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White People Will Live Almost Anywhere In New York Now*
I've never seen a more bald admission that the big New York newspaper is for and about white, well-off people, even as it acknowledges that this is so. "There have always been, and will always be, barriers in real estate, lines that certain buyers will not cross…. But as people of means continue to crowd the city, those lines have been shifting."
*No, not really, they won't. We're only talking about white people moving from 96th Street to 102nd Street. In Manhattan! Brave, brave white "people of means."
“I remember thinking, ‘Hmm, that seems far,’ ” Ms. White said. “It just shows how naïve I was.”
"No, senorita, ees no tha' far," once of the project's neighbors, Mr. Hispanic, replied.
@Clarence Rosario: While a lone mariachi guitarist plays sadly in the background.
@deepomega As a lone beluga whale bobs it head, slowly.
"a three-year process … shedding the concern that their friends would not visit or send their nannies ove"r
I live in Carroll Gardens. Could someone send their nanny over here? School doesn't start for another month and I could use a break. (Seriously, NYT, do you READ yourself anymore?)
@C_Webb Aren't their nannies already FROM that neighborhood already?
@Clarence Rosario: Ha, I know, right? I think the implied paranthetical is "send their nannies over with their rich white kids in their Bugaboos." The nannies, of course, are free to travel as they wish, on their days off, if they have any.
Next stop: Brownsville.
There goes the neighborhood!
Nice of Ms. White to share her story.
HEY RENDIT DOT COM INVENTED TRYING TO FIND A PLACE TO RENT BLOGGING LAST WEEK WHERE WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP? HUH?
USE OF 'YOU PEOPLE' INTENTIONAL, YOU PONCE.
Why didn't they roll it into a synergistic package with the "White people are moving into Bed-Stuy" article?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/nyregion/in-bedford-stuyvesant-a-black-stronghold-a-growing-pool-of-whites.html
@jfruh "growing pool of whites" sounds gross(er than it is in reality)
I thought the "private jet aircraft to summer camp in Maine" story was the new high watermark for NYTimes-for-rich-white-people-ONLY articles.
@sigerson And I thought it was "I sent my kid to drink green tea in China so that he could write a 250-word personal statement and get into college."
What I want to know is how all of you got past the whites-only paywall.
Few things more comical than the self-loathing of white post-grads.
“I was really worried — I was wondering how people would get there, would it be convenient, and now I have none of that fear because of the overall quality of living of what you’re going to get there,” she said.
I'm sorry, you lived in CARNEGIE HILL i.e. the Upper Upper East Side and you spent THREE YEARS wondering about how 'people' (nannies?) would 'get to' 102nd and Fifth??!?! WHAT? Is there no special 'jitney' to get 'up there'?? Six blocks north of your old apartment?
With grit, determination, and a little bit of luck, they may well put a man on Inwood within a generation.
@mrmcd
Please don't remind the Times to do its annual Discovery of That One Block at the Top of Inwood Hill.
@Tulletilsynet
The wrong kind of white people live that far uptown. (Poors! Musicians! Untenured Columbia Instructors!)
@City_Dater
You'd better not be who I think you are.
"Once heavily Italian, the area became home to Puerto Ricans and blacks and is now becoming more Mexican." It started off avoiding race and then dropped this doozy of a sentence. Props for not being completely (b)latent.
@whizzard "So really, white people have never lived here before."
@cherrispryte No, no, no, Cherri. Italians are totally white now! Did you not get your updated handbook?
Also we all know realtors sell this area as "SpaHa" now, right? Because that was said to me in 2005 by a realtor.
I'm so proud to be one of the trailblazing 106'ers!