Archive for July 26th, 2010
Fuck You, New York Times Real Estate Section
I watched this happen ten years ago to my old neighborhood, Fort Greene. It’s the beginning of the end for the neighborhood. Now will come the weekends of people wandering the streets “getting a feel for the area” and then the one of the big realtors will swoop in and then comes the pricing escalation until there is no choice but to leave.. The formula these articles follow also nauseates me: “never thought I’d leave Manhattan, now I’ve got a kid, got so much more for our Million than we would have gotten in Park Slope,” feh.
I know I should think of myself as the leading edge of the encroaching buzzards of gentrification rather than as some one distinct from them. I’ve only lived here eight years after all. But I can’t escape the feeling that the I’m being chased from neighborhood to neighborhood by the Times.
Tags: anger, my neighborhood, new york life, Real Estate, The Times
