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[Wilfrid]

Scratch all that - you only need notice that it hasn't published a Food and Drink article since October last year.

[Anthony Bonner]

Elswhere, oakapple asked:

I'd certainly like to know what the person staying in a Bushwick hotel is there for.

The only answer I can think of is art. There's an art fair (I think just over) which is growing quite rapidly. At least one big name gallery is moving in. A medium-sized boutique hotel might do well at providing residency for art market players, as long as it can keep the rats to a minimum.

It occurs to me I've got a nice sized list of places to stay in East London that have opened over the last five years. I don't think its a bushwick only trend of "kewl" hotels opening up in edge of gentrification areas.
Bethnal Green

I mean if you accept Shoreditch is basically Williamsburg in every way these days, it too is basically crawling with new hotels.

[Wilfrid]

Wow, Bethnal Green. Remember it in the '70s. Been gentrifying for a good ten years now.

Meanwhile, Times gives generous coverage to the Bushwick art fest I mentioned earlier. Refers to Little Skips Cafe, one of the tiny handful of acceptable cafes in the neighborhood.

[oakapple]

The question is, once Bushwick is "over" (in the sense that Williamsburg is "over"), where do they go next?

[Anthony Bonner]

The question is, once Bushwick is "over" (in the sense that Williamsburg is "over"), where do they go next?

Ridgewood. Seriously - already know some folks moving there.

[Wilfrid]

Bushwick may be over before it ever gets started as rents climb in response to the Williamsburg diaspora.

[Sneakeater]

Holland Cotter in today's Times:

For artists New York City has always had unaffordable neighborhoods. Now it has an unaffordable borough, Manhattan. There, in the past, blue-collar areas like Greenwich Village, SoHo and the Lower East Side offered cheap living for the no-collar day-jobbers that most artists were and still are. Rents were such that they could make their work upstairs and show it downstairs.

Art was a cottage industry.

Then came the 2000s and money and Chelsea, which is the equivalent of a suburban mall: a business district, a consumer zone.

A few artists went there to show; most went to look and then go home. Increasingly, in the past decade, home has been Brooklyn, starting with Williamsburg, then moving outward ahead of the real-estate cash tide. For a while now the buck has stopped at Bushwick, a scrappy, ethnically manifold, postindustrial jumble of a place abutting onto Queens. At street level it’s mostly bodegas, fast-food shops and auto repairs. But artists are there, lots of them.

EVERYBODY can claim support from that passage.

[Wilfrid]

Not people suggesting there's more to the Bushwick dining scene than Roberta's (and Northeast Kingdom).

[Lippy]

The question is, once Bushwick is "over" (in the sense that Williamsburg is "over"), where do they go next?

I wish they'd come to Roosevelt Island.

[Lex]

I keep waiting for a "Mouthfuls: Best of Bushwick" thread to start.

[Wilfrid]

I thought of that, but surely there's one already? I did a search but couldn't find it. Didn't Abby and others put together some Best Mouthfuls Brooklyn threads?

[Lex]

I'm 95% certain Bushwick wasn't included. I'm assuming it was for the reasons you've already mentioned.

[Wilfrid]

Well, I'm game.

ETA, here it is:

Abby, Lex and Steve

It looks like you did omit it. What should it be, though? Bushwick, Bedstuy, and...anywhere else? Ridgewood? Crown Heights?

Seriously, I think we should have Bushwick and Bedstuy at least.

[Lex]

Doesn't the Bushwick top 10 look like this?

1 Roberta's
2 Roberta's
3 Roberta's
4 Roberta's
5 Roberta's
6 Roberta's
7 Roberta's
8 Roberta's
9 Roberta's
10 Roberta's

[Sneakeater]

You left out Blanca.