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October 28, 2007
City neighborhoods losing character to condos, chain stores
NY Daily News
MAGGIE WRIGLEY
Real estate is king in the new New York. Too many immigrants can't afford to come in. Too many longtime residents are driven out. We are losing our sky to a hideous skyline and our streets to a generic wash of prefab apartments, banks and storefronts.As Manhattan is squeezed, so suffer the outer boroughs. The Italians and Poles of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are dislocated by hipsters whose creative lives are emphatically commercial. Every possible place is built on, or up. The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn promises the same on a massive scale.
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NoLandGrab: Another case of future nostalgia - missing what we have before it's even gone. In the case of Atlantic Yards, which has not yet materialized, the process of loss can be stopped before it starts.
Posted by amy at October 28, 2007 11:33 AM