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

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.
--click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2)

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.

visibly agitated (#9,793)
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

― max, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

I read her first book when it came out and really liking it at the time. I think she was a sex or dating columnist or something then.

oh no kidding?

idk, pulling out works you just forget sometimes and then babby?

Biography
Amy's new novel, Motherland, will be published in August 2012 by Simon & Schuster. Beyond that . . .
In 1973 Amy was born in Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. Raised in Brooklyn Heights, Amy went on to attend Hunter College High School in Manhattan, alma mater of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan. In 1995 Amy was graduated from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, and with Honors.
In 1995 Amy returned to Brooklyn to pursue a career as an actress. It didn't go well, though she did appear in an episode of "Law and Order" for forty seconds, an episode for which she still receives residuals. In 1996 she became a columnist at New York Press, writing her autobiographical "Female Trouble" column, a chronicle of dating below Fourteenth Street that elicited loads of invective from readers and shamed her parents at dinner parties. This column was satirized in a cartoon by Anthony Haden-Guest that featured a blond and brunette talking, with the brunette telling the blond, "I'm the new you." This was thought to be based on Amy and Candace Bushnell, though Anthony never admitted it outright.
In 1999, Simon & Schuster published Amy's first novel, Run Catch Kiss, which has since been translated into four languages. According to the New York Times review of the book, "A little-known event that took place around the time that Richard M. Nixon was resigning as President was the birth of Amy Sohn, who has emerged as a representative of her generation." The review included the word "concomitant," "concupiscence," and "Spenglerian," three words that do not appear in the novel.
In 1999 Amy became a columnist at the New York Post, where she enraged management by comparing Mayor Giuliani to Hitler and writing an expose on the Yankees locker room. In 2000, Amy co-created, wrote and starred in a television show for Oxygen's "X Chromosome" animated series entitled "Avenue Amy."
In August 2001 Amy landed at New York magazine. At New York, her columns mirrored the trajectory of her life, from "Naked City" to "Mating" to "Breeding." In 2004 Simon & Schuster published her second novel, My Old Man, about a May-December relationship between a rabbinical school dropout and an aging screenwriter. It took place in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
In 2008 she became a columnist at England's Grazia magazine, where she wrote a column called "Diary of a Recessionista." The recession soon took over and the column was axed. Over the years, Amy has also written for Harper's Bazaar, Premiere, Playboy, Elle, The New York Times, and Details. She is a recipient of a reader award from Playboy called the Golden Bunny and was voted one of Park Slope's 100 most influential people. She is certain she is the only individual to have received both honors.
In 2009 Simon & Schuster published Amy's third novel, Prospect Park West, about four Park Slope mothers on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It was translated into five languages.
As a pundit on popular culture, she has appeared on such networks as VH1, MTV, Fox News, CNN, Lifetime, MSNBC, and PBS. She has written television pilots for ABC, Fox, Lifetime and most recently, HBO and Sarah Jessica Parker, who optioned Prospect Park West. She has written two films, a Gen X Big Chill called Spin the Bottle, and a Gen X horror film called Pagans.
She grew up in Brooklyn, where she still lives today. She has a brother, five years younger. She voted for Barack Obama and raised money for him. Her favorite writers are Laurie Colwin, Hilma Wolitzer, Charles Bukowski, Nathanael West, Mary Gaitskill, and Bruce Jay Friedman. Her favorite films include Gregory's Girl, The Landlord, The Apartment, My Life as a Dog, and Together.
She had her seventh birthday party at Kramer versus Kramer but not all the children were permitted by their parents to come. As a child she was taken to the films Heartland, Splash, Heart Like a Wheel, The Magical Mystery Tour, and Mr. Hulot's Holiday and is glad about it. She thinks Wainwright elevates Apatow and not the other way around. She has strong biceps but weak abs. She is aware that her inspiration for this list was the Kevin Costner speech in Bull Durham. She has had sexual fantasies about Richard Ford and they were productive.
If she could switch careers she would be a Broadway musical theater producer or a sommelier. She dresses to the left. She believes that when it comes to hair highlights, cheap is expensive. Her favorite joke is, "What's the difference between a Jew and a Gentile? A Gentile leaves without saying goodbye and a Jew says goodbye without leaving." She also enjoys a very tasteless Katharine Hepburn joke whose punchline is, "How do you turn it off?" Her favorite candy is York Peppermint Patties and she always has a knot in the same section of her hair when she wakes up. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
Like her at www.facebook.com/amysohn and visit her at www.amysohn.com.

ugh sorry that was a lot more text than I realized.