BE 54-55: The Post & UWS Co-Op Mkt. Etc.

[Fiona Shnapple]

> Sorry, I don't think "UWS, Leftist". i think "UPS Yuppie", 'cause if you can
> afford to live in the UWS, you are a Yuppie.

Not true. That's kind of  ridiculous, and I don't know why some of the
NYers here have confused you and other readers who don't live here.
There are lots of people living on the UWS, most are older folk, close
to P's age, in apartments they have been renting for a long time who
pay 800 or 1200 a month and can not afford to pay more. There are
still stabilized apartments on the UWS, and , while stabilized often
means lower quality, this is not always the case on the UWS. Now, I
may buy a sink or a light fixture, have the building install it for
me...so on, but the idea that everyone in the neighborhood is rich is
false. Sure, it changed, you get into the building and meet yuppies,
and there is some tension as people may pay much higher rents for
apartments that are not as nice as a stabilized at 900...and, of
course, there are assessments and old folk, on fixed incomes, and
poorer folk can be knocked about by building improvements that yuppies
demand, they get in, politically and push older and poorer people out.
Sure, it's complicated but not everyone, believe me or go ask Alice it
takes one to know one,  is a rich yuppie or rich or a yuppie.
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