tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post9199495543182394780..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: My BrooklynJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-3769582177516474622011-08-16T09:44:51.781-04:002011-08-16T09:44:51.781-04:00My Brooklyn..My maternal Grandmother grew up on a ...My Brooklyn..My maternal Grandmother grew up on a farm in The Flatlands. Her brothers were milkman. At times even then,Grandma R had to mind the farm aggressively especially when robbers were trying to rob it. The workers spoke many Eastern European languages which Grandma picked up. After many years, Grandma went into real estate. She was a great businesswoman and wished she had had the opportunity to teach. I love My Brooklyn, Jeremiah.Melaniehttp://melaniemusings2.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-72792552911410971932011-08-15T12:03:42.449-04:002011-08-15T12:03:42.449-04:00Everyone wants to save northern Brooklyn. There ar...Everyone wants to save northern Brooklyn. There are millions of landmarked brownstones. But in southern Brooklyn 19th century farm houses are demolished without a peep. Partly this is because a large number of the residents of a generation and a half ago left for other parts. They just couldn't find housing because nothing was for sale. Their parents owned everything. Eventually the parents wanted out because maintenance becomes a huge expense in older houses. Newcomers took advantage, or rather than repair, they demolished or transformed. And expatriate Brooklyn whine from a distance about how the old neighborhood has changed. They could have returned and restored the houses they grew up in.Lisanne!https://www.blogger.com/profile/15979847571313065186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-45401803175106354412011-08-13T22:56:13.150-04:002011-08-13T22:56:13.150-04:00The filmmakers are obviously gentrifiers because t...The filmmakers are obviously gentrifiers because they moved there in 1988 and were pioneers in the gentrification process. So I don't know what message they are trying to send when they themselves are contributors to the homogenization of the city. <br /><br />I agree with the bottom message - why has Williamsburg become "brooklyn" there are tons of neighborhoods where hipsters, yupsters, hippies, and people like that will never go.basically people that want to move to new york to party every night of the week and dont have jobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-88004137217842570682011-08-13T18:35:31.804-04:002011-08-13T18:35:31.804-04:00MY Brooklyn is Flatlands, where I grew up in the 1...MY Brooklyn is Flatlands, where I grew up in the 1960"s.<br /><br />How come "Brooklyn" is a pseudonym for "Williamsburg"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-76892975666305521912011-08-13T14:27:31.769-04:002011-08-13T14:27:31.769-04:00The Fulton Mall is not a treasure that should be p...The Fulton Mall is not a treasure that should be preserved. Modell's and VIM are important? Cheap gold jewelry made without any consideration for taste or quality. Brooklyn is much better than it has ever been with the influx of people with better taste, sharper senses of style, and better values. It is also an improvement to be buying locally made goods instead of everything imported from China. That's pretty much what you will find on Fulton Street. Oh I was born and raised in Brooklyn and I have never been more proud to call myself a Brooklynite, but I don't have more rights or ownership since I was bred here. <br />I passed a new tattoo parlor on fifth avenue and 20th street today. Instead of keeping up the original beauty parlor sign of the storefront they took over, they plastered a cheap vinyl banner over it. <br />I feel that this speaks volumes about the people/person who opened the shop. <br />I know I am rambling here. Hopefully you can see through it and understand what I am trying to say.<br />A triumph motorcycle is cooler than a SUV with no fear stickers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-23307525332330096812011-08-12T17:30:47.792-04:002011-08-12T17:30:47.792-04:00@Baha--you misunderstood me. I am an original Park...@Baha--you misunderstood me. I am an original Park Sloper with generations there too--to me personally-IT IS A STATE OF MIND!Melaniehttp://melaniemusings2.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-67855201365470200632011-08-12T14:32:43.651-04:002011-08-12T14:32:43.651-04:00"A concrete example: to many newer arrivals (..."A concrete example: to many newer arrivals (especially white ones, but not exclusively), Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn is a 'crappy space with B-grade stores that I wouldn't want to visit at night.' To Brooklyn's longer-term residents who frequent the mall (mostly African American and Caribbean immigrants), the space is 'home base,' 'exciting,' a place to run into people you know and find products you can't find in other places, at affordable prices."<br /><br />Wow. The race card, a false dichotomy, AND a straw man in one answer. You can always depend on the white (supposed) anti-gentrifiers to try to pick up a little street cred with minorities and immigrants.<br /><br />I'm white, I live in Brooklyn, and I visit Fulton St. at night all the time. It is a mall and it sucks, in my opinion, but has good deals. Gentrify the stores and it would still suck but with higher prices.Little Earthquakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08357902966348718076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-58359874819545603712011-08-12T12:36:07.195-04:002011-08-12T12:36:07.195-04:00The Fulton Mall thing is a damn shame. By no mean...The Fulton Mall thing is a damn shame. By no means is it my "home base", but it's a place where I can buy a sweater or a pair of shoes or towels at a decent price, or shop at Macy's without having an anxiety attack. Soon it will be Soho junior.ShatteredMonoclenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-17087051929916525412011-08-12T09:10:17.881-04:002011-08-12T09:10:17.881-04:00To me, Brooklyn is not a state of mind, but where ...To me, Brooklyn is not a state of mind, but where nine generations of my family were born, raised, and died. And I can guarantee that not a single goddamn one of us would have described it as "artistic."BaHanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-9079178535713871852011-08-12T07:27:56.247-04:002011-08-12T07:27:56.247-04:00To me Brooklyn is a state of mind.To me Brooklyn is a state of mind.Melaniehttp://melaniemusings2.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com