Comments on: Style: Brooklyn’s New Flea Market http://www.psfk.com/2008/04/style-brooklyns-new-flea-market.html Ideas & Trends Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:14:19 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: vayduh http://www.psfk.com/2008/04/style-brooklyns-new-flea-market.html/comment-page-1#comment-13799 vayduh Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:41:56 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/04/style-brooklyns-new-flea-market.html#comment-13799 sadly, many residents of the clinton hill neighborhood (including myself) were quite disappointed. the prices were extremely high in a neighborhood that is struggling to survive the process of gentrification. sign of the times i suppose, but it poses the uncomfortable questions about class, race and economic status as the financial fabric of our country shifts even further encouraging the disparity between the rich and the poor. the "creative class", it feels, is just a new term for young urban professional and is no longer a reliable description for the artistically inclined. have you noticed that everyone under the sun uses the term "creative" when describing oneself? has the term been appropriated to simply mean young, well-off, white and trendy? help me understand. sadly, many residents of the clinton hill neighborhood (including myself) were quite disappointed. the prices were extremely high in a neighborhood that is struggling to survive the process of gentrification. sign of the times i suppose, but it poses the uncomfortable questions about class, race and economic status as the financial fabric of our country shifts even further encouraging the disparity between the rich and the poor.

the “creative class”, it feels, is just a new term for young urban professional and is no longer a reliable description for the artistically inclined. have you noticed that everyone under the sun uses the term “creative” when describing oneself? has the term been appropriated to simply mean young, well-off, white and trendy? help me understand.

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