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Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago
I got the impression of Park Slope when I was there in 1992. . . I don't think it's a new phenomenon. . . probably been that way since the 1950s. . .
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Before my time, but from what I've heard/read the gentrification of Park Slope started in the 80s and I've never understood it to be a "hipster" neighborhood. The Brooklyn center of hip pre-2000s was probably DUMBO, and I think that culture migrated east into Williamsburg, Bed Stuy, etc.
In the early 90s artists and NYU students were still renting cheap lofts in DUMBO for like $200/month that would go for like $10,000/month today. I know someone that still rents a loft in DUMBO that he got in the early 00s. The place is rent controlled so he pays a fraction of what it would cost to rent today, and they'll have to pay him millions of dollars to ever get him out of there.