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    Gentrification

    News Click: Observer Skips a Few Decades

    A piece by Lydia DePillis today in the Observer's The Real Estate is not quite as obviously bloodthirsty in the search for juicy gentrification "struggle" quotes as the recent piece in the Brooklyn Eagle, but it's close. Ostensibly a profile of the Knickerbocker Condominiums and its "green" status, it morphs into an article about how boring and crappy Bushwick is. Strangely, the author mentions a "drug den" four blocks from the development when she might have noted that 15 years ...

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    • The Organic Milk Continuum Update
      I went to a house party on Saturday night, and the host sent Anna to get cream for coffee at the nearby Associated on Knickerbocker. "What do you want, half-and-half or heavy cream?" I said, if they have organic half-and-half, get that, but if they don't, just get whole cream. She came back in a few minutes: "They had both ...
    • Frustrated Anti-Gentroid Activists Resort to Graffiti
      Normally graffiti wouldn't call much of my attention, but this is no ordinary doodle. In case you can't see it well, it says "PARE EL DESPLAZAMIENTO" -- Stop the Displacement. I don't know what kind of spray paint can-wielding defacers you come across, but in my experience, there are few who tend to think about heavy subjects like urban demographic ...
    • Bushwick Clicks 4/21/08
      Troutman and Wyckoff at night, by Anna D'Agrosa Office-ally Bushwick: The Times profiles the guy who owns new Williamsburg hot spot Hotel Delmano about his new palatial digs -- in Bushwick. Remember when this was on the apartment roundup? C It Ain't So: Sara feels guilt over the DeKalb C-Town's expanded variety of products and aesthetic makeover. She doesn't do anything about ...
    • The Organic Milk Continuum
      I think I have developed a fool-proof method of judging the degree of "shadow" gentrification in a neighborhood. By "shadow," I mean all the rental apartments being newly occupied by people considered by most to be "gentrifiers." They're not as obviously present as the residents of shiny new condos or those populating the loft districts, but they are the majority. ...
    • 342 Eldert Rentals Rising in SoBu
      It's been a while since we have paid specific attention to the area on the other side of Myrtle, what we jokingly call "SoBu." Well dry those eyes, my co-neighborhoodists to the south, for I bring news: a building is going up at 342 Eldert Street and Irving Avenue, right across from the scamps at 345 -- and by the ...
    • Bushwick Initiative: An (Irrelevant) Insult
      Residents finally moved into the gut-renovated Bushwick Initiative buildings across the street from me this weekend, four months after they were completed. Oh, the Bushwick Initiative? That's where the City uses your tax money to fix up someone else's private property for them, with a guarantee that all the people who lived there before can move back in afterward ...
    • Watershed Moment: Bushwick Gets Thai
      That's it, people. We've hit a major point in the evolution of modern Bushwick: Bushwick is getting its first Thai restaurant. On the way home from the Associated the other day, we saw for ourselves what Armstrong has been saying for a couple weeks. "Long Do" will open "soon" at 214 Knickerbocker. A peek in the windows displayed several tables ...
    • The New 'Downtown' Morgantown
      You may have noticed, but the big warehouse at the corner of Bogart and Moore -- between Ad Hoc gallery and Roberta's -- has been making a lot of noise lately, and filling up a couple dumpsters in the process. I hear that they will be three retail spaces, and one is already taken by a "photography studio/gallery/print shop." The ...
    • 116 Troutman: Gentrification With a Roar
      You heard it here first, through several grapevines: 116 Troutman, aka "Troutman Gardens," that gigantimus concrete thing going up on Troutman Street and Central Avenue, is not to be senior housing. It is not to be subsidized rentals. It is not to be income-restricted coops. It is to be at least 146 condominiums, with one-bedrooms for $300,000. I attempted to ...
    • Floridians Say Bushwick Is Hot
      click to enlarge A friend in the hood whose aunt lives in Martin County, just past the civilizational borders of South Florida -- NOT a cosmopolitan area, in other words -- showed me this clipping from the local paper that she sent him. We don't know which paper it was, and none of the text comes up in a search. I ...
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