We're in the final slow news days of 2009, so we can't blame Daily News columnist Denis Hamill for coming up with the wacky idea of adapting "A Christmas Carol" to tell the tale of Brooklyn's gentrification, but it still reads like something you'd find written in blood on a wall somewhere. A taste: "Scrooge 4th converts all the old Irish saloons along Seventh Ave. into $5-a-cup designer coffeehouses, pet-grooming parlors and overpriced nouveau cuisine restaurants that vastly underpay their nouveau immigrant workers, who couldn't afford to live on le parc bench in the 'new' Park Slope that was 'rescued' from the 'old' working-class Brooklyn rabble." [NYDN]
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