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Synchronicity?
Maybe just coincidence and not some kind of mind-meld, but two days before I decided to start chronicling my experience as a gentrifier-slightly-uneasy-about-gentrifying, another Crown Heights blog appears covering similar ground. Keep your eye on Hipster Safari.
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Clarification or maybe correction
Crown Heights and Beyond made a smart observation that applies to my post the other day: Sometimes I wonder if we were not talking about hipsters, how well these comments would fly. I feel it’s deceptively hard to come up with a good definition for “hipster,” but somewhere in that definition gentrification would have to […]
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The Hipster Infestation Begins
When Jason and I moved into Crown Heights a year ago, it was always surprising to see another white person in the neighborhood. There’s a strong Jewish (Hassidic? I’m kind of embarrassed not to know) presence in Crown Heights, but not in our neighborhood (we’re north of Eastern Parkway – they tend to be south […]