{"id":6767,"date":"2011-09-16T06:35:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2011-09-16T06:35:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:35:14","slug":"thats_how_you_weave_a_narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/09\/thats_how_you_weave_a_narrative.html","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s How You Weave A Narrative!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News makes it sound like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/09\/16\/2011-09-16_street_fightin_longtime_latino_residents_trying_to_keep_hipsters_from_turning_so.html\">the grant money is going to fight gentrification itself<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A local Brooklyn Latino organization wants to help long-time residents take back the community before hipsters and their trendy bars and overpriced clothing stores wipe out the area&#8217;s Latino culture for good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you wake up one morning and you see the corner bodega is now replaced by a fancy cafe or restaurant and you see your neighbors being pushed out because they can no longer afford the rent, all of a sudden you&#8217;ve lost your friends,&#8221; said [the] head of El Puente. &#8220;You begin to wonder, &#8216;Am I next?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El Puente (The Bridge) has landed more than $2.8 million in federal, city and private grant money for its Green Light District project to send swarms of volunteers door-to-door in the next 10 years to help Latino residents get healthier, more educated and more cultured.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Though Southside remains largely Latino, hipsters from Williamsburg are encroaching quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to spark the Latino community to take back their community,&#8221; [the El Puente head] said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News makes it sound like the grant money is going to fight gentrification itself: A local Brooklyn Latino organization wants to help long-time residents take back the community before hipsters and their trendy bars and overpriced clothing stores wipe out the area&#8217;s Latino culture for good. &#8220;When you wake up one morning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767","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=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}