L.E.S. is the New East Village

Neighborhoods change faces as times goes by. The East Village used to be full of punks and bohemians. Tattoo parlors and punks where all around St Marks, weird hairs and colors were fun to watch, Today the same neighborhood has a different face, the product of international gentrification, and by this I mean international money taking over American money.

If you want to find young white Americans in Manhattan you have to go to the Lower East Side, you can find groups of young Asians there too, but more at the corner of what used to be the kitchen and restaurant equipment supply area. Strolling around the inside areas you would find the hipsters of American descent.

Hispanics in LES has been displaced by the power of mainstream white American money; local gentrification has made people from other parts of the country displace American minorities in the city. In the meantime American majorities has been displaced by money from other parts of the world where is produced in great quantities but that lack the cultural sophistication and spirit of tolerance of a city like NY. So the East Village became China Town and the Lower East Side has become the New East Village; or, sort of.