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I never shopped at them, since I was never there for a long period, but I always enjoyed walking through the sort of mini-markets in London's immigrant neighborhoods. Whenever I'd walk through them, I'd think to myself, "Wow, this looks a lot like those old photos of New York from the late-19th/early-20th centuries." It's an experience, and, with the New York image in mind, I can't help but think of what it will look like fifty years from now. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
And how they swore it would be developed sympathetically and affordably for little retailers and the Retail Chains would NEVER get in yada yada.
It's not even been "gentrified" - it's been "Rentrified" for greedy bastard landlords to make a killing. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
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