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But our president made it out in a speech that Brooklyn is cooler now than ever. Alluding that many of the wack dudes have been gentrified out of town or moved up top. Guess you think Brooklyn was cooler when crack was wack.
No way is Bushwick "80-90%" gentrified. More like 10-20%
You're right, that's not a proper percentage if we're talking full-on gentrification, but 80-90% has definitely been breached by hipsters. I'm seeing them everywhere from the Bed-Stuy border to over by the cemeteries to the east, they're not the majority but are undeniably there.
You're right, that's not a proper percentage if we're talking full-on gentrification, but 80-90% has definitely been breached by hipsters. I'm seeing them everywhere from the Bed-Stuy border to over by the cemeteries to the east, they're not the majority but are undeniably there.
Breached by hipsters and gentrified are two different things. You will see hipsters practically everywhere. I saw a group of hipsters taking that old Volkswagen "Scooby Doo" van through the Tropical Breeze car wash on Utica. I think the natural reaction any time people see hipsters is to say, "Oh, this neighborhood's done" even if the area is 99% non-hipster.
IMO, a neighborhood's not really gentrifying until the stores start changing.
IMO, a neighborhood's not really gentrifying until the stores start changing.
And you'll find a lot of new storefronts in Williamsburg. And even in Bushwick, up and down Troutman and Jefferson. Same for Wilson and Wyckoff. More so than you'll see in Bed-Stuy or Crown Heights. And even more so than Fort Greene or Clinton Hill.
I'm not sure it's contiguous. There are two distinct nodes of areas that are actually gentrified: The smaller one in north Brooklyn, of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, and the larger one of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill and everything west of them. Bed-Stuy has hints of gentrification but is nowhere close to gentrified, and in any case it is cut off from gentrified Williamsburg by Hasid-land in South Williamsburg.
I'm not sure it's contiguous. There are two distinct nodes of areas that are actually gentrified: The smaller one in north Brooklyn, of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, and the larger one of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill and everything west of them. Bed-Stuy has hints of gentrification but is nowhere close to gentrified, and in any case it is cut off from gentrified Williamsburg by Hasid-land in South Williamsburg.
Not sure I'd say the North Brooklyn node is smaller. Actually I'd say its been more defined as of late since West Brooklyn was already a desirable area in the first place. Plus the North Brooklyn wave stretches into Queens.
There's level to this: The North West part of Brooklyn (Park Slope/the lovely named BoCoCa) are definitely on the fully gentrified tip and so is North Williamsburg/Greenpoint. Then you got Fort Greene/Clinton Hill/Prospect Heights, which are gentrified but still have a good amount of old timers there. Last but not least, you got Bed-Stuy/Bushwick/Crown Heights, which have parts of them that have seen gentrification in the last decade or so.
What will happen when the expansion of the Chinese from the south meets the Hipster parade in the Northern part of Brooklyn.
The middle part of Brooklyn is still Latino.
The area that is consider "hip" is only a 5-6mi radius, tiny.
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