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Many neighborhoods in NYC have great established communities, it's just that the community doesn't necessarily include you.
by starkfist 17y ago
Many neighborhoods in NYC have great established communities, it's just that the community doesn't necessarily include you.
- warfangle 17y agoVery true. I believe the reason I could integrate so well with this community is due to one specific situation and a couple attributes of the community that I've not seen elsewhere: - I moved to the neighborhood when the community was just beginning - It is not based around typical cultural or ethnic norms (there are Haitian, Asian, European, Hispanic immigrants involved: this is not an affluent-white-urban group, though caucasian transplants to the city tend to be the majority) - It is not based around our job description or industry, though creative-types are definitely in the majority - It's not whether you're deemed cool by the American Apparel masses We're just neighbors. Awesome neighbors. (before this, I lived in northern Astoria - whose community was rather insular and comprised of primarily Greek individuals; there were yuppies there, but they weren't a part of nor 'invited' in to the community)