In an early-week attention grabber that's already climbing in the comments count, New York's Adam Sternbergh aims to get the convo started about gentrification maybe not being such a bad thing. Blighted neighborhoods get fixed up, displacement is not as high as one wold think and a smart guy up in Harlem is cool with it. Sternbergh, who knows a thing or two about stoking the g-word flames, writes: "Gentrification—especially when coupled with intelligent urban policy—can serve as a reprieve, even if it arrives in the form of guilt-wracked hipsters and yoga studios." [NYM]
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