PH featured on AM NY

There are some real nice pics of the hood

Subject: World-class Cultural Offerings... who's world?

sited from the article:

While taking a wait-and-see attitude on Atlantic Yards, Salpeter said she was confident that retail will follow the residential boom that has brought condos to once empty lots.

"I think Brooklyn in general, and Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, in particular, really provide visitors with a real authentic New York City experience," she said. "Then you combine it with world-class cultural offerings you've got, and it's a slam dunk."

The irony in the statement above is that whenever realtors buzz about a neighborhood's authenticity and ethnic diversity, they actually serve to kill the authentic "experience" once they've sold a few properties.

We've heard the buzzword "World Class" ad nauseum . It smacks of someone else's world other than the ones who already live here, as if there is something profoundly wrong with what we already have. The article celebrates a lot of our favorite local haunts and cheap treats, but when it promotes retail it actually refers to Box Stores and the like. The later will displace the prior.

The Yarn Monkey wrote:

"Vanderbilt Avenue is hipsterville these days."

The scarey thing is this statement was meant to attract people to Vanderbilt, you know, like "Come on in, there's more of you here, it's OK now."

it's AM New York!!!, not the L MAGAZINE. Why would you think only hipsters are reading this article.

On a side note -- those pictures are AWFUL! Even the Grand Army Plaza fountain photo is hideous.