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Hasidic Jews! Hipsters! Luxury condos! All the Williamsburg drama you can bear in the Times story today about the Hasidic-hipster tensions in the neighborhood. There's hipster Mikey Weiss telling the Times, "These two Hasidic guys, dressed as Hasidically as you could possibly dress, came in and asked me what kind of people live in this neighborhood..." And then there's the flier "with drawing of the World Trade Center collapsing, and read, in Yiddish: 'How long did it take the Twin Towers to fall? Eight seconds. How long will it take for Williamsburg??? God Forbid.'" One of the issues is the new Gretsch building of condominiums, which will attract more non-Jews ("artisten") as well as drive up area rents. The Hasidim have picketed the Gretsch developers, who are Jewish, because as one said, "If it's a Jew, we can do something."
Should hipsters be added to the list of plagues? Gothamist previously on the Hasidic-Hipster unrest.
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They didn't credit me with finding the WTC poster?!?
This is mostly a matter of building owners and renters. I assume that many of the property owners in Williamsburg are also Hasidic. Greedy landlords should stop bilking everyone. What about those really large developments that the Hassidm have/are building around the Navy Yard? Is there really a shortage?
As a "young artist type" living in Greenpoint, I also don't like the yuppies coming in and making the rents even higher. In the two years that I have lived here, the average rents have gone up $100-$200 per month. Pretty soon, I will most likely be forced out too.
I thought the part about oogling the young Hasidic women was pretty funny. I doubt very much that the hipsters are actually "harmful" in that respect.
Why is taking the market value for your rental property "greedy?" Would you take any less? When you sell something on eBay, do you give it away for a lower bid because you like somebody's handle? No. You take the highest bid. Markets find their equilibrium. In the end, if a property is overpriced, there will be no takers. And then the price will drop to the right level.
The principal reason this doesn't happen in NYC is because of the outdated and inefficient rent-control and stabilization rules. Terrible, terrible, terrible.
i guess the story about the folks in Bedford-Stuyvesant are griping about the Hasids moving into their neighborhood isn't very exciting.
I think the statement that “if it’s a Jew, we can do something” is rather funny. As a non-religious Brooklyn Jew, I can’t imagine what they are thinking. Who is more likely to tell a Jew to “fuck off”, a Christian or another Jew.
This is just another care of unscrupulous and greedy landlords pushing the envelope to see what the market will tolerate. As P.T. Barnum said, [I paraphrase] no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of New Yorkers.