When I read this thread, I said to myself, hey it must be the East New York hood. It turns out it isn't, but it's the next "best" thing, right next door. The area is probably in the process of beginning to gentry if I had to guess (perhaps given the location more by orthodox Jews than gays or yuppies). The key is how close the block is to a subway stop. Brooklyn by the way has now surpassed San Francisco as having the highest ratio of housing prices (the numerator) to income levels (the denominator), in the nation. Hudson, by the way, has some $750 apartments. My basement (about 550 square feet maybe) will probably go for around that, maybe a tad less, when I get it refurbished.
In Hudson of course, it's gays who are driving the gentrification. On my block, of about the 10 properties now that have been fixed up since I started, about two thirds are owned by gays. The referendum committee that I am on, is almost all gay. And the city is now run by woman. Below are the mayor, the treasurer, the assessor, and the city clerk. Too bad the common council president was elsewhere in the room, or she would have been in the snap too. I see them all frequently of course, yammering about something. The mayor joked that probably I should be given a desk in city hall. In any event, straight white males are sort of an "abused and powerless" minority in Hudson. We are just so cutting edge. We are the future!
God, I am getting good, at diverting all topics to Hudson, but then all roads lead to Hudson, so why not?
