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Gentrification of Alphabet City and Bushwick
from Lou Balls · #7
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2 minTim rants about the gentrification of the East Village/Alphabet City, joking that everyone now claims to work in 'online advertising,' then riffs with Ray Kump about being unwelcome holdovers in a gentrified Bushwick.
- 0:46Alphabet City used to be home to heroin addicts, transgender people, composers and musicians; now it's full of people who do online advertising.
- 1:15Tim on surviving in a city that no longer needs or wants him.
- 1:27Ray Cup lives in deep Bushwick and people assume he's fixing the oil—he's a holdover from before gentrification.
- 1:46Tim and Ray don't fit the new aesthetic; they're Long Island trash white and old eggshell white, not the Benjamin Moore Ohio white of gentrified Bushwick and Williamsburg.
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