Original "Kid" Chloe Sevigny On The East Village

Besides saying that she supports the Beatrice Inn (run by her brother Paul), actress Chloe Sevigny discussed the East Village with the Observer (while hosting a party for Kiehl's) last week. She summed up how the neighborhood has changed, "Oh, you know, it's bank, nail salon, bank, nail salon, bank, nail salon. The Subway across the street from Veselka, it's just an eyesore. The bigger chains coming in everywhere, it's depressing. You know what really bugs me about the neighborhood, actually? The students! The N.Y.U. kids and they've opened an SVA dorm near my house, so now it's even more." The Big Love wife says that if she did move from the EV, she'd go back to Gramercy Park. [Via EV Grieve]

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By Jen Chung in News on April 12, 2009 6:50 PM

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Think2wice

@rasputinsghost

If writing the D word—Darien—was gonna cause this many conniption fits then you should've posted you're comment earlier.

Babycakes

Rasp, no one likes people from Connecticut... but you're probably such a bitchass in real life (see your over capitalization, sh*t screams old conspiracy theorist creepo) that I can't get behind you on this (no homo). 'She's from DARIEN!!! NGHAAAAA DARRRRIEENNN!!!' Chill out nerd. She's certainly more successful than you'll ever be, no matter what dreams you may harbor your studio apartment. Go back to stroking your ePenis on DIGG with the other perennially single 30 somethings, aight?

Rob T Firefly

It seems the "you damn kids get off my lawn!" thing is no longer exclusive to grumpy old men.

sexisicilian

who cares about what this girl thinks

aveB4life

i love that kids logo. telly went to play a heroin addict in The Wire who dies of an overdose in a crack house, Jen went to suck dizzle in brown bunny, Ruby went on to be pretty bad ass in Sin city (but still can't get the sperm out of her teeth), and casper died in real life. KIDS!

Brooklynbobby

So that's what Chloe Sevigny sounds like when her mouth isn't full!!!

microdot

HAHAHA. Yes! Credibility tastes like dick.

texinyc

There was a good program on PBS last night called "Home" that had a lot of interviews with locals and transplants about NYC - what brought them here, why they have stayed, etc.

The bottom line is that the only constant in NYC ~IS~ change. That ability to adapt to the new and the now has been why so many people from so many different places have been able to come here and feel at home.

wobbleSmith

wah

wah

nothing is like it used to be

wah

wah

BORING!

Think2wice

Re: #5 Ben

Don't count yourself out. Your initial instincts were right.

It's just like the little old lady that then-candidate-for-mayor Koch met on the Coney Island boardwalk in 1978 who asked him to "make [the city] like it was". To which he replied that they way she remembered it was not they way other's remembered it, but he promised to make it "better" than the way it is now. That's all we can do.

Kojak

I HAVE NO LEGS!

I HAVE NO LEGS!

rasputinsghost

Chloe Sevigny is from motherfucking DARIEN, Connecticut, one of the richest towns in the nation. She can stick her faux-Bohemian judgmental horseshit - like she wasn't 'slumming' like the NYU or New School kids are; she's exactly like them, it's just that there are more people doing what she did TODAY.

tommyteetotaler

What are you, sore you can't get into Beatrice? Upset no one will make eye contact with you on the subway?

She didn't say anything except:

- She doesn't like a lot of the businesses moving into the East Village

- She doesn't like living among college students

She didn't call them poseurs or claim to be some original gutter punk. I don't know where you would get some sh-t like that when she went as far as saying she wants to move BACK to Gramercy Park.

Who actually likes spending time with college students (attractive ones excepted)? Who actually likes the turn East Village commercial development has taken?

Like the majority of blog comments, yours says more about YOU, the commenter than anything else. Kill yourself creep.

ohgoodgolly

Thank you! I wish she'd stop and take a look in the mirror. She - rich, white girl from Connecticut - was part of the first wave of gentrification.

Think2wice

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

malebranche

So what.

She's right.

You know it.

Ben

it may suck sometimes, but shit changes around here. this isn't the same new york we knew way back when. for better or for worse, roll with the punches and get over it.

Ben

ok that may have sounded a bit too negative. just have faith in this recession. it wont be like it was, but it should trim the fat around here. cross your fingers and hope to make it out (relatively) intact.

theboneranger

she's damn right. i love that bitch.

its funny to hear anyone defend the new ny.. probably "fake upper west side" park slopers. go back to nebraska or someshit

JRod5417

That comment makes no sense. What does anyone living in Park Slope have to do with this article about the East Village?

Disclaimer: I don't live in Park Slope and I am not from Nebraska or any other state beside NY. I just felt compelled to respond to this nonsensical comment.