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MADem

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9. I went back to my "Don't walk alone at night--RUN" neighborhood a few years back...

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #8)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 12:55 PM

Sep 2014

And the thing I noticed was that there was a lot more dogshit than there was back in the day.

We weren't allowed to have dogs as renters, many of us, and those that did were better at curbing their dogs than nowadays!

Everything was in really good repair, too--lots of fresh coats of paint, blasted stone and brick, shiny new windows, that kind of thing...but it didn't have much soul at all!

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An entrepreneur saved a poor neighborhood by replacing everyone in it with affluent twentysomethings [View all] wyldwolf Sep 2014 OP

. Brickbat Sep 2014 #1

Not the Onion, but similar. I almost fell for it. Of course, this describes a real life dynamic. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #2

Ha! The dump I lived in years ago is now a "luxury condo!" MADem Sep 2014 #3

Me, too. My former $290/month dump on the Lower East Side in now a trendy condo. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #8

I went back to my "Don't walk alone at night--RUN" neighborhood a few years back... MADem Sep 2014 #9

Couldn't find an exterminator? moondust Sep 2014 #4

He didn't 'save' a neighborhood, he 'gentrified' it. House of Roberts Sep 2014 #5

As a resident of West Shellwood, I'd like to add that Gormy Cuss Sep 2014 #6

Next up ... GeorgeGist Sep 2014 #7

I thought it was an Onion article!! Jazzgirl Sep 2014 #10