According to the Times, the battle for South Williamsburg's soul has become an after-hours West Side Story, with shots-swilling Latinos in microskirts playing the Sharks, and elderflower-mixing hipsters in suspenders replacing the Jets. Will the gentrification crowd win? Um, have you seen the other side of the neighborhood lately? Says one Northsider about the South Burg, rather amazingly: "It's not as south as it used to be." The turnaround cannot be stopped! [NYT]
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