The Neighborhood Is Changing

“The generation of ‘pioneers’ who moved into the declining area a little more than a decade ago complain now that the Slope is changing. Their friends who rent are being forced out by rising prices and co-op conversions. Laundromats and grocery stores have been displaced by boutiques. Parking spaces are suddenly hard to find and families with children are moving in less frequently. The buzz word for the latest arrivals is ‘lawyers from Manhattan.’ ‘We face a cold, hard, inhuman world created by Citibank and its ilk,’ announced the neighborhood bakery…” [Via, via]