Thursday, 31 March 2005
Screw the West Side, we got our own problems in the L.E.S.
Hipsters are up in arms in the now-tragically-hip Lower East Side. The ruthless machinery of new development is taking out all the local establishments mostly by creating a sharp rise in the rent market, but often also by just crushing them to the ground to make room for "Luxury Boutique Hotels" and megaclubs with celebrity investors. It seems to me that trend-velopers who have ran out of space (and can no longer afford) the MeatPacking District are trying to repeat the model in the L.E.S.. The difference? People actually live here, and they have for a looooooong time. The ugly truth? Money usually prevails over tradition.
Posted at 13:16 | Filed under New York City
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