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"When told some of the background of the long-term tenants' tribulations, Lavon says, "It sucks, and I didn't know this before I came. Maybe it did happen—it probably did, even. I'm sorry it's happening, but—" she pauses, then shrugs—"I like the apartment."
I guess that's why everyone hates hipsters.They have no shame,no conscience whatsoever.
The new tenants, mostly white, are in their mid-twenties. Many go to nearby art colleges—Parsons, the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union—or are working their first jobs out of school. Some commute to schools in less desirable places, likeLong Island. Many have moved in within the past year; their apartments have that Ikea/thrift-store feel.
"When told some of the background of the long-term tenants' tribulations, Lavon says, "It sucks, and I didn't know this before I came. Maybe it did happen—it probably did, even. I'm sorry it's happening, but—" she pauses, then shrugs—"I like the apartment."
I guess that's why everyone hates hipsters.They have no shame,no conscience whatsoever.
Why should the hipsters (well, actually mostly they were just college students in this article) have any shame or conscience for moving into the apartment that made the most sense for them when they were looking for a place to live?
It's not their fault that the city has the sort of regulatory procedures in place that make the sort of housing the hipsters would like to live in difficult and expensive to produce. Nor is it the hispters' fault that virtually every community in the city will come out and fight like hell against any new development that the city is actually willing to approve.
If you want less hipsters competing with long-time residents in places like Delancey St., then write your local community leaders and tell them that you want projects like the one I linked below expanded, enlarged and given an easier path to approval. Without really researching the project much, I'd bet that the community board will vote down this project and the developer will have to adjust the proposal somehow.
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