NYC's shifting demographics, and the vanishing middle class

I'm catching up on some news...The Times noted that for the first time since the 1970s, a majority of Manhattan's population is non-Hispanic white. According to census figures examined by the paper, the white share of the population rose to 51 percent last year from 40 percent in the 1990s. The rest of the borough's residents were 24 percent Hispanic, 14 percent black and 11 percent Asian.

Per the Times:

Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, expressed concern that the "conflation of luxury development and good strong public housing stock" means that "that the borough is becoming a place for very, very wealthy people and enclaves for poor people and that middle-income people are finding it impossible to stay here."

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Noted

From the Page Six "Sightings" today:

Scarlett Johansson, in a fedora and thick, black-rimmed glasses, playing pool at Lucy's in the East Village . . .

Noted

At the L stop on First Avenue and 14th Street.

Nighthawks... and Nighthawks

Remember Jeremiah's series on looking for Hopper's Nighthawks? He wrote a condensed version of it for the Times... and his op-ed appears there today.

Meanwhile! Speaking of Nighthawks...reminds me that I haven't seen "Nighthawks," the surprisingly decent Sly Stallone-Rutger Hauer thriller from 1981 in years....it features a climatic scene aboard the Roosevelt Island tram...



(Image via Roosevelt Island 360 ... where you can read more about the movie...)

The CBGB saga continues

For those of you following the CBGB Estate-Buyer saga... Karate Boogaloo has more on it... As KB notes: "I find it very difficult to believe that anyone could purchase a brand name like CBGB, and NOT be able to do something...anything...with it."

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First Street, 10:21 a.m., July 4

You've been warned! And I am taking names!

Good way to make "up to" $1,000... narc on your friends with fireworks from their visit to South Carolina. And what is in that cup there? Hope that it's not a urine sample. 13th Street and Avenue A.

Greetings

From the incomparable Blarney Cove.

More photos from yesterday's German-themed Avenue C street fair

So anyway, as I mentioned yesterday, German fans were in a celebratory mood after beating Argentina 4-zip in the World Cup. Some fans watching the match at Zum Schnieder, Alphabet City Lounge, Kafana, Arcane and the Porch all converged. A fire truck arrived... and the firefighters good-naturedly joined in the celebration, honking the truck horn and waving a German flag. And posing for photos. When a few fans jumped on top of the truck, the firefighters quickly made them get down... The entire celebration all seemed pretty harmless and went on for about 15 minutes...














Previously on EV Grieve:
Avenue C is for...crazy German fans

Ray's delivery team to be featured on Fox tonight

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Bob Arihood sent us a note saying that the Ray's delivery team will be featured tonight on the Fox News channel at 9 (Fox News is Channel 44 on Time Warner.) The delivery team will be roughly 1/3 of the program that will be hosted by John Stossel. The program will air again tomorrow night at 9.