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They are protesting the people in the busses, not the busses. The protesters are angry that there are relatively prosperous individuals in "their" neighborhood
by fiatmoney 13y ago
They are protesting the people in the busses, not the busses.
The protesters are angry that there are relatively prosperous individuals in "their" neighborhoods at all; they would rather it be an affordable slum than be priced out.
- m_ke 13y agoIt sounds to me like the people who gentrified the area are now complaining about getting priced out of "their" neighborhood. I expect the same to start happening in Williamsburg once the yuppies start moving into all of the new condos.
- jrockway 13y agoWilliamsburg is already pretty expensive, even for the tech elite. (Well, I couldn't afford it when I looked a couple years ago, anyway :)
- yazmeya 13y agoIn Williamsburg, we're a few years past that point. The new "in" thing is to complain about being priced out of Bushwick. At this rate, neighborhoods all the way down to Kennedy Airport should be fully hipsterized by 2020 or so.
- throwaway28483 13y agothe gentrifiers got gentrified out of williamsburg, and most of BKs western neighborhoods, years ago. average 1 bedroom prices are already at about $3400/month in williamsburg[1]. [1]http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report