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This week's New York Magazine has a nice little piece about the death of Nolita. Basically rents have gotten so out of hand that all the little boutiques are being forced out of business, and replaced by mini-chain stores like Ralph Lauren and Nike ID. More than twenty-four stores are currently empty in the neighborhood, and people aren't sure what's going to happen next. Apparently the high rents aren't the only culprit:
And then there’s the nabe’s previous claim to fame: September’s spumoni-and-beer-fueled San Gennaro Festival. “It’s crushing,” says Lindsay Cain of Femmegems, a do-it-yourself jewelry lab on Mulberry. “Those two weekends in September are really important—everyone is back from the Hamptons and women are excited to get shopping again. We tried to stay open during the festival our first year, in 2002, and there were horrid sausages and rats outside our door every morning, so now we just close."Nothing says chic like sausages and rats! We mourn the death of Lunettes et Chocolate-- which had the best hot chocolate east of Broadway for lo these last five years. What stores do you guys miss the most?
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Bah!
"What do you miss the most?"
Lower rents, real people.
lunettes et chocolat is gone???
their fonduey hot chocolate was youth itself.
I can't wait until La Esquina is "over." Maybe then I'll be able to get some sleep at night.
Mekong for sure...but not Cafe Rondure. =)
hopefully williamsburg will go the same way so all the stupid hipsters will move out, giving the neighborhood back to people with REAL personality and real characteristics.
but where will they go?
move back to the midwest probably...
Hey, that building in the photo isn't actually out of business -- it just got bought out and is being renovated by the Elizabeth Street Gallery people. Here's a photo of them working on it.
Hey, that building in the photo isn't actually out of business -- it just got bought out and is being renovated by the Elizabeth Street Gallery people. Here's a photo of them working on it.
Almost moved on Mott St but the chink landlord tried to jerk me around a bit. Glad I didn't make the mistake.
Oh sweet, fair Mekong, the death of you was the death of the Nabe...
(btw: I'll take a sausage with the rats before I'll ever schill out 10 grand for a freaking handbag)
EVERYONE LEAVE NYC NOW
I think NYC left NYC long ago.
I don't think these transplants or the pampered set know what we're talking about when we say NYC is gone.
Oh well, they'll probably never know.
I love how she says "everyone" is back from the Hamptons.
Actually, I don't miss anything.
We mourned the coming of 'Nolita' about 10+ plus years ago when the NY Times starting using the terms in articles. Then we got over that.
There are still plenty of funky places that trendy people avoid because nobody writes about them and they don't want to look uncool, and they are just not creative enough to find.
I live on Elizabeth St., in the building my family grew up in.
I have a bigger apartment and pay less rent then any new transplant ever will.
I also have no money, came from no money, and am an old school artista. Yep, I'm poor.
I also thank goddess everyday for my apartment and never ever take shit for granted.