quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

I'm just waiting for Sheepshead Bay to blow up.

flatlands has the best "middle of nowhere" sounding name

fuck a bike, strictly mopeds in the basin

what abt gravesend

spoooky

I went to Flatland to pick up something from craigslist the other week and no one responded to my jokes about coming back flat. ;_;

I think Times writers just really don't get that there might not actually be enough upper middle class white people who want to live in the city to fill the entire city with upper middle class white people.

Or that at some point some of them tend to say "fuck it I'm going to live in Bergen County" instead of going way the fuck out to Canarsie or w/e.

I've already lived in Bergen Cty. Give me Canarsie.

Fuck a Rte 17 and fuck a Ridgewood. Man I hate Ridgewood.

yeah well have you been to canarsie

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5134DAi-d1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

haha wut is that

looked at the amazon page, looks pretty interesting actually.

I think Times writers just really don't get that there might not actually be enough upper middle class white people who want to live in the city to fill the entire city with upper middle class white people.
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well if gravesend looked like park slope who knows

http://i.imgur.com/KJv6f.png

timely

sobro failed to happen :(

you know how not everybody gets to have a lot of money? well not every place gets to either. funny how that works!

which is unfortunate as its an excellent way to begin a question, so bro...

sobummed

my artisinal instrument shop, sobro dobro, failed to thrive

as did my mens accessory shop, sobro bolo

the low cold hos should be cut like an afro

Clearly, the Bronx's reputation still suffers from the fact that it is the only borough that's identified with a felony in the theme song of Car 54, Where Are You?.

step 1 in rebranding: change name back to "The Broncks' Farms"

sobro farms would be a cool name for a gang

sobro polo bros

pomo afro sobro

I think the Bronx will slowly but surely get more yuppies but the population ratio is not change fast enough for mayonnaise shops or whatever to be viable anytime soon. it's not even relatively that cheap cause there are lots of people who do want to live there, just most of them aren't white.

Why does not white people never want to mayonnaise?

like if I could get some studio for $700, sure I'd move to the bronx, buy some mayo

I dunno. Median incomes in the city have been falling and the finance industry is probably due for more layoffs in the next year or two even barring another legit collapse, which is itself possible. I think gentrification might be making its last big push for a while. I think it's even possible the borders will recede a little.

I never noticed until know that there's a part of the bronx called "Morrisania". That's a p cool name imo.

I'm not gonna write 5 paragraphs on my phone but you are wrong

I think you underestimate how quickly a bad economy and rising crime could change peoples' minds about the new urban lifestyle.

OTOH I guess the trend of people staying single longer might increase the supply of city dwellers.

crime is already rising!

in the suburbs

get in early on the latest new york crime wave, join the hotest new gang out there SOBRO FARMS

the worst economy in nearly 100 years hasn't made NYC any less safe. the gentrification narrative is mostly make believe to begin w/. the bronx is already (relatively) safe and already (relatively) expensive and that's before the mayo crew arrived.

sobro mayo

SOBRO MAYOr

sonia sobromayor

http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-40-year-old-reversion

I read through the first section sure this was a first-person narrative from a fictional parody character, but now I am not so sure.

amy sohn! i used to know amy sohn. not a parody.

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All your friends are assholes.

not too shocking a read from the person who wrote Prospect Park West I guess

so happy that "mayo shop" is shorthand on here now. I walk by it all the time and lol.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-40-year-old-reversion

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Oh I see, so your new novel is THE ICE STORM

lol OTM

The combination of irresponsible contraception and illegal drugs among Regressives is the reason New York is in a baby boom right now.

lol iatee seeing red at this point