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Well from my perspective, I hope this change many are describing continues. Still pretty dirty, many poor and mentally disturbed people around, and would like a higher concentration of good looking white women below 40. The summer tends to bring them out but November - April is slim pickings.
Well from my perspective, I hope this change many are describing continues. Still pretty dirty, many poor and mentally disturbed people around, and would like a higher concentration of good looking white women below 40. The summer tends to bring them out but November - April is slim pickings.
Many poor? You mean the shopkeepers going to work at the shops or nannies? Greenwich Village boasts a higher median household income than Greenwich, CT according to the Census. There aren't many poor people in Greenwich Village and it is socioeconomically homogenous and is considered wealthy.
The hyperbole and negative energy that flows from you is always amusing. What and where on earth do you like?
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Even the cool gay folks are gone. Now you have the boring preppy and yuppish gay people walking around. I can't recall any neighborhood in the city that still have some culture and flavor except for Chinatown but that's a different topic.
Places always change. I attended NYU in the early 1980s. Back then Washington Square Park was a drug hangout. Yes, there were mothers with strollers. But also plenty of weed to be bought.
Often I'd walk through the park, and dealers would pass me muttering, "Loose joints. Loose joints." They said that, I suppose, to indicate they had pot for sale, but without expressly saying so. They wanted the customer to initiate the transaction. I guess they thought undercover cops couldn't because it'd be entrapment.
Guilliani cleaned up Washington Square Park in the 1990s. The late 1990s WSP was far cleaner and livelier than in the early 1980s. Lots more TALENTED street musicians (as opposed to the homeless variety), mothers with strollers, yuppies on dates, bicyclists.
I suppose the gentrification process has continued. Edgy, trashy and druggie in the 1980s. Cleaner and pricier in the 1990s. Even more cleaner and pricier in the 2000s. And even more so in the 2010s.
The expansion of NYU has also continued unabated. I attended film school in NYU's old South Building (on 4th Street, I think), when it was known as the School of the Arts. Just as I graduated, NYU announced that the SOA would change its name to the Tisch School of the Arts, and build a new building to house it on Broadway, because NYU had just received a $7 million donation from Larry Tisch.
Gentrification and NYU expansion has been ongoing for the past 30+ years that I've been familiar with the WSP area.
No, I mean the vagrants and mentally disturbed that just roam around.
I have incredibly positive energy. People sat here for three pages complaining about the 'new' village. I'm probably one of those people many are complaining about. 31, white, educated, work in banking and into fitness. Sorry if me and my ilk are not what you like to see in nyc. And you have that right just as I'd like to see less weirdos, less vagrants, and a higher concentration of good looking women.
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Many poor? You mean the shopkeepers going to work at the shops or nannies? Greenwich Village boasts a higher median household income than Greenwich, CT according to the Census. There aren't many poor people in Greenwich Village and it is socioeconomically homogenous and is considered wealthy.
The hyperbole and negative energy that flows from you is always amusing. What and where on earth do you like?
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