The greatest finder of just-about-to-be hip neighborhoods is my friend Keith. He lived on Clinton Street on the LES when it was bodagas. Then he moved to N. Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg when it was pierogi city. Both areas are now of course filled with cafes, bars, and clubs.
Keith finally bought a place in a semi-industrial zone where S. Willimsburg (the Hasidic part) and Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy converged. Nice apartment, but the area was only served by the infamous G (the ghost train, the gangster local) train that doesn't go into Manhattan at all.
Article today in NYT says that the area's gentrification, embodied in a building one of the residents called "The Yuppie Spaceship," is faltering. THe one hipster cafe failed. Some condo prices have come down, and some blacks have yelled epithets at whites and others.
Still, some residents think gentrification will happen, but in fits and starts. Maybe.
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In other words, he is the first one in to chase out the long-term residents! Way to go!
I kid because I love, you gentrifying freak you. I'm sure he's over in Germany right now moving into some ghetto.
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