{"id":3543,"date":"2008-06-17T00:28:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2008-06-17T00:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T05:28:46","slug":"next_thing_you_knew_you_was_gentrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/next_thing_you_knew_you_was_gentrified.html","title":{"rendered":"Next Thing You Knew, You Was Gentrified!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/16\/nyregion\/16redhook.html?ex=1371355200&#038;en=a24df1808598a991&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">I guess it&#8217;s not a nice thing to wake up one morning next to an IKEA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When she moved to her apartment five years ago, Perian Carson&#8217;s small corner of Red Hook in Brooklyn looked much different. An abandoned Civil War-era warehouse sat a few blocks away on Van Brunt Street. Nearby, along the cobblestones on Beard Street, she could see the remnants of the old Todd Shipyards, where ships were repaired in a massive graving dock.<\/p>\n<p>It was a drowsy neighborhood where one could smell the harbor, a close-knit community where people signed for one another\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mail. Ms. Carson tended a small garden on the sidewalk near her building.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the graving dock and many of the cobblestones are paved over, and from her garden, Ms. Carson sees something else: an enormous blue and yellow Ikea superstore, all 346,000 square feet of it, rising along the waterfront. The old warehouse is now a Fairway supermarket, with luxury rentals above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m at the fulcrum here,&#8221; Ms. Carson said one evening, as she tended to the lilies and goldenrod in her garden. &#8220;It&#8217;s so much at once.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s not a nice thing to wake up one morning next to an IKEA: When she moved to her apartment five years ago, Perian Carson&#8217;s small corner of Red Hook in Brooklyn looked much different. An abandoned Civil War-era warehouse sat a few blocks away on Van Brunt Street. Nearby, along the cobblestones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-historical","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}