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Gentrification: A New Yorker’s Perspective
I see and hear a lot online, and offline about the disease known as Gentrification. Oddly enough most of what I hear comes from non-New Yorkers who have a very limited perspective on it. Would you like to hear what a New Yorker thinks about it? Read on my friend.
As a native New Yorker I’m one of the victims of gentrification. I’m a victim! Not a beneficiary. The only beneficiaries of gentrification are the City of New York, and the people who are causing the problem: Yuppies, hipsters, developers.
It offends me that people move here because it’s “trendy”. It offends me that these people move here for the culture when what’s really happening is they’re effectively forcing the culture to move out. And it offends the shit out of me that these people treat the local color like animals in a petting zoo; nice to look at, nice to interact with, but not all that important to the ecosystem. They subsume the local culture and the local flavor, and turn it into something cold and soulless. They regard their surroundings very much like a fashion hog regards their clothing—something nice to wear and enjoy and show off and exploit for their own selfish, vain benefit…
