commodify-your-gentrification

Only 10 Years Until Lower East Side Greatness!

abalk · 06/05/07 01:26PM

In case you didn't know, the Lower East Side is an increasingly popular location for merchants to set up shop. Crain's reports that high-end retailers are swarming to the area to take advantage of all the fat-walleted fauxpeople who stride its streets in search of that self-satisfying fauxhemian feeling. But not everyone is convinced.