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Gawker: Capitol Hill is Williamsburg and we are Bushwick

Article here.

From the original postSo, just to make it clearer, I’m looking for the neighborhoods in your city where the self-consciously arty creative-class would-be bohemians congregate. Williamsburg went from a lower-middle and working-class immigrant neighborhood to a refuge for artists priced out of Manhattan to an expensive alt-yuppie neighborhood—it used to be the neighborhood where the cool young arty kids went; now it’s the neighborhood where the rich old arty kids go (and live). Bushwick is where the cool young arty kids go and live now; it’s somewhere on the back end of the “cheap artist refuge” stage of gentrifying neighborhoods.

 

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