Brokerage aptsandlofts recently announced plans to gentrify Bed-Stuy (a very original idea), proclaiming it to be The Next Williamsburg, and if you think that sounds slightly tone deaf just wait until you see the ad for their new office in the neighborhood. "X MARKS THE SPOT," it proudly shouts, referring, of course, to Malcolm X Boulevard, where the office is located, and indirectly to the man himself, a radical civil rights advocate and symbol of African-Americans' ongoing struggle against their white oppressors. The Next Williamsburg sounds about right. [Gothamist; previously]
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