Nothing like a couple of blog posts urging temperance in the face of a dying scandal to get things brewing again. Andrew Krucoff and Jeff Baum weigh in on the Starbucks debate. Says Baum, "The gentrification doesn't start when the Starbucks moves in. It starts when the rents go up. Ask your homey chilling outside a bodega on Pitt St. or Ave. D if he prefers 88 Orchard over Starbucks..." [photo via Spinach Dip]
· Apocolypse Now What? [Young Manhanttanite]
· On Point [Central Village]
· More 'Bucks for the LES [Curbed]
· Breaking Dawn of a New Era on the Lower East Side [Curbed]
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