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Originally Posted by Washing Machine
You hear so much about the east village and lower east side with sonic youth, is it really that awesome? anyone been? live there?
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i'm moving to the city in two weeks. there's a lot of stores and restaurants i like around the village and the lower east side. but there's a lot of stuff i like all over new york. a lot of "cool" people are kind of invading the area though which sucks. it's becoming trendy, which is actually sort of ironic.
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Originally Posted by tesla69
Some old timers probably wouldn't consider the Bowery part of the Lower East Side (LES) really. I've heard people get defensive about anything above Delancey being LES! These days the Bowery especially from Houston up to 14th is being transformed, what I call the reglistening of the Bowery, there are all these shiny glass apt buildings that have gone up on formerly stark blocks, and several more along this strip are going up.
I like to travel around the american old northeast former industrial cities, there are many ghosts there, and you can feel how dynamic cities used to be and what has been lost, but maybe all people everywhere all the time would have been too much for me.
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the bowery really is
not part of LES, it's more or less it's own neighborhood, but it's close enough for government work. i hate the fucking gentrification of the bowery. they destroyed everything that was great about it.