>From thegayrecluse.com
On Those Who Live in a Gentrified Neighborhood and Like To Hold Forth
on the Perils of Gentrification
04Oct07
Thank you so very much for your keen insight and generosity, your
willingness to come all the way up here to protect us! Your words have
been so reassuring; we feel so much better knowing that you will do
everything in your power including next week's important meeting
with the mayor to prevent any form of gentrification from taking
hold: we shudder to think of the loss of neighborhood "character" you
have described, the horrible influx of obsessive-compulsive gardeners
and opera queens who can be expected to descend upon the streets of
Washington Heights like a plague of locusts. (And you're right: we've
already seen a few parading up and down Broadway; as if they have any
right to be here.) On a more personal note, how you must suffer,
living on the Upper West Side in your rent-stabilized classic six amid
such a nauseating array of restored townhouses and apartment palaces
situated on curving and quiet tree-lined streets, just steps away from
Riverside Park to the west and Pan Asian restaurants and gourmet delis
to the east. But rest assured that your years of sacrifice will not be
in vain; you have done so much to bring the local community together!
We don't know a single person in Washington Heights whose skin doesn't
crawl at the thought of sterile (we like your term for it: Teutonic)
sidewalks no dealers, no rats, not even a chicken bone in sight
and a dead night bereft of stereos and fire crackers, filled with
nothing but the occasional rustle of leaves and the lonely click of
heels passing under an open window.
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