, and you seemed to say a lot of positive things, and want better for the neighborhood.
One of the things I like about bushwick is the way people (families) dress: It lets me feel that a Sunday is still a Sunday, and not just any other day of the week, like i.e. the city, which is a sports arena on Sunday.
I don’t commute but on Thursdays I meet a friend for coffee in the city. A few times I have asked him to meet me in Tribeca or Soho because I didn’t want to have to take the L if it was the wrong time of day.
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August 20th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Come on over to the Myrtle stop on the JMZ. Express to to Delancey/Essex = 15 minute ride in the morning. Plus there’s plenty of room.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:30 am
This is shocking to you? you bushwick newbies kill me. LOL
August 20th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
The Morgan stop used to be the stop where the last of the “creative professional” types would get off. (We need some inclusive name for these types — hipsters and/or yuppies just does not work for me.) We used to marvel when we saw them riding past the Morgan stop (at the time we lived near the DeKalb stop). Now the Jefferson stop is like the Morgan stop circa 2002. I wonder how the DeKalb stop has changed in the past year or so.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:44 am
You have to understand that Armstrong has been the HIP dude in Bushwick, before anyone even thought of the area being hip.
Love seeing the masses of hipsters flooding the L line, and yes, we need more of them to live around Armstrong. Let’s get this guy a b/f before it gets too cold out! Hey with a rent stabilized apt. who knows how well the heat is going to work for the first time this winter!
The area around Maria park is constantly busy, and yes a few hipsters are seen around there.
It poses the question thought if these hipsters are mostly renters, and roommates, or actual homeowners, or longtime Bushwick devotees like Armstrong.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Why does it pose that question? Why does it matter?
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Homeowner or r/s tenant - more likely to make significant improvements to change the area.
Just look at all the marketing Armstrong is doing for that Thai restaurant, and all the alternative lifestyle that is also being welcomed around the park. Goodness, the kid is help tremendously with his efforts.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
North Bushwick, unless it goes through some massive rash of condo conversions, will always be mostly renters because of all the multi-family buildings. Demand for services is what usually improves a shitty area; not so much individual actions.
How is Armstrong marketing a Thai place that doesn’t exist? And what “alternative lifestyle” is being “welcomed” with such abundance around the park so as to provoke such cheer, and what exactly did Our Dear Leader Armstrong do to help this?
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
You’ve got a point, perhaps the influx of more people into the northern area may be renters and demand for their services will cause business to open up, and since MHP is already a commercial area, it will come there versus SoBu.
Armstrong was marketing it by telling Lori about a place on Knick that was rehabed, and generally just hoping that something trendy would open. He was actually theorizing, dreaming…but it’s a good dream.
He was also hoping that his future bf or similiar people might move to the aera, because afterall when these people move in sometime the cute coffee shops, and business start opening up. Think Chelsea.
The park is an attraction, and since he loves this park and would liked ISP businesses might spring up there first.
I think Armstrong is playing a good role by welcoming such things, caring about where he lives. The guy has obviously paid his dues in Bushwick, and he’s not going anywhere soon, so he’s good for the future of bushwick.
Too bad he’s probably in yoga land right now, and can’t take a bow.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 am
JAY, I just live here, go to work, come home and sometimes take part in neighborhood activities.. I’m hardly the fab example you take me for.
Actually, I’m not quite sure who you are though you said you were on the walking tour. On the next one, definitely introduce yourself.
Your flattery is nice but being pointed out in several posts feels a bit odd.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Sorry Armstrong, was just looking for a poster person to represent Bushwick, and you seemed to say a lot of positive things, and want better for the neighborhood.
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
One of the things I like about bushwick is the way people (families) dress: It lets me feel that a Sunday is still a Sunday, and not just any other day of the week, like i.e. the city, which is a sports arena on Sunday.
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Yikes, I’m hardly a poster boy for anything - LOL! Whereabouts do you live Jay? How are things in your part of Bushwick?
August 26th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Armstrong see my comments on August 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm elsewhere on this blog re: the poster boy/person.
I’m all over Bushwick, and trying to make it better.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Jay, you live all over Bushwick?
September 14th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
If I had to take the L train in the morning, i’d end up stabbing someone. Thank god for the J train.
September 14th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I don’t commute but on Thursdays I meet a friend for coffee in the city. A few times I have asked him to meet me in Tribeca or Soho because I didn’t want to have to take the L if it was the wrong time of day.