the gays are coming
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- monoblanco
http://www.npr.org/templates/sto…
A compelling news story.
- toastie0
queer eye for the crackhead
- easy_target0
crack....gays.....oh the irony
- arthur0
I almost bought a house in Asbury Park in 2001, but there were waaaaaay too many crackhouses, seriously.
- monoblanco0
ha.
Ok if you don't care to listen to it i'll tell you that this is the story of a bad neighborhood that has been revitalized by the influx of gay people.I found this to be very interesting.
Time and again it seems that just like artists, the gay sub culture tends to be responsible for turning run down neighborhoods into prosperous trendy communities.
- toastie0
and then driving out the people who originally lived there because they cannot afford to pay the higher rents that result from the gentrification of the neighborhood.
- surgical_steel0
LOL
- arthur0
The influx of gays into Asbury Park has been happening at least since 2000.
What the town really needs is a revitalized business district, which has been underway. Roughly half of the downtown buildings were abandoned and derelict when I visited. I did an illustration for Dwell in 2001 of a new multipurpose downtown development whose intent was to bring people downtown.
- arthur0
Yeah, the towns around Asbury Park are much better off. All of the lower income people have flocked to Asbury Park and they will be priced out.
- toastie0
the same happened to alot of neighborhoods in NYC, most recently Williamsburg, which was a drug-infested hellhole 10-15 years ago and now it's something like the upper east side.
- monoblanco0
it's a very interesting social trend indeed.
- CyBrainX0
Williamsburg is much more bohemian than the upper east side ever was but it's a much better place than years ago.
- surgical_steel0
some dudes and chics from billyburg are like "Weezer Soldiers".
yeah...
- toastie0
pfft. bohemian my ass. what does that even mean?
- taragee0
asburypark is sooo sureal - i love it but i still cant see it turning over anytim esoon due to local government... redbank is going off as well
- taragee0
same think happening in newark
- fifty500
*giggles to self* hehehe ASS-bury
- spongebob0
*giggles to self* hehehe ASS-bury
fifty50
(Mar 14 05, 01:09)fifty50 has the ASS-ence of the news. Or was it just NEWs-sance?
- fifty500
hooray for puns
