This photo was taken on a sidewalk in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn New York. The comment expresses a popular opinion about the steady change in the demographic. As hipsters and college kids move in, rent prices rise and the neighborhood takes on the feel of a modern museum. As someone who has been in the third world for the past year, I find the contrast in lifestyle and what people view as important fascinating. What are your thoughts?
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great pics
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Thanks. They were all taken while I was running errands.
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Love the pics. I agree. I have lived in Brooklyn all my life. I’ve lived in Bed-Stuy since 94. For the past 3 years, prices have sky rocketed, shops popping up, coffee shops that sell coffee for the price of 9 bagels, etc… There is a good and bad to this. Being a writer, I love the artistic swing that has been slamming Brooklyn….However, everything else, not so much.
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I admit I also like the artistic swing slamming into Brooklyn. At times though it feels as if I’m walking through a fantasy world.
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Hi, great pics. I just wrote about this. I was expressing what a bittersweet feeling this is for those of us that grew up in these neighborhoods because it’s the kind of lifestyle/changes we longed for our community years ago. However, this is not catered to us. We (our parents now) are being forced out due to the gentrification movement.
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Thank you. Being raised in the Midwest at first I felt this is not my issue. But I’m now realizing that a lot of these people are college kids that came from the Midwest or other parts of the country who are escaping reality and creating a world of their own.
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I love ny city it is a nice city to visit for all the different things that people can enjoy
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Would you mind if I borrowed the image of the sidewalk saying “Too weird to live, too rare to die”? I would credit you on the image however you’d like, of course.
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Sure! I don’t mind. 😉
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Thanks!
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Nice pics. I think I have to agree–it is a form of colonialism. Then again, it’s kind of unavoidable. The middle class folks who colonize Brooklyn are there because they can’t afford to live in Manhattan.
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True. 😉
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