Guess what neighborhood is complaining about gentrification now?

So, a gentleman by the name of Henry Stewart has written a pretty good rant about the hipsters taking over his neighborhood. I've reproduced it below (without the identifying information). Can you guess which neighborhood he's talking about?

The link at the bottom gives the answer, and includes his full article.

"It's actually happening—hipsters are invading [what neighborhood?]. Sure, laugh it up, and then the next thing you know, [local coffee shop] serves $11 coffee, [clothing store] only sells skinny jeans, and the food at [restaurant] is vegan. You might say, "they'd never make it this far [in our direction] because the commute is too long," but like viruses adapting to antibiotics, some of them have developed the ability to ride the subway for longer periods of time, and thus have spread cancerously to neighborhoods like ours.

There were warning signs that people didn't take seriously. The [fancy] bar opened, catering to trendy youths with its wines and its foods from local independent vendors. The hipsters moved in to drink there. Then one of the neighborhood's trendiest residents, the owner of the uber-hip [pub] and [restaurant], announced he'd open a third location, the full-hipster [bar]. And people scoffed. While more hipsters moved in.

I've seen it: I've seen men wearing Club Masters in [bar], other men in red pants and Sex Pistols T-shirts under Elvis Costello-esque sports jackets on [local] Road. I've seen women wearing thick-framed glasses on [local] Avenue sporting dresses with leggings.

Now Brooklyn Industries, with its relevant apparel, is opening a store in [what neighborhood?], the Brooklyn Paper reports, near [main] Street, which used to have real businesses like [local store] but is increasingly crowded with hipster favorites like halal food trucks. In Journalism, three things makes a trend, which means that [what neighborhood?] has officially gone hipster."

The answers and the original article can be found here...

In the early 1990s, this could have been written about the East Village.

My God, is no place safe? Bensonhurst, perhaps?

I believe Boro Park is safe

True!

Gowanus is not.

http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/gowanus-gets-ready/

LOVE this post and the link! Do you think that Brownsville or ENY is on the list (TONS of train stations)? Brooklyn is big but we're running out of room.

Garnett-

Have you seen the articles about the Bronx?

NYT wrote: Apartment buildings on the Grand Concourse have been refurbished; some South Bronx neighborhoods have boomed, luring a diverse influx of young professionals; and the foreign-born population — mainly Dominicans moving from Upper Manhattan as well as Mexicans — has grown. It is a far cry from the stock but now badly dated images of vast tracts of abandoned buildings or empty lots. “It’s pretty much the last frontier,” said Ed Garcia Conde, a Bronx real estate consultant. “It’s the last affordable place. But I wouldn’t say it’s been gentrified to the point where people are being pushed out. Thousands of new apartments came on line.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/nyregion/more-people-moving-to-bronx-census-shows.html?_r=0

Nope but will read it now. I've always wanted to live in CERTAIN parts of the BX. I used to sell houses there. The green life is great!!

great read!!!

There is also tons of activity in Sunset Park and LIC, as we are discussing here:

http://brooklynian.com/forum/the-lounge-random-stuff/sunset-park-vs-the-area-west-of-lic-between-hunterspoint-ave-and-green-point-ave

Tony Mannero must be rolling over in his grave.

Bushwick.

http://www.bkbureau.org/2013/05/24/how-the-m-train-is-gentrifying-bushwick/

I believe that who is "gentry" (and who isn't) is just a matter of perspective.

Bushwick-

Multiple forces have put you in the cross hairs, and I hope your transition is as smooth as possible:

http://www.bkbureau.org/cops-want-crime-watchers-on-bushwick-blocks

Make the Road and BHIP, I hope you have excellent management, because your job is about to get a lot more complicated and difficult....

http://www.maketheroad.org/

http://www.bhipbrooklyn.org/services.html

Pick your battles carefully.

bayridge is bloody too far for any commute. why would any hipsters go all the way out there?

bayridge is bloody too far for any commute. why would any hipsters go all the way out there?

Queens.

Then Nassau?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/realestate/the-tilt-toward-queens.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1383581527-jVuOU5hCWgiP4P/Rf3myVA&;

I wish I could like Bay Ridge. Too Republican, too far, too senior for me (and I am 55). It's friggin' boring. I have heard the Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead covers from the same old bands more than I would like to. I moved from there last week. I'll go back when I am too old to care.