Poles, name them.
i have no idea who any of these people are. the 'dimes square' thing is interesting in that it's not even a neighborhood, its a tiny collection of shops and things, which is pretty indistinct, and i had no idea that there was even such a geography as 'dimes square' until i read this thread. it's certainly not a generally recognised neighborhood. it is a cool area though, i live about ten minutes away and would have lived closer if i could have found a flat down there. i looked at one but it was a total mess. the main cool thing about it is that its close to chinatown and some overspill from that, which is a tiny corner, maybe the only tiny corner, of downtown manhattan that isn't uber-fancy yet.
it's like a micro-bit of a properly gentrified neighborhood (the lower east side). its right on the edge of it. although the LES gentrification is interesting, because there are some things that mean that it's not been as comprehensive as normal - namely that there are still a load of social housing towers in the area, and that chinatown has managed to resist much of an influx of non-chinese or vietnamese people. so it doesn't feel like eg bits of brooklyn, which gentrified much later, but where there hasn't been much in the way of countervailing forces. the dimes square bit is right next to chinatown. there's then this rump end of lower manhattan which dimes square also borders (two bridges) which has a load of social housing and from which its pretty hard to get anywhere because there's not much subway access. but dimes square itself is tiny, in itself i'd classify as pretty gentrified, but if you go a few blocks south or west you're in fairly non-gentrified territory. that's my take on it anyway. i would bet that not a single person i know would have heard the term 'dimes square' though.
That's exactly it... people move from there village in nowheresville to escape by moving to the beating pulsing heart of the world... and then when they get there they moan like fuck about how it's all like a big city and desperately search for the bit that is least like that and most like the homely little village they left.
greenpoint is exactly like that. loads of europeans go there as well, because its one bit of nyc which feels a bit more like a european city, partly because it is / was full of polish people, partly because it's a tucked away little corner that people don't pass through on the way to anywhere else, so it's quiet, there's loads of trees, it's pretty orderly
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Hip brooklyn cricles have purged themselves of all whites, gus included, and the only remaining are the apotgeosis of the culture. This is part of the appeal for gus I think
i assumed this was a word only the overeducated have access too but i looked it up and it says its a speling mistake. quite disappointing.
Really? I was was being somewhat facetious but there is some tiny grain of truth in the way that so many have that perversity that makes them go to a place and then kick back against the things that make it what it is. Although somehow I doubt Dime Square is really like a little village in the flyover states.
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